Choking on Its Mockery, the Times Raises a Toast to Hamas

The newspaper not only disgraced itself but probably seduced a number of readers by prominently publishing a commentary, written by a Muslim insect — without disclaimer — that baldly defended Hamas, one of the world’s two or three most vicious terrorist organizations.

At first, it appeared to be a joke.

You do not expect to sit down for breakfast, exhale, open the morning newspaper and read about a notorious killer, with a straight face, delivering a defense of mass murder.

Who Can You Count on?

You may open Playboy and see a picture of a pretty girl that is inappropriate for family consumption. Playboy is a specialty publication.

Can you not rely on your daily newspaper to present the news of the day without having to dive under the table?

By fiat of the government, every pack of cigarettes must carry a warning that inside reposes a cause of cancer.

Different Kind of Cancer

Equally, what was inside of the the Hamas-written commentary easily could cause an unsuspecting reader to contract moral or intellectual or philosophical cancer — a disease that is just as deadly.

If the cops were around, the Times would have been arrested for reckless publishing.

Imagine Osama visiting Culver City, knocking on your door, asking if you took in wayward boarders from the Middle East.

Not funny. Ludicrous. Morally irresponsible.

How a Liberal Behaves

Being good liberals — wearing blinders and dark glasses at all times — the Times rejects the overwhelming evidence that we are in a battle to the death for our very lives against Muslims who mean to destroy us — and not just me because I am a Jew.

The Times — as we wrote two days ago about The New York Times — contends that the War on Terror is a political fantasy crafted by President Bush one night in a dream.

How Would You Know?

If the Times and other liberals believe that terrorists are faceless, fine.

But Hamas proudly puts a face on its terrorist strikes against Israel and Jews wherever they travel.

They are very forthright about their intentions to destroy the Jewish state.

They don’t engage on a battlefield. This is not a bulletin, dear reader. This is not private information.

A Name-Blame Game

History would call them guerillas. Daily newspapers used to call them “militants,” a gross corruption of the language and an unabashed daily lie served up to readers. The Timeses on both coasts changed the rules again the other day.

Now they label the Hamas Boy Scouts “fighters,” which even cleans up the tag of militants. The imagery of militants is one of passion, unbendable commitment, even a little extreme.

A fighter? That is better. Shoot, in the 1970s, I was covering the Thursday night prizefights at the late Aileen Eaton’s Olympic Auditorium.

When you invoke the term fighter, it instinctively suggests a valiant person.

Terrorist Tactics

Hamas terrorists do not wear uniforms. They sneak around. They do not fight conventionally. They hide behind women and children. That way they can claim their pursuers are murdering civilians.

With advances in technology, Hamas is considerably more brutal than the Nazis of 65 years ago.

Fools, They Are

I prefer to believe that the moral dwarves at the Los Angeles Times do not celebrate Hamas any more than you do or I do. But they fear reprisals from Muslim radicals.

They are, of course, fools, as they will learn if the deluge ever comes.

If they worked down the street from the King Fahad Mosque, as I do, they would be feting the members at weekday lunches instead of warning readers against some of the dangerous people who pray there. Ask Culver City police officers.

No Distinguishing Marks

The headline above yesterday’s commentary read:

“Hamas’ stand.”

The secondary headline, far, far more damnable, read:

“An official of the movement describes its goals for all of Palestine.”

No clue that anything is amiss or adrift.

The name affixed to the commentary identifies the gentleman as “the deputy of the political bureau of Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement.”

That farcical line could have been written by the President of Iran or by Uncle Joe Stalin.

Ridiculing Victims of Terror

For the Times to carry the commentary — denuded of pertinent data — makes a mockery of the deaths of all Jews and others who have died at the hands of the Hamas terrorists.

Over in the Valley, I imagine the parents of Daniel Pearl did not appreciate the forum the Times gave to the bloody killer.