Upside of Hamas victory
January 31st, 2006 at 12:29 pm by David FarrarScott Adams points to an upside of the Hamas victory.
He compares it to what would a dog do if it actually caught the car it was chasing. And certainly Hamas may not have wanted to become the Government, just to gain some political power.
Adams states:
I have to think it will be difficult for Hamas to reconcile the whole
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January 31st, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Well if they are all at the Parliament building at noon talking about how to do it it will make it easier for the IDF to find them.
Since they declared war on Israel and have rejeceted peace then all I can say is SIX DAYS.
Vote:January 31st, 2006 at 6:02 pm
How do they plan to destroy Israel. I somehow think that Israel will destroy them first without pity.
Vote:January 31st, 2006 at 8:39 pm
The interesting twist though is that Hamas want to be part of a Coalition Government – something they don’t actually need as they scored so well they can easily govern in their own right.
Now, if you’re stuck in the Helen Clark mindset, then being PM is more important than life itself (and you’d be prepared to sell your granny to get it). For Hamas, the Winstonian baubles of “democratic” office are completely irrelevant. What counts is calling the shots. For them, the goal is to get the EU, USA, the UN, and even Israel to pay money to the “Palestinian Authority” and for Hamas to control its expenditure under the rule of Shari’a law (as it gets slowly applied to all the inhabitants of Gaza – Muslim and Christian alike).
First, segregate the boys and girls in schools, then require women to dress “modestly”, then apply instant sanctions to blasphemers and collaborators. The “Pali” voters will soon begin to wish they never voted en masse for Hamas’s version of the Taliban – even if they claim to be incorruptible.
When the Germans and Italians found out that the price to pay for nice roads and efficient trains was police-state fascism it was already too late.
I therefore don’t buy the dog-catching-car illustration. This one’s more like Jurassic Park velociraptors learning how to operate a door handle. Dumb beginnings, but learn fast.
Vote:January 31st, 2006 at 10:07 pm
There are “nice roads and efficient trains” in Italy?
Vote:January 31st, 2006 at 10:26 pm
Interestingly, on the BBC Radio 4 last night, a newly elected Hamas MP stated, that it had to recognise the existence of Israel, as Israel existed before Hamas – and that all that was needed was a recognition of Palestinian rights, and that Jews and Palestinians needed to live side by side in peace. Chicken and egg really, Israel wont let go unless Palestinians stop using terrorism and vice versa!
Vote:January 31st, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Sean.
Snopes – “The myth of Mussolini’s punctual trains lives on, albeit with a different slant: rather than serving as a fictitious symbol of the benefits of fascism, it is now offered as a sardonic example that something good can result even from the worst of circumstances.”
Vote:February 1st, 2006 at 6:23 pm
As the votes were counted in the Palestinian election and the scale of Hamas’s landslide became apparent to the world, Aya al-Astal drifted away from her home and wandered towards the fence along the border between the Gaza strip and Israel.
The nine-year-old girl’s parents realised she was gone as they watched the election results on television. They do not know precisely what happened, but the Israeli army later said Aya was behaving in a suspicious manner reminiscent of a terrorist – she got too close to the border fence – and so a soldier fired several bullets into the child, hitting her in the neck and blowing open her stomach.
Aya was the second child killed by the Israeli army last week. Soldiers near Ramallah shot 13-year-old Munadel Abu Aaalia in the back as he walked along a road reserved for Jewish settlers with two friends. The army said the boys planned to throw rocks at Israeli cars, which the military defines as terrorism.
The two killings went unnoticed by the outside world amid the political drama, but they made their impact among Palestinians angered by demands from western leaders for Hamas to recognise Israel and renounce its armed struggle.
Some Palestinians see the demands as a rejection of a democratic election and as siding with Israel. Others see hypocrisy. They say Israeli soldiers killed twice as many Palestinians last week alone – both of them children – as the number of Israelis killed by Hamas all last year.
“Aya was shot in the neck and stomach. Her stomach was hanging out,” said the child’s mother, Aisha. “We have no idea why she went there but she was a child. She was so small. She was nine years old. She didn’t wear a hijab. It was clear she was just a young girl. This is hatred.”
Hamas is responsible for the murder of more than 400 Israelis. But since it declared a ceasefire a year ago the group has killed one Israeli, according to the Israeli government’s own figures. Sasson Nuriel was kidnapped in September and forced to record a video demanding the release of prisoners. Hamas said it shot him when the army got close to finding him.
Hamas also carried out a suicide bombing at Beer Sheva bus station in August that seriously wounded two security guards, and it was behind some of the attacks by rudimentary rockets fired from Gaza into Israel that frequently terrify but rarely kill. Hamas said it launched the rockets in response to Israeli attacks.
“Hamas has kept the calm for a year. Israel is still killing our civilians,” said the Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud al-Zahar. “Why is it that the Israelis can continue to kill our people, innocent people walking down the street, and there is no criticism from those who tell us we must give up our historic struggle against occupation? Why are they so afraid to criticise Israel but tell us what to do?”
The Astal family is politically divided. Aya’s mother voted for Hamas. The child’s aunt, Samir al-Astal, backed the losing party, Fatah. But there is little difference in their belief that there is a double standard at work in the foreign demands of Israel and of Palestinians.
“The Americans always give excuses for Israel,” said Samir. “Israel is like a spoilt son. They never pressure them. They kill our children and no one says anything. If there is a reaction by Palestinians to these incidents they call us terrorists.”
Israel said it regretted civilian deaths but added that they were accidental, unlike those caused by suicide bombs. It said Hamas was “intensively involved in terrorist actions” despite the ceasefire.
Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11726.htm
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