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(JNS) — A picture may be worth a thousand words, but what happens when that picture contradicts the very article it accompanies?

That’s what the editors at The New York Times should be asking themselves in regard to their Oct. 26 article concerning Israel’s recent counterterrorist operations.

Times correspondent Isabel Kershner reported that the IDF has targeted “the Nablus-based militia known as the Lions’ Den, which emerged this year.”

Well-organized, heavily armed terrorist groups do not suddenly “emerge.” Moreover, the Palestinian Authority’s leadership has heaped t...