What the Post doesn't want you to know

One of the worst sins of the Washington Post is avoidance of news that helps to explain or justify Israel's actions. These are stories it doesn't want its readers to know. I'm not sure whether to call them "no-nos", "no-knows", or "no-news". Anyway, this latest one is a killer:
According to the NY Times News Service (6/20/04), Israel blocked one of the largest Hamas attacks ever by arresting SIX (!) suicide bombers who had planned to blow themselves up simultaneously. Can you imagine the exposure if the US had foiled such an attack by Al Qaeda? But this story didn't even appear in the Post.
Then the article went on to describe how Israel arrested a 15-year-old girl in Nablus, who, along with her younger (!) sister, had planned to carry out a suicide bombing for Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, but "gotten cold feet". This also wasn't in the Post, although stories of teenage children who are hurt or killed by Israel are put on the front page.
The NY Times article then mentioned a thwarted car bombing in Gaza on Tuesday, and went on to describe the huge reduction in terrorist attacks since March and to credit this to the barrier wall and to aggressive anti-terrorist actions.
But none of this appeared in the Post. Instead, the Post's lone Middle East article on 6/20 was, in its entirety, "Israeli helicopters fired three missiles at an empty metal workshop in the central Gaza Strip. No one was injured, Palestinian officials said. The Israeli army said the workshop was used by the militant group Hamas to make weapons. The strike came a day after Israeli helicopters attacked two empty metal workshops in Gaza City." (Like Bob (see home page), I also wondered about the word "empty". It somehow smacks of disapproval, yet would the Post think it better if the weapon factories had been filled with people? Is this another "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation?)
By denying its readers so many stories like the NY Times one, the Post brainwashes its readership into believing that Israel is an evil aggressor nation, and not a besieged nation waging a defensive war.