The flying pig is coming out of the hangar less and less these days, but here’s a Washington Post editorial that deserves the avian porker: Breach in Gaza.

They even use the T word.

In fact, as Mr. Mubarak well knows, no one is starving in Gaza — though food, fuel and cigarettes are much cheaper across the border. Israel closed its border with the territory and disrupted power supplies over the weekend in response to a massive escalation of Palestinian rocket launches from Gaza at nearby Israeli towns — between Tuesday and Saturday last week, some 225 rockets were aimed at the town of Sderot, where more than 20,000 Israelis have been relentlessly terrorized. Hamas took advantage of the blockade first by arranging for sympathetic Arab media to document the “humanitarian crisis,” then by daring Egypt to use force against Palestinian civilians portrayed as Israel’s victims. Its ultimate goal, stated publicly yesterday by Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshal, is to force Egypt to permanently reopen the border in cooperation with Hamas; that would greatly diminish Israel’s ability to respond to rocket attacks with economic sanctions, and it would undermine the rival Palestinian leadership of Mahmoud Abbas.

Mr. Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert committed themselves to reaching a peace accord in 2008 during President Bush’s visit this month. Yet since then, political attention in the region has been focused on the rocket attacks, Israel’s retaliatory strikes against militants in Gaza and the subsequent blockade, and yesterday’s dramatic breach of the border. Naturally it is impossible for the peace negotiations to make progress in these conditions. So those who say their priority is an Israeli-Palestinian settlement ought to be trying to stop Hamas’s disruptions.

This is the same newspaper, remember, that has published numerous op-eds by Hamas shills, representatives, and even deported terrorist leaders. I suppose it would be asking too much to expect the Washington Post to shoulder a little of the blame for legitimizing this band of murderous thugs.