Onward, ship of fools

[occuserpens]

The Hamas victory of January 25, is an historic event from two perspectives. On the one hand, it has taken us back 30 years, to the pre-Israeli-Palestinian dialogue days, to the days of a real demand for the right of return for Palestinian refugees, and of a desire for total annihilation. It has taken us back to the days when Gamal Abdel Nasser and Ahmed Shukeiri would speak in the same, forgotten, threatening terms being used today by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud a-Zahar and Khaled Meshal.
On the other hand, the Hamas victory has put us in a position in which we have never been before. When the representative of the Palestinian people is not nationalist-secular but religious-fundamentalist, a nightmare comes true. The conflict no longer centers on the occupation of 1967, or the catastrophe of 1948. It is a religious-cultural conflict of the darkest kind. It is not a Gush Katif or Muasi conflict; it's an Al-Aqsa conflict - a conflict between believers and nonbelievers, between Jihad fighters and Crusaders.

Following a lengthy war of terror, Hamas is about to establish a hostile Palestinian state, without us being safe within the defendable borders of a recognized Jewish state. Hamas is about to push Israel back to the vicinity of the Green Line without being forced to forgo a single one of its demands from Israel within the Green Line.

And more than ever before, we choose not to see the black sea on which our ship of fools is sailing. We choose not to see the rising waves. Onward, we dance. Onward, we call. Onward, ship of fools.

[pelsar]

1. a real honest assesment...

no PC, no "lets all hold hands and sing kumbaya"...no "its only the territories".. none of the "but they dont really mean it"...none of the "gaza doesnt really count" or if "israel just wasnt so mean" etc

no matter what the mistakes israel made in the past: the Palstenains have now elected a govt whos platform is very clear: terrorism does work, no jews, no israel (and balanced books....). Hamas may be playing politics as they send envoys all over the world and speak nice english, but their arabic has yet to change.....