After editorially rejecting anything but a weak and ineffectual program of sanctions against Iran yesterday, today the Los Angeles Times publishes an encore: an op-ed by the deputy of the political bureau of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzoo. The LAT allows Hamas to spin its views and burnish its image on its august pages. The only correct spin in the piece is when the Hamas writer puts quotes around moderate ("moderate") when characterizing Abbas. Some gems:Why should anyone concede Israel's "right" to exist, when it has never even acknowledged the foundational crimes of murder and ethnic cleansing by means of which Israel took our towns and villages, our farms and orchards, and made us a nation of refugees?Why should any Palestinian "recognize" the monstrous crime carried out by Israel's founders and continued by its deformed modern apartheid state, while he or she lives 10 to a room in a cinderblock, tin-roof United Nations hut?Why...(Read Full Post)