Hamas are, in UK colloquial language, "taking the piss", and the world is allowing, even encouraging them to do so. A grad rocket fired from Gaza which hit Ashkelon today is just one more in the series of breaches of the current cease fire. It would appear that indiscriminate firing of rockets on a civilian population does not necessarily offend the world community, at least not if they happen to be fired at Israeli civilians.
The Irish now think that Europe's view of Hamas needs to be revised. Tony Blair thinks they need to involved in the current peace process. Could it be that terror works? That's a whole different conversation, however it wold appear that it does for now. A cruel and cynical regime which usurped power in a violent coup in Gaza, which uses its civilian population as a human shield, which goes around executing its political rivals at will and which ultimately promotes an Islamic Jihadist agenda against the interests of its people and their national aspirations; still manges to find sympathy and legitimacy from Europe and the wider world. How can this be?
There are surely smart people in Europe and around the world who have the capacity to understand the Hamas doctrine and its political goals, who understand that it has minimal interest in the national aspirations of the Palestinians and is far more interested in the Islamic agenda. There are surely enough human rights activists and "liberals" who stand against victimisation of women, honour killings, Sharia law involving stoning, beheading and amputation, who are against the killing of homosexuals, who believe in freedom of speech, of thought and of religion. There are must be a great many "liberals" who support the establishment of a Democratic Palestinian state?
Yet in the face of overwhelming evidence that Hamas believe in none of these things, these so called "liberals" choose to ignore the inconvenient truth about Hamas, its agenda and its murderous practices against its own people, let alone the "Zionist entity". Hamas leaders now stride around claiming victory in the recent conflict n Gaza, surely a ridiculous notion. Although if you look at the manner in which Hamas is now looking to dictate terms of any cease fire, at how they are continuing to fire rockets into Israel, and at how the world appears to be reacting, then perhaps Hamas will indeed clutch victory from the jaws of defeat. Make no mistake, Hamas was seriously beaten and damaged in Israeli operation Cast Lead. It will be a true crime if the wider world then helps Hamas to present a case where they are able to present gains from the conflict. As the legitimate President of the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Abbas says, Hamas has gambled and is gambling with the lives of Palestinians in a wholy irresponsible manner. For the world to encourage them to do so strikes me as rank stupidity and a serious crime against the Palestinian people.
Get a grip, help the Palestinians, not Hamas?
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