http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/15/1077 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:14:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/15/1077/comment-page-1#comment-4031 Iris Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:49:33 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/15/1077#comment-4031 Gee, if you don't recognize a country, how can you accept the money you claim they aren't sending you? Gee, if you don’t recognize a country, how can you accept the money you claim they aren’t sending you?

]]> http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/15/1077/comment-page-1#comment-4008 Yourish.com » Media ignorance watch Sun, 16 Apr 2006 14:09:18 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/04/15/1077#comment-4008 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

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