Posted by
arandomguy on Friday, May 18, 2007 12:57:55 AM
In case there is any wonder that Hamas is a band of bloodthirsty thugs, there are now reports that they planned to assassinate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. As a result, Abbas was forced - or chose - to cancel a trip to the Gaza Strip out of fear for his life. Meanwhile, Hamas also announced that it supports deploying Arab peace-keeping (though how anybody associated with Hamas can be called "peacekeeping" is beyond me) forces throughout the Strip, to stop the "internicine violence," (or more likely, to more easily attack Israel).
Supposedly, there was a cease-fire that went into effect at 8pm on Wednesday evening - yet 4 Palestinians have been killed and 15 wounded since the cease-fire (hah!) began.
Now I'm no fan of Abbas - he represents Fatah, which is no better than Hamas, only less honest about their intentions - but this really does illustrate how completely messed up the Palestinian government is. The two factions want to kill each other all the time, and even threaten to assassinate the leaders of the opposing party.
The United States could learn a thing here about the jihadists whom we are fighting. They target our leaders, try to assassinate our high-ranking officials, and try to wreak havoc and impose destruction and death from the top down, rather than the bottom up. It also shows the kind of tactics they are willing to use to achieve their suicidal and apocalyptic goal, and it shows the kind of resolve that is necessary to combat such evil.
We need to learn or remember that the people we are fighting - people much like the members of Hamas - do not want to sit down and talk about their differences, and do not want to reach compromises. To them, compromises represent surrender, and that is something they can never do (it violates their perverted version of their religion).
We have to kill them, before they can kill us and destroy our freedom and our way of life.