One Man's Blockade . . .
Here's a great example from the BBC of the presumably unthinking double standard that guides so much Middle East reporting:
Egypt has sent 1,200 extra security personnel to the border area with Gaza, officials say.
The Egyptians fear another breach of the frontier by Palestinians trying to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
A senior member of Hamas, which controls Gaza, threatened on Tuesday to repeat a breach of the border with Egypt earlier this year.
So Egypt is trying to prevent "a breach of the border," while Israel is imposing a "blockade." Yet there is no difference between what the two countries are actually doing.
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