It appears from this article that James Wolfensohn, the former chairman of the World Bank is cosying up to Hamas and soliciting funding for them from Arab states. This is the kind of thing Wolfensohn is helping finance:
Hamas, the Islamist terrorist group that won Palestinian legislative elections last month, recently posted on its official website a video which presents the parting video messages of two Hamas suicide bombers, with one of them stating that ‘we are a nation that drinks blood’ and that Hamas promises to drink the blood of Jews ‘until we have quenched our thirst with your blood … until you leave the Muslim countries.’ The second suicide bomber is seen assisted in dressing by his mother as he prepares himself for a suicide terrorist attack (Hamas website, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch).
Hamas’s Charter calls for the murder of Jews (Article 7), the destruction of Israel (Article 15) and affirms that it waging a global struggle against Jews who are trying to destroy Islam, citing in support the classic anti-Semitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Article 32). Since September 2000, Hamas has been responsible for the murder of nearly 500 Israelis and the maiming of thousands more in five years of suicide bombings, drive-by shootings and missile assaults. Other videos recently mounted on the Hamas website includes one that appeared just before the elections and features Hamas leader Khaled Masha'al stating that Hamas will continue with terrorism and work for Israel's destruction, promising that ‘the homeland is returning through blood’ (Hamas website, courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch).
Excerpt from the message of first suicide bomber from the Hamas video:
•'...to the loathed Jews is that there is no god but Allah, we will chase you everywhere!'
•'We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood better than the blood of Jews.'
•'We will not leave