Our friends at the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies in Israel send along a report on anti-Israel incitement in the Palestinian Authority. Among the items it mentions is an article published in the Hamas newspaper in Gaza, Al-Rissalah, on April 7. The article issued by the Islamic extremist terrorists was an attack on Pope John Paul II for – get this – being a Christian heretic. The pope’s “terrific heresy”? He “absolved modern-day Jews from the guilt of having murdered Jesus.” According to the Hamas newspaper, modern day Jews are “criminals like their ancestors.” Another problem with the pope, according to the Hamas newspaper, was his attitude toward the Holocaust. His call for Christians to ask forgiveness was “a service to the Zionists” and “Pope John Paul II’s worst crime,” according to the Hamas newspaper. This is the environment in which elements of the American press and State Department focus on the obstacle to peace in the Middle East as being Prime Minister Sharon’s decision to build some houses for Jews in an Israeli suburb four and a half miles from Jerusalem.