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Robert Spencer in FrontPage Mag: Hamas’ Genocidal Technocrats

Jun 18, 2014 8:29 am By Robert Spencer

Clinton-Benghazi-G1-620x362In FrontPage this morning I discuss how Hillary Clinton has once again revealed the willful ignorance of the Washington establishment.

Hillary Clinton said Monday that she was in favor of Barack Obama’s support for the new Palestinian Authority unity government, even though it included the jihad terror group Hamas, because “the makeup of this joint enterprise are largely technocrats. They’re academics and they’re business people. They don’t represent sort of, what you might call hard-core Hamas leadership.”

Would Hillary Clinton then have us believe that the Hamas officials who are part of the unity government do not represent Hamas leadership, or Hamas itself? That would be like saying that Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi don’t represent the leadership of the Democratic Party, or that Obama, Reid and Pelosi cannot be held responsible for the actions and positions of the Party.

This is plainly ridiculous – and in this case, even worse than ridiculous, because Hamas leaders have quite recently reaffirmed their commitment to the total destruction of Israel. Anyone who thinks that is not the position of the Hamas officials in the Palestinian Authority government is suffering from a case of willful blindness that is spectacularly severe even in this blinkered age.

At the time of the reconciliation between the two Palestinian groups, the Washington Post reported that Hamas would recognize Israel. Hamas spokesman Taher Nunu was livid: “What I was quoted as telling the American paper is wrong, and I unequivocally deny it. The issue of Hamas recognizing Israel is a complete nonstarter… aimed primarily at weakening the movement’s positions on Israel.” Nunu threatened legal action against the Post for its “false report.”

A week after reconciling with Fatah, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal stated: “Our path is resistance and the rifle and our choice is jihad. There is no past or future without jihad and resistance. Jihad is our path.”

What that meant was vividly illustrated in early May, when Palestinian Media Watch reported that “the terrorist who murdered 15 in the Sbarro pizza shop suicide bombing in 2001 was given a military funeral by the PA after his body was transferred to the PA last week. On Aug. 9, 2001 suicide bomber Izz Al-Din Al-Masri detonated himself in a Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem, killing 15, 7 of them children. 5 members of one family were killed in the attack.”

Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV News exulted: “Izz Al-Din Al-Masri ascended to Paradise in a Martyrdom-seeking operation (suicide terror attack) he carried out in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, where he gave the Zionists a taste of humiliation after killing 19 Zionists and wounding dozens.” And at the funeral, a Palestinian Authority official declared: “The popular gathering around the blood of Izz Al-Din Al-Masri is an honest and true expression of our people’s yearning for national unity (between Fatah and Hamas) and unity of action.”

That same week, according to the Elder of Ziyon blog, Hamas’ Al Qassam Brigades “released a video for Israel’s Independence Day, called ‘The End of the Hope,’” in which “Jews are forced onto ships to Germany by masked Hamas terrorists. Worshippers are chased out of the Kotel plaza which is destroyed and replaced with the ‘Mughrabi Quarter.’ Armed masked terrorists are seen on the roof of the Dome of the Rock to ensure that Jews can never visit there as they sing that there is no Temple in Jerusalem.”

That same week, the weekly Hamas children’s show Tomorrow’s Pioneers featured a young girl saying, that she wanted to become a police officer when she grew up, “So that I can shoot Jews.” The show’s child host then asked: “All the Jews? All of them?” When the girl responded in the affirmative, the host said, “Good.”

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said last Saturday: “Hamas’s strategy has not changed and will not change.” The goal of that “strategy” was the total destruction of Israel: “Wherever [Hamas] presides, we will remain preachers and teachers and build the Palestinian nation to liberate all the land of Palestine. We emphasize now that we will not retreat from out plan to liberate our lands and ensure the right of return and the release of [terrorist] prisoners.”

But don’t worry: they’re technocrats!

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 8:56 am

    Hillary Clinton is too busy doing everything she can to assure the success of a run for the presidency….

    Taking the time to learn facts about Hamas ? Nah — too much energy and brainwork.

    Just rely on whatever remarks will get you through the latest clueless reporters’ coverage.

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 9:03 am

    Khaled Abu Toameh is an Arab Israeli journalist, lecturer and documentary filmmaker. Always check out his articles on Palestine/ Israel. He writes for Gatestone:

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/author/Khaled+Abu+Toameh

    Recent Hamas articles:

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4363/hamas-kidnapping

    http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4346/hamas-western-aid

    • John C. Barile says

      Jun 18, 2014 at 10:39 am

      Thanks for reminding me why I so loathe and detest Hillary–that she thrice–three times–co-sponsored the OIC “defamation of religion [blasphemy]” proposal, publicly joining the OIC to bring it again before the UN.

      Contemptible. She is bought and paid for by the Islamizers, the enemies of thought and free speech.

  3. eib says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 9:39 am

    Quote:
    A week after reconciling with Fatah, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal stated: “Our path is resistance and the rifle and our choice is jihad. There is no past or future without jihad and resistance. Jihad is our path.”
    end

    One week later, why expect change?

  4. Beagle says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 10:33 am

    The Nazis in charge of Hitler’s “Final Solution”?

    Largely technocrats

  5. Beth says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    At least she told one truth.

    She supports them. Bottom line.

  6. wildjew says

    Jun 18, 2014 at 1:03 pm

    Are the American people ready for a weak, dishonest, Obama-supporting progressive woman in the White House?

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