Article 7 of
the Hamas Charter reads:
The Day of Judgement will not come about until
Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones
and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind
me, come and kill him.
Article 7 is taken from Hadith Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number
177
and quotes the Prophet Muhammad:
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's
Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the
Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim!
There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
Article 13 of the Hamas Charter reads: There is no
solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.
And yet despite the above we get this
absurd statement by the former US President Jimmy Carter. This is an embarrassment
for the whole western world. How can we just sit there and listen to this nonsense?
Enough!
We are a sick civilization when we repeatedly tolerate this
kind of statements of inverted reality, an insult to our intelligence, to go unchallenged.
Carter says Hamas leader committed to peace, Netanyahu not
Ex-president doesn’t meet PM, says
it would be a ‘waste of time'; claims Mashaal is ‘not a terrorist’ and
‘strongly in favor of peace process’
The president, who has been
visiting Israel and the West Bank, met with Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas Saturday but didn’t meet with Netanyahu or President
Reuven Rivlin.
He told reporters that he didn’t ask to meet with Netanyahu or his government,
and never has, because it would be a “waste of time.” He told Channel 2 in an
interview broadcast Saturday that he requested to meet Rivlin, but the
president’s office declined.
Israel officials said
last week that Netanyahu and Rivlin had refused invitations to meet with
Carter, who was described by an Israeli diplomatic source as “a disaster for
Israel,” who holds “anti-Israel positions.
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| Former US president Jimmy Carter meets then-Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin at the Knesset, June 15, 2009. |
Carter, who cancelled
a planned visit to Gaza on this trip, said Saturday he “deplored” criminal acts
by members of Hamas, but said he was looking to support moderate members of the
group, which he said wasn’t a terrorist organization.
“I don’t believe that he’s a terrorist. He’s strongly in favor
of the peace process,” Carter said of Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal. He
said Mashaal expressed interest in the Saudis hosting a “peace meeting” and
that the Doha-based Hamas leader would recognize Israel’s right to exist based
on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.
Netanyahu, on the
other hand, wasn’t “in favor of a two-state solution,” said the
former president, who orchestrated the peace accords between Israel and Egypt
in 1979.
“I don’t see that deep
commitment on the part of Netanyahu to make concessions which [former prime
minister] Menachem Begin did to find peace with his potential enemies,” Carter
told Channel 2.
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| Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal |
Hamas is designated by Israel, the US and others as a terrorist group. it is avowedly committed to the destruction of Israel.
During a visit to
Ramallah earlier on Saturday, Carter also urged Palestinians to hold
elections to end the de facto division of the West Bank and the Islamist-run
Gaza Strip.
He was speaking at a
joint news conference with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“We hope that sometime
we’ll see elections all over the Palestinian area and east Jerusalem and Gaza
and also in the West Bank,” said Carter, a member of The Elders, an
independent group of retired global leaders.
No election has been
held in the Palestinian territories for nearly a decade.
Abbas’s presidential
mandate expired in 2009, but he remains in office since there has been no
election. The Palestinian parliament has also not met since 2007.
In 2006, a year after
Abbas was elected, Hamas won the most recent Palestinian legislative elections.
Differences between Abbas’s Fatah party and the Islamist Hamas then led to the
so-called “inqissam,” or division.
Despite the rivals
signing a reconciliation agreement a year ago, Hamas is reluctant to hand over
power in Gaza to an independent Palestinian unity government they formed.
Carter
had planned to go to Gaza, but the visit was cancelled at the last moment.
He said it would be
“very important” for “full implementation of the agreement reached between
Hamas and Fatah.”
Carter was accompanied
by Norway’s former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. She said that despite
not being able to visit the impoverished Palestinian enclave devastated by last
summer’s war with Israel, “we have had a chance to discuss with people who know
the issues in Gaza.”
Reconstruction of the
territory has not begun eight months after the end of the conflict, the third
in six years.
The Elders
group said ahead of the trip by Carter and Brundtland that they were
visiting “in a renewed push to promote the two-state solution and to address
the root causes of the conflict” in the Middle East.