Hamas's murder of Palestinians

Cliff May:

Palestinian civilians continue to be murdered in cold blood — several dozen just last weekend. Many of the victims were gunned down inside hospitals and schools.

If you’ve been following the latest Middle East conflict, this will not surprise you. What might: The fact that the assailants were Palestinians — Hamas members targeting those affiliated with the rival Fatah organization.

Only scattered and buried mentions of these attacks have appeared in such newspapers as the New York Times and the Washington Post. There’s been little or nothing on television.

But Khaled Abu Toameh — the brave and distinguished correspondent for the Jerusalem Post (and, incidentally, an Arab) — has reported that 35 Fatah activists have been summarily executed, while more than twice that number have been shot in the legs or had their hands broken.

This is the other war, the war ignored by most media, academics, diplomats and human rights groups, the war between Hamas — a militant Islamist terrorist group strongly backed by Iran — and Fatah, an organization that is difficult to describe accurately in few words.

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The media and most Muslims ignore the Hamas killings, because they don't count. There is exaggerated concern about death inflicted by Israelis in response to attacks by Hamas. For some reason those deaths count more. I suspect it is media bias in one case and religious bigotry in theother.

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