Hamas stands firm on Jew-hatred

You have to give it to Hamas: They make my job a lot easier by not lying like Abbas and Arafat.

Palestinian PM Won’t Recognize Israel
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Sep 22, 2006 (AP)— Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday he will not recognize a government that recognizes Israel. Haniyeh spoke a day after moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas indicated that a coalition government of Hamas and Abbas’ Fatah movement would recognize the Jewish state.

“I personally will not head any government that recognizes Israel,” Haniyeh said in a mosque sermon in Gaza City on Friday, laying out his group’s positions in coalition talks with Abbas.

At the United Nations on Thursday, Abbas indicated that the planned national unity government between Hamas and his Fatah Party would recognize the Jewish state.

But Haniyeh’s political adviser, Ahmed Yousef, told The Associated Press on Friday that “there won’t be a national unity government if Hamas is asked to recognize Israel.” Instead, he reiterated Hamas’ offer of a long-term truce.

Then you have to give it to the media, for continuing to pretend there is a snowball’s chance in hell that Hamas will change its attitude.

Mahmoud Abbas’s assurance to the United Nations last night that any Palestinian coalition government he led would recognise Israel and renounce violence has starkly exposed the gulf in efforts to achieve Middle East peace.

[…] The Palestinian President has been trying to negotiate a unity government between his Fatah movement and the Islamic movement Hamas, which decisively won parliamentary elections in January.

Palestinian politicians hope that forming a new, coalition administration, with a softer line on Israel, will persuade the international community to lift the crippling economic sanctions that it imposed because of Hamas’s refusal to disband its militias or change its constitution, which calls for Israel’s destruction.

Mr Abbas has been in coalition talks with Hamas for two weeks, and the two sides have reached a preliminary agreement that the new government would strive to set up a Palestinian state alongside Israel – implying, without explicitly stating, recognition of Israel. Renouncing violence is also part of the preliminary agreement.

The talks have faltered because the West and Israel have pressed for Hamas to state clearly its willingness to recognise Israel. This Hamas has refused to do.

No, the talks have faltered because Hamas wants to destroy Israel, and has remained clear and open about its goals. It is a terrorist group, established to destroy Israel, and will not change that purpose. The gulf is in the fact that the world cannot seem to wrap its collective brain around Hamas saying they want to destroy Israel, and meaning it.

How many times does Hamas have to refuse to recognize, negotiate, or deal with Israel before the world will admit that Hamas has no intention of doing so?

I’m thinking as many times as it takes until Hamas is destroyed. Or until the Messsiah comes. Whichever comes first. (Here’s hoping it’s the former, and it’s soon. No, wait, I wouldn’t mind seeing the Messiah come in my lifetime, but hey, I’m an eternal optimist.)

So, will the world find a way to send money to the terrorists in Gaza? I’m on the fence on this one, but I think ultimately, the terror-enablers of the UN, the EU, and the State Dept. will win.

And oh yeah—watch for some analysts to blame Israel for weakening Abbas, instead of admitting that he had no power in the first place, and that he has the same goals as Hamas. He just keeps them quiet.