Hamas leaders are making maximum propaganda value of their time on earth before Israel sentences them to join Yassin and Rantisi.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, operating openly in Beirut and Damascus, said that the Israeli withdrawal marks the beginning of the end of the Zionist dream.
Hamas leader in Gaza, Mahmoud Zahar, was slighly more eloquent:
| Israeli withdrawal from Gaza signifies the collapse of the Zionist outlook and is "a sign of the final battle that will decide the conflict." "It is a defeat for Israel, which did not find an answer to the Kassam rockets or the war of the tunnels or to suicide attacks." Zahar expressed confidence that the disengagement will lift the morale of the Arab and Islamic world and will affect the battle for Afghanistan and Iraq. "We are part of the great world plan whose name is the world Islamic movement." "We do not recognize the State of Israel nor its right to control any of the land of Palestine." "Palestine is holy Islamic land that belongs to Muslims the world over," he emphasized. |
Meanwhile an alliance of various other Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza said
| We will transfer two-thirds of our budget to the West Bank," he said. "Our rockets have a range of 18 kilometers. This means that if we fire them from Kalkilya, they will hit the occupied city of Tal al-Rabi [Tel Aviv]." |
The Hamas rhetoric is nothing new. They are always planning new attacks regardless of what Israel does.
But perhaps the Gaza withdrawal has instilled these leaders with a new fear. (Not quite replacing their fear that Israel will blast them straight to Yassin and Rantisi.)
The Palestinians are losing a powerful weapon.
The value of peace has always determined Israeli strategies. This has played straight into the hands of the terror gangs who realise that a negotiated peace settlement will end their dreams of destroying Israel.
The value drivers behind the disengagement were 'Jewish majority', 'democratic', and 'secure'. Israel placed the idea of 'Israel at peace' at the bottom of their value list. This is not because they don't view peace as important. On the contrary, they realise that peace is hopelessly unattainable at this stage. The crowning importance of peace to Israel turned the ability of the Palestinians to deny it into their ultimate weapon.
By taking a unilateral approach Israel has deprived the Palestinians of this weapon. And Hamas know it.
Doesn't it just blow you away how the anti-Israeli media completely ignores comments made by Hamas leadership:
"We do not recognize the State of Israel nor its right to control any of the land of Palestine."
The sick thing is the terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad will not stop until the reach their goal of destroying the nation and People of Israel and all the while the anti-Israeli media will continue to turn a blind eye.
As for us, we will not keep quiet for Zion's sake.
Posted by: katieb | August 19, 2005 at 00:45
Amen Katie...we will not keep quiet :)
Never.Ever.
Posted by: S teve | August 19, 2005 at 09:16