With all this talk about how Israel needs to get to the “damn table,” one could be forgiven for forgetting about the nature of the other side. But as Palestinian Media Watch reports, “At a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the founding of Hamas, Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip Ismail Haniyeh said that Hamas may work for the ‘interim objective of liberation of Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem,’ but that this ‘interim objective’ and ‘reconciliation’ with Fatah will not change Hamas’ long-term ‘strategic’ goal of eliminating all of Israel.”