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Hamas insists it won't recognize Israel
JERUSALEM - Hamas insisted Tuesday it would not recognize Israel even after a unity government takes power in the Palestinian territories, complicating efforts to form a more moderate coalition that would clear the way for vital foreign aid.
Mahmound, you donkey. Wait til after the plan is in effect.
The militant Islamic group suggested, however, that the emerging coalition would be free to stake out a different position, apparently hoping the ambiguity in its statements will allow it to preserve its anti-Israel ideology but loosen international sanctions that have crippled the Palestinian economy.
Yaas. That’s our plan. Sshhh! Don’t tell the infidels. Oh camel dung, did I say that aloud?
The tough talk came despite Hamas' promises to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that it would refrain from incendiary public statements during the delicate coalition talks.
Barkeep, another round of taqiyaa, pls. Bill’s on the guy in the kaffiya.
Abbas was meeting with the leaders of Jordan and Egypt on Tuesday and Wednesday to win their blessing for what he hopes will be a broader package deal, including not only formation of a moderate government, but also a cease-fire with Israel and an Israel-Hamas prisoner swap.
Well a hudna and a mass release of Palescumians anyway.
On Wednesday, envoys of the so-called Quartet of Mideast mediators — the United States, the U.N., the European Union and Russia — were to meet in Cairo, in part to be briefed on the coalition talks.
and burst into giggles on hearing “The Plan”
Abbas met the U.S. envoy, Assistant Secretary of State David Welch, on Tuesday night.

President Bush also called Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key peace meditator, to discuss the latest developments, Egypt's semi-official Middle East News Agency reported.
Well, Hosni kept trying to lay out the plan and gameplay, but Bush wouldn’t stop laughing.

here it comes, folks..
For Abbas' plan to work, Israel and the West must accept the premise that Hamas is largely ceding power by making room for a 24-member Cabinet of independent administrators — even though the Islamic militants get to appoint nine of the ministers and would retain considerable control.

The monthslong deadlock over whether the new government would recognize Israel is to be solved by a division of labor: Abbas and his Palestine Liberation Organization would lead peace talks with Israel, while the government of experts runs daily life in the Palestinian territories.
and Hamas runs the daily violence and terror. Beauty!
In such a constellation, the argument goes, the government does not need to take a position on whether to recognize Israel or renounce violence, because it deals with more mundane issues.
and mundane issues like violence, terror, abuse and genocidal hatred belong to Hamas – a division of Pal Schizoid Psychosis Inc.
However, the international community has demanded such declarations in exchange for lifting its aid boycott.
aid from the people they want to kill, demand to kill. How thoughtless of us. And so very unreasonable.
So far, Israel and the West have withheld judgment on Abbas' efforts ...
cause they keep breaking out into hysterical giggles when they try and respond
... and the latest Hamas comments might make it harder for the Palestinian leader to market a future agreement.
“Mahmoud, they may be onto us! Say you were misunderstood. Mistranslated. You were talking about figs.”
Moussa Abu Marzouk, a top official in Hamas' exiled leadership, said demands that the group recognize Israel are "illegal and illegitimate." However, Abu Marzouk and other spokesmen differentiated between Hamas and a new government. "It's not Hamas that will pronounce on this subject," he said.
Hamas appoints ministers, they’re gov’t. Hamas appoints enough ministers that they rule major with the sway of independents, they’re big gov’t. Read on.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the Palestinian political activity is an indication of Hamas' inability to govern. "It's a simple reflection of the reality that because of their policies, they have failed," he said.
And here we go – Hamas with nigh equal footing
Despite the latest damper, negotiators reported more progress Tuesday, saying they reached agreement on the division of Cabinet portfolios. Hamas would choose nine ministers, Fatah would appoint six, and four smaller factions would pick one each. Five more independent ministers would require the approval of Hamas and Fatah, negotiators said.

On Monday, the two sides reached agreement in principle on a new prime minister — U.S.-educated microbiologist Mohammed Shabir, former president of the Islamic University in Gaza City. Shabir, 60, has ties to both Hamas and Fatah.

One sticking point could be control over the Interior Ministry, in charge of key branches of the security forces. Hamas seeks guarantees that its Executive Force, a security branch it set up in recent months, will not be dismantled, but Abbas has not made any promises
being muslim and Pal, the very thought nauseates. So, Hamas is in charge of “security.
In Cairo on Tuesday night, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the peace process could also be advanced if Israel and the Palestinians would agree to swap the Israeli corporal whom Hamas-allied militants kidnapped in June with some Palestinians detained in Israeli prisons.
What “peace process”? This farce? I believe the staff writer probably had to wipe tears of laughter writing of this “peace process”.
They feel their balls are big enough now to tell us they are lying to our faces. And daring us to react. Or fall deeper in drawing the lines that will sever the EU and the west. Something evil this way comes. And this is the PR test.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-11-15
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=172011