equal time for Hamas

Two rabbis from the Wiesenthal Center are outraged that the precious words of Hamas representatives were recently published on the op-ed pages of the L.A. Times, the New York Times, and the Washington Post:

Consider Hamas’ summer hot streak. Not only has it driven Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas out of Gaza, threatened Israeli civilians and bombarded fellow Palestinians, but it has scored the ultimate media trifecta. First, the New York Times and the Washington Post simultaneously ran Op-Ed articles by Ahmed Yousef, a senior leader of Hamas who defended his group’s bloody putsch in Gaza. Now, the Los Angeles Times has opened its Op-Ed page to Hamas political bureau deputy Mousa Abu Marzook for his insidious take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

I agree with the rabbis that there’s no need for the editorial boards of American newspapers to give those We will never recognize Israel *** Hamas shitballs a platform so that they come off sounding reasonable, which they are not, as their shitball actions and behavior prove time and again.

But haven’t the rabbis heard? Newspapers are dead. Today’s op-ed is tomorrow’s Already Been Masticated^TM blogospheric flotsam and jetsam. Onward with the project of gaining supporters—i.e., PRopaganda^TM—at Feiler Faster speed.

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*** One of many such statements was delivered by the deposed “prime minister” Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last December:

“We will never recognise the usurper Zionist government and will continue our jihad-like movement until the liberation of Jerusalem,” Mr Haniyeh told thousands of Friday prayer worshippers at Tehran University in Iran.