Washington Post - Al-Jazeera on the Potomac?

The Washington Post should really be renamed Al-Jazeera on the Potomac, at least when it comes to the Middle East. Our good friends over at the "Eye on the Post" blog have been doing an excellent job in documenting naked bias at the Post.

But this weekend the Post outdid itself. As you recall, a few days ago the PLO once again demonstrated its commitment to peace and tranquility and democratization by executing a group of Palestinians it accused of "collaborating with Israel." All those Moonbats who love to wail about imaginary abuses of the human rights of Arabs by Israel had nothing to say about this latest atrocity against innocent Arab civilians. How come the ISM latte-sippers were not serving as human shields for the victims?

Now never mind that the whole Oslo peace process was supposedly about how the PLO had agreed to collaborate with Israel to suppress terrorism and calm the region. Even officials for the PLO themselves admitted that the executed people were actually all innocent. They were executed by the Palestinian Authority after Mahmoud Abbas gave his approval. But none of that mattes for the Washington Post.

The Washington Post used an AP report on the story, but changed the language to make it look like Israel was to blame for the atrocity! The Post then went on to bemoan Israel's assassination of a leading Islamist terrorist last week, but neglected to mention the sorts of atrocities the perp had aleady committed and was still planning. The "Eye on the Post" folks define their mission:

"EyeOnThePost.Org, the operating name for Eye On The Post, Inc., was formed as a result of The Washington Post's skewed coverage of news in the Middle East. The catalyst was The Washington Post's false reporting of a massacre in Jenin by the Israeli Defense Forces following the Passover bombings in April, 2002. Palestinians, aided by reporters looking for ... indeed hoping for ... a story of mass atrocities committed by Israel's military, fabricated a web of lies. Not only did all of these false news articles prove to have been lies, but the truth that eventually seeped out was that Israel's defense forces went out of their way to spare civilian lives at a substantial cost of an excessive loss of their own lives. The Post never effectively apologized, and it never adequately reported the humanitarian measures actually taken by the IDF to avoid excessive loss of Palestinian civilian lives. "

Meanwhile it was revealed that Arab terrorists are trying a new tactic - wrapping explosives around the bodies of babies. Really. It was reported that the leader of a Syrian terrorist cell who was killed in a confrontation with security forces last week had planned to wrap explosives around the body of a one-year-old baby before placing her in the Justice Ministry, the girl's grandmother was quoted Sunday as saying. The grandmother, identified only by her first name, Zarifa, said her son, Ahmed, the baby's father, had died while planting a roadside bomb on the Damascus-Zabadani road in late January, according to the Al-Thawra newspaper.

The story did not interest the Washington Post.