In the news article about the murder of Eliahu Asheri, Aftenposten/NTB wants to make sure that its readers understand the Asheri was a member of that humanoid subspecies, known as a "settler." I counted the word "settler" used five times, because Asheri does not qualify as a "man" or a "boy."
Oh, and they took the liberty of altering the quote from the terrorists - it did sound a little bad that Abu Abir said he would Asheri would be "butchered in front of TV cameras," so NTB changed the quote to simply say that he would be "killed."
This is how to achieve moral equivalence - you make murdered 18-year olds look culpable and murderers seem less brutal, and you're off to the races.
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