Reply #30: Hamas: live by the kaboom, die by the kaboom [View All]

[BunnyThief]

Love Sharon? No, not really. I'm focused more on the issues than the individuals.

Support selective assassination? Again, not really. But I prefer it to either non-selective assassination (read: suicide bombings and other indiscriminate acts of terrorism) or doing nothing in response to non-selective assassination.

Rantisi was the head of Hamas, which has repeatedly sworn the absolute destruction of the state of Israel and intends to drive every single Israel "into the sea." As such, he's a legitimate target for arrest or killing.

Here are some excerpts from the Hamas charter. Read them, Just Me, and see if you can see any hope of peaceful negotiation with an organization that has these as it's core principles, has restated them repeatedly, and considers every single Israeli -- man, woman, child -- a "legitimate target.

J.

The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)

"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)." Preamble.

"Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. " Article 13.

"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." Article 13.

"Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions - Islam, Christianity and Judaism - to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam. Past and present history are the best witness to that.

It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror." Article 31

"The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying." Article 32

Full Text:
http://www.acpr.org.il/resources/hamascharter.html