Netanyahu: ‘Hamas calls for the destuction of Israel’
Rehmat's World
Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly accused Palestinian Islamic resistance group Hamas, “a terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel” without any proof to support his lunatic accusations. Morning the death of three Jewish settlers this week, Netanyahu called Hamas “human animals”. I bet Netanyahu was quoting his Talmud because according to holy book, all non-Jews are “sub-humans”. As I explained in an earlier post that the killing of the so-called “innocent Jew settlers” was an inside job to use as an excuse in Israeli efforts to destroy Hamas politically and as an armed resistance.
Interestingly, Zionist president Shimon Peres, who knows PA leader Mahmoud Abbas for the last 30 years, in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 News on May 7, 2014, said that Netanyahu deliberately destroyed a peace deal that had been reached covertly with Mahmoud Abbas in 2011. according to Peres, the deal included explicit recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state” and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
One doesn’t need a Ph.D to figure out that Hamas is not a military force in the real sense. It doesn’t have tanks, gunships, fighter planes (not even a commercial plane), and no navy or nuclear bombs to “wipe Israel off the map”.
John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer who advised Palestinian negotiators dealing with Israel, in a recent article, entitled What “destruction of Israel”? has exposed Netanyahu’s lies about Hamas.
Hamas is not remotely close to being in a position to cause Israel’s territory to sink beneath the Mediterranean, or to wipe out its population, or even to compel the Israeli regime to transform itself into a fully democratic state pledged to equal rights and dignity for all who live there. It is presumably the latter threat—the dreaded “bi-national state”—that Netanyahu has in mind when he speaks of the “destruction of Israel.”
For propaganda purposes, “destruction” sounds much less reasonable and desirable than “democracy,” even when one is speaking about the same thing.
In the real world, Hamas has long made clear, notwithstanding its view that continuing negotiations within the framework of the American-monopolized “peace process” is pointless and a waste of time, that it does not object to the PLO’s trying to reach a two-state agreement with Israel; provided only that, to be accepted and respected by Hamas, any agreement reached would need to be submitted to and approved by the Palestinian people in a referendum.
In the real world, the Hamas vision (like the Fatah vision) of peaceful coexistence in Israel/Palestine is much closer to the “international consensus” on what a permanent peace should look like, as well as to international law and relevant U.N. resolutions, than the Israeli vision—to the extent that one can even discern the Israeli vision, since no Israeli government has ever seen fit to publicly reveal what its vision—if any exists beyond beyond maintaining and managing the status quo indefinitely—actually looks like.
As the Fatah and Hamas visions have converged in recent years, the principal divergence has become Hamas’ insistence (entirely consistent with international law and relevant U.N. resolutions) that Israel must withdraw from the entire territory of the State of Palestine, which is defined in the U.N. General Assembly resolution of Nov. 29, 2012, recognizing Palestine’s state status as “the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967” (including, significantly, the definite article “the” missing from “withdraw from territories” in the arguably ambiguous U.N. Security Council Resolution 242), in contrast to Fatah’s more flexible willingness to consider agreed land swaps equal in size and value.
After winning the last Palestinian elections and after seven years of responsibility for governing Gaza under exceptionally difficult circumstances, Hamas has become a relatively “moderate” establishment party, struggling to rein in more radical groups and prevent them from firing artisanal rockets into southern Israel, a counterproductive symbolic gesture which Israeli governments publicly condemn but secretly welcome (and often seek to incite in response to their own more lethal violence) as evidence of Palestinian belligerence justifying their own intransigence.
Netanyahu’s “destruction of Israel” mantra should not be taken seriously, either by Western governments or by any thinking person. It is long overdue for the Western mainstream media to cease recycling mindless—and genuinely destructive—propaganda and to adapt their reporting to reality, and it is long overdue for Western governments to cease demonizing Hamas as an excuse for doing nothing constructive to end a brutal occupation which has now endured for almost 47 years.
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