Since Hamas’ overwhelming electoral victory in January, the international media has gone to great lengths to assuage global shock and dismay over this turn of events by insisting the Palestinian Arabs voted for the blood-soaked terrorists for purely socio-economic reasons.
The latest example of this self-delusion comes from the pen of chief CNN Palestinian-apologist Christiane Amanpour, who wrote in a piece titled “From terrorism to trash collection”:
“During this year’s election, Palestinians fed up with the rampant corruption and lawlessness of the late Yasser Arafat’s government turned to the only alternative, Hamas.”
This theory, however, was easily discredited by analyst Robert Satloff (via HonestReporting.com:
“Other parties on the ballot offered alternatives to Fatah, including the good-government Third Way, but Hamas won 74 seats and the squeaky-clean liberals just 2. Indeed, it is an uncomfortable truth that an absolute majority of Palestinians voted for parties publicly committed to the destruction of Israel… To suggest that Palestinians were oblivious to the political meaning of their votes is, as President Bush has argued in a different context, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Even if the assertions of Amanpour and her colleagues did contain a hint of truth, it must be remembered that there are many other organizations besides Hamas providing charitable social services to the Palestinian Arabs - including the United States government.
So why is Washington so hated and Hamas is popular enough to become the sole ruling part of the “Palestinian” legislature?
The difference between Hamas and all these other groups, organizations and governments is one thing - Jewish body count.
Hamas is widely popular - far more so than any other humanitarian group - precisely because it has combined its social efforts with a successful campaign of mass murder against Israel’s Jews.
Without the blood is has spilled, Hamas could not stand out as it does today and could not have performed such a massive electoral coup.
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6 comments so far ↓
1 Maureen Emery // Apr 2, 2006 at 8:32 am
Shalom
Maureen
2 saltzer@tds.net // Apr 2, 2006 at 8:50 am
Actually there is a great deal of truth to the idea that the palestinians voted hamas for socio-economic reasons. For a decade, under Arafat’s leadership and direction, the palestinian education system inculcated its youth with the noxious and toxic doctrine that Israel was the cause of their social/economic difficulties. The solution in the palestinian mind was simple: eradicate Israel = fix problem. Arafat fatah corruption was rather irrelevant in the larger scheme.
3 Marcel // Apr 2, 2006 at 2:40 pm
This is a sermon every Palestinian should hear from their Iman in the local Mosque’s .
It should be posted all over so that Hamas and the Palestinian people are warned before hand ,so some can flee from the disaster that chases after them.
It would also help the terrorists to better understand their destiny by God’s mouth to their ears.
“Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, 6 therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns.
And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.
I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the Lord.
“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there,
therefore, as I live,” says the Lord God, “I will do according to your anger and according to the envy which you showed in your hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord. I have heard all your blasphemies which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to consume.’
Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.”
‘Thus says the Lord God: “The whole earth will rejoice when I make you desolate.
As you rejoiced because the inheritance of the house of Israel was desolate, so I will do to you; you shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, as well as all of Edom–all of it! Then they shall know that I am the Lord.”
Ezekiel 35
4 Jenny // Apr 3, 2006 at 1:10 am
I find it amazing that two offspring of Abraham could sire such different descenants! The absolute hate that is actually taught to Arab children…they hardly have a chance! The bottom line though really is that sin is sin in God’s eyes…yes, He hates their hatred to the Jews…He hates our bickering and pointing fingers too. The god of this world has blinded their eyes so that they cannot see what deception they are in. It really doesn’t matter which political party is in power, does it? The hatred lives on…
5 spannerintheworksbob@yahoo.com // Apr 3, 2006 at 4:17 am
Who is to blame us or the politicians?
2.chronicles7v14
If my people, who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin and HEAL THE LAND.
I challenge readers of this note to do what the above word says.
Humble ourselves. Pray. Seek his face.
Turn from anything that God challenges us about.
As we bow down before our maker and cry out to him for our own hearts first, only then will He hear from heaven forgive our sin and start to heal the land.
I know that as I have surrendered my heart to his mercy rather than my self righteousness, I have known a peace above anything I have ever experienced. For too long we have given our spiritual side over to professional religious people of one sort or another. I for one have had enough. I now know that God truly has a fathering heart.
Read Isaiah57v15
For thus says the High and Lofty one, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy. I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and revive the heart of the contrite ones.
This seems to say that although God dwells in such a holy place, that we who have our feet planted on earth can nevertheless have a place with him, only when we become contrite and humble. This is as opposed to doing religious acts as if trying to twist God’s arm and persuade him of our suitability.
God deals with the nation but the nation consists of me and others like me. I can’t expect politicians to make me Holy. I can only get any Holiness by God’s mercy, and I am prepared to ask for it from his hand.
Psalm 95 King David says–Come into his presence with thanksgiving.
What thanksgiving?- That we are better than other nations or that we are more righteous that them! Or because God is the Lord of all, seated on His throne, but we must make him King in our hearts first.
V7 Today if you will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation. (In the wilderness when they rebelled against God)
Where are we in all this. I believe that the biggest opposition to God is Hardness of heart. We will never possibly hear the still small voice of God in our hearts until we bow down and recognise our own pride in doing it our way.
If God is a father to us then surely it is in Him to raise us if we give him the space.
I am learning and finding things beginning to change, starting inside me. I can walk with a level of hope and peace that I would never have had before.
God is not a distant God.
6 Brad // Apr 3, 2006 at 6:25 pm
It doesn’t really matter which translation of the Bible you read, this verse, Genesis 16:12 tells the story.
Speaking of Ishmael;
King James
Genesis 16:12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
New Revised Standard with Apocrypha
Genesis 16:12 He shall be a wild ass of a man,
with his hand against everyone,
and everyone’s hand against him;
and he shall live at odds with all his kin.”
If only Abram and Sarai had not tried to do the Lord’s job for Him.
Brad
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