Whitewashing Fatah

Reporting on Fatah housecleaning, the LA Times omits the organization’s long background in terror. This snippet is the closest that reporter Ken Ellingwood comes to acknowledging Fatah’s bloody history:

Fatah was founded by Arafat in 1959 as an instrument of revolution. But it also built a grass-roots network of public assistance that gave food and money to the poor and families of imprisoned Palestinians. In that sense, it won public sympathy in much the way that Hamas has become popular, especially in the streets of the impoverished Gaza Strip, by funding schools and medical clinics.

A closer look at Fatah’s emblem highlights the preferred “instruments of revolution” more accurately than the Times.