…include not just those between the athletes in the Asian games but the one between Iran and the West.
Making a mockery of the West’s recently declared vow to focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by including it in a “comprehensive” solution to the Middle East’s problems—itself a controversial position, but one recently enunciated by Kofi Annan in Istanbul; Tony Blair; Philip Zelikow; Condi Rice; Jimmy Carter; (reportedly) the Iraq Study Group; King Abdullah of Jordan; and various members of the EU— Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh indicate that there will never be peace between Israel and the Arab world as long as they have anything to say about it:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh held talks in Doha, Qatar on Friday.
The Islamic Republic News Agency reported Saturday Ahmadinejad saying, “As everybody knows, the Zionist regime was created to establish dominion of arrogant states over the region and to enable the enemy to penetrate the heart Muslim land.” …
Saying the Israeli regime was inherently a “threat,” and was “on the verge of disappearing” Haniyeh praised the support of the Iranian government and nation for the cause of the Palestinian nation. …
“The Intifada (uprising) of the Palestinian nation will continue until the cause of the Palestinians is materialized and Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem) is liberated,” added Haniyeh.
Just so it’s clear: Israel is ready to talk. It is Hamas that holds the key. And Haniyeh ran to Doha to talk to his Sugar Daddy.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Photo: AP
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
Photo: AP
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[...] Why? Because just a couple of months ago he was visiting with Ahmadinejad (as I noted here). You do recall talk of the Sunni-Shia split, right? So it was indeed puzzling that Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh, a devout Sunni Muslim, would cozy up to the Shia Islamic Republic of Iran. But it’s puzzling only to those who don’t understand that Hamas is basically just like the Mafia and that it just managed to extort $1 billion from the nervous Saudis (who are Sunnis and Iran’s arch-enemy, for those of you falling asleep in front of your monitors) and to thumb its collective nose—and possibly worse—at the politically weakened and battered forces of the Enlightened West (whose tepid responses you can read here). “We have agreed with the Saudis to market this agreement internationally. Our (Saudi) brothers are in constant contact with the Americans and Europeans,” Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad told Reuters. [...]
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