Monday, 9 May 2011

Adrian MacNair: Palestinian peace pact is a step down the wrong road | Full Comment | National Post

By Adrian MacNair - from the National Post

The dubious reconciliation pact that has been signed between Fatah and Hamas, the latter purporting to be the governmental authority in the Gaza Strip whilst simultaneously carrying out acts of terrorism against Israel, is another step back in the road to an independent Palestinian state.

As James Kirchick writes in Hareetz, the “useful idiots” supporting this reunification genuinely consider themselves friends of the Palestinian cause, but are unable to detect the grotesqueness of support for a paramilitary organization that decried the death of Osama bin Laden.

As Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh told media this week, “we condemn the assassination…of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.”

Bin Laden was a deranged, psychotic cult leader who carried out an act widely considered to be among the most evil in contemporary human history. That he represented the idealistic image of a holy warrior for Palestine tells you all you really need to know about Hamas, or the potential for peace with this group of ragged rage-filled radicals.

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Adrian MacNair: Palestinian peace pact is a step down the wrong road | Full Comment | National Post

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