Israel wants an "open" truce with Gaza (Extra)

hmpiersonJan 16th, 2009 - 17:25:54

Smartest move Israel could make is asking for an open ended truce.

While obviously desirable to the Western mind, it is impossible for Hamas to accept. The reason is that Hamas is only looking for a hudna, an opportunity to rearm and regroup. Read their charter on the peace site, mideastweb.org (run by both Palestinians and Israelis)

mideastweb.org slash hamas.htm

here are some excerpts:

'Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

'The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim 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.

'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.'

Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic interviewed the Hamas terrorist Rayyan shortly before he was killed during the current war. He asked if Rayyan could envision a 50 year truce. Here is Goldberg's description of Rayyan's response: 'The question I wrestle with constantly is whether Hamas is truly, theologically implacable. That is to say, whether the organization can remain true to its understanding of Islamic law and God's word and yet enter into a long-term nonaggression treaty with Israel. I tend to think not, though I've noticed over the years a certain plasticity of belief among some Hamas ideologues. ... There was no flexibility with Rayyan. This is what he said when I asked him if he could envision a 50-year hudna (or cease-fire) with Israel: `The only reason to have a hudna is to prepare yourself for the final battle. We don't need 50 years to prepare ourselves for the final battle with Israel.' There is no chance, he said, that true Islam would ever allow a Jewish state to survive in the Muslim Middle East. `Israel is an impossibility. It is an offense against God.'

All decent people want an end to war and violence. But if you think this is possible with Hamas, you are just kidding yourself, or ignorant of the facts.

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Hey- hmpiersonJan 16th, 2009 - 17:31:14

There is no god, there never has been a god Muhammed was a liar.

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