Have you read the Hamas Charter? Most people haven’t, but it’s a rather blood-curdling document, written in 1987, not 1287. Pajamas TV decided to underscore it because, with all that is going on in Gaza and however that gets resolved, someone should do something about revising this dreadful text. Otherwise, we are condemned to more of the same.
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A large number of naive people thought that Adolph Hitler was merely indulging in hyperbole language in Mein Kampf. After all, he couldn’t really mean that stuff about Jews needing to be eradicated because of their genetic defects. Hitler must have been instead throwing a few bones to the more extreme elements of the Nazi Party. The dude would most assuredly get his act together and become more moderate once he actually had to govern the country. The same holds true regarding Hamas in our present day. History seems to be repeating itself.
Just as Hitler hijacked the German people with openings provided for by the Allies so has Hamas hijacked the people of Gaza with openings provided by Fatah and Israel. When Israel kills one snake another two grow from the Medusa head called the Palestinian question. What to do with a couple of million people who live to exact revenge on you for real or imagined sins. Bomb them till they say uncle and make sure the Russians take half their territory so we look better in contrast. Worked for us with the Germans I just don’t think this generation has the stomach for Dresden again, maybe after the coming depression we all will be a little more hard hearted about dead folks.
Hamas did not hijack anybody to win the elections, the arabs willingly and freely voted Hamas into supreme political power, simple as that.
Oh come on, Jack, they had two horrible options. They picked the horrible option they hadn’t tried before. You can’t imagine how many wish they hadn’t. Unfortunately, a lot of them are dead. Killed by Hamas.
Oops, I mean James.
James Just
The decent Palestinians living in Gaza are not free and willing, they are no better off than people in are country that live in neighborhoods where gangs
have them socially in hostage with drugs and drive by shooting of their children and neighbors, Hamas has the weapons and training thus mind power with fear as control. Would you choose death to your family or letting them have their way since their is no help from their fellow arab nations in taking them in to live…? Hamas like other gangs need to be brought down in all of the world that truly thrives better with freedom and education .
Have a peaceful and healthy week.
The only difference between Hamas and Fatah is in their different styles of public presentation to the media. Hamas wears camouflage and poses as the quintessential anti-imperialist Arab Guerilla hero. Hamas is straightforward when proclaiming as their goal a Palestine from the River to the sea (so is Fatah, but quietly). Hamas makes no bones about their violent intentions against Israel and the West, and even codified their evil behavior into their genocidal charter; a charter that mirrors the Muslim Brotherhood convention, of which Hamas is the local representative. Hamas is proud of its violent behavior, while Fatah attempts to hide its terrorism behind its suits and ties.
Fatah aims to make Israel disappear also, but what is the hurry, they feel time is on their side. (Yes indeed; terrorism against the Jews has always been very lucrative to the Philistines, as recounted in part in: Nadan, Amos. The Palestinian Peasant Economy Under the Mandate: A Story of Colonial Bungling. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 2006). Too impress the donors, Fatah chooses to wear suits in the western fashion in order to present themselves as identical to Europe and America, urbane and cultured. This is all a form of marketing propaganda to convince western governments to force Israel to dismantle her defenses, to lull the West into creating a Philistine state. Fatah’s GQ image brings to mind what I call Executive Terrorism; a lucrative corporate board of terrorists whom engage in third party attacks against Israel. All the while using their GQ image to deny their evil designs.
Every Palestinian has read the Hamas Charter. They elected Hamas because Hamas appeared stronger than Fatah and Fatah was taking their sweet time. Hamas is the popularly elected government of the Philistines – simple as that. I think we should give the Philistines credit where credit is due for electing their representative, instead of projecting our own western values onto a Muslim people. The Arabs have shown that they are engaged in a terrorist awakening by electing a guerrilla government to rule over them. What is so hard to accept about that?
Unless Islam undergoes a reformation this violence will continue until the rest of the world converts or accepts dhimmitude. I’ll go further than Joe W. and suggest that BHO review the history of Islam, a ‘religion’ founded by a pedophile.
“Every Palestinian has read the Hamas Charter.”
Nonsense. Even in our 100% literate and info buried Country there isn’t likely 1 parson in a 100 who has actually sat down and read our Constitution. There is and you give no reason to believe they are any different.