In other words, "tell them what they want to hear so they'll start sending money again."
"Largely obscured by the kidnap drama, Hamas made a potentially historic concession on Tuesday by implicitly recognising Israel in a deal with the mainstream Fatah movement that could lead to a government of national unity."
Mainstream Media Cognitive Dissonance
Mainstream media coverage of the latest Palestinian Big Lie (the “prisoner’s document” that does not recognize Israel) has reached a level of delusional doublethink that’s quite disturbing.
Here’s an Agence France Presse article that literally refutes itself: Hamas takes defining step towards Israel recognition.
The first paragraph:
GAZA CITY (AFP) - The governing Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has taken a key step towards recognising Israel after reaching a deal on a crisis-solving plan that implicitly recognises its archfoe’s right to exist.
The fourth and fifth paragraphs:
However, members of the powerful Islamist movement, which has long advocated the destruction of the Jewish state, denied there was any hint of recognising Israel in the initiative, as drawn up by jailed faction leaders.
“The prisoners’ initiative does not include recognising the legitimacy of the occupation in any clear or straightforward way ” Hamas MP Khalil Abu Leila told AFP, denying that accepting the 1967 borders meant implicit recognition.
This is cognitive dissonance on a massive scale.
UPDATE at 6/28/06 6:03:30 pm:
At Scylla & Charybdis, Bummerdietz has been working the cognitive dissonance angle since back in the day:
Mo Hinchey, Meet Tommy Flanagan.
CogDis II: Tommy Flanagan, Meet Howard Dean.
CogDis and the Snarky Monk.
I just know they've killed him, I pray if they did it was fast, not slow and tortuous.