An Agence France Presse article published in today’s The Daily Star casts Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh as a double-speaking, backtracking individual.
Unfortunately, for AFP and The Daily Star, the interview published by Washington Post/Newsweek that is misrepresented is available to anyone with internet access and a desire to read it.
I suspect the writer based the article entirely upon quotes fed him/her by U.S. envoy David Welch and Israel’s Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who is referred to by her first name only.
And of course, no article on Hamas is complete without a reference to its charter and the destruction of Israel, a call that was removed last month but the fact makers have yet to take notice.
One would think a journalist, concerned with the destruction of a people, would have words for Balata.