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The Price of "Sleeping with the Devil"

Paul Eidelberg

One Israeli prime minister after another has gone to "sleep with the devil," the PLO or Palestine Liberation Organization, now called the PA or Palestinian Authority. So why should anyone be surprised seeing Western nations sleeping with Hamas? Isn't Israel supposed to be the pacesetter of mankind?

The PA and Hamas have the same objective: Israel's annihilation. Although the PA are Hamas are engaged in a power struggle, the PA has used Hamas in something like a “good cop, bad cop” routine with Israel and the United States. The more blood-curdling rhetoric of Hamas enables PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to obtain gratuitous concessions from Israel as well as financial support from the United States. Let's get to some documentary facts.

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it ..." Thus begins what Hamas calls "The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement." The Covenant refers to the Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza as but a single “squadron” of the “vast Islamic world." "Our struggle against the Jews is very great," and this struggle will go on "until the enemy is vanquished and Allah’s victory is realized."

The Covenant also refers to the Islamic Resistance Movement as "one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine." It calls on all Muslims to "raise the banner of Jihad in the face of the oppressors, so that they would rid the land and the people of their uncleanness, vileness and evils." (Contrary to the puerilities of the media, the Muslim Brotherhood is not a fanatical sect of Islam; it is Islam authentic and resurgent.)

The Covenant continues: "The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realization of Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take… The Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight and kill the Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslim, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.'"

Unlike the West whose highest goal is comfortable self-preservation, Muslims regard "Death for the sake of Allah the loftiest of wishes." Hence these Muslims are prepared to drench "Palestine" with blood. They are not about to be bought off with the bourgeois policy of land for peace. This policy arouses in Muslims contempt for Jews. It makes Jewish blood cheap by making the Land of Israel cheap.

"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for the future Muslim generations until Judgment Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered; it, or any part of it, should not be given up."

With utter contempt for Israeli prime ministers who call for "peaceful co-existence" and "reciprocity" between Jews and Arabs, the Hamas Covenant proclaims: "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."

"The day the enemies usurp part of Muslim land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Muslim. It is [therefore] necessary to instill in the minds of the Muslim generations that the Palestinian problem is a religious problem, and should be dealt with on this basis."

Hence Hamas enjoins upon Muslims the following oath: "I swear by the holder of Muhammad's soul that I would like to invade and be killed for the sake of Allah, then invade and be killed, and then invade again and be killed."

Hard for milk-and-toast liberal and social democrats to face such bloody fanaticism. They prefer to cozy up with the PA's Janus-faced Mahmoud Abbas, ignoring the fact that the Hamas Covenant proclaims that "The PLO [PA] is the closest to the heart of the Islamic Resistance Movement." Quite true, since the Charter of the PLO-PA calls for the "complete liberation of Palestine and the economic, political, military and cultural elimination of Zionism."

Sleeping with the devil has a price, beginning with the loss of human dignity.