WaPo Pulls a Friedman

I know I said that you would all be left alone until Monday, but this Washington Post article is so very very bad as to require immediate response. In Gaza, surge of support for Hamas starts to fade.

"After prayers, men old enough to remember the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which began a decades-long occupation of Gaza, say Hamas has finally won a fight with Israel and should march on Tel Aviv." 

Excellent it contradicts its own headline by the third sentence. The article then opines that in spite of these old men there are others that think the opposite. Oh, and there is a nice lady with children in a refugee camp that the writer talked to who agrees. From this the Washington Post concludes,

many younger men, who grew up in the bitter decades after the first Palestinian uprising, ask what precisely Hamas accomplished during the eight-day confrontation last month.

Which they didn't actually provide any evidence for. The rest of the article continues to contradict the main assertion of the author. From the Hamas official to the cop on the beat, they all still like Hamas.

At least when Friedman quotes taxi drivers they actually agree with him.