Saturday, June 17, 2006

John Pilger: "[T]he vote for Hamas was actually a vote for peace"

From the planet inhabited by the New Statesman:
The reason Israel fears Hamas is that Hamas is unlikely to be a trusted collaborator in subjugating its own people on Israel's behalf. Indeed, the vote for Hamas was actually a vote for peace. Palestinians were fed up with the failures and corruption of the Arafat era. According to the former US president Jimmy Carter, whose Carter Centre verified the Hamas electoral victory, "public opinion polls show that 80 per cent of Palestinians want a peace agreement with Israel".
According to Pilger, Haniyeh "reaffirmed Hamas's commitment to recognize the Jewish state, proposing only that Israel obey international law and respect the borders of 1967." Right. I believe what was mentioned was a cease-fire. The Qassam-festooned status quo we have had up until now is also supposedly a cease-fire.

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