Peace in our time?

The Guardian has just published an op-ed by new Palestinian prime minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Olmert's unilateralism is a recipe for conflict. It is a plan to impose a permanent situation in which the Palestinians end up with a homeland cut into pieces made inaccessible because of massive Jewish settlements built in contravention of international law on land seized illegally from the Palestinians. No plan will ever work without a guarantee, in exchange for an end to hostilities by both sides, of a total Israeli withdrawal from all the land occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem; the release of all our prisoners; the removal of all settlers from all settlements; and recognition of the right of all refugees to return...

The problem is not with any particular Palestinian group but with the denial of our basic rights by Israel. We in Hamas are for peace and want to put an end to bloodshed.

Did British papers during WWII grant space for Nazi leaders to make their case to the British public? Who do you think wins when one side is fair and balanced and the other side is absolutist? Would a Palestinian paper publish an op-ed by President Bush?