"Salah Jafar" <codeman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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It was a big day for suicide bombers everywhere. Hamas emerged as the new
900-pound gorilla of Palestinian politics.

In the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council, Hamas ("Allah is my
explosives expert") won 76 seats, a clear majority, in Wednesday's
elections.

Fatah, the party founded by the godfather of terrorism - the late,
unlamented Yasser Arafat, currently led by Capo Regime Mahmoud Abbas - took
a paltry 43 seats, less than one-third.

Besides wearing swastika armbands and building gas chambers, is there
anything the so-called Palestinians could do to convince the semi-sentient
of what sort of nightmare state they have in mind?

Our president, who has a reputation as a hard-headed foreign policy realist,
refused to rule out dealing with Hamas if it changed the part of its charter
calling for Israel's destruction. "Peace is never dead," the president
euphemistically stated. However, Bush cautioned, "If your platform is the
destruction of Israel, it means you're not a peace partner, and we're
interested in peace."

But Fatah's platform (the PLO's platform) is the destruction of Israel. Try
finding the Jewish state on the official map hanging in Abbas' office. From
the Jordan to the sea, it's all labeled Palestine.

In November, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (the business end of Fatah)
publicly endorsed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to
be "wiped off the map."

In flyers distributed in the Gaza Strip, Fatah's armed wing declared, "We
affirm our support and backing for the positions of the Iranian president
toward the Zionist state which, by God's will, will cease to exist." Gosh,
does that mean Fatah isn't a peace partner, either?

Fatah's message is Hamas' message. One shouts it; other says it quietly. One
carries an AK-47; the other a briefcase. One glories in violence; the other
feigns statesmanship. One is nationalistic, in the national socialist mold;
the other is proudly Islamofascist.

Here's the Palestinian peace party at work:

--In November, 2004, the PLO's "foreign minister," Farouk Kaddoumi, told
Iranian television that a "two-state solution" was a temporary expedient.
Kaddoumi elaborated, "At this stage there will be two states. Many years
from now there will be one state."
--The PLO's Strategy of Phases, first enunciated in 1974 and never
withdrawn, calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state in any
territory ceded by the Zionists, to be followed in successive stages by the
"liberation" of more and more land, until it's bedtime for Israel.
--Using PLO/Fatah approved curriculum, Palestinian schools inculcate
virulent Jew-hatred and instruct students on the need to give the Israelis
swimming lessons.
--Imams paid by the Palestinian Authority preach the joys of jihad.
--Palestinian Television (controlled, up to this point in time, by the
ruling Fatah party) exalts suicide bombers as "heroic martyrs."
--During a five-month period from February 8 to July 8, 2005, Fatah's
military arm carried out 812 armed attacks against Israel - 47 percent of
all terrorism during this period.
--Its celebrated moderation was demonstrated in two drive-by shootings on
October 16, 2005, in which three Israeli civilians were killed and five
wounded.

Still, the Europeans, the United Nations, and Washington go through the
motions of pretending that the PLO and its principal shareholder, Fatah, are
moderates, the Middle East equivalent of the Continental Congress -
brilliant minds, committed to democracy and human rights, doing the historic
work of nation-building.

Bush welcomes Abbas to the White House. The United States and the European
Union shower his government with hundreds of millions in aid each year. All
treat a Palestinian state as inevitable - based on the credibility of the
PLO, Fatah, and Abbas.

Will the Hamas victory clarify the situation? Will it now be impossible for
starry-eyed optimists to avoid a rendezvous with reality? Will the West end
its dance-of-death with the Palestinians?

Don't count on it.

Nowhere have our leaders become more adept at truth-avoidance than the
Palestinians - who appear to demonstrate Darwinian evolution in reverse.

These delightful creatures have been canonized by the media, pandered to by
the international community, and pampered by the State Department and
Washington power elite for so long that nothing they do (including dancing
in the streets when 3,000 Americans died on 9/11) penetrates the myth of
their victimhood.

In yesterday's end-of-the-day e-mail to friends and supporters, conservative
leader Gary Bauer noted: "Faced with a choice, the Palestinians voters
picked the most ardent and committed Jews-haters and America-haters."

Yes, but either option would have elicited essentially the same results. The
difference: Now it's harder to pretend that night is day, war is peace, and
cold-blooded killers are peace partners.
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