When sauce for the goose isn't sauce for the gander

Tariq Alhomayed, the Editor-in-Chief of Asharq Al-Awsat, takes Hamas to task for criticizing the 'Palestinian Authority' for considering negotiations with Israel without a 'settlement freeze,' while negotiating itself for the release of Gilad Shalit without such a 'settlement freeze' in place. The question that must be asked here is; what is more important to Hamas – which now wants to negotiate