Letters to the Editor
-
Do "Many believe Hamas is ready to accept Israel with its 1967 borders"?
Perhaps many Western, pro-Palestinian journalists trying to rationalize their views after these election results. But not many Palestinians: Hamas spokesmen, including Al-Zahar himself, have made it clear again and again that Hamas will continue to stand by its charter and central mission: to destroy Israel and expel the Jews into the sea. His own words can be read at www.memri.org. It's time Western journalists started paying attenmtion to what the Palestinian leadership tells its own people, instead of its lip service to the West.
And what does this mean, "putting Hamas to the test"? Hamas has promised nothing to Israel but violence, a promise it has fulfilled again and again. Would America put an unrepentant Al Qaeda to the test that perhaps it will stop murdering US citizens?