It continues to amaze me that the press accepts that Hamas is a terrorist organization that will lie, cheat, and kill to achieve its aims and at the same time the mainstream stream news media reports as fact every claim made by these terrorists.

The latest case in point is an Associated Press story in which Hamas' claim that only 48 of its soldiers were killed in Gaza is given credence by being the central point of an Associated Press story that is being circulated around the world.

The Associated Press and all the news organizations who are spreading this story are helping Hamas to proclaim victory even though they have been defeated. Hamas' latest claim has received more media attention than its stealing of humanitarian aid, its use of women and children as human shields, its origins as an arm of Iran.