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Thursday, June 21 2007Engage Hamas?
No need to fisk this. Yousef doesn't talk about Hamas' charter, the organization's cozying up to Iran, the fact that foreign aid to the PA tripled despite the embargo, or the organization's ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. But the Hamas apologist is on a hot streak; yesterday, Yousef had another commentary published in the NY Times and the International Herald-Tribune. The latter paper published him opposite David Makovsky. UPDATE June 24: According to Reuters: Both Fred Hiatt, the Post's editorial page editor and David Shipley, the Times' deputy editorial page editor, said they would not have carried the articles had they known of the other paper's publishing plans. Meanwhile, the Sacramento Bee, Salt Lake Tribune, and The Guardian gave Yousef a soapbox platform.
TrackBackTrackBack URL for this entry: Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Engage Hamas?: CommentsI don't understand all this on the knee begging up to a terror gang. I'ts like sitting on the crapper, & saving the faeces instead of flushing. olmert, bush, blair, livni, peres, u.n., frogs etc. learn to flush. DK In a de Spiegel interview with Mahmoud Zahar, one of the founders of Hamas, he says: "The American aid money has been translated into weapons. Thank you, America!" Both Hiatt and Shipley should have statements on their papers op-ed pages saying that they were hoodwinked then. (The truth is that those two op-eds were not identical. The Guardian's piece was the same as the Times, meaning the Times made an exception for Yousef. The Times still owes an explanation for that. Hamas propagandist Yousef's ability to blitz the Main Stream Media is part of a co-ordinated lobby for Hamas and the Moslem Brotherhood ... something that Melanie Phillips has pointed out http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1555 http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/?p=1557 the effort has been organised by ex-MI6 agent and longtime Hamas lobbyist Alistair Crooke and his Hamas lobbying arm Conflicts Forum http://conflictsforum.org/ and sister organisation Forward Thinking http://www.forwardthinking.org/middleeast.html |
