Murdering, genocidal swine seal own fate
On the disastrous but hardly unexpected result in the “Palestinian” “elections,” the Captain says:
Unless someone can show widespread voter fraud on behalf of Hamas, the Palestinians should be judged by the choices they have made this week. They have chosen war and the annihilation of Israel over the two-state solution favored publicly (if not fervently) by Fatah. Europe and the United States need to wake up from their delusional dreamland of a situation where both sides in this conflict want a peaceful conclusion and a world without hatred for their children and grandchildren. Clearly, the Palestinians want war, and they have made no secret of using their children and grandchildren as bomb fuses in order to perpetuate it.
The first item on our list should be an absolute end to all aid to the Palestinian territories and government. The US should not subsidize Hamas, nor should it give money to a people whose only aim appears to be genocide.
It most certainly should not. With the ascension of Hamas to political power and the construction of Israel’s security fence, we now have the world’s first true terrorist state; we ought to treat it as if we weren’t too blind to recognize it. The Yahoo headline: “Hamas Win Unsettles Peace Process,” as if the “peace process” was an end in itself, or indeed had any meaning at all other than as a soothing balm for the fevered brows of deluded antisemitic liberals, who so wish to believe that diplomacy is victory, and the Palestinians peaceable.
Update! Arlene Kushner says it’s six of one, half a dozen of the other:
In the years since the founding of the PA, a good-cop/bad-cop strategy has been adopted. The PA is the good cop, Hamas the bad one. Arafat played this game to the hilt, professing inability to control the people who launched terror attacks while he was seeking peace. Abbas, in his own fashion, has done much the same. He would have liked to control the “gunmen,” but doing so was too difficult.
Whatever the talk of moderation by Abbas, whatever his expressed desire for negotiations and final settlement for a two-state solution, the harsh reality is that the Palestinian Authority has been comprised to a very significant degree of members of Fatah, which calls for Israel’s destruction via armed revolution.
The difference between Hamas and Fatah, until very recently, has been largely a matter of what face was presented to the world.
She’s right, of course. Fatah had no more intention of peacefully coexisting with Israel than Hamas or any other Paleostinian organization ever has.
- Entries
"Israel needs to compromise. They don't have to meet all of Hamas's demands - you know, the destruction of Israel itself and extermination of the Jews. Really, we're not being extreme here. They don't need to liquidate all the Jews to show an intent to continue in the peace process... Just maybe 15 or 20% of them, you know, to show good faith and to produce a reasonable bargaining position from which further compromise will be possible."
There's always the remote possibility that Hamas could wise up, try to moderate itself and seek reasonable positions. Based on what other Islamacists and socialist pan-Arab extremist groups have done, I don't think it's much likely. I'm afraid that I know how this movie ends. And it ain't pretty.
Soon, sometime soon, a big boom* is going to go off. The question that remains is whether we will be able to bring all the pieces of the target(s) in for a soft-ish landing.
*For our trolls - these are metaphors.