` ::::Wait, so the proposed cease fire was in fact a... cease-fire? Because that's what ``hudna`` means, when you strip away the Islamophobic spin - and it's how reputable media outlets translate the word (try Google News searches for ``hudna, or cease-fire`` and ``cease-fire, or hudna``). And if you actually read the interview referred to in the Ha'aretz piece, it's a standard re-iteration of the Hamas position expressed in countless other forums. ``We in Hamas are with the general Palestinian and Arab position and we are with the consensus of the necessity of establishing a Palestinian state on the June 4 [1967] borders...`` Splitting hairs over ``recognition`` is a tactic designed to ignore the practical ``facts on the ground`` being offered. Meshal did not say he ``remained committed to destroying Israel``, or any such claptrap.  `