US says "no plot" for Hamas ouster (Reuters)

[Up2Late]

(But here in "opposite world" where everything they say is a lie...)

US says "no plot" for Hamas ouster

Tue Feb 14, 2006 11:51 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Israel were not plotting to destabilize a Hamas-led Palestinian government, the White House said on Tuesday, but urged the militant group to respect Israeli-Palestinian accords. The New York Times reported that U.S. and Israeli officials were discussing ways to isolate Hamas, which won an overwhelming victory in the Palestinian election, if it failed to recognize Israel's right to exist and renounce violence.

"There's no plot," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "The issue that this goes to is the choice that Hamas has before it. If it wants to realize better relations with the international community, then Hamas must renounce violence, recognize Israel and disarm."

At the State Department, spokesman Sean McCormack denied Washington was developing a strategy that differed from its public policy. "The conversations that we are having with the Israeli government are the same conversations we are having with other members of the international community," he said.

McClellan told reporters that Palestinian officials had for years recognized Israel's right to exist and worked in negotiations toward peace. "If Palestinians were to change that decade-old policy, then their relations with the international community will change as well," he said.

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[MadMaddie]

1. Which means that they are planning something...

[mom cat]

2. That is right: No plot ... just a plan!

[Roland99]

3. heh...beat me to it!

But, hey, that plan's not on my desk!

[Up2Late]

5. Exactly, the words they use are very important.

:evilgrin:

[mom cat]

8. Look in the internet's for it!

[pinniped]

4. When Spin-Mouth Snotty Scotty is involved, you know they are busted.

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[MrPrax]

6. Why plan?

Just do what they both did to the PLO--if we remember the PLO recongized Israel, renounced violence, had elections, etc etc...

What did it get the Palestinians? Zilch...except Israel supporters trying to change the topic to 'Barak's generous gift', or 'they are Jordanian citizens' or 'it's our eternal homeland and so long as any Israeli feels threatened by 'fill in the blank', then genocide is warranted and nuclear destruction is possible'.

How long will the West be hypocrites?

[EFerrari]

7. Then I must have lost it. Before we went to lunch, CNN had

"US, Isreal, plan for Hamas Regime Change" on the screen

:wtf:

[PassingThrough]

9. By their definition its not a "plot."

Plot:
3 : the plan or main story of a literary work
4 : a secret plan for accomplishing a usually evil or unlawful end :

They do not consider it evil. They will call it, "a plan of action" or something less sinister sounding.