Genocide Joe said:
This is so stupidly dishonest. Was Germany no longer a State after WW1 because restrictions on its military capabilities were forced on it? Is Japan not a State now because it has Constitutional restriction on its ability to have an army? The idea that 1936, 1948, 1967, 2000 and 2008 didn't happen because Israel is now talking about a future Palestine with military restrictions is the definition of absurd.
Here is who Israel is dealing with, from Hamas' Covenant (Constitution):
Goals of the HAMAS:"The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine."
(Article 6)On the destruction of Israel:"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."
(Preamble)The exclusive Moslem nature of the area:"The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Holy Possession] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one can renounce it or any part, or abandon it or any part of it."
(Article 11)"Palestine is an Islamic land... Since this is the case, the Liberation of Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be."
(Article 13)The call to jihad:"The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem. In the face of the Jews' usurpation, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised."
(Article 15)"Ranks will close, fighters joining other fighters, and masses everywhere in the Islamic world will come forward in response to the call of duty, loudly proclaiming: 'Hail to Jihad!'. This cry will reach the heavens and will go on being resounded until liberation is achieved, the invaders vanquished and Allah's victory comes about."
(Article 33)Rejection of a negotiated peace settlement:"[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement... Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility."
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I can hear the anti-Israel crowd now: But wait, that's
just Hamas. Israel should work with the moderate Palestinian Authority. Here's a word or two on Israel's great moderate partner:
One of the less savory aspects of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's biography is that he has a PhD in Holocaust denial literally. His 1982 dissertation, published as "The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism," famously argues that the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis in order to spur more Jewish immigration to Palestine. "The Zionist movement," it
explains, "led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule, in order to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them, and to expand the mass extermination." The Zionists, the work asserts, were the Third Reich's "basic partner in crime." It also claims that the figure of six million dead has been exaggerated for political gain, and suggests one million as a more reasonable estimate. Abbas has never unreservedly repudiated the document, and has in fact regularly reaffirmed its core argument,
saying in 2013 that he had "70 more books that I still haven't published" proving the Zionist-Nazi partnership.
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But Israel is insane for having the nerve to suggest a post war Palestine with military restrictions. Yeah, right.
