In today's asinine news story from the Ass. Press:
In an interview published Saturday in the German news magazine Der Spiegel, Hamas founder and spiritual leader Ahmed Yassin gave conflicting messages.The message is that Yassin is responding "moderately" and reacting only to Israeli unfairness. But the Ass. Press fails to mention other parts of the interview:"Every day houses are destroyed. Violence does not come just from us. Before this resistance ends, the occupation must be ended," said Yassin.
But when asked if he supported a new cease-fire, Yassin responded more moderately. "The last cease-fire was not respected by the enemy. We will see whether the Israelis now pull out and pay what they owe us," he said
"[The Geneva] plan is worse than the Oslo one, because it abandons the right of return for the refugees," [Yassin] said.Yassin's non-negotiable goal is to establish an Islamic theocracy in Tel Aviv and this is what the Ass. Press calls "moderate". Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at December 06, 2003 01:15 PMThe objective of Hamas was to ensure "all Palestinians can live in their homeland, with all religions together: Moslems, Christians and Jews. We are against a Jewish apartheid state on Palestinian soil."
Asked if there was no place at all for a Jewish state, he said, "They could set up a state in Europe."
If the Israelis "paid the Palestinians what they owe them," then the West Bank would be nothing but a smoldering ruin, devoid of life.
Yassin and his people should much prefer mercy to justice.
Posted by: BarCodeKing on December 7, 2003 01:39 AM