The New York Times Op-Ed page continues to expand its bandwidth so as to educate its readers about the new mood on campus earth. Wonderful. Let it be a model to the Washington Post. Here is the Sydney Morning Herald's Paul McGeough, yesterday, reporting on his interview with Hamas leader Khalid Mishal in Damascus.
several key points: “Hamas has already changed — we accepted the
national accords for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, and we took part in the 2006 Palestinian elections.”
On
the crucial question of rewriting the Hamas charter, which calls for
the destruction of Israel, he was unbending: “Not a chance.” Khalid
Mishal is not Yasir Arafat — he is not looking for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Among the Hamas articles of faith is a belief that in renouncing
violence and in recognizing Israel’s right to exist in 1993, Mr. Arafat
sinned against his people. (Nonetheless, others to whom he speaks have
told me that Mr. Mishal has said that “when the time comes,” Hamas will
make some of the moves demanded of it by the West.)…
states in the Levant, which arguably puts Mr. Mishal’s terrorist
movement closer to Washington than Netanyahu is — he now proposes only
“economic peace” between Jews and Palestinians.
