Cynical words

The so-called offer by Hamas acting-PM Ismail Haniyeh of the PA to recognize
Israel IF (and its a big if) Israel withdraws to the pre-1967 lines, gives up
all of the West Bank including all of Jerusalem, recognizes the Palestinian
refugee's "right of return," and releases all Palestinian prisoners, then they
will give us a hudna (ceasefire), frankly is ridiculous. It amounts to us
giving up everything up-front and then they'll stop fighting us for a while,
for an indeterminate time period.
It precludes any negotiations, because Israel would be giving everything up
without getting anything in return. Can anyone trust a committed Islamist
terrorist organization like Hamas to even keep its word, let alone give them
everything they demand and get no recognition, no concession, no compromise,
no peace and no end of conflict agreement. It is literally stupid! In any
case today Haniyeh has clarified his remarks, saying that he never said he
wanted a 'peace agreement' with Israel as some of the press reported,
but only a "hudna."
But, there will be many leftist Israelis and biased people around the world
who will be taken in by these cynical words, without understanding their
meaning, without considering their content, but who are predisposed to accept
that Hamas is rational and well-meaning (like Arafat was?). Predictably, the
US and EU are already finding excuses to continue funding the PA. They are
clutching at straws, for example funneling the aid thru Pres. Abbas, who after
all is a known quantity, and who is the leader of Fatah. But, Abbas not only
has no power, and has acted in concert with Hamas in the past, but has said
that he will resign if he cannot control the situation, which he has already
lost control of anyway. Israel called him "irrelevant" and a "Hamas fig-leaf."
So it's once again a matter of Western self-deception, and playing into the
hands of the extremists at Israel's expense. Would they make any such
agreement with al Qaeda in Iraq or Hizbollah in Lebanon? Never!
The absurdity of the situation is almost beyond conception. Throughout the
Western world well-meaning liberals in conjunction with extreme Islamists are
conducting a campaign of hatred against Israel, while it is the Palestinians
who are the racists, who won't allow one Jew to live in their territory, while
Israel not only has 20% of Arabs living safely in this country, but is also a
rainbow nation of whites and blacks (from Ethiopia and elsewhere). How many
know that there are over 50,000 Thais, Philippinos and Chinese living and
working in Israel, and they can be seen every day on our streets? How many
know that there is a district in Tel Aviv filled with ca. 30,000 Nigerians and
other blacks, many of them illegal immigrants, who have migrated here for
work. They are certainly tolerated, but there are no such groups in the PA.
And in France the face of racist Islam has been revealed in the terrible
disgusting murder by torture of Ilan Halimi, an innocent Jewish man, who was
tricked, captured and tortured by a gang over a period of 3 weeks. Poor guy!
Just because he was Jewish, they stubbed out cigarettes all over his body.
And the French police had the effrontery to deny it was anti-Semitism, even
though three other Jewish men had narrowly escaped Ilan's fate. Note that
it's not Jews who are cold-bloodedly killing Muslims. Who are the real racists?
In every country in the world there are Islamist cells operating, and you can
be sure that there will be other examples of naive Jewish men being duped
and captured, as happened before to Daniel Pearl and now Ilan Halimi.
Beware!