What more evidence does the world need? At the anti-Israel “Palestine” conference going on in Iran, Khaled Mashaal told the assemblage of Jew-haters that Hamas will never recognize Israel.
That’s never, as in: Not. Ever.
The chief of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement’s (Hamas) Political Bureau, Khaled Mashaal, here Friday stressed that the US can not force the Palestinian nation to yield.
He made the remark while addressing the Third International Conference on Qods and Support for the Rights of Palestinian People.
The conference kicked off here Friday afternoon with a key note speech by the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei.
“We never will recognize Israel,” Mashaal reiterated.
There will be no moderation of Hamas. If anyone out there sincerely thinks there will be, they need some serious psychiatric help.
Now, in spite of this pronouncement being made publicly available by the Iranian news agencies, not a single wire service or major media outlet seems to have picked it up.
Why is that, I wonder?
[...] Two days after Hamas’ foreign minister said, once again, that Hamas will never recognize Israel, there is still no news story that acknowledges this latest pronouncement. However, there are pieces like this drek in Time Magazine that claim the opposite. According to Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Hamas as an organization will not recognize Israel, and would seek only an “interim solution” to the current impasse, but government spokesmen as well as some Palestinian officials have suggested that almost all options could be on the table — including, perhaps, recognition in some roundabout form — if in return Israel would withdraw to the 1967 borders and close all settlements in the West Bank. “Hamas has made significant strides to evolve, which have so far not been internationally acknowledged,” says Nicolas Pelham, senior analyst with the International Crisis Group. [...]
Pingback by Yourish.com » Media ignorance watch — 04/16/2006 @ 10:09 am
Gee, if you don’t recognize a country, how can you accept the money you claim they aren’t sending you?
Comment by Iris — 04/17/2006 @ 7:49 am