It is unfortunate that Josh Mitnick, Israel correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was not summarily fired over his carefully/carelessly bollaxed story in Saturday’s print edition that shrugged off the latest Arab terrorist massacre of Jews.

In the West Bank community of Halamish on Friday night, a grandfather and his two adult children were butchered by a crazy young Palestinian terrorist while the family was celebrating a Shabbat dinner and the birth of a grandson.

Openly sympathetic to Muslims and Arabs in their daily attacks against Israelis, Mitnick dismissed the spectacular multiple homicides in a single sentence in his lengthy 19-paragraph story.

Ninety-eight percent of  Mitnick’s cockeyed account is rife with magnified detailed grievances that daily rioting Palestinians have against Israel.

His embarrassingly irrelevant lead was that the Palestinian government leader “froze” “relations” with Israel. Seriously?

Who froze whom?

Mitnick was even more calculatedly negligent in Sunday’s story when he knew the details. He devoted three naked hiccup sentences to the massacre.

Since he previously reported for the Wall Street Journal, Mitnick does understand the principles of journalism. He chooses not to adhere.

The latest round of maniacal behavior by Palestinian animals sprang from the Israeli government’s decision to install metal detectors at the entrance to the Temple Mount, which Muslims call the Noble Sanctuary. Lately spurning guns for knives, the Arab killers objected to detection.

Since Palestinians routinely murder police officers and Israeli civilians for kicks, the need for metal detectors was obvious.

Heavily armed Palestinian terrorists have been protesting for days. Tomorrow the sun is rising in the east.