“An Islamic militant leader condemned a symbolic Mideast peace deal, branding the Palestinians who helped negotiate it as traitors for making compromises with their Israeli counterparts.” So says AP, with thanks to LGF.
“The test treaty, known as the ‘Geneva Accord,’ envisions a Palestinian state in most of the West Bank and Gaza with a capital in Jerusalem.”
But that’s not good enough for Nizar Riayan of Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement): “Those behind this document should be brought to trial because no one authorized them to talk on behalf of the Palestinian people and to betray us with this document. God willing, we are not going to give up our rights over our holy land.”
This is the kind of intransigence that has poisoned the chances for success of earlier negotiated settlements. The Hamas Charter makes it plain:
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
“The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [a religious endowment, as delineated by Islamic law] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. ”
How can any negotiations be successful when one side thinks this way? And even worse:
“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”
“After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’, and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.”
“Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:
“‘The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.’ (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).”
“Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.”
Plus a little ad for dhimmitude — the subjugation of Jews and Christians as inferiors under Islamic rule — that shows how useful the widely-accepted whitewashes of Islamic history can be: “Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions – Islam, Christianity and Judaism – to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history are the best witness to that.” (For the facts of the case, see Onward Muslim Soldiers.)