Oh, please don’t tease me like this:
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) – The leader of Hamas suggested Saturday that the Islamic group could create a Palestinian army that would include its militant wing – responsible for scores of deadly attacks on Israelis – in the aftermath of its crushing victory in parliamentary elections.
Please, please, please form a terrorist army, declare war on Israel, and launch a single kassam rocket while the army is massed at the border waiting to take on the IDF. Oh, wait, wait–make sure to have your leaders in the front, or have them wear easily identifiable banners, like Saladin. That’d be even better!
It would end Israel’s Hamas problem with one swift blow.
Israeli officials condemned the plan, demanding that Hamas renounce violence. Palestinian security officers, including loyalists from the defeated Fatah Party, said they would never submit to Hamas control.
That’s right, tell ’em not to do it. Good strategy!
“Hamas has no power to meddle with the security forces,” said Jibril Rajoub, a Palestinian strongman.
The Hamas chief, Khaled Mashaal, reiterated that Hamas would not recognize Israel. He also indicated attacks on Israeli civilians would continue, accusing Israel of targeting Palestinian civilians. “As long as we are under occupation then resistance is our right,” he said.
Yes, we know. Broken record. But please keep saying it, because the media and the EU and State are still refusing to hear it.
Anyway. The terror army? Great idea. Love it. I’ll back it a thousand percent. Be sure to create it, then have it ready and waiting at the border. You can even do it at night, to try to sneak in. I’m sure the IDF would love to oblige you.
No wonder Lair calls them Hamassholes. They’re not very bright, are they?
i can’t agree with you more on what you said. let these hamasniks form a army and declare war with israel. as long as the israli’s have some brains they will wipe out all of hamas with just a few bombs! hey it’s war-it’s allowed!
I keep looking at this Hamas win and wondering if it’s not one of those “blessings in disguise.” Getting your enemies out in the open (right down to their funding) and having them declare war on you is LUXURY compared to the alternatives.
I agree 100% I was very excited when Hamasholes were elected. I knew this would happen. Then FINALLY Israel will drive them back beyond the Jordan and to Egypt once and forall. PLEASE Please Hamas…do this…We are begging you….continue your attempt to set up an army!!!
Maybe I’m being naive, but I’m hopeful that Hamas recognizes that the Palestinian people elected Hamas to negotiate with the Israelis for a Palestinian state. I know that Hamas sees terror as a method of pushing their agenda. But I’m also hopeful that they recognize that terror will only prevent the negotiations they need to keep public support, and will refrain from violence so as to allow peace negotiations.
Scottage,
You’re being sarcastic right? If not your comment is incredibly naive. It suffers from several mistaken assumptions.
1. Why do you assume the Palestinian Arabs elected Hamas to negotiate with israel? Nothing in the Hamas platform, nothing in their speeches and statements, nothing in their previous behavior would give anyone the slightest reason to believe that Hamas would negotiate once in power. Quite the contrary, everything would lead someone paying attention to believe that Hamas would prosecute the terrorist war against Israel more aggressively, more openly, and more viciously (if that is possible) than Fatah. No the Palestinian Arabs elected Hamas expecting that Hamas would ramp up the terrorism, not negotiate. That’s what the Palis wanted, as evidenced by their strong vote for Hamas.
2. Why do you think Hamas would see terrorism as resulting in loss of popular support? All the evidence is that they see terrorism as the key to their popular support, along with a probably false image of being less corrupt than Fatah (give them time). Hamas probably sees an abatement of terrorism as leading to a fall in their public support. After all in Hamas’ view it was their terrorism that drove the Jews out of Gaza. They’re on a roll, why would they give up their main weapon?
3. There is no reason to believe that Palis see negotiations as the key to getting a state. A state would mean living in peace with Israel, and few of them wish to do that. The Palis seek, like Hamas, the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of its Jewish inhabitants. Fatah is in favor of this too, they just dissimulated it to Western (but not to Arab) ears. Hamas disdains such dissimulation, hence its popularity.
An example of the Pali dislike of dissimulating their genocidal goals came with the Oslo Agreements. Edward Said (not a Muslim by the way) resigned from the PLO council in protest. He did so despite the fact that Arafat assured him that Oslo was merely a Treaty of Hudabiya. This treaty was one Mohammed made, for a ten yeat term, with a neighboring tribe when they were too powerful for the Muslims to conquer them and kill them all. He kept the treaty for two years, then felt strong enough to win. He broke the treaty, attacked the other tribe, and massacred them. So you see what Arafat had in mind for Israel in signing the Oslo Accords. But that wasn’t enough for Said, who took “genocide now” as his motto.
If you were being sarcastic my apologies for repeating these elementary considerations. If you were being serious, you have many illusions yet to dispell before you will understand what is really going on.