It really doesn’t matter how many news services, pundits, and analysts insist that by joining with the PA, Hamas is going to moderate. They’re not. Just listen to the words of their leader during his recent trip to Iran:
Hamas would never acknowledge the Israeli state, said Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian movement in Gaza, on Friday in Tehran.
“They (West) want from us to stop resistance and acknowledge Israel but I herewith announce that this will never happen,” Haniyeh said though an interpreter at a ceremony marking the 33rd anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
“Our message and the message of all those who lost their blood in the Palestinian lands is that all occupied lands will eventually be liberated from Israeli occupation,” Haniyeh said.
Ha’aretz didn’t publish the full quote, though they used the same AFP source as did Ynet. Here’s what Ha’aretz felt wasn’t necessary to include in that story:
“The fight will continue for the liberation of the entire land of Palestine and Jerusalem and the return of all Palestinian refugees,” he said.
They’re not talking about the West Bank only. They’re talking about all of Israel. And they’re doing it with the full backing of Iran. And according to this article by the Chinese news service, Xinhua, the Obama adminstration doesn’t have a problem with the unity deal between Fatah and Hamas. I’m actually questioning that source, because although Xinhua does publish more information on the anti-Israel groups than the mainstream wire services, it’s still the official news service of Communist China.
If, however, that story is accurate–well, the Obama administration is as dumb as I thought they were.
Forget about Hamas agreeing to recognize Israel – how about just not wanting to kill every Jew in the world? I’ve got a link to the Hamas charter, and it calls explicitly for the murder of Jews – not Israelis, Zionists, or “settlers” – Jews. That anyone would consider them anything but a savage, genocidal hate group is a disgrace and an outrage. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but it is simply appalling that this fact is not mentioned every single time someone prattles on about Hamas “moderating”. Of all the hypocrisies of the MSM this is one of the worst.
Gary, that’s because they don’t really mean it. They just want peace with their neighbors; all that stuff about wiping out Israel and exterminating Jews everywhere, that’s just that colorful Arab rhetoric.
And with that in mind, of course, you can discount everything that Hamas and the PA say and everything that spews from virtually every imaginable source but mosques to children’s tv programs.
By the way, the Hamas charter blames Jews for the French Revolution and the world wars, which I can at least understand. But we’re also blamed for such international fonts of evil as…the Lions and the Rotary clubs. Any idea why these are seen as part of the Zionist conspiracy?
“the Lions and the Rotary clubs. Any idea why these are seen as part of the Zionist conspiracy?”
Let’s see, trying to get inside the “logic” of their minds …
Lions Clubs: They hate dogs, right, maybe they hate cats too?
Rotary Clubs: Their mentality predates the invention of the wheel.
Gary, it’s as good a theory as any. I don’t know much about the Rotary and my main contact with the Lions is that as I have an unusual prescription they’re always happy to get my old glasses. But I’ve never heard it claimed that they are anything other than what they claim–public service organizations who do fine work.
People would question both the sanity and the connection to reality of any group that blamed another group for the nefarious Rotarians, but as you’ve noticed standards change when a group hates Jews.
Concerning the Rotary Clubs, Daniel Pipes explained it, I think in his book “The Hidden Hand” which is about conspiracy thinking in the Middle East. The Rotary Clubs sposor vaccination programs in the Thrid World as part of its charitable activities. Muslim radicals see this as poisoning the Umma. Therefore they hate the Rotary Clubs for this sposorship.
I don’t know about the Lions Clubs; maybe they also sponsor vaccination programs. I had not heard that before. I suppose they are down on the Boy Scouts as well.