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Hamas

• March 29 -- Sharon "Bent On More Violence"?
Neil MacFarquhar's story on an aborted Arab-nation summit in Tunisia passes along this propaganda line: "Syria and Lebanon…[argued] that Arab public opinion would not abide such an overture to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel at a time when he seemed bent on more violence."

• March 23 -- The "Perceived Threat" of Hamas?
Israel's assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the "spiritual leader" of the anti-Israel terrorist group Hamas, enables the Times to call Yassin a lot of names, among them "Icon" and "Perceived Threat"--but not "Terrorist."

• October 14 -- Minding Syria's Business
Neil MacFarquhar's latest Damascus dispatch again lays out the terror-sponsoring state's case against Israel, while refusing to identify Hamas and Islamic Jihad as terror groups, simply saying they've been "labeled" so by Israel and the U.S.

• August 13 -- “Charitable” Impulses Toward Hamas
James Bennet compares Israeli militant-turned-prime minister Menachem Begin to the terrorist group Hamas and becomes the third Times reporter to favorably cite the group’s “charitable” impulses.

• June 25 -- Targeting Terrorists Bad for Middle East Peace?
A Times cover story suggests a recent round-up of suspected Hamas terrorists is a blow against peace and laments “harsh Israeli reprisals.”

• June 25 -- Labeling Bias, at Home and In Israel
Greg Myre calls Hamas, whose goal is the destruction of Israel, an “Islamic group” and notes its “extensive network of schools, health clinics and welfare groups.”

• June 17 -- The Times’ Muddled Middle East Morality
A front-page story by Greg Myre and Ian Fisher again shifts the blame for the failure of the Middle East “peace process” to the Israeli government, rather than the Palestinian terror group Hamas. The Times also attempts to position Israel and Hamas at two extremes--with the PLO as a voice of moderation.

• June 16 -- The Softer Side of Hamas
Ian Fisher’s profile of Palestinian terrorist group Hamas begins: “To most Israelis, Hamas is a terrorist group and little more, the core of Palestinian hatred that explodes against Israeli civilians who are innocently shopping or riding on buses.” But that’s just one side of the story, according to Fisher.

• June 13 -- The Times’ “Promising” Young Terrorist
Judging by the sympathetic headline to Ian Fisher’s story, “A Sudden, Violent End For a Promising Youth,” one might think it was about a victim of the recent deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem. But the Times is talking about the bomber.

• June 12 -- Middle East Moral Equivalency Watch
A deadly blast by the Palestinian terror group Hamas, and an Israeli counterstrike, motivate the Times into a familiar pattern of Middle East moral equivalence, portraying the deaths of Israeli citizens and Palestinian terrorists as equally worthy of condemnation.

• June 11 -- Israel Targeting of a Terrorist “Damages” Peace Talks
Middle East correspondent Greg Myre again puts the entire burden for the success of the “peace process” on Israel, saying its retaliation against a terror attack “further damaged an already fragile Middle East peace plan.”