Conservative Soup - food for thought

Three questions: Who elected Hamas? Why is there little outcry from the left regarding this group taking power in the Gaza Strip? What does Hamas stand for? Interesting questions to ponder! Let’s start with what they stand for. The question is best summarized within their own Covenant of Hamas (published in 1988) in the statement “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it”.

Hamas is newly elected power within the Palestinian territory. The leaders of Hamas are a long-known terrorist organization that has played a very large role in terrorist attacks that have plagued Israel for decades. Israel has had a total of over 22,000 terrorist attacks either on its home-front, the West Bank, or Gaza since September 2000. In these attacks, 677 Israeli civilians have been murdered (17 by lynching!). Hamas is not responsible for all of these. But, they sure have played their part through multiple suicide bus bombings and the like. Hamas – these are the nuts that appear in the crowds of Palestinians with automatic weapons firing in the air - hooded so that their identities can be kept under-cover. They have sent mothers, daughters, fathers and sons to their deaths in the name of Islam. Hamas has left murdered women and children in their wake.

Again, I wish the “peace-loving” liberals of our nation would speak up. Rather than denounce the new murderous leadership representing the Palestinians, many feel it more appropriate to politicize the war in Iraq and lambaste President Bush. The reason they don’t speak up? Ask them!

Will Eastman