…or that is basically how this news of his comes. He has supposedly given Hamas an ultimatum: “Recognize Israel, or else.” First of all, or else what? Secondly, he is asking that Hamas recognize Israel so long as Israel meets certain conditions (returning to the 1967 borders, East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, right of return for refugees, etc.)

Unlike you, Mr. Abbas, the rest of us have not been living under a rock. Israel has already built a wall through the middle (and I use the term loosely) of the holy land, making it clear they are not interested in giving up any of their seized land or East Jerusalem, for that matter. Hamas has repeatedly said that they would be willing to work with Israel under the above conditions, but Israel has always refused.

So, the question is, why is Abbas suddenly making himself seem like Mr. Bright Idea? Obviously, he has been exposed for the lame duck that he is and is trying to save face (i.e. make himself look good for his masters, the Zionists, and also look good in front of the Palestinian people, as the reasonable secular politician, willing to bend but not break). Rubbish.

Regardless of what Mr. Bush, Israel, or anyone else thinks about Hamas, they have always represented the interests of the people. So, it is not surprising that the Palestinian people elected them, or that Israel is so vehement in opposing their plans, irrespective of how peaceful and “reasonable” those plans might be. If Hamas, tomorrow, said “Israel, take all of the land, we’ll leave,” Israel would accuse them of antisemitism and bomb them, along with hundreds of houses of innocent people. If Mr. Abbas turned around and said the same thing, he’d be championed as a hero.

Why? Because he will lead the Palestinian people into moral corruption and decadence, just as his predecessor, Arafat, had done. For Muslims, real Muslims, the issue of Jerusalem, of all of Palestine, is not a political one, or even a human rights issue. It is a religious issue. That land belongs to God, and all religions that hold it sacred have a right to it. The Zionists claim it exclusively for themselves, and for that, they will be eternally resisted, until the relent.

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