After the elections, in which you can be quite sure that Hamas will win a huge number of votes and a substantial amount of power, they will start attacking Israel again. At that point, we fully expect the media to write that Israel’s subsequent actions will be threatening “the informal no violence pledge” that Hamas took before the elections:
The two main contenders in next week’s Palestinian parliamentary election pledged to avoid violence on voting day and work together afterward, but a Hamas leader ruled out peace talks with Israel. The no-violence pledge came Wednesday in Gaza, coupled with a promise that the ruling Fatah and its main challenger, the militant Islamic Hamas, will work together after the January 25 election.
What we don’t expect to see anything resembling an acknowledgment of this part:
Earlier on Wednesday, Hamas ruled out talks with Israel and threatened to kidnap Israel Defense Forces soldiers, following Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ statement that he would rather resign than let extremists block his peace agenda…. At a Hamas campaign rally in Gaza, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar ruled out negotiations with Israel. Hamas “is not going to acknowledge the ownership of any inch of Israel on this holy land,” he said. “We are not looking to Israel as a partner now or in the future.”
Not going to acknowledge the right of Israel to exist? But wait, we were told that Hamas has dropped their call to destroy Israel. Apparently not so much. And yet, there’s at least one person who isn’t giving up hope:
“I struggled and fought for Hamas to come to the legislature,” Abbas said, adding that he doesn’t mind if Hamas joins parliament as long as he can keep working for peace. “Maybe Hamas will change its policy, no one knows,” he said. “Maybe it will say it will accept negotiations.”
We know! Call on us – we know! The only people who still say that Hamas might “change its policy” are people the willfully ignorant. And liars.
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