{"id":7793,"date":"2014-08-05T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/05\/jimmy-carter-hamas-a-legitimate-political-actor\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:57:20","slug":"jimmy-carter-hamas-a-legitimate-political-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/05\/jimmy-carter-hamas-a-legitimate-political-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Carter: Hamas a “Legitimate Political Actor”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unbelievable<\/a>.  Is there any limit to the moral bankruptcy of the Left?<\/span><\/p>\n

Has Carter read the Hamas Charter?  Ron Radosh<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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To understand what Hamas is all about, one has to turn to historian Jeffrey Herf\u2019s important article<\/a> about the organization. Based on a close reading of the Hamas charter, Herf shows that its aims and its ideology and philosophy are \u201crooted in the totalitarianism and radical anti-Semitism that has undergirded Islamism since its rise in the 1930s and 1940s.\u201d  This truth, he correctly writes, is one \u201cunnoticed by reporters, editors, and pundits who race to comment on Hamas\u2019 war with Israel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The organization, which has not refuted its charter, acts today in accordance with the goals enunciated in its 1988 \u201cCovenant.\u201d Most people and journalists know that the document calls for the elimination of the Jewish state, and the establishment of an Islamist society in its place. But their understanding stops with that alone. What Herf shows is that Hamas, unlike the Fatah of Mahmoud Abbas, directly says that their aim is to eliminate not only Israel, but all Jews as well. And that aim is a religious one that is based on their belief in what the Koran says. Herf explains:<\/span><\/p>\n

It promises to remake the world in the name of Islam, which, it regrets, has been wrongly driven from public life. This is its slogan: \u201cAllah is its target, the Prophet is its model, and the Koran is its constitution: Jihad is the path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.\u201d This celebration of martyrdom and death had been a key theme in Hassan al-Banna\u2019s writings and subsequently became a commonplace for Islamists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who believes Hamas\u2019 claim that all religions would live peacefully on an equal basis under Islamist rule are more than na\u00efve; they are deluded. Moreover, Hamas specifically refuses to accept any two-state solution, which they explain is against their basic religious beliefs. Unlike previous Arab movements, once allied with the former Soviet Union and friendly to Marxism-Leninism, Hamas instead gives up that ideology completely. In its place they have consciously adopted what Herf \u2013 who is a historian of Germany \u2014 writes is \u201cthe classic anti-Semitic tropes of Nazism and European fascism, which the Islamists had absorbed when they collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.\u201d  Hamas\u2019  charter puts its views of the Jews and the Zionists in these words:<\/span><\/p>\n

With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money, they formed secret societies, such as Freemason, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there.<\/span><\/p>\n

This theory is in fact taken directly from Nazi Germany\u2019s wartime propaganda. Unlike those who oppose Israel by arguing that it is a pawn of American imperialism, Hamas reverses that and claims that it is Israel that controls the United States, since it is the all-powerful Jews who are responsible for the plight in which the citizens of Gaza and the Arab world find themselves in. It was the Jews, they argue, that were behind and were responsible for both World War I and World War II, from which they greatly enriched themselves. Finally, it is not the Arab world that is seeking to destroy Israel and push it into the sea, but Israel that seeks to destroy each Arab nation one by one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once you know what Hamas stands for, you can gain the clarity one needs to understand why Israel must be supported fully by the United States, and maintain the strength it has so that Hamas can eventually be defeated.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the current fight, Hamas has used the destruction of Gaza and the death and devastation created by using its civilian population as an effective tool to create sympathizers who see only the human suffering, and not Hamas\u2019 cynical use of the people they supposedly represent as pawns whose position can be used to create antipathy for Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

If Hamas is to be defeated and delegitimized, first what it stands for and what its leaders believe have to be clearly understood.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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