The Guardian has its typical head-in-the-sand overview of the result of Hamas murderers in the PA, but little leaks of common sense are beginning to appear.
To compete in the elections, Hamas has largely retreated from “armed resistance” – its strategy of murdering civilians in suicide bombings and shooting soldiers – in favour of a political pragmatism some Palestinian analysts believe will make it difficult for Hamas to return to a sustained violent campaign.
The Hamas manifesto hinted at the change when it left out any reference to the call in the group’s founding charter for the destruction of the Jewish state.
I would not expect the Guardian to actually admit that “resistance” equals murder, and yet, there it is.
Then again, the article ends on this note:
Hamas leaders say the problem could be resolved by integrating the movement’s fighters into the Palestinian security forces. But persuading Hamas to drop its charter calling for the destruction of Israel, and recognising the Jewish state’s right to exist, is a more complicated matter.
“It’s our land,” said Dr Zahar. “Nobody among our sons and grandsons will accept Israel as a legal state. Historically, they occupied this land as the British occupied it. Israel is a foreign body. Not in this generation, not in the next generation, will we accept it here.”
But asked if that meant Hamas would continue to try to destroy Israel, Dr Zahar said that would be for the next generation to decide.
Yeah, real complicated. It’s a simple yes-no decision, sport. That’s not complicated at all. Either Hamas recognizes that Israel exists, or they do not. I think it’s pretty simple to interpret what they’re saying as, well, what they’re saying.
So they will employ the help of Islamic Jihad or one of the other groups, a ploy used several times in the past year by al Aqsa, Islamic Jihad and fatah’s other splinters.
They will supply the funding and intel and the other group/s will collect the “kudos”!
After Arafat’s lies and obfuscations can people still be so gullible?
Hamas does social work and Tookie Williams wrote stories for children.
By the way, when one of the chief Hamasniks was asked (on Israeli TV) whether the absence of the demand for elimination of Israel is a change of the good ole Hamas’ strategy, he rejected it immediately.
So it is no more than an election ploy.
By the way, Hamas really does a lot of social work – it works for them exceedingly well, on the background of Arafat/Abu Mazen impotence in everything social.
Hamasniks = wrong
Hamasshole = correct
Yes, Hamas is trying to position themselves as the only potential partner for peace that can negotiate from a position of strength. But that strength only comes from their use of terrorist activities and Israel’s need to negotiate away the attacks. If Hamas stops pulling off terrorist attacks, they will cease to the clout which they claim makes them a good negotiator for the Palestinian people.
So I doubt highly if we’ll see any real change in Hamas’ activities. What we may see are attacks coordinated with political activities, and more targetted attacks, meant to engage Israel in whatever ngotiations or activities best serve Hams’ interests at the time. But have we really seen the transformation of Hamas, the movement from a terrorist group to a political group? It would be nice, but I doubt it hightly.
I don’t much care who wins the Palestinian Arab elections. All the groups involved are a bunch of murdering terrorist scum. I have no patience with any of them anymore. Short of a massacre of civilians the Israelis can to to them as they see fit, so far as I am concerned. The Palestinians have been promising genocide to the Jews for decades, let them earn a suitable return for their evil aims and deeds.