Dear Yehoshua, Hamas is terrorist
Il Giornale, November 27th, 2012
Aleph Beth Yeoshua is a great author and a long standing friend of mine. Despite an old, very interesting book of his about Zionism (Bouli, as everyone calls him, is truly a Zionist), published with Giuntina, he only sees in politics what his highly talented artistic dreams point out for him; fiction rather than reality is his specialty. So when he yesterday asked Israel to strike a deal with Hamas on La Stampa, he made again the same mistakes he’s made a thousand times in the conviction that in order to make peace with the Arab just ask them please and give them a good gift would suffice.
For some strange reason the whole ideology factor totally eludes him, which in the case of Hamas is certainly of paramount importance. It’s not that Bibi Netanyahu, as Yeoshua likes to say, gave Hamas the title of “terror organization” rather than “foe”, shunning this way any possible agreements: no, Hamas is terrorist as per the International declaration, the European UNion put it on its list like the US too, not Israel. Hamas, unlike Jordan and Egypt, is neither a state nor a statual enemy; its goal, as enshrined by its Charter to which it is faithful (please, take a look at it, it’s a fascinating reading into the horror), is to destroy Israel and kill all Jews, Aleph Beth Yeoshua included. Jordan, like Syria and Egypt, don’t have this aim as a precipous one in their constitutions. Their behavior in the course of the different wars has certainly been cruel and unforgivable: none of the adjacent states has as its main purpose to destroy Israel and kill all Jews one by one, all over the world. It is therefore, maybe, possible to make peace with them. Hamas on the contrary, does not exist but for the sole purpose to wage war to the West, to institute Shariah law, and to teach children to become shahid. The recognition sought by Hamas is a leadership medal in Shariah, its main aspiration being that Heads of States in visit proclaim to the whole world its right to be the best butcher of Israel, not its possible partner.
Bouli’s request looks like a medal that Hamas will pin upon its chest so to state: you see, how scared Israelis are that we tear them to pieces that Yeoshua asks for an agreement. In the Middle Eastern mind-set this is a serious blunder, if you are afraid you’re dead, if you ask for peace while the other is declaring eternal war you are less than a coward trying to escape. It would be good to bargain with Palestinians a “reasonable partition” but what was possible for King Hussein or Sadat doesn’t work for Ismail Hanje or Khaled Mashaal. Hamas has got nothing to gain in asking for a “reasonable partition”, it is not interested in two states for two peoples. They would be three anyway, considered Hamas, as everyone will surely remember, hates the PNA, disowned, that it therefore needs to finish off; it does not wish to unite with Abu Mazen, but to swallow it into one single ferocious Hamasland.
Hamas is not barricaded in a strip of land; the crossings are open for humanitarian aids and means, power, water, medications, and the Internet flow from Israel. It might be actually the case that all of this burden be taken on by Egypt, which should unleash its doors as it’s the natural outlet, vast and promising for an Arab population. Its natural outlet is evidently Egypt, for sure is not Israel the country where they are known to penetrate bringing, as they’ve always done, suicide terrorism and different hostile smuggling. Yeoshua can’t expect that an opening to Gaza be fruitful to peace, he knows what fruits it would bear, as he also knows that Abu Mazen wouldn’t be happy with it. He doesn’t want to see Hamas intrude to his home. Bouli knows that it was not the elections which conferred Hamas absolute power in Gaza, but the war between the two parties. Someone might still remember that Al Fatah henchmen were thrown off the roofs in Gaza.
Historically, all Palestinians strongly dismiss the idea of considering Israel a neighbor; instead, they see it as a foreign body to the point that even PLO, led by Arafat in the past, currently by Abu Mazen, aborted one by one all of the attempted agreements in the past years. The Palestinian Authority doesn’t seek to strike a deal, which, as Bouli overtly puts it, can’t sign without Hamas: on the contrary, it praises terror and war and it’s forwarding the bid for a unilateral statehood to the UN on Thursday, without negotiations, without sitting down with the Jews, with Bouli himself. PNA folks are not seeking an agreement; it would cost them the dishonor of the entire Islamist religious world, not to mention Hamas. A new Middle East is surely rising on the horizon, you are correct Bouli, but in the aftermath of the Arab Revolutions the Muslim Brotherhood, which Hamas belongs to, is pursuing a worldwide caliphate: Israel will be its first, tastiest bite.