the French stymied yesterday an attempt by the European Union to blacklist the group's leadership.That's some serious cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, Villepin wants to talk to Hamas. On the other, he distrusts the Hamas strategy of cutting off dialogue asserting that only the destruction of Israel will end the conflict."It is in our interest to have Palestinian interlocutors," French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said. "I distrust a strategy based on cutting off dialogue."