Hamas is promising to continue its aim to destroy Israel should its candidates take part in the PA government.
During a campaign visit to families of people killed or taken prisoner in the past five years of conflict with Israel, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar was asked if the atmosphere were ripe for Hamas to form a government that would not deal with Israel, Hamas reported on its Web site.
“Yes. We are running for the Legislative Council to put an end to the vestiges of Oslo,” Zahar said, referring to the Oslo peace accords between Israel and the Palestinians of the early 1990s.
What the AP did not quote:
Mahmoud al-Zahar told reporters that Hamas will never hold any kind of talks with Israel.
Asked about an EU statement that if Hamas is part of any future cabinet, all international fund will stop, he said, “We will get our own fund from Arab and Islamic countries.”
Funny how that got dropped out of all the AP wire service reports on what al-Zahar said.
Even funnier how the New York Times ignores the evidence and insists that Hamas will “moderate” once it has politicians in the PA.
Shyeah. Because an organization that states it will turn back Oslo, not negotiate with Israel, and continue suicide attacks, is definitely going to change all those things once it becomes an official political party in the PA.
It never ceases to astonish me how people can continue to come up with excuses for murderers. The evidence is all there, yet the morons continue to say that Hamas will “mature” and “moderate” its views.
No, it won’t. They’re telling you exactly what they will do. Try listening to their words for a change.
It is fascinating to watch an idealogue at work. By merely omitting a few key bits of data (as in this case), the editors can deflect the readers awareness from areas they want to protect. In this case, the Arab elite with money.
Being that the mass media (in the US at least) is controlled by a few select corporate conglomerates, I have wondered for a long time if they have been bought off by various special interest groups and governments.
Thanks Meryl.
Isn’t it amazing how the “Zionist Controlled media” can never try to tell the truth when it (the truth that is) makes Zionists look good.
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Yea, Sabba. That combination of words seems to be part of a big lie.
Yet, there are people I know who ape those words and really believe it. Why? I can’t figure it out. Perhaps they have a personal critical mass of naviete when it comes to reading a newspaper and take what is written at face value.
Corporate control applies only to the business side of the news media. The editorial decisions, the news judgement, the decisions which stories to run all come from the staff who are 95 percent liberal or further to the left. The reasons for Israel’s bad press are 1. Arabs are “Third-worlders” and the left looks on such people as having the moral high ground. 2. The USSR became very hostile towards Israel after 1967 when Israel showed how worthless Soviet weaponry and military training were. Despite protestations that they did not like the USSR the hostility of the Commies oozed into the left’s consciousness, until hostility to Israel became part of the left party line in the West. 3. Israel is America’s ally, and anybody who hates America, including those Americans (so numerous in the media and among the chattering classes) who think our resistance to Commie tyranny makes us the fons et origo of evil in the world, will extend the favor to Israel. 4. Residual Judenhass on the left, inherited from its early days in the mid-19th Century.
It’s reminiscent of Hitler (yemach sh’moyl). He set forth, in writing, exactly what his plans were concerning the Jews, and yet nobody wanted to believe the evidence of their own eyes once he was in power.
People believe whatever they want to believe – even if it’s terminally stupid.