The True Enemy of the Palestinians

Spoiler Alert: It's not Israel!

The true enemy of the Palestinian people is not Israel, it is Hamas.

A recent poll shows the terror group’s blood lust is at odds with the majority of Palestinian people.

Most Gazans would prefer their overlords to live peacefully with Israel rather than seek their annihilation.

A Washington Institute Poll taken in July - before the current conflict - found that 62 per cent of Palestinians supported Hamas maintaining a ceasefire with Israel.

And half agreed with the following statement …

“Hamas should stop calling for Israel’s destruction, and instead accept a permanent two-state solution based on the 1967 borders.”

Hamas portray themselves as freedom fighters, but that is something more widely believed by members of Sydney University’s Student Representative Council than by people actually living in Gaza.

The poll found people in Gaza were more likely to jeer Hamas than cheer them.

And is it any wonder?

Hamas were this week reportedly telling residents of Gaza to ignore Israeli warnings about missile attacks and to remain in place, rather than evacuating.

That this would likely mean death for Palestinian civilians was of no concern to Hamas. In fact, it was the goal.

On October 8, senior Hamas official Ali Baraka told Russia Today TV …

“The Israelis are known to love life.

We, on the other hand, sacrifice ourselves. We consider our dead to be martyrs. The thing any Palestinian desires the most is to be martyred for the sake of Allah.”

Imagine being ruled by a government that insists you love death, and so instructs you to remain in place and die during a bombing raid because your greatest value to the state is as a corpse fuelling their propaganda machine.

Baraka continued …

“We made them (Israel) think that Hamas was busy governing in Gaza and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians (in Gaza) and has abandoned the resistance altogether.

“All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack.”

Palestinian people are little more than a prop for Hamas as they pursue their real agenda which is the elimination of Jews.

I didn’t say that. Ali Baraka said that.

But here’s what Palestinian people said in the Washington Institute Poll …

Seventy per cent said they would prefer the Palestinian Authority to take over the governance of Gaza, including 47 per cent who strongly agreed.

And it’s not just Palestinians.

Support for Hamas has fallen through the floor among Arabs in the United Arab Emirates where just 17 per cent have a positive view, and in Saudi Arabia where only 10 per cent of people rate Hamas.

And therein is the great irony. The self-styled liberators would be more likely to find support on the floor of an Australian Greens Annual Conference than on the streets of most Middle Eastern countries.

Hamas was founded by Ahmed Yassin, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who believed Islamic rule should be established everywhere.

In 1984 Yassin was jailed for illegal possession of arms and for establishing a military organisation calling for the annihilation of Israel.

He served only one of the 13 years he was sentenced, being released in a prisoner exchange between Israel and the terrorist organisation Ahmed Jibril in 1985.

In 1987 Yassin formed Hamas which means “zeal” in Arabic. It means “evil”, or “violence”, in Hebrew.

It’s interesting to read Moses account of the days of Noah recorded in Genesis 6v11. It literally says …

“The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with Hamas (translated violence)”

But I digress.

The Hamas charter, first published in 1988, called for the complete destruction of Israel and insisted that no peace should ever be negotiated.

Yassin won popular support by promising to provide free education and medical care for Palestinian families who were growing weary of Yasser Arafat.

But Yassin’s priority was never the welfare of Gazans. He started collecting charitable funds from around the world which financed both Hamas’ social and, shall we say, ‘anti-social’ activities.

Hamas had been doing charity work for less than two years before providing schooling and medicine for Palestinians evidently became tiresome.

In 1989, Hamas operatives focused on the real ‘work’.

Their terrorists snuck into Israel and kidnapped Israeli soldiers who were taken back into Gaza and murdered. Yassin then used the Jewish corpses as trade bait, offering to return the the soldier’s bodies to their families in exchange for the freedom of Palestinian terrorists jailed in Israel.

Charity worker Yassin was soon arrested. He confessed to ordering the establishment of a military element within Hamas, to approving the drafting of terrorists, and to carrying out terrorist attacks.

