March 12, 2003

Hamas criticises PM post

The militant Palestinian group, Hamas, has criticised the decision taken by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to create the post of prime minister.

In a statement, Hamas said Mr Arafat's decision had been a response to what it called "US-Zionist pressures".

It described the creation of the post of prime minister as a US plot to end the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation.

Gee, those Hamas boys are catchin' on, aren't they?
(Anyone surprised by this reaction, BTW? Thought not.)
Yes, if the "Palestinians" got rid of murderers who use violent killings of Israelis and Jews as their only tool of "resistance," then they might be on their way to having a democratic, peaceful and independent state, but it will never, never happen.
They'll never abandon their "jihadi" murder of Jews; after all, it's in the Koran...or at least their preferred version of the Koran.
And let's be clear: the only "occupation" here is by the "Palestinians," who are occupying land that Israel fought and died for (4 times), as well as sovereign Israeli territory that they ceded in good faith to Arafat when he pledged to eschew Islamist terror murder and embrace peace both at Oslo in 1993.
These were pledges that we now know we made in completely bad faith and with utter fecklessness by Yasser Arafat.