Headache-Inducing Nonsensical Declarations
Well, which is it to be? Funny how some people view themselves, what they represent, and how they can manoeuvre themselves through words and actions to appear other than what they are. It's confusing to say the least, does nothing whatever to clear up situations of confusion, and garners no plaudits for the individual who mangles language and creates further lack of vision, conviction, reasonableness.Here we have an avowed enemy of the State of Israel - a fanatical Islamist who has always claimed that the Islamic-jihadist Hamas of which he is the self-avowed leader-in-exile - agreeing that Israel is a reality. This is the same Khaled Mashaal who passionately decries the existence of Israel on land purloined, he insists, from the Palestinians, and whose very existence is a deadly affront to Islam.
This is the very same Khaled Mashaal from whom the current Hamas-led Palestinian Authority receives their marching orders and those orders remain adamantly rejectionist to the very idea of the State of Israel existing alongside a neighbourly and autonomous Palestinian state. Not one shred of land is to remain as reflective of a Jewish state encircled by Muslim states; Israel must be obliterated and Mr. Mashaal and Hamas represent the entity to bring about the destruction of Israel and its people.
That bitterly intractible, violently destructive intent has been made clear to the world at large and Israel in particular time and again. Hamas has refused to agree to an amicable pact with its adversarial partner in the Palestinian Authority, Fatah, which itself has agreed that it can and will live alongside Israel in a formally recognized state of its own. This refusal has been the basis for deadly internecine battles between Fatah and Hamas.
Yet here in an interview Khaled Mashaal issued the statement that "There will remain a state called Israel. This is a matter of fact." Do tell, indeed. We were ourselves more than adequately convinced of that reality. "The problem", Mr. Mashaal goes on to say, "is not that there is an entity called Israel. The problem is that the Palestinian state is non-existent."
And why exactly might that be, since Israel has been falling all over itself in its anxious attempts to try to convince Fatah-Hamas that it is prepared to bargain in good faith with the PA to ensure that the Palestinian state becomes a reality - for an exchange of full recognition of Israel's right to existence as its next-door neighbour and potential trading and business partner.
It is Hamas that is directly responsible for a lack of movement, a stalemate, a situation where Israel speaks of the possibility of co-existence, echoed by Fatah, yet the cause cannot be advanced because of the deliberate recalcitrance of Hamas. Mr. Mashaal iterates and reiterates of Israel's existence: "This is a reality, but I won't deal with it in terms of recognizing or admitting it."
What? WOT?
Labels: Middle East
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, January 11, 2007
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