Yeah, we’re not over it yet. Happy Thursday:
However, Jacob Walles, U.S. Consul General and Chief of Mission in Jerusalem, met on Wednesday with the Palestinian Finance Minister, Salam Fayyad, in Ramallah. This is the first meeting between a senior American official and a minister in the Palestinian government since the swearing in of the new unity government. In the past the U.S. said it would not cooperate with the Palestinian government unless it met the three preconditions of the international Quartet – recognition of Israel, accepting PLO-Israel accords, and relinquishing violence.
If there is actually a Palestinian unity government and that government declares a ceasefire, the following things will happen:
* The international community will announce that the ceasefire is a concession by Hamas which should be rewarded in order to encourage them to moderate further.
* Hamas will send out conflicting signals regarding the precise status of their anti-Jewish genocidal commitments – which everyone will convienetly ignore had been unnegotiable divine obligations just a few short days before (and who knows, maybe they’ll be serious this time).
* The international community will announce that the ceasefire is a concession by Hamas which should be rewarded in order to encourage them to moderate further.
* Hamas will send out conflicting signals regarding the precise status of their anti-Jewish genocidal commitments – which everyone will convienetly ignore had been unnegotiable divine obligations just a few short days before (and who knows, maybe they’ll be serious this time).
That’s from last September – which was about six months after it became really obvious that the world was just itching for an excuse to embrace Hamas. Is it more or less frustrating to watch State Department officials pretend that this wasn’t always a forgone conclusion?
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References:
* Israel to snub foreign envoys who meet with Hamas ministers [Ha'aretz]
* This Is How the Palestinian Authority Will Dodge Its Treaty Obligations. Again.
Previously:
* US State Department Justifies Funding Hamas’s University By Saying… It Has No Connection To Terrorism
* State Department Anti-Israel Ideology Gets Silly, Kills Americans
* US State Department Has Been Funding Hamas Terrorists For Years. No Kidding.
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