Sharon Tricks Hamas into Showing its True Nature
Fri June 13th, 2003 17:45 MSTWhen Sharon ordered the newly intensified war on Hamas, he so angered their leaders that they blundered. Hamas is now on record vowing to kill every man, woman and child in Israel. This has always been their goal, but now it cannot be denied by their European fellow travelers.
Israel has thus scored a major victory. Many in the world mistakenly see a moral equivalence between Hamas’ intentional targetting of Israel’s children and Israel’s accidental killing of Palestinian civilians during attacks on legitimate targets. This false equivalence has allowed an increasingly anti-semitic Europe to rest easy while funding Hamas’ “political” and “charitable” arms, even as they condemn Israel’s every action.
No longer can they ignore the true nature of their ally. Hamas has been unmasked. As the viciousness of these killers of children becomes understood by Europe, no excuse remains for supporting or failing to combat them. Europe must choose: it is either a supporter of genocide or an enemy of terrorism. There is no middle ground. So far, Europe has supported genocide. Now is their change to avoid their crimes of 60 years ago. The Palestinian people, meanwhile, are clearly in favor of genocide, to their eternal shame.
Israel understand that Hamas will never accept peace, and that the Palestinian leadership fears Hamas to restrain them. The excuses that the Palestinian security structure has been decimated by Israel are laughable, but that is all the PA has to offer in preventing the mass murder of more Israeli children. Israel knows better.
Peace will require a parallel effort on the part of the PA to calm the emotions and rhetoric in its territory, and a ruthless military campaign to destroy those who will never accept peace. Israel is now doing what it must.
The AP headline (3/22/04) reads: Angry Palestinians Bury Hamas Leader.
“The Zionists didn’t carry out their operation without getting the consent of the terrorist American administration and it (the United States) must take responsibility for this crime,” Hamas said in a statement.
According to this argument, Israel is the puppet of the U.S.
Switching gears now, does the reader recall that the anti-Bush crowd were depicting the Reagan and Bush41 administrations as allies of Saddam?
Recall also that Israel destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981.
In effect, then, Reagan attacked Iraq through proxy. This puts the lie to the argument that Reagan-Bush41 wanted Iraq armed with W.M.D.