John Marchioro wrote: > I cited and wrote in introducing the best study to date of Hamas (by two > sober ISRAELI experts, it should be noted):
Why should I care if they are Israeli or not? There are plenty of Israeli fools too. AS: > > Oh, really? > > > > Then who are the ones that smuggled in the rockets and fired them at > > Israel? > > > > And why have they not revised their ludicrously anti-Semitic charter? JM: > There is a good discussion of Hamas' internal debates about the tactics of > using violence in the Mishal and Sela book that you could easily read, if > only you would go to the trouble of getting a library card, that is. > Forgive me if I do not summarize it for you, but as I said once previously, > if I have to keep spoon feeding you basic information like this, I will > soon be forced to start charging you tuition for continuing adult > education via this list. Can you please just answer a question (in your own opinion) without first giving me a homework assignment? Some of us have to work for a living. > The question about the charter is an easy one to answer, though. This is a > bargaining chip for negotiations. The PLO formerly had a similar plank in > its charter, which was similarly the focus of considerable mock outrage on > the part of Israel and its allies abroad, and which the PLO ultimately > dropped when a general peace agreement was achieved as part of the Oslo > process (not that doing so helped it in the end). I am not only talking about the plank that calls for the destruction of Israel. I am also talking about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Lions Club and other garbage straight out of a comic-book version of a bad International Jewish Conspiracy novel. The people that wrote the Hamas Charter were either fools or anti-Semitic demagogues or both. Are these the people with whom the negotiation or diplomacy is to be conducted? Regards, Alan Siegrist Orinda, CA, USA --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Persons posting messages to not_honyaku assume all responsibility for their messages. The list owner does not review messages prior to posting, and accepts no responsibility for the content of messages posted. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
