Abbas: Recognizing Israel Not Required
Some news stories require commentary and maybe even a clever title. Not this one:
Fresh from claiming in a meeting last week with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he will demand Hamas recognize the existence of Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in an Arabic-language interview neither Hamas nor his own Fatah party is required to recognize the Jewish state. "Hamas is not required, Hamas is not required to recognize Israel. ... It is not required of Hamas, nor of Fatah, nor of the Popular Front (for the Liberation of Palestine) to recognize Israel," Abbas told the pan-Arab al-Arabiya satellite television network last week according to a translation by the Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch monitor group.
And now you've read everything that's going to be posted on the jblogosphere today.
This is actually kind of comforting. Lately, we've been missing the kind of clarity and certainty that Arafat brought to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Good to see that he's back.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Fresh from claiming in a meeting last week with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that he will demand Hamas recognize the existence of Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in an Arabic-language interview neither Hamas nor his own Fatah party is required to recognize the Jewish state. "Hamas is not required, Hamas is not required to recognize Israel. ... It is not required of Hamas, nor of Fatah, nor of the Popular Front (for the Liberation of Palestine) to recognize Israel," Abbas told the pan-Arab al-Arabiya satellite television network last week according to a translation by the Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch monitor group.
And now you've read everything that's going to be posted on the jblogosphere today.
This is actually kind of comforting. Lately, we've been missing the kind of clarity and certainty that Arafat brought to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Good to see that he's back.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
