"Why does TV news look like a Netanyahu ad?" asked Chris McGreal of The Guardian on July 31, in his article on the "notoriously pro-Israel mainstream media in the U.S."

In fact, three main dailies here from mid-July to mid-August easily gave the impression that U.S. President Barack Obama, not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was prosecuting a war against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The U.S. State Department continues to list the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) as a terrorist organization.

To begin with some subtle examples, on July 16, a New York Times article had a headline, "Boys Drawn to Gaza Beach, and Into Center of Mideast Strife."