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January 28, 2006
Who you gonna believe: Hamas or Jimmah Carter?
Captain Ed comments on the new rulers of the Palestinian Arabs.
As the world pontificated about how the responsibility of governing would prove a moderating influence for Hamas and that the West would wind up having to come to terms with the terrorists as statesmen. The only fly in that ointment is Hamas itself, which had to reaffirm today for the doubters that, once again, it really does hate Israel and wants to see it destroyed:
Militants from Fatah and Hamas capped a tense and emotional day with violent clashes on Friday, while a Hamas leader said the group had no intention of recognizing Israel's right to exist or changing its charter, which calls for Israel's destruction.
"Why are we going to recognize Israel?" said the leader, Mahmoud Zahar. "Is Israel going to recognize the right of return of Palestinian refugees? Is Israel going to recognize Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital?" ...
Until now, Hamas has refused to take part in the Palestinian government because that government emerged from the 1993 Oslo accords with Israel, which Hamas rejected.
Hamas still does not recognize Israel and says it will not change its charter calling for Israel's destruction.
Of course it won't change its charter, and all of the Western aid in the world won't make a difference. Hell, all of the aid the West poured into the PA when Fatah ran the joint didn't get a change to their charter either, so undoubtedly Hamas will not go out of its way to accommodate the Jews. Hamas only has one objective, the one on which its originators founded it: to cause the annihilation of Israel, replaced by an Islamist terror camp that will send its members across the ummah.
Meanwhile, over at the Belmont Club, Wretchard notes that perrenial voluptuary of tyrants and America haters Jimmah Carter has proclaimed that we can -- must! -- work with (read: fund) Hamas.
Whatever happens the "International Community" has to keep on
supplying money to Hamas for whatever purposes Hamas intends to use it. Jimmy
Carter and the Guardian have already made the argument.Carter, who led an 85-member international observer team from around the world organized by the 'National Democratic Institute' in partnership with 'The Carter Center,' urged the international community to directly or indirectly fund the new Palestinian Government even though it will be led by an internationally-declared foreign terror organization. "The Palestinian Government is destitute, and in desperate financial straits. I hope that support for the new government will be forthcoming," Carter said at a Jerusalem press conference. -- Jerusalem PostAny cut-off in EU aid would only be a gift to Israel's hardliners. The EU is the largest international donor to the Palestinian Authority, and Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, blundered last month when he told a Gaza press conference that "it would be very difficult for the help and the money that goes to the Palestinian Authority to continue to flow" if Hamas were in government. ... Above all, Europe should not get hung up on the wrong issues, like armed resistance and the "war on terror". -- Tony Steele in the GuardianEven Israel is expected to keep the money flowing.
Israel could plunge the Palestinian Authority into a financial crisis by withholding its main source of income, following the election victory by the militant group Hamas, Israeli officials warned yesterday ... Speaking in Davos, Mazen Sinokrot, the Palestinian economics minister, urged Israel to maintain its financial ties with the PA. "Israel has always been our major trading partner. I'm sure the Israelis with their wise approach will look at it in a very positive way and will not try to tackle any incorrect issues when it comes to the collection of revenues," he said. --- Scotsman.com News - International The United States, the EU, Israel and the United Nations are expected to keep dishing out the money and "not get hung up on the wrong issues, like armed resistance and the 'war on terror'"
You see, when Hamas says it reaffirms its committment to the destruction of Israel, Carter and his lackeys would have you believe that those childlike A-rabs don't really mean what they say.
Perfect.
We've actually reached a point where we should pay for the bombs and bullets intended for us and our allies.
Posted by Mike Lief at January 28, 2006 09:17 AM
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These are trying times friends. Future events are forming on the horizon which could make 9/11 and the Iraq war look like fender benders on the international super highway.
Israel and the West cannot let the Iranian radicals acquire nuclear weapons. Imagine nukes in the hands of men who believe that they are destined to bring on the Islamic version of the apocolypse?
Jimmy Carter and the other peace-blind fools must understand that anti-Israeli, anti-American, anti-European run deep in the minds of an entire race of people who live and die by a 12th Century mindset.
Like it or not, a war of massive scale is coming. It seems almost unavoidable.
Posted by: Minataur at January 28, 2006 10:51 AM