Eric Margolis: Hamas not "terrorists", Israel implementing a "final solution"

Last time I saw Eric Margolis, the half-Jewish, half-Muslim columnist for the Toronto Sun, it was at a debate sponsored by the Fraser Institute in Toronto, where I was defending the Western Standard's decision to publish the Danish cartoons of Mohammed, and Margolis took the opposing view.

I haven't thought much about Margolis since then, but a reader has brought to my attention a startling new interview in which Margolis refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization:

"It now seems clear the last disastrous act of the Bush administration was giving Israel a green light to launch its final solution campaign against the Hamas government in Gaza."

Did you catch that? Israel is implementing the Final Solution. That's the name the Nazis gave to their plan to kill all the Jews.

It's classic anti-Semitism -- portraying Jews as Nazis.

Look, I'm not calling for a human rights commission complaint into Margolis's weird worldview. It's just really weird to see a well-dressed, well-coiffed man without an Arabic accent actually say, with a straight face, that Hamas isn't a terrorist group; it "takes care of its citizens" and "does a great deal" for Palestinians; and that the Jews are the ones planning the Final Solution -- all this when Hamas's patron, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has specifically threatened Israel with another Holocaust.

I have only one question: what is Margolis still doing in the pages of the Sun?