The New York Times decided to weave two developments on the Israeli-Palestinian front into one story.  But which one to pick for the lead? On the one hand, there was the uproar over Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority TV airing a call by the PA's Jerusalem Mufti, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, to kill Jews in order to fulfill a mandate from the Prophet Mohammed.  The Mufti's anti-Semitic incitement drew a demand by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for PA leaders to condemn such remarks. On the other hand, in the same news cycle, Israeli security forces arrested a couple of Hamas members of the long-defunct Palestinian Parliament.  The Hamas parliamentarians had been hiding in a Red Cross compound in East Jerusalem.  While Abbas was silent about the Mufti's remarks, PA leaders criticized the arrest of Hamas officials as a blow to meetings between Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kershner was given the task of fitting both...(Read Full Post)