Words

Here's the text of a Reuters item as reproduced in the NYTimes, written by Dan Williams and edited by Robin Pomeroy (odd, I just checked and they have one Nidal al-Mughrabi as the byline writer) and I've highlighted what caught my attention:

Gaza Militants Say Hamas Stops Their Rocket Fire

A Palestinian armed group accused the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers on Saturday of preventing its men from firing rockets at Israel...Hamas police intercepted Islamic Jihad rocket crews on three occasions over the past month, a group official said, foiling their bids to avenge Israeli fire on Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinian protests over a contested Jerusalem shrine.

"We have been prevented from launching attacks," the Islamic Jihad official told Reuters

...Hamas, which fired hundreds of short-range rockets into Israel during a December-January war but has since privately called for the salvoes to stop for the sake of repairing Gaza's ravaged infrastructure, denied Islamic Jihad's allegation.

"There is no truce with the occupation (Israel), whose crimes against our people are continuing, and therefore we have not and we will not block resistance," said Ehab Al-Ghsain, spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry.

Islamic Jihad's complaint could not be independently verified -- not least as, by its own account, its rocketeers had been only briefly detained by Hamas police.

...Hamas is deeply conservative and rules out coexistence with Israel...

Militants and not terrorists.

Armed group and not terrorists.

Since the rockets are aimed at civilian centers of population, schools, etc., this activity is terrorism and these organization are terrorists, not rocketeers.

And those Dec.-Jan. rockets? What about those before that led up to and caused the war?

But I guess if Goldstone wasn't perturbed, why should Reuters?

But it's nice to see they really do know the evil that is Hamas - no coexistence. That means no peace, too.