Must-see TV: Frontline on Hamas

Set your Tivo or VCR for tomorrow night’s Frontline on PBS. They’re profiling Hamas.

May 8 (Bloomberg) — Anyone hoping that Hamas’s parliamentary triumph will convert that martyr-making machine into a vehicle of peaceful democracy may be seriously dismayed by a new PBS special.

“Inside Hamas,” which airs tomorrow night at 9 p.m. New York time, strongly suggests the buzzard, not the dove, will continue to rule the roost in the Holy Land.

Reporter Kate Seelye begins in Gaza, “a 6-by-25-mile sandbox” that doubles as a powder keg. The streets are teeming with angry young warriors bearing automatic weapons and deep grudges, all strutting their stuff beneath posters of martyrs.

“I’ve come to find out if Hamas will lay down their arms and transform themselves now that they’re in power,” Seelye says.

This is high idealism, we soon learn.

Yes, watch it, because even with the usual anti-Israel spin, they can’t spin Hamas into anything that it isn’t. Witness:

When Seelye presses on the sorest subject — recognizing Israel’s right to exist — teeth bare. She asks Mahmoud Zahar, a founder of Hamas and foreign minister of the new government, if the group will change its charter and recognize Israel.

“Why?” he responds. “To satisfy you?”

The good news is that the NPR/PBS crowd will see Hamas as it truly is. The bad news is, I suspect, not many opinions will change. Because we still get fools like Jimmy Carter insisting that Hamas be given a chance, or that the palestinian people not be “punished” for voting in a group of genocideal terrorists.

(Don’t you love how these same people think America deserves whatever she gets from foreign countries because we voted in Bush, and he makes bad policies? Hypocrisy does not exist in Leftyland or Moonbat World.)

Watch the program. These are the enemies, not just of Israel, but of the non-Islamic world.