Two Points
Reader comment on item: Why Does The New York Times Love Hamas?

Submitted by Alex, Jan 6, 2009 21:08

Two things occur to me after reading this post:

First, terrorism works. Despite all the talk about liberals at the New York Times being so averse to the use of force, I do not remember them calling Hamas anything but "terrorists" until a few years into the second intifada when Hamas suicide bombings became ubiquitous.

Second, Israel is very much the center of the War on Terror. The reluctance of the Times to call the Mumbai attackers "terrorists" would have been less likely if Israel's terrorist enemies were not first treated with morally equivocal language.

The upside of these two points is that Israel can win favor with the media and embolden others to assert a stronger response to terrorism by getting back to fighting terrorism itself. I hope.

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