Wow. Only a really determined propagandist could take an article like this, showing the reactions of Arab newspapers to yesterday’s terrorist atrocity in Tel Aviv, and give it the headline: Some Arab Papers Condemn Tel Aviv Bombing.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The bombing of an Israeli fast-food shop that killed nine people drew condemnation Tuesday from some Arab newspapers and commentators Tuesday, while others praised it as an act growing out of Palestinian despair.

“The operation is condemned, and such condemnation is a duty and a must, especially by the Arab side, the Palestinians,” Sahar Baassiri said in a front-page column for Lebanon’s leading newspaper, An-Nahar.

An-Nahar wrote that the suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv on Monday was the last thing the Palestinians need “because it provided the West with an ideal pretext to impose a collective punishment on them to force the Hamas government to accept its conditions.”

The paper alluded to the decision by the United States and European Union members to cut off aid for the Palestinian Authority because the newly elected Hamas government refuses to renounce violence and recognize Israel.

In Cairo, Egypt’s leading state-controlled newspaper, Al-Ahram, condemned the bombing in an editorial, although a front-page banner headline said the strike was carried out by “fedayeen” — an Arabic word for guerrilla that has a positive tone.

Another big circulation newspaper controlled by Egypt’s government, Al Gomhuria, praised the bombing as a “sacrificial and martyrdom attack” and warned that more would follow.

The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir was sympathetic to suicide bombers. “The Palestinian despair was embodied in a youth less than 20 years old who blew himself up in central Tel Aviv to kill nine Israelis and provide his people with a chance to emerge from humiliation,” it said.

A Syrian political analyst, Ahmad Haj Ali, applauded the attack for the bomber’s ability to penetrate Israel’s security cordon.

The attack “proves that security cannot be achieved except in a just political climate that serves the interests of all people,” Ali, a member of Syria’s ruling Baath Party, told The Associated Press.

Let’s see. By my count, that’s:

Condemned the mass murder (with equivocations): 1
Condemned the mass murder and praised it at the same time: 1
Enthusiastically applauded the mass murder: 3

A “reality based” headline might read: “Arab Media Praises Tel Aviv Bombing.”

With the denouncers buried in paragraph 6.