Liars, terrorists, and fools

Yasser Arafat lied to the UN for forty years. The fools believed him when he said he wanted peace with Israel — in English — and then turned around and told his people in Arabic that the flag of the palestinians would fly over Jerusalem.

Hamas continues in the Arafat mode. And the fools, of course, believe them.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The Palestinian foreign minister said in a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday that the new Hamas-led government believes its struggle against Israel is just, but it wants to live side by side in peace with its neighbors.

The language in Mahmoud Zahar’s letter – his first official correspondence with Annan since Hamas officially took power last week – was reminiscent of that used by President Bush and the Quartet of international parties trying to promote a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia. They have called for two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

[…] Hamas, the surprise winner of January’s Palestinian parliamentary election, has refused to recognize Israel, accept past Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements and renounce violence, as Israel and the Quartet have demanded.

This next paragraph is absolutely stunning in its attempt to spin the issue into something positive for the terrorists who now run the PA:

The letter made no reference to these three key issues, but the reference to a possible two-state solution – even negatively – was seen as a possible opening.

By whom? Who sees this as an opening? Certainly not Israel. Definitely not Hamas, who insisted later they never said anything about two states including Israel (read the charter, fools, it’s quite clear about destroying Israel). The AP writer, and the editor who approved this, are contradicting their own reporting in the previous paragraph. And continue to do so later in the article. It’s as if they have an editor who reads each story to remove any anti-palestinian facts and replace them with a positive spin. Because here’s what else the article says:

As was Zahar’s final sentence: “Like all other people in the world, we look forward to live in peace and security and for our people to live a dignified life in freedom and independence, side by side with our neighbors in this sacred part of the world.”

U.N. diplomats said the statement appeared to be deliberately ambiguous, leaving in question whether Israel was viewed as a neighbor. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment on the issue publicly.

But Zahar later denied that he in any way recognized Israel’s right to exist or a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a statement from his office. An official in Zahar’s office said there was “not even a hint” of such a statement in the letter.

What the hell is wrong with these people that they simply cannot state the truth, and instead, try to pretend that Hamas didn’t say what they said? The “neighbors” referred to by Hamas are Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. They don’t consider Israel a “neighbor.” They don’t consider the existence of Israel at all. Read. Their. Charter.

The lead of this article should not be about how there may be an “opening” for discussion. The lead should be how Hamas has the nerve to tell the United Nations that it refuses to recognize a member nation. The lead should be how Hamas continues with its irredentist, rejectionist policies toward Israel. NOWHERE IN THE LETTER SHOULD THERE BE A REFERENCE TO THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION, because that is a fiction that the AP editor put into this news article.

And so the legitimization of terror organizations continues, and the Exception Clause is in full swing.