He was tried in Israel and received two life sentences for his involvement in the kidnapping and killing of Israeli soldiers.

While Yassin was in jail however, Hamas were working to undermine peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinian people.

Remember, the Hamas Charter specifically rules out any peace wth the Jews.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is not a call to hold hands!

Yassin insisted that Palestine belonged to Islam, and advocated an Islamic state in all of Palestine.

“The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance,” he said.

He has also said that …

Palestine should be “consecrated for future Muslim generations until judgment day” and that "no Arab leader had “the right to give up any part of its territory”.

Hamas condemned the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords, negotiated between then Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rubin, sending suicide bombers into Israel that same year.

Yassin, for the second time in his terrorist career, was released from jail without serving his full sentence.

He was freed in October 1997 in exchange for two Mossad agents captured by Hamas.

Yassin didn’t waste any time getting back to that charity work he so loved. From 2000, Hamas became the principal instigator of suicide bombings and other terror attacks within Israel.

He was eventually killed when a missile launched from an Israeli helicopter kissed his car as he was leaving a mosque in the northern Gaza Strip on March 22, 2004.

Don’t feel sorry for him. Hamas insist that they love death, remember.

But that was not the end of Hamas.

The following year, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon withdrew all troops from the Gaza Strip. In the absence of peace negotiations which had completely stalled - in no small part thanks to Hamas’ habit of blowing Jewish civilians to smithereens at bus stops within Israel - Sharon hoped the gesture would generate goodwill.

So, just to be clear, the claim that Gaza is “occupied” is completely false. Gaza has been free of Israelis since 2005.

Not that it did the Palestinians, or the Israeli’s for that matter, any good.

Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Legalistic Council and formed government in Gaza in 2006.

That, incidentally, was the last time Palestinians in Gaza got a vote!

So, what has happened in the 17 years that Gaza has been free?

Well, Hamas has turned their desert into a lush, flourishing paradise where people live in abundance and peace.

Wait. No. Sorry.

I’m confused.

In the years the Jews have been back in their land they have turned the desert into a flourishing, economic powerhouse where people of all faiths and from all nations live in abundance and peace.

Hamas, on the other hand, have used the past almost two decades to transform Gaza into a militant Islamic state, right on Israel’s doorstep. What better place from which to lob thousands of missiles at Jews?

Palestinians live in poverty despite Hamas’ promises of better governance.

The elaborate network of tunnels Hamas have built to smuggle in weapons as well as to enable terrorists to enter Israel for the purpose of kidnapping Jews, however, is second to none!

Qatar and other Arab nations have donated over a billion dollars to Gaza in recent years for humanitarian aid and water supply systems. Hamas chose to buy rockets and guns instead.

But don’t forget, it’s Israel that’s “bad” when they decide to shutdown Gaza after the slaughter of their women and children.

Since Hamas took power in 2007, the Israeli military periodically would go into Gaza, fight with Hamas, and destroy some of its infrastructure.

Hamas would then spend the next few years rebuilding before the cycle would repeat itself.

Israelis called this “mowing the grass,” an unpleasant but necessary repetitive task.

But the devastating attack by Hamas last weekend, an event that saw more Jews killed in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust, has changed all of that.

Last night, in a joint press conference with the US Secretary of State Atony Blinkn, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that “Hamas is ISIS”.

He called Hamas “barbarians” and “enemies of civilisation”.

Israel has committed itself to the complete destruction of Hamas. And, to be fair, it’s impossible to conceive of Israel choosing any other course after finding their women raped, their children burned alive and their babies beheaded; or, as Hamas like to call it, charity work.

Blinkin, who said the US stands shoulder to shoulder with Israel, made the point that the fight was with Hamas, not the people of Palestine who will no doubt suffer terribly in this conflict.

But if Hamas can be eliminated, life will be better for Jews and for Palestinians because the enemy of both is Hamas.