The Hamas/Fatah merger means that the illusion in Washington that there were "moderate" "Palestinians" with whom they could make a deal, and who would agree to a genuine peace accord with Israel, should end. But it won't. "Haniya: Hamas won't recognize Israel," from Deutsche Presse-Agentur, May 15:
Gaza City - Ismail Haniya, the de-facto Palestinian premier in Gaza, reiterated in Gaza City on Sunday that his Islamist Hamas movement would not recognize Israel.He told hundreds of worshippers at Gaza City's main mosque 'to pray for the end of the state of Israel.'
'The Zionist project in Palestine must end,' Haniya told participants at the dawn prayers at al-Omari Mosque, as Palestinians were marking Nakba Day.
Nakba means catastrophe in Arabic and marks the dispersal of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their villages in what is now Israel, in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that erupted a day after Israel was established on May 14.
Haniya, who praised the reconciliation pact signed with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas Fatah party in Cairo on May 4, said that 'to achieve our goals, the liberation of our occupied territories, we should have one leadership.'...
Haniya and Nasrallah, Abbas too, be utterly confounded and brought down to nothing. Let them join their malignant Tawhid, their ravenous Void, in Hades.
It's like when they report an armed robbery in the news.
If they DON'T give a description of the suspect just what they were wearing (nobody can change clothes, right?) you know the suspect is black.
Eventually, if not already, anyone reading one of these news reports will know it's Islamists they're talking about and the skewed reporting will no longer have the intended effect.
It's ironic how tenacious the Muslim opposition to Israel, based on their (for the Middle East) extremely benign treatment of the Palestinians, is.
The very worst enemy of the Palestinians was Yassir Arafat. Arafat managed to turn one of the fastest-growing economies in the world (the occupied West Bank) into a sink-hole of poverty and despair. He got the Palestinians kicked out of Jordan and Lebanon. He assassinated unknown, but copious, numbers of Palestinians, in addition to Israelis, Americans, French, etc.
A little later in his life, Arafat got the Palestinians kicked out of Kuwait for giving a wholly gratuitous and unnecessary statement of support to Saddam Hussein in his invasion of Kuwait. As the piece de resistance of career of trampling the Palestinians into the mud, Arafat turned down a very real offer of statehood by Israel, guaranteed by the US.
Now, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and the oh-so-sophisticated Egyptians trade accusations against the Israelis because the Israelis erect sorely-needed barriers against fanatic suicide bombers.
The Nakba day should be Arafat's birthday.
Nothing ever changes and never will when it comes to the rabid ,and obsessive motivations of Hamas and Fatah. And yet still the West continues to live under the false illusion that a peace accord can be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians.
They have bought into the money making game of phony propaganda that the Gazans work at daily. Even the UN operatives in Gaza are fully complicit in driving the propaganda machine primarily since it is manned by Muslims in the first place. America and the EU have poured billions into the Zionist hating Palestinian machine and still never see the slightest of real efforts of peaceful results of any kind, it is in fact the opposite.
The sectors of Jerusalem's Christians,Jews,and Muslims for the most part function relatively peacefully together on a daily basis and yet Hamas and Fatah continuously play the Islamic supremacist card by agitating for the destruction of Israel.
remmeber in Psalm 121 that "He (the Lord) who watches over Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps"!
I think the pali project should be dismantled. Massive deportation to Egypt and Jordan. Used to be Netanyahu's idea; i don't know if it still is.
I agree with you, RonaldB, that Arafat was a disaster for his so-called Palestinian Arabs. Actually, Arafat was a disaster for every people. The man was a snake and did great harm all around. He accomplished nothing positive. Reflecting on Arafat and his slaughter of so many fellow Palestinian Arabs reminded me of that old line which goes as follows: If you're a Palestinian Arab and hear a knock at your door at three in the morning, you hope it's the Israelis.
There is no Palestinian people, nor is there a sovereign entity named "Palestine". There is a sovereign "entity" named Israel. There is no "border".
Please stop using the term without quotations./sarc off.
Dee
The Hamas/Fatah merger means that the illusion in Washington that there were "moderate" "Palestinians" with whom they could make a deal, and who would agree to a genuine peace accord with Israel, should end. But it won't.
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No, it won't. But why should it?
If the world could ignore the election of Hamas and their vicious "night of the long knives"-style treatment of their Fatah rivals, if they could ignore the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, and two bloody "Intifadas", and decades of suicide bombings and hijackings and other Jihad terror attacks, and two regional wars, and all the other horrors wrought against Israel over the past sixty-plus years, then there's no reason to stop now.
Hi GI,
You wrote:
"...and their vicious "night of the long knives"-style treatment of their Fatah rivals,...."
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Yes, and interestinglyly, Ernst Roehm (Brownshirt leader beer-hall putsch strongman/loyalist of a rising Hitler)was conveniently caught, literally, with his pants down in bed with his "companion", in connection with the internal purging . His homosexuality was a powerful pretext toward "dispensing" with him.
Roehm's last words were:
"Mein Fuhrer!, Mein Fuhrer!"
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What's next? "Mein Allah?!"
The Palestine Project in Israel must End.