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WashPost Gets It
This staff-ed shows the Washington Post sees right through Hamas' PR games:
Hamas took advantage of the blockade first by arranging for sympathetic Arab media to document the "humanitarian crisis," then by daring Egypt to use force against Palestinian civilians portrayed as Israel's victims. Its ultimate goal, stated publicly yesterday by Damascus-based leader Khaled Meshal, is to force Egypt to permanently reopen the border in cooperation with Hamas; that would greatly diminish Israel's ability to respond to rocket attacks with economic sanctions, and it would undermine the rival Palestinian leadership of Mahmoud Abbas.
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is this payback for the anti-Semitic Gandhi article???
Posted by: at Jan 25, 2008 6:26:01 AM
Imagine that! They sought out the media to document the Israeli siege and its affect on the people of Gaza?
Isn't that what MLK did during the civil rights struggle?
How dare they! Its simply diabolical!
Posted by: D. Witkowitz at Jan 26, 2008 1:42:06 PM
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