..has to be this one from the New York Times:
In Gaza, Hamas’s Insults to Jews Complicate Peace
Gives new meaning to the phrase “dying from complications.”
Update: The article itself is decent in its reporting of Hamas incitement, but completely misses the mark when it talks about Fatah:
Such incitement against Israel and Jews was supposed to be banned under the 1993 Oslo accords and the 2003 “road map” peace plan. While the Palestinian Authority under Fatah has made significant, if imperfect efforts to end incitement, Hamas, no party to those agreements, feels no such restraint.
I was about to go through some examples of recent Fatah incitement, but I noticed the always-prolific Carl has already done the job, pointing out some examples like this:
In fact, Fatah’s media has never stopped inciting to ‘martyrdom’ and has made no effort to end incitement against Israel and Jews. Recall this from just two weeks ago:
The official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper describes the murderer of eight yeshiva students in Jerusalem as a “groom” and his burial as his “wedding celebration.” The story in Mahmoud Abbas’s Al Hayat Al Jadida goes on to evoke the neighborhood Jabal Mukbar’s “week of anticipation… preparing themselves for the wedding procession.”
The term “wedding” is the expression commonly used in PA society, and in PA schoolbooks as well, to describe the death of Shahids – Martyrs for Allah. According to Islamic tradition, they will wed the 72 Dark- Eyed Maidens (Virgins) of Paradise.
The article then reports the “shocking news” for the “thousands who were waiting” that the Israeli Army had decided to force a pre-dawn burial to prevent community celebrations of the murders and the murderer. It bemoans the fact “that the groom was buried in the [early] morning without a celebration and without a wedding procession.”
However, the PA daily vows that the wedding celebrations will continue:
“The wedding will not end this way… it will last three consecutive days in which [the town] al-Sawahra will welcome all of those who come to congratulate the groom and will hang his portrait embracing the nation’s flags.”
