Tony Blair falls for it. This from Reuters:
LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) - Palestinian group Hamas is sending some "not unhelpful" signals about the Middle East peace process but should be clearer on where it stands, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview broadcast on Friday.Asked by Al Jazeera television about hints by some members of Islamist group Hamas about a potential change of position, Blair drew a parallel with the Northern Ireland peace process, saying those talks had only been successful when rival parties had agreed on shared principles.
"Some of the signs coming out of Hamas are not unhelpful, but we need to know where they really are," Blair said in the interview, which was recorded on Monday.
He did not specify which signs he was referring to.
Blair did not mention which helpful "signs" have been coming from Hamas, because there simply haven't been any. The comparison between Northern Ireland and Hamas is totally unfounded. Northern Ireland fought for independence. The Northern Irish Catholics wanted to unite with the Irish Republic and eliminate English rule from their territory. They did not want to wipe England or the Northern Irish Protestants off the map, as Hamas wants to wipe Israel off the map.
This is a classic example of liberal rhetoric which totally distorts the truth.
Read Hugh Fitzgerald's piece on Tony Blair here.
Crossposted from The American Israeli Patriot.
Maybe he was referring to the signs and symbols drawn on the sides of the missiles Hamas is busy firing daily in to Isreal?
"Northern Ireland fought for independence. "
Now that's a comment that could only have been written by an American. The majority of the population of Northern Ireland did not, and still does not want "independence", and it is very naive to say so. Sounds like the Irish-American lobby is even more influential than I thought.
Greetings:
How do I "taqiyya" you? Let me count the ways.
How many fish hooks scars are in Tony's lip area?
I can't believe this disproven b.s. still works.
P.T. Barnum was right.
Every minute.
The good news: next month, he'll no longer be PM.
The bad news: Labour will still have a suitable dhimmi replacement for him.
Yeah. Deception, deception, deception.
Blair willing to be deceived.
I wonder if Blair on approaching various Arabic countries thinks, "there are always a group of moderates". It does not cross his mind, that maybe, just maybe, there are no moderates, they are all radicals, just different flavours.
I would like to see some encouraging signs from Hamas. The encouraging headline I would like to see is "Fatah and Hamas kill each other and wipe out Palestinian civilians"
That would real encouraging.