[sageb1]

“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."

This is Islam.

[monkeyshine]

The cognitive dissonance is on the part of Agence Presse France, who call it a "step forward" even as Hamas explicitly denied that it did changed a thing.

BBC reportage was much more fair. They recognized that Hamas and Fatah reached an agreement to declare a state on the disputed territories, but also quoted at length the Hamas leaders denying any recognition of Israel, and even reporting that Hamas told them they beleive all of Israel is "occupied land" that will one day be "reclaimed" and that there was "no room for a Jewish state" on "historic Palestine".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5122822.stm?ls

Now if only the BBC had the courage to report that when Hamas says "historic Palestine" they are also laying claim to Jordan.