Is it a diplomatic horizon or a fata morgana?
Source : Ha’aretz by Akiva Eldar Ismail Haniyeh did not wait for the announcement from the Defense Minister’s Bureau in which Ehud Barak “thanked the U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, for her efforts to try to establish a diplomatic horizon between Israel and the Palestinians.” The Hamas leader in Gaza does not care that the defense minister reiterated his “well-known position” that it is important to build a “diplomatic horizon” with the Palestinians. His Friday sermon, which was broadcast throughout the territories from the mosque in Khan Yunis, was devoted to that morning’s huge headline in the mass-circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth: “Barak: No chance of an agreement with the Palestinians.” Haniyeh did not need anything else. “Here you are,” the Gaza Strip’s prime minister said. “All the talk by the Americans about an international conference and about solving the Palestinian problem is a mere fata morgana.” Haniyeh was holding the newspaper and bashing Abu Mazen (Palestin
