What is about killers that excites so much of the left?

The Guardian does double duty on its usual practice of sucking up to killers today. Martin Woollacott assures his dopier readers that Hamas and Islamic Jihad

[T]he first phase of the road map on the Palestinian side has been characterised by a bargain between prime minister Abu Mazen and the radical groups, a bargain struck with the intention of influencing the debate within those groups between their more and their less extreme wings.
This bargain, too, is cheating in a way, but cheating with far more constructive possibilities than that on Sharon’s side. As the Palestinian commentator Daoud Kuttab said in a recent article: “The real goal should be the successful integration of these hard-line groups into a pragmatic political process so they can participate in decision making – with all the responsibilities which this entails.”

Hamas are just poor, misunderstood folks that need to be brought into the mainstream a little more. Sharon, of course, is pure evil. No talk about Sharon having to deal with people with differing views.
Sorry, but I just don’t buy the “not anti-Semitic, just anti-Israel” stuff anymore.

For good measure, just so you don’t think the Guardian is attached exclusively to the killing of Jews, Niall Stanage (editor of the boring Dublin rag, Magill) manages to come up with apology for the IRA boys sent off to Columbia.