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Hamas lays out post-election agenda
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The naivety of George Bush is simply astonishing.
The dynamic of the islamic religion doesn't allow moms to think in the way of American moms. Muslim moms are breeding future jihadis.
Bush lives in a dream world where he thinks that after the bloody 9/11 terrorist attacks, slowly Muslims would come to their senses and ponder about the violent nature of militant islam, so they would turn towards mellowness, disgusted with radicalism.
But on the contrary, all the signs point out that in Muslim countries people are getting more and more hard-line as time goes by.
Just look at the election results in Egypt and at the popularity of hard-line islamic parties from Turkey to Indonesia.
This proves that there is a complicity beween radicals and moderates that cuts across all the islamic spectrum. Some of their boys spread terror, the rest of the Muslim society blesses and supports them (and moms breed as many future jidadis as they can.
We have seen no peace-loving muslims drawing a line and making any clear break with their violent brethren.
Therefore this belies that there is such a thing as moderate muslims, for they are still a very solid pack.
The latter is something which politicians like George W Bush will find hard to swallow, for they love dividing Muslims into islamists and "peace-loving muslims". Pure naivety and wishful thinking.
Posted by: rocky on November 21, 2005 12:50 PM
Hamas lays out post-election agenda
By Ryan Jones, JNewswire
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Friday published a translation of an October interview in which Gaza-based Hamas chief Mahmoud al-Zahar laid out his group's post-election agenda. "Hamas' mission upon joining the [Palestinian Authority] Legislative Council will be to eliminate the last remnants" of the so-called "Oslo" peace process, Zahar told elaph.com.
Should Hamas one day control a majority of seats in the parliament and be asked to form the government, it will go one step further and end all relations with the Jewish state.
"The national interest demands that we not cooperate with Israel in the security, political, or economic spheres," Zahar explained. "The facts should lead us to cut off our relations with the Israeli enemy by all means."
"The question," he said, "is whether to do this gradually or all at once." Hamas is expected to garner up to 40 percent of the vote when "Palestinians" go to the polls in late January, giving the group considerable influence over official policy. Due to its overtly destructive agenda, Israel continues to insist the PA and Western nations involved in the peace process prohibit Hamas from participating in the election, or risk the collapse of everything they have worked for.
But following this summer's withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas views Israel as a vanquished foe, and "the defeated [party] does not dictate conditions," Zahar said.
Public opinion polls have consistently shown a majority of Palestinian Arabs agree with that view. And as for disarming, Zahar said everyone concerned can forget about it.
"We will join the Legislative Council and serve the Palestinian street with our weapons in hand," he insisted. "We want to turn into the weapon of resistance in all the land."
The terror boss noted that Hamas has already joined municipal councils throughout PA-controlled areas, and no one has demanded the group disarm as a result of those election successes.
At any rate, Zahar said, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas "said that he didn't want to disarm the resistance. We are no longer talking about this ubject."
Abbas is obligated under Phase I of the Road Map peace plan to disarm nd dismantle all terrorist organizations operating out of areas stensibly under his control.
But he has found in US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice an ally in is insistence that such a move not even be considered until after the lection.
At that point, Rice claims, Hamas will be far easier to disarm since it will be part of the establishment and because international pressure that should have led to the group's disarmament a decade ago will finally be forthcoming.
US President George W. Bush has expressed his belief Hamas simply won't make any headway in the election "because I think Palestinian moms want their children to grow up in peace just like American moms want their children to grow up in peace."
"The people that campaign for peace will win," Bush asserted during a ay press conference. Since then, he has been contradicted by every major "Palestinian" public opinion poll.
Copyright 2002-2004 Jerusalem Newswire
Posted by Ted Belman at November 21, 2005 10:00 AM