Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the terror group Hamas, said on Monday that rocket fire into Israel will stop for now and reached out to the Obama administration and to leaders of the West, saying it was seeking a state only in the areas "won" by Israel in the 1967 War, That's the gist of the lead paragraph in a New York Times  article by Taghreed el-Khodary and Ethan Bronner. Undoubtedly, the world's peace processors will be transported into rapture by this claim.They should not be so credulous.As one reads the rest of the article, the true story emerges. He repeated that he would not recognize Israel and states that "there is only one enemy in the region and that is Israel". He went further, asking outsiders to ignore the Hamas charter that, among other things, calls for the obliteration of Israel and  holds that the notoriously anti-Semitic "Protocol of the Elders of Zion" is genuine (it is a forgery). That, at least, the Times get correct. But...(Read Full Post)