Check out this May 1996 CNN piece titled “Abu Abbas: from terrorist to peace advocate”:
[T]imes have changed, and now, he offers advice on reaching a lasting peace in the Middle East. He spends his days rushing from meeting to meeting, lunching with officials of the new Palestinian National Authority, networking, listening and making suggestions….He now says the time for armed struggle has ended, but not the struggle itself. “The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill … its purpose is to reach a political goal,” Abbas said….”The media didn’t tell the world that Abu Abbas saved the lives of six hundred passengers, only that a disabled man was killed,” he said. [CNN, 5/10/96]The triumph of CNN nonobjective nonjudgmentalism.