Georgiebhoy wrote: “Chileno wrote: Hamas honors cease fires so much as they can use them to consolidate their positions.” Are you serious? So they are determined terrorists who will not relent in their attacks but if they do it is only to re-arm?
YES! You finally understand the kind of group Hamas is. Let me quote from their charter:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it…”
“… the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. ”
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
“The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.’”
If this was your organization’s raison d’etre, wouldn’t you spend every moment advancing your military struggle against Israel, including so-called cease fires? During the cease fire, Hamas was busy building tunnels to Egypt in order to smuggle better, more accurate rockets to fire deeper into Israel, the goal being to eventually strike large population centers, such as Tel Aviv.
Let me go on and quote Hamas’ Al-Aqsa television, where last year cleric Yunis Al Astal stated, “Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam…. I believe that our children, or our grandchildren, will inherit our jihad and our sacrifices, and, Allah willing, the commanders of the conquest will come from among them… [Rome will become] an advanced post for the Islamic conquests, which will spread though Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, even Eastern Europe.”
IF Hamas hasn’t killed many Jews it has not been for a lack of will, but simply for a lack of better weapons. It’s hard to negotiate peace with someone who openly calls for your people’s destruction. Quoting Golda Meir, former Israeli PM (kudos to Israeli for the quote!): “We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”
