[Nachum]

For all you extremists out there...

[cmsgop]

That is the Arab Way.....

[FormerACLUmember]

Hamas press release in English: "We are peace loving, warm, and fluffy."

Hamas press release in Arabic: "We will brutally murder all Christians and Jews without mercy, disembowelling children, raping and slaughtering all women, and blowing up anything that moves with homicide bombers, Allah be praised."

[neodad]

these statements, released on CBS, are unfounded [lit: naked of all truth].

Do they have a Kinkos phone number on them?

[The_Republican]

Lying Politicians!

Shame on Arabs!

Since their leaders are two-faced, what does that say about the people?

[RonF]

Does CBS, etc., have any journalists that speak Arabic?

[RightWhale]

It should be noted that while former PLO Yassir Arafat would regularly make overtures toward compromise in English, while expressing the opposite in Arabic

He cut back considerably on this technique once somebody let him know that there are English speakers who know Arabic as well.

[HiTech RedNeck]

“Article 13 of the Hamas charter states: ". . . Renouncing any part of Palestine [i.e. accepting Israel] means renouncing part of the religion."

Ain't this part of Mooseism in general. They just differ as to precisely what they think ought to be done about it.

[daivid]

Hamas speaks through both sides of its mouth.

Hamas realizes that it must change its rhetoric to the Western media. Little progress, but some progress nevertheless.

Realpolitik dictates that Hamas must deal with Israel (as utilities provider and major employer) and America (as sugar daddy and mediator). Hamas will accept reality or fail.

[Unam Sanctam]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss (Yassir Arafat that is...)

[monkeyshine]

You mean they are two-faced liars? You don't say!? Well that's the next to the next to the next to the next to the last straw!

[Myrddin]

The Palestinians have always made pronouncements in English that were completely contradicted by what they tell their own people in Arabic. Pathological liars. Crap weasels. Al taqiyyah at all times.

[Convert from ECUSA]

"Hamas Makes Statements to Western Press, Denies Them in Arabic"

Shoot, that's been SOP for all those various groups, governments, whatever, for decades. They've raised shuck and jive to a fine art.