New York Times runs op-ed from terrorist-backed mayor of Gaza on Christmas

The New York Times saw fit to print this column from a man who backs terrorists, a column which demands that international leaders put pressure on Israel to cease its attempt to destroy the terror group that undertook a pogrom of 1,200 men, women, children, and elderly on October 7, on Christmas, a day of hope and peace.

It was only a few short years ago that the Times former opinion editor James Bennet published an op-ed from Senator Tom Cotton which called for the use of US armed forces to quell the destructive BLM, Antifa riots in the summer of 2020. That op-ed proved to be so divisive that the opinion page was broken up, Bennet was forced to resign, and Americans were left wondering how the paper of record could be torn apart by a reasonable opinion—one shared by the sitting president at the time.

Now that paper, which some journalists have claimed is so conservative that liberal reporters need not apply, has published an op-ed from a Hamas-backed leader in what can only be an attempt to normalize terrorism.

To be sure, the opinion is designed to elicit compassion, and Americans at large have compassion for those suffering under Hamas' brutal rule in Gaza, a rule that steals humanitarian aid and keeps it for the terrorists while impoverishing citizens, a rule that undertook the horrific Oct. 7 attack on Israel with full awareness of the warfare that would be unleashed against its citizens in response.

The revitalization of Gaza that Sarraj has underseen during his time in office, which he details as small business creation, spawning new jobs, seafront improvements, recreation areas, and more, is one that has been indefinitely stopped under Israel's retaliatory attack. Sarraj cites casualty numbers from the Gaza Health Ministry, another Hamas-backed municipal agency that uses its position for purposes of propaganda.

Sarraj almost feigns confusion when he asks "Why did the Israeli tanks destroy so many trees, electricity poles, cars and water mains? Why would Israel hit a U.N. school?" And the Times lets it stand without pointing out that Israel, unlike other forces, gave warning to Gazans prior to the launch of retaliatory hostilities, and without mention of the fact that Hamas terrorists use civilian infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, as shields behind which they hide and let the civilians take the brunt of the attack.

For sure, two things can be true at once: the world can have sympathy and compassion for Sarraj, the city of Gaza, and her people, while being clear that the ruthless attack on Israel's civilians was not something the nation could let stand without an attempt to destroy those who caused it.

But for The New York Times, Sarraj's view, the view of a Hamas-backed government official who has stayed in office only by the grace of terrorists, is let to stand alone, untested. Sarraj barely even mentions the attack on Israel, led by the same terrorists that installed him in power in 2019, except to say he was out of town that day.

The Guardian printed a letter from Osama bin Laden in 2002, only a year after his Islamic extremist terrorists turned American civilian airliners into bombs and murdered over 3,000 people. In 2023, as the war between Israel and Hamas ground on after Oct. 7, that Letter to America became a cause celeb for American young people on TikTok.

They read the letter aloud to followers, they cried, they blamed America for having been attacked in the first place. It fueled a rising wave of antisemitism among American youth, one that had already been bolstered by the American educational system, which after 9/11 endeavored to decrease Islamaphobia by downplaying concepts of jihad and Sharia law and teaching that Judaism and Christianity were the tools of occupiers and oppressors.

This letter from the terrorist-backed mayor of Gaza is another weapon in the arsenal of Hamas and Islamic extremists to destroy America, to poison the minds of our citizens against our nation, and to diminish our own will to defend ourselves and our culture. And it's The New York Times who pulled the launched it at the US.