Reuters Gives A 'Win' To Those Without A State

[Annie]

actually to those who prevent a state:

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2248322920070622?feedType=RSS

Hamas scores publicity coup in U.S.
Fri Jun 22, 2007 3:02PM EDT

By Bernd Debusmann, Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shunned by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, the Islamist group Hamas scored a publicity coup this week by defending its policies in Gaza with opinion pieces in two of the country's most influential newspapers on the same day.

The New York Times and The Washington Post gave space to Ahmed Yousef, a senior Hamas figure, on Wednesday to argue that the United States should not interfere in Gaza, where Hamas took control after six days of bloody fighting against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah fighters.

Yousef is senior political adviser to Ismail Haniyeh, who became Palestinian prime minister after elections last year. He is now contesting his dismissal by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who formed a new government in the West Bank after Hamas took over Gaza.

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