Swiss Embrace Sophisticated Understanding of Hamas
We really love it when international diplomats and academics figure out what Muslim terrorists are "really" trying to tell us. Naive people like us, immersed as we are in our naivete, look at Hamas's declaration from today that they're not going to stop killing Jews...
Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal said on Wednesday the Palestinian militant group will continue to fight Israel and told the United States that its Middle East policy would fuel terrorism... "Armed resistance is legitimate. All resistance options are open to the Palestinian people and Palestinian factions including Hamas," said Meshaal, who is touring Arab and Muslim countries to solicit financial and political support. He said that he informed Arab leaders that the government his group will head needs $1.75 billion per year to make ends meet and that he was confident that they would help.
... and conclude that Hamas is going to keep trying to kill Jews. But apparently that's only because we're unsophisticated. The Swiss, on the other hand, know better:
I got the bad news via Ludovic Monnerat. The Swiss governement considers the terror gang Hamas to be a "partner". While the U.S. and the European Union have put Hamas on their respective terror lists, the Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey tries - once more - to aggrandize herself through questionable means. She was the one who laid down flowers on Arafat's grave, an act which was heavily criticized in Switzerland at the time.
Of course, we're still unsophisticated enough to believe that Muslim fanatics who say they want to establish the global caliphate actually want to reestablish the caliphate. If we were a little less naive, we'd understand how they're just speaking in code about their "legitimate grievances".
Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Meshaal said on Wednesday the Palestinian militant group will continue to fight Israel and told the United States that its Middle East policy would fuel terrorism... "Armed resistance is legitimate. All resistance options are open to the Palestinian people and Palestinian factions including Hamas," said Meshaal, who is touring Arab and Muslim countries to solicit financial and political support. He said that he informed Arab leaders that the government his group will head needs $1.75 billion per year to make ends meet and that he was confident that they would help.
... and conclude that Hamas is going to keep trying to kill Jews. But apparently that's only because we're unsophisticated. The Swiss, on the other hand, know better:
I got the bad news via Ludovic Monnerat. The Swiss governement considers the terror gang Hamas to be a "partner". While the U.S. and the European Union have put Hamas on their respective terror lists, the Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey tries - once more - to aggrandize herself through questionable means. She was the one who laid down flowers on Arafat's grave, an act which was heavily criticized in Switzerland at the time.
Of course, we're still unsophisticated enough to believe that Muslim fanatics who say they want to establish the global caliphate actually want to reestablish the caliphate. If we were a little less naive, we'd understand how they're just speaking in code about their "legitimate grievances".
