Really, you just can’t make this stuff up. Buried deep inside the whitewashed AP version of Hamas’ anniversary festivities in Gaza is this nugged of wisdom from the AP, which purports to show the moderation of the terrorist group even as they declare their devotion to the complete elimination of Israel:
In recent months, Hamas’ leader, Khaled Mashaal, has tried to reach out to the West with conciliatory statements, saying his group supports the idea of a Palestinian state in Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem. However, Mashaal hasn’t said if he would consider that the final arrangement.
Haniyeh suggested Monday that Hamas hasn’t dropped its objective of destroying Israel.
“This movement, with the help of the militant factions liberated the Gaza Strip, and we say, brothers and sisters, we will not be satisfied with Gaza,” Haniyeh told the crowd. “Hamas looks toward the whole of Palestine, the liberation of the strip is just a step to liberating all of Palestine,” meaning Israel as well as the West Bank and Gaza.
How is that a suggestion? How do the AP editors justify the pretense of the middle paragraph, that Haniyeh “suggested” that Hamas might still be thinking about destroying Israel? That isn’t a suggestion. It’s a flat-out declaration of purpose.
This is what is held up as the heights of journalism that blogging should reach? Puh-leeze.
And here’s the other part of the outrage that gets pretty much ignored: The Talibanization of Gaza is nearly complete.
Women stood in a separate section, many of them wearing face veils and green baseball hats over headscarves. Some children were dressed in combat fatigues and wore green headbands.
Yeah, let’s hear all about how Israel is a discriminatory state. I’m thinking not.
I =suggest= that the editors and executives at AP should go to Hell.
-ls
I second the motion, anyone else?
Hey, if I suggest to my boss that he kiss my rump, does that make it OK?
Well, they’ve suggested they might not seek Israel’s destruction right this instant, and that’s enough–we will now see calls for Israel to negotiate with them. This is of a piece with Fatah dropping the clauses from its charter about destroying Israel, an action universally referred to as a sign of concilitian although they didn’t actually do it. They said she would pass a resolution considering the offended clauses inoperative. They never actually did that, just said they were going to.
As usual, from the Arabs words, from the Jews deeds.