Fore-armed?
On Saturday, Hamas was installed as the majority in the Palestine Legislative Council, and is now the ruling party of the Palestine Authority. The Executive consisting of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Ministers will be appointed within a month. In case any one has illusions regarding what this means for the continuing Israel-Arab conflict, here is a statement by Khaled Mashaal, Head of Hamas, on February 3 in Damascus:
"Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day…Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyesight, we will make them lose their brains."
"We say to this West, which does not act reasonably, and does not learn its lessons: By Allah, you will be defeated. You will be defeated in Palestine, and your defeat there has already begun. True, it is Israel that is being defeated there, but when Israel is defeated, its path is defeated, those who call to support it are defeated, and the cowards who hide behind it and support it are defeated. Israel will be defeated, and so will whoever supported or supports it."
"I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it."
Here are statements by two suicide bombers recently published on the official Hamas website:
"My message to the hated Jews: There is no God but Allah," Majila says. "We will hunt you everywhere, when you wake and when you sleep."
"We will not leave you alone until we quench ourselves with your blood and we will quench the thirst of our children with your blood. We will not rest until you leave the lands of the Muslims."
Rajab, the second suicide bomber: "By the life of Allah, we will destroy you. We will blow you up. We will take our revenge on you. We will purify our land of you, pigs, who have defiled our land. By the life of Allah, we will take our vengeance."
The Jews of Europe in the 1930's could justifiably believe that even though the Germans were violently anti-Semitic, they would never kill all the Jews, because they were too civilized. But, it turned out that was their aim, and they managed to kill six million! Now we can have no illusions about what the Palestinians under their chosen representatives have in store for us. Our only defense is the IDF and the will of our Government and people to use it. But, the Government seems to waver, not knowing which way to go, to be conciliatory by giving them electricity, water, gas, food, or to cut them off. To allow them to bombard the Ashkelon industrial zone, as they have done, or to respond strongly, as they have been warning that they will do, but so far haven't done. Maybe the Government of Ehud Olmert is waiting because we will soon have elections, but doing nothing in response shows weakness that only empowers these extremists. Even left-wing sympathizers of the Palestinians in the west, including the UK, will support these fascists without recognizing the contradiction because of their long term anti-Israel bias.
Unfortunately it seems that another all-out war with the Palestinians will be necessary before any possibility of peace arises. Fore-warned should be fore-armed!
"Before Israel dies, it must be humiliated and degraded. Allah willing, before they die, they will experience humiliation and degradation every day…Allah willing, we will make them lose their eyesight, we will make them lose their brains."
"We say to this West, which does not act reasonably, and does not learn its lessons: By Allah, you will be defeated. You will be defeated in Palestine, and your defeat there has already begun. True, it is Israel that is being defeated there, but when Israel is defeated, its path is defeated, those who call to support it are defeated, and the cowards who hide behind it and support it are defeated. Israel will be defeated, and so will whoever supported or supports it."
"I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it."
Here are statements by two suicide bombers recently published on the official Hamas website:
"My message to the hated Jews: There is no God but Allah," Majila says. "We will hunt you everywhere, when you wake and when you sleep."
"We will not leave you alone until we quench ourselves with your blood and we will quench the thirst of our children with your blood. We will not rest until you leave the lands of the Muslims."
Rajab, the second suicide bomber: "By the life of Allah, we will destroy you. We will blow you up. We will take our revenge on you. We will purify our land of you, pigs, who have defiled our land. By the life of Allah, we will take our vengeance."
The Jews of Europe in the 1930's could justifiably believe that even though the Germans were violently anti-Semitic, they would never kill all the Jews, because they were too civilized. But, it turned out that was their aim, and they managed to kill six million! Now we can have no illusions about what the Palestinians under their chosen representatives have in store for us. Our only defense is the IDF and the will of our Government and people to use it. But, the Government seems to waver, not knowing which way to go, to be conciliatory by giving them electricity, water, gas, food, or to cut them off. To allow them to bombard the Ashkelon industrial zone, as they have done, or to respond strongly, as they have been warning that they will do, but so far haven't done. Maybe the Government of Ehud Olmert is waiting because we will soon have elections, but doing nothing in response shows weakness that only empowers these extremists. Even left-wing sympathizers of the Palestinians in the west, including the UK, will support these fascists without recognizing the contradiction because of their long term anti-Israel bias.
Unfortunately it seems that another all-out war with the Palestinians will be necessary before any possibility of peace arises. Fore-warned should be fore-armed!
posted by Jack Cohen at 6:11 PM
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