Nadene Goldfoot
It was just one year ago that Israel had said ENOUGH and after being hit by rockets, mortars and missiles from Gaza since 2001, finally went into Gaza in an offensive land operation to put an end to the shooting with
Operation Pillar of Defense that lasted for 8 days.
It was recalled by both Hamas and other affiliated terrorists in Gaza and in Israel. Cities like
Sderot and
Ashkelon were favorite sites hit in Israel. Where Sderot is very close to the border, Ashkelon is a large major city to the north of Gaza along the sea where a large hospital is that serves both Arab Gazans and Israelis inside a large perimeter. The strikes have caused the hospital to go to the basement levels in order to take care of their patients. What seems to be an insane goal to me, the Arabs keep aiming for the city that provides them life when they themselves are injured.
Saturday afternoon during Shabbat, southern Israel was greeted by 3 rockets shot at them from Gaza. They landed in an open field in Gaza! The platform they were shot from must have been further back to not make it over the border into Sderot or some other Israeli site.
That was the climax of a week of rockets that were fired. Last week one rocket again fell short of the border of Ashkelon from Gaza. First the warning siren blared. The population were driven to take cover in bomb shelters. The rocket fell just a little way from the border but landed on the Gazan side.
Last Tuesday, a Palestinian Arab managed to get into Israel from Gaza and was caught by the Israeli security forces. He didn't come over as an immigrant wanting a better life, though. He had grenades in his pockets.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented that there have been only 35 incidents of rocket fire since then, so this showed a 98% drop of rocket fire since last year's operation.
Will Kerry be successful in bringing about peace between the Palestinians and Israel? He's dealing with Abbas from Fatah right now. They have no connection with Gaza, the section that Israel left, lock, stock and barrel in the name of peace that has turned into a launching pad of rockets, mortars and missiles against them.
Hamas's charter shows no sign of ever making peace. The charter is a 30 page document and as long as it remains their guiding dogma for Hamas or the Palestinian people in mass, the dream of peace remains impossible. Land is elemental in this problem. It is religion that is guiding the Palestinian Arabs. From the Hamas Covenant, we read that "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." (said by The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory.) The name "Hamas" means strength and bravery according to Al-Mua'jam al-Wasit: c1. They write, "Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts."
That religion is the driving force, from
article 6 in their charter, says, "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. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
I have asked several Muslims about this section often quoted by Westerners who have studied the Koran and it has been explained to me in a very confusing way that either it's not there or its meaning is different and must be studied from another one of Islam's writings. I get the feeling that it is not interpreted correctly but is often used by less educated Muslims to be the banner for their land fight against Jews in the Middle East. However, when Muslims of little education read it, it is a very blatant statement and sounds like a dictum to be very aggressive against Jews and to do them harm.
Therefore I see in
article 13 that there is no solution in Palestinian thinking about the Palestinian question of a 2 state solution except through Jihad. Initiative, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement.
Article 32 threatens Muslims that today Jews are taking Palestine and tomorrow it will be one country or another and that the Zionist plan is limitless. They warn that the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates, and then want to take more land.
I find this laughable because our problem is keeping Israel with a majority of Jews to keep it a Jewish state. The last thing we need is again to live among the world as we have been, a minority without any rights of our own as has already happened in the past. It is the Muslims who have been expansionists, forcing everyone to convert to Islam and taking their land and holy sites. So what they really are fearing is that Jews will suddenly act like they have with the same kinds of goals. Once they realize we are not about to ape their behaviors, perhaps they will accept us. Hamas must be educated with some of these more enlightening and realistic ideas to solve this world problem.
Has John Kerry, Secretary of State of the USA, found out if Hamas has changed its charter yet? How about Fatah? Why should Israel make peace with one who is under the spell of the other and will cooperate with fighting against Israel? Shouldn't that twosome be worked on by the USA first before even thinking of creating another state? Could they be thinking that this will give Fatah power over Hamas?
Resource:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinians-fire-three-rockets-at-israel/
Excerpts from the Hamas Charter, produced by StandWithUs.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/police-find-third-body-on-ashkelon-beach/
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