This NY Times staff-ed uses the “T-word” to describe Hamas and the PLO:
It would be nice to believe that Hamas, now that it is assuming the reins of power and the burden of actually having to govern, will renounce its call for the destruction of a sovereign state, disarm its private army, get into the business of making life better for Palestinians and try to negotiate the creation of a real Palestinian state. While we’re not hopeful, we are reminded that the Palestine Liberation Organization of the late Mr. Arafat, of which Mr. Abbas was once second in command, was born in terrorism. For many years Mr. Arafat and his gunmen were hunted by Israel, much as Hamas has been in recent years.
Now that the Times acknowledges that violence can be described as “terror,” and that Israel’s peace partners were “born in terrorism,” we hope the paper will remain consistent and label perpetrators of future terror as “terrorists.”
