Here you go, a few examples of how Hamas is not moderating:
The first, from a Hamas election ad on PA TV:
“We have a new plan; to teach men the land of Palestine; the geography of Palestine; the history of Palestine; and the history of the Arab and Muslim Nation. Our plan has nothing to do with the Israeli enemy. We do not recognize the Israeli enemy, nor his right to be our neighbor, nor to stay [on the land], nor his ownership of any inch of land. Therefore, we do not see [Israel] as an ally, not in policy, not in security, not in economy and not in any form of cooperation. Israel is an enemy who is interested in uprooting us, and we are interested in restoring our full rights to return all the people of Palestine to the land of Palestine. Our principles are clear: Palestine is a land of Waqf [Islamic trust], which can not be given up.”
[PA TV, January 17, 2006]
Remember this when you read or hear yet another execrable explanation that the palestinians voted for Hamas because they were “not corrupt.”
The second, also from PMW, dated yesterday:
The Palestinians have concluded from Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza that violence, not negotiations, is effective in their ongoing effort to weaken and eventually destroy Israel. This is according to a new video just released on the official Hamas Web site.
Images of Israelis being evacuated from Gaza and destroyed Israeli buildings are shown while these words are sung:
“The invaders fled. The army of the Jews has been defeated
The home and homeland is returning through blood
Not through negotiations, surrender or promises”These last words – rejecting negotiations – are sung over the famous images of agreements being signed by Shimon Peres and Ariel Sharon with Palestinian leaders.
While the words, the “homeland is returning,” are sung, an image of the Israeli city of Haifa is displayed, stressing that the Palestinians see all of Israel as their “homeland” to be targeted.
The words, “Let the enemies leave the entire land! And take their holy books which are all black,” are sung while images of Jews in prayer are shown.
And the latest, from MEMRI:
The following are excerpts from an address by Hamas leader Khaled Mash’al at the Al-Murabit Mosque in Damascus. The address was delivered following the Friday sermon at the mosque, and was aired on Al-Jazeera TV on February 3, 2006. View this clip.
“We Say to This West… By Allah, You Will Be defeated”
Khaled Mash’al: “We apologize to our Prophet Muhammad, but we say to him: Oh Prophet of Allah, do not be saddened, your nation will be victorious.
“We say to this West, which does not act reasonably, and does not learn its lessons: By Allah, you will be defeated. You will be defeated in Palestine, and your defeat there has already begun. True, it is Israel that is being defeated there, but when Israel is defeated, its path is defeated, those who call to support it are defeated, and the cowards who hide behind it and support it are defeated. Israel will be defeated, and so will whoever supported or supports it.
“America will be defeated in Iraq. Wherever the [Islamic] nation is targeted, its enemies will be defeated, Allah willing. The nation of Muhammad is gaining victory in Palestine. The nation of Muhammad is gaining victory in Iraq, and it will be victorious in all Arab and Muslim lands. ‘Their multitudes will be defeated and turn their backs [and flee].’ These fools will be defeated, the wheel of time will turn, and times of victory and glory will be upon our nation, and the West will be full of remorse, when it is too late. ”
[…] Mash’al: “Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day. America will be of no avail to them. Their generals will be of no avail to them. The last of their generals has been forgotten. Allah has made him disappear. He’s over. Gone is that Sharon behind whose back they would hide and find shelter, and with whom they would feel relatively secure. Today they have frail leaders, who don’t even know where our Lord placed them.
“Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyesight, we will make them lose their brains.
[…] “Their weapons will be of no avail to them. Their nuclear weapons will be of no use to them. They thought that they had hegemony over the region with their nuclear weapons, but suddenly Pakistan popped up with Islamic nuclear weapons, and they are afraid of Iran and several Arab countries have some chemical weapons.
“Israel has begun to sense that its superiority has come to an end. Its army, which has superior conventional weapons – the air force, the armored corps, and the missiles – there are no longer wars in which these are used.
“The Arabs have said: We don’t want [conventional] wars, thank you very much. Leave the war to the peoples. Today, the Israeli weapons are of no use against the peoples. We have imposed a new equation in the war. In this equation, our tools are stronger. That is why we will defeat them, Allah willing. “
Yep. Sure seems like moderation to me. Oh, wait. No it doesn’t.
Remember this, next time you read a lie printed in an op-ed in the Washington Post, and written by a PR flack with a Hamas terrorist’s byline.
I’m glad he put in that caveat “Allah willing” in predicting the defeat of everybody else in the world because when Hamas and its ilk lose he’s gonna need the out. As for cowardice, well I notice he’s making these silly remarks in Damascus, not Ramallah. That’s a real leader for you.
When the Israelis finally lose patience with these clowns and decide it is kill or be killed (and I’m surprised they have not yet concluded that) who does this guy think is going to come to his rescue? His “Arab Brothers” who despise the Palis and have killed more of them than the Israelis have? The USA? That is likely to be their only hope when the Israelis conclude that it is either die or bulldoze “Palestine” into obloivion, but by that time we may be sick to death of Muslim fanatics, and in no mood to pull the leash on the Israelis.
These arrogant fools are playing with fire and don’t have the wits to see it.