AP highlights UK Media Watch tweet in story about #AskHamas

The epic failure of Hamas’s recent social media operation, in which senior leaders of the terror group agreed to answer questions via the hashtag #AskHamas, has been widely noted in the mainstream media.  Some news sites reported statistics from twitter analytic companies like Topsy demonstrating that the overwhelming majority of questions posed by tweeters were decidedly derisive.
Here are a few examples:

Further, an article published by Associated Press (AskHamas Twitter Campaign Backfires on Gaza Militant Group, March 13) included the following passage:

Some users made a point of mentioning how senior Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal spent the recent Gaza war in his hotel room in Doha. One wrote: “Are your brave billionaire ‘leaders’ still urging you and your children to martyrdom from the luxury of a 5-star hotel in Qatar?”

Others tweeters chose to take things in a humorous direction. An image of a gunman in a white face mask with militant headband was posted with the caption: “What happens if he sneezes?”

That tweeter was UK Media Watch. 

This has been retweeted over 400 times, and favorited 330 times.
Finally, it’s quite telling that, despite the coverage of Hamas’s spectacular Twitter failure by major news agencies such as AP, the UK media has thus far ignored the story (save one very brief mention in the Independent’s Daily News Matrix).  Could it be that the Schadenfreude foreign journalists who cover the region typically demonstrate when gleefully reporting on Zionist public relation failures (real or imagined) doesn’t extend to the Islamist extremist group running Gaza?
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