So sure, deal with these people. They’ll moderate their stance. Sure. The Telegraph interviewed Mahmoud Zahar, the leader of Hamas who was not assassinated after Yassin and Rantisi.
“We are not going to recognise Israel,” he said, putting paid to suggestions that Hamas may alter its 1988 charter calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. But he added: “We can reach out to them with a long-term hudna (truce).”
He then called on the world to recognise Hamas.
“The outside world must not fear us,” he said, adding that while Hamas did not yet have official contact with the west, “we have channels of communication”. He paused, then added: “We meet all the time.”
Mr Zahar first rose to power in Hamas in 1989, a year after Ahmed Yassin was jailed by Israel for ordering the execution of alleged collaborators with the Jewish state. Almost two decades on, spies remain a constant concern.
“Spies and thieves must fear us,” he said, in his pastel-coloured reception room, where he was holding court as the new most powerful man in town. The “thieves”, he added, in a reference to Israel, “are those who steal our land”.
You want to find for me the hopeful world bit that expects Hamas to moderate its stance? Because I’m just not seeing it.
Well, he is partly right. This small part of the outside world does not fear Hamas. I do wonder why any of them are breathing air that I may someday need, I don’t fear them.
Kill them.
(* “We are not going to recognise Israel,†(Zahar) said *)
Too bad ‘Operation Cockroach Squish’ hasn’t gotten him yet.
http://www.sacredcowburgers.com/side_orders/showpics.cgi?spring_cleaning
But then, maybe Israel is waiting for the right time to get him – like when he is leading the newly minted Hamas Army (That they are thinking of building).
Oh please, Oh please….
“…the leader of Hamas who was not assassinated after Yassin and Rantisi.”
I have just invented a new designation: “Underassassinated”.