The Prime Minister of Britain is a fool, an idiot, or hopelessly naive.
The UK has indicated it could be prepared to do business with the Islamic group Hamas, in comments that underlined the growing difference in approach between Europe and the US on how best to pursue peace in the Middle East.
Speaking in London on Thursday ahead of a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, Tony Blair, British prime minister, welcomed the agreement earlier this month to form a Palestinian government of national unity. He even anticipated working with officials from Hamas, which agreed during talks in Mecca to set up the government with Mr Abbas’s Fatah party.
“It’s far easier to deal with the situation in Palestine if there is a national unity government,” he said. “I hope we can make progress, including even with the more sensible elements of Hamas.”
Thus proving that Tony Blair hasn’t got the foggiest notion of what Hamas is all about. Read the charter, Tony. There are no “sensible” elements in Hamas. All of them want the destruction of Israel and an Islamic caliphate in her place.
If Britain deals with Hamas, all of the dominoes will fall. The rest of the world is just itching to try to force Israel into peace negotiations with the PA, regardless of the fact that Hamas—the organization devoted to the destruction of Israel—is now the government of Israel. Israel needs to continue boycotting any government that includes Hamas, and screw the morons who think that they should deal with a group of genocidal terrorists.
Article Six:
The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine […].
Yes, absolutely, go find the more “sensible” elements who believe in this.
By contrast, Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, said earlier this month that her efforts to achieve an Israeli-Palestinian agreement had “been made more complicated by the unity government”.
“We want to see this [unity] government in operation. We’re not interested in the rhetoric, we’re interested in its actions,” said a British government official last night. “We have to find a way forward here, and if we find people we can do business with we have to work with that.”
Uh-huh. Let’s try to work with the people who wrote this:
We should not forget to remind every Moslem that when the Jews conquered the Holy City in 1967, they stood on the threshold of the Aqsa Mosque and proclaimed that “Mohammed is dead, and his descendants are all women.”
Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people. “May the cowards never sleep.”
And this:
The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.
These words were not written by people who intend to deal with Israel and create long-lasting peace.
As were these:
The Islamic Resistance Movement views seriously the defeat of the Crusaders at the hands of Salah ed-Din al-Ayyubi and the rescuing of Palestine from their hands, as well as the defeat of the Tatars at Ein Galot, breaking their power at the hands of Qataz and Al-Dhaher Bivers and saving the Arab world from the Tatar onslaught which aimed at the destruction of every meaning of human civilization. The Movement draws lessons and examples from all this. The present Zionist onslaught has also been preceded by Crusading raids from the West and other Tatar raids from the East. Just as the Moslems faced those raids and planned fighting and defeating them, they should be able to confront the Zionist invasion and defeat it. This is indeed no problem for the Almighty Allah, provided that the intentions are pure, the determination is true and that Moslems have benefited from past experiences, rid themselves of the effects of ideological invasion and followed the customs of their ancestors.
There is no dealing with Hamas. None. They do not want peace. They want the land of Israel to become this mythical country of Palestine, in which Mohammed never set foot, but which they insist is Islamic:
The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem 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. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day.
There is no “sensible” member of Hamas. By definition, they’re insane. They believe that the Masons are keeping Muslims from their land. They cite the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a guidebook, rather than the anti-Semitic hoax that it was. And they firmly believe in jihad.
If Tony Blair continues on this course, watch for the rest of the dominoes to fall. Israel must keep to her stance and not deal with any government that includes Hamas.
Good grief, Meryl, what difference does it make if Britain, or we, deal with a unity government that includes HAMAS? We’re already dealing with terrorists; the notion that Abbas is a moderate is farcical. Read the FATAH constitution, which has never been amended or disavowed, focusing on essential principles, goals, and method. The only substantive difference between FATAH and HAMAS was that FATAH’s objectives were framed in Arab nationalist terms whereas HAMAS’s are framed in Islamic terms. However, just as was the case with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in the 1990s, FATAH is becoming more overtly Islamic to keep up with the times.
The problem isn’t HAMAS; it’s the peace process. The peace process requires one to deal with whomever is in charge on the Palestinian Arab side, which in turn necessitates not merely ignoring, but misrepresenting, that side’s actual goals. Such as ignoring Arafat’s role in the murder of American diplomats until after Arafat’s death, or pretending that the Palestinian Arabs’ national goals are the establishment of an independent state alongside Israel, when they really are to destroy Israel, or pretending that the popular vote for HAMAS was simply a rejection of FATAH corruption and not an endorsement of jihad.
The way forward is not to isolate HAMAS, but to treat both HAMAS and FATAH as the terrorists that they are.
Oh, I almost forgot the American position that no political faction may have its own militia, except for FATAH. And, oh yeah, the American’s exclusion of Israel from coalition forces in both Gulf wars, deferring to genocidal Arab sensibilities and thereby ratifying Israel’s pariah status in the region.
We have no principles when it comes to dealing with Israel, and the Arabs know it, and they exploit it in myriad ways.
Now there’s a realistic suggestion. Because, sure, that’s going to happen. The world is just going to wake up one day and say, “Shit! You mean Fatah is a terrorist organization too? Who knew?”
And then we’ll all sit down with fluffy bunnies and kitties and live happily ever after.
That’s the problem, Meryl. There is no metric by which HAMAS is terrorist but FATAH isn’t. So long as the world keeps dealing with FATAH, it will, inevitably, begin dealing with HAMAS as well, because HAMAS has become more popular than FATAH among the Palestinian Arabs, and frankly I don’t see that changing any time soon.
That’s why the necessary meme isn’t HAMAS is terrorist; it’s HAMAS = FATAH = terrorist.