Bridge sale offer rescinded. From Reuters, with thanks to Captain Diggs:
GAZA (Reuters) - The governing Hamas movement reached a political agreement on Tuesday with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but said it would continue to refuse to recognise Israel.Abbas had sought to soften Hamas's hard line towards Israel -- the movement's charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state -- in the hope of ending a U.S.-led boycott of the cash-strapped Palestinian government by Western donor nations.
Hamas insisted it was sticking to its "agenda of resistance" against Israel.
"The document included a clear clause referring to the non-recognition of the legitimacy of the Occupation," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, using the Islamist group's term for Israel.
'agenda of resistance'
Translation:
'agenda of genocide'
reuters is still calling abu mazen a "moderate." But these "moderates" can be pretty deadly. Abu mazen is arafat in a suit. Listen to or read what he actually says to his own people in Arabic. Doesn't reuters have anybody who knows Arabic? Or maybe I should say, an honest reporter who knows Arabic?
Those who want to drive you into the sea should be destroyed before they gain the means.
Or didn't the Holocaust leave a permanent message in the Israeli DNA?