The world media is rushing to proclaim that Hamas has finally recognized Israel as a nation. The AP has changed its headline on the signing of the prisoners’ document from
to
And then they continue the lies in the lead of the story:
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Jun 27, 2006 (AP)— The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations aiming to lift crippling international aid sanctions.
Moderate President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah has been trying to coax his Hamas rivals into endorsing the document, which calls for a Palestinian state alongside Israel, in effect recognizing the Jewish state. He has endorsed the plan as a way to end sanctions against the Hamas-led Palestinian government and pave the way to reopening peace talks with Israel.
And what has Hamas got to say about the agreement?
GAZA (Reuters) – The governing Hamas movement reached a political agreement on Tuesday with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but said it would continue to refuse to recognize Israel.
[…] Hamas insisted it was sticking to its “agenda of resistance” against Israel.
“The document included a clear clause referring to the non-recognition of the legitimacy of the Occupation,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, using the Islamist group’s term for Israel.
Hamas tells the truth, but the media cover it up. The headline on this piece had nothing to say about Hamas’ refusal to acknowledge Israel, which is the point of this story. Instead, it reads “Hamas sticks to hard line despite deal with Abbas.” Even though it includes such quotes as these:
Officials close to the negotiations said Abbas, of Fatah, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas, drafted a platform accepting a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, areas captured by Israel in a 1967 war.
Such a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be in line with Fatah’s recognition of Israel.
But Hamas legislator Salah al-Bardaweel told Reuters: “We said we accept a state (in territory occupied) in 1967 — but we did not say we accept two states.”
So. What part of “no recognition of Israel” doesn’t the world media understand?
I haven’t found a copy of the revised document online yet, but these quotes mean that it was specifically amended to include language that says the signers do not recognize the existence of Israel. Once again, this was an agreement between two warring factions, signed to prevent all-out civil war. This document has nothing to do with recognizing Israel, calls for nothing peaceful, and will not lead to peace between anyone but Fatah and Hamas, and that only until the factions decide they’re done with the document and start shooting again.
The world’s media are lying to you. They are turning a blind eye to what the document really says, and I cannot for the life of me comprehend how they can all fool themselves so blatantly into thinking that the terrorists are moderating in any way. Of course, once you take away all of the logical reasons, the only thing left is—anti-Semitism. The word we’re not allowed to use when dealing with the anti-Israel bias of much of the world. Because it isn’t anti-Semitism, it’s anti-Zionism. Get it?
Of course, there is another possibility. Reporters and their editors are simply stupid.
Hands up, those who think it’s a combination of both.
I think sometimes it’s hard for the general public, like myself, to believe the media can be so stupid and not see what is in clear sight. Of course, the only other possibility is they are intentionally and audaciously lying to the public, and that is hard to believe as well, because you can’t imagine so many people acting in concert to willingly and INTENTIONALLY deceive you.
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The media is banking on the fact that we get nearly all our information either directly or indirectly from them. If they are, in fact, intentionally distributing false information, it leads inevitably to the conclusion that everything, or at least the majority of the things, that we have learned from them, are wrong.
This isn’t something that people like to consider, or even really think about.
You do have to wonder what part of N-O does the AP not understand?
In this case I suspect stupidity. The media have their ideology, which in this case says that the Palis must become more moderate. If the facts conflict with the ideology the obvious thing is to ignore the facts, they just get in the way. It’s a very common thing on the left. “Don’t bother me with a mass of petty istinas” is my favorite quote from Lenin. Istina is Russian for a homely, everyday truth, like 2 plus 2 equals 4. Pravda is a higher, revealed truth, like religious truth. It’s those istinas that bollix up pravda so often. The media have their pravda, and ignore the petty istinas.
Oh, please. Recognize Israel? They can’t even say the WORD Israel. It’s always “The Zionist Entity” or some such BS. Like something from a really bad “B” movie.
Oops- just realized you were saying basically the same thing in your post’s title :-)