Like John Sexton, whose article I am about to quote from below, I have little regard for the “news” provided by today’s New York Times. I consider this once-great paper more a propaganda sheet for particular (usually left wing and almost always anti-Israel) points of view it expouses.
But this one – an op-ed piece about hamas and why – amazingly and sickeningly – it has achieved the level of acceptance, even popularity, that it currently enjoys in the United States, is a major exception.
Here is just one important segment:
This piece is in the opinion section, but even so it feels like the first clear statement about Gaza and Hamas the paper has published in some time. The author is a Palestinian who was educated in American. He got to see how Hamas operated up close.
Despite its posturing as an elite club, Hamas, from its inception, behaved like a mob of gangsters, brutalizing Palestinian women who violated its fanatic sense of morality, torturing and killing those who were suspected of opposing them and carrying out grisly suicide attacks against Israeli civilians, which weakened the Palestinian Authority and empowered the extremist right in Israel, which seized the opportunity to destroy hopes of a new Palestinian horizon or future.
Now, in the ruins of my once beautiful homeland, we are witnessing the coda of the group’s two decades of horrific rule. By agreeing in principle to a disarmament plan after its Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and slaughter of hundreds of civilians led to over two years of Israeli bombardment that killed tens of thousands of Gazans, including much of my family, Hamas is acknowledging what Palestinian leadership knew 30 years ago: that only peace could lead to freedom and armed struggle was a disastrous strategy.
But the best part of the article is that it doesn’t just go after the terrorist group, it places blame on the group’s western supporters who now seem to make up a majority of the progressive left.
Do yourself a favor and use the above link (here it is again) to read all of Mr. Sexton’s piece. He – and, however surprisingly, the op-ed piece it ran – are dead on target.
