Posted by
JParks on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 1:12:11 AM
Ismail Haniyeh, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, wrote an editorial in the
Washington Post. I recommend this article to anyone who wonders why Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert can't negotiate with Hamas/PA. Here are a few excerpts:
"Its "separation barrier," running across our land, is hardly a good-faith gesture toward future coexistence."
You get that? Hamas is looking for a "good-faith gesture." When are the Israelis supposed to find time for good-faith gestures? Between rocket attacks from Hamas?
"Contrary to popular depictions of the crisis in the American media, the dispute is not only about Gaza and the West Bank;"
Ha! The American media. Where more terrorists get their news than
anywhere else. For crying out loud! Americans don't even rely on the
American media. Moving on.
"Some Americans, I believe, must be asking themselves if all this blood
and treasure could not have bought more tangible results for Palestine
if only U.S. policies had been predicated from the start on historical
truth, equity and justice."
Yeah. That's exactly what we're asking ourselves. For someone who has the IDF knocking on his door, he sure seems pre-occuppied with Americans.
"America's complacency in the face of these war crimes is, as usual,
embedded in the coded rhetorical green light: "Israel has a right to
defend itself." Was Israel defending itself when it killed eight family
members on a Gaza beach last month or three members of the Hajjaj
family on Saturday, among them 6-year-old Rawan?"
Yes. That's an unfortunate consequence of fighting cowards who hide behind innocent women and children.
I remember when President Bush was asked the following question during a national press conference:
"After 9/11,
what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons
have you learned from it?"
You think maybe someone could ask Ismail similar questions? Do you think he would acknowledge that it was a mistake to launch hundreds of rockets into Israel? Do you think that he would acknowledge that kidnapping an Israeli soldier was a dumb idea? I doubt it, too. This is why Hamas will never be a good negotiating partner. According to them, every bad thing that has ever happened was a result of Israeli agression and American policies. They have never done anything to provoke Israel. To hear them tell it, they were all minding their own business, when suddenly an intifada started.