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Originally Posted by roachboy
dc--and i think, as i've said, that hamas would have moderated by necessity had the policy choices been otherwise on the part of israel and the united states--and it is in abbas interest to say that about hamas given the internal political rivalry between fatah and the plo. personally, i think it was entirely the fatah's fault that they lost in gaza.
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rb....what other policy choice could Israel have made beyond what they did in 2003-04....unilaterally dismantling all settlements in Gaza, withdrawing all IDF forces and giving autonomy to the residents of Gaza?
The Hamas response in their successful campaign to win in the political arena in Gaza in 2006 was to continue to pursue its aganda of attacks against Israel.
At some point, the Palestinian people in Gaza must make a choice.....peace and stability or the continuation of the hatred spewed by the extremists with a self-serving agenda.
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rb.....would you accept the
Charter of Hamas as a governing document if you were in the Israeli government?
Article 28 is particularly vitriolic:
Article Twenty-Eight
The Zionist invasion is a mischievous one. It does not hesitate to take any road, or to pursue all despicable and repulsive means to fulfill its desires. It relies to a great extent, for its meddling and spying activities, on the clandestine organizations which it has established, such as the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions, and other spying associations. All those secret organizations, some which are overt, act for the interests of Zionism and under its directions, strive to demolish societies, to destroy values, to wreck answerableness, to totter virtues and to wipe out Islam. It stands behind the diffusion of drugs and toxics of all kinds in order to facilitate its control and expansion. The Arab states surrounding Israel are required to open their borders to the Jihad fighters, the sons of the Arab and Islamic peoples, to enable them to play their role and to join their efforts to those of their brothers among the Muslim Brothers in Palestine. The other Arab and Islamic states are required, at the very least, to facilitate the movement of the Jihad fighters from and to them. We cannot fail to remind every Muslim that when the Jews occupied Holy Jerusalem in 1967 and stood at the doorstep of the Blessed Aqsa Mosque, they shouted with joy: “Muhammad is dead, he left daughters behind.” Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslims. “Let the eyes of the cowards not fall asleep.”
Should moderate Palestinians accept it? That is their choice