Wafa Amr of Reuters is notorious for being a mouthpiece of Palestinian propaganda, but their latest blurt to hit the wires contains a very rare admission:
The Hamas-led Palestinian government is weighing softening its stance toward Israel to ease isolation but not without concessions from the Jewish state and the international community, Hamas officials said on Thursday.
They said ideas such as a 2002 Arab peace initiative, U.N. resolutions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Palestine Liberation Organization’s national agenda — all of which include recognition of Israel — were on the table.
One expert on Hamas said any softening would not involve a shift in ideology, but be a way to try to get Western aid restored to the Palestinian Authority and heal a growing rift with President Mahmoud Abbas over government powers.
Read the bold sections a few times.
They’re not doing this to change their ultimate goals. They’re only doing it for the money and power.
I have no doubt that the weak-willed latent anti-Semites of the EU will cave in quickly to this change in propaganda by Hamas without changing its goals. I’m also pretty sure that President Bush and Condi Rice will end up caving in eventually, playing the Israeli Exception Card as they always have in their overall War On Terrorism.
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Meryl, want to bet it will work, too? Hamas will say something short of “we want to destroy Israel right now,” something that could be interpreted loosely as not calling for Israel’s destruction by next week.
This will be hailed by everyone from the UN to the State Department as a hopeful breakthrough, and the Bensky Requirement for Middle East Politics will be activated: “From Israel, deeds; from its enemies, words.”