Suppose for a moment that a man carrying 11 pipe bombs, a pistol and ammunition tried to cross into a secure area in the U.S. -- perhaps at an airport -- but was stopped in time by police and prevented from carrying out what could have been a lethal terror attack. Would the Washington Post have ignored this incident?  I doubt it very much.  The Post would have given it front-page coverage and followed up with stories about the identity and motives of this would-be terrorist. Yet, when exactly this kind of incident occurred on Sunday, Jan. 8, at a West Bank checkpoint near Jenin where a Palestinian, armed to the teeth, was halted trying to cross into Israel, the Post kept it a secret from its readers.  Not a single sentence. The New York Times didn't do much better.  It buried the incident in another piece about Israeli prosecutors filing charges against five Jewish settlers who had raided an IDF base as part of an effort to block the dismantling of an illegal...(Read Full Post)