Sorry folks, but the Tundra Tabloids will believe Hamas is serious about recognizing Israel after seeing a period of two years or more of no incitment of Jews and of Israel in their mosques, schools, media and television programing, as well as cracking down on those who continue to promote it.
Most importantly, there has to be seen a drastic improvement in the way they deal with their own citizens’ human rights, and rule of law. When Hamas is no longer a danger to their own people, they’ll no longer constitute a threat to the State of Israel. But this all brings a couple of interesting aspects to light, so you’re going to have to look at this recent development from at least two perspectives:
a) The blockade indeed worked, which proves the anti-Israel nay-sayers to have been grossly wrong, and that by ending it too early, would have only served the Hamas’ best interests, or b) the Arabs are simply practicing what they do best in their dealings with the non-Muslim, taqiyya, lying through their teeth in order to gain some advantage that is impossible duing the present day status quo.
Hamas ready to cancel charter according to senior official
Hamas has accepted Israel’s right to exist and would be prepared to nullify its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, Aziz Dwaik, Hamas’s most senior representative in the West Bank, said on Wednesday.
Is it April 1st?
Be patient and see what comes next. There’s always another shoe.
Thank you for giving this development some real coverage. The Muslim practice of taqiyya makes any concession by Hamas, not just suspect, but essentially worthless. Yassir Arafat established, what is now, a long standing tradition of meaningless concessions designed explicitly to create a hudna (temporary cessation of hostilities), that is only meant to serve the ends of Islamic genocide against the Jews and the West.
Like many Muslims, Hamas will say ANYTHING and do ANYTHING in order to have the blockade lifted and regain their faltering control of Gaza. Peace with Israel is simply nowhere on the agenda. A true and lasting peace with Israel would mean several things:
A de facto concession of military defeat at Israeli hands
An outright abandonment of genocide against the Jews, contrary to Qu’ranic doctrine
A concession that Jew’s are entitled to possession of putatively Muslim land
An admission that Jews are legitimate members of the Arab world
All of the forgoing represents a totally bitter humiliation for Muslims and Islam in general. Remember, in Islamic culture: Humiliation is worse than death. Furthermore, any Muslim who openly recognized the above list of outcomes for what they really are would be subject to capital punishment for blasphemy. That Hamas is spewing such propaganda so obviously in utter contradiction to their own founding charter simply cannot possibly be taken seriously.
This is the usual window dressing of Islamic taqiyya and a naked attempt to, once again, fool international interests into believing that Muslims can live in peace with ANYONE.