Comments on: The Guardian’s take on Hamas

By: Michael Lonie

Michael Lonie — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:57:47 +0000

I don’t much care who wins the Palestinian Arab elections. All the groups involved are a bunch of murdering terrorist scum. I have no patience with any of them anymore. Short of a massacre of civilians the Israelis can to to them as they see fit, so far as I am concerned. The Palestinians have been promising genocide to the Jews for decades, let them earn a suitable return for their evil aims and deeds.

By: scottage

scottage — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:34:21 +0000

Yes, Hamas is trying to position themselves as the only potential partner for peace that can negotiate from a position of strength. But that strength only comes from their use of terrorist activities and Israel’s need to negotiate away the attacks. If Hamas stops pulling off terrorist attacks, they will cease to the clout which they claim makes them a good negotiator for the Palestinian people.

So I doubt highly if we’ll see any real change in Hamas’ activities. What we may see are attacks coordinated with political activities, and more targetted attacks, meant to engage Israel in whatever ngotiations or activities best serve Hams’ interests at the time. But have we really seen the transformation of Hamas, the movement from a terrorist group to a political group? It would be nice, but I doubt it hightly.

By: Laurence Simon

Laurence Simon — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:07:42 +0000

Hamasniks = wrong
Hamasshole = correct

By: SnoopyTheGoon

SnoopyTheGoon — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:15:37 +0000

By the way, when one of the chief Hamasniks was asked (on Israeli TV) whether the absence of the demand for elimination of Israel is a change of the good ole Hamas’ strategy, he rejected it immediately.

So it is no more than an election ploy.

By the way, Hamas really does a lot of social work – it works for them exceedingly well, on the background of Arafat/Abu Mazen impotence in everything social.

By: Cynic

Cynic — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:24:58 +0000

some Palestinian analysts believe will make it difficult for Hamas to return to a sustained violent campaign.

So they will employ the help of Islamic Jihad or one of the other groups, a ploy used several times in the past year by al Aqsa, Islamic Jihad and fatah’s other splinters.
They will supply the funding and intel and the other group/s will collect the “kudos”!

After Arafat’s lies and obfuscations can people still be so gullible?

Hamas does social work and Tookie Williams wrote stories for children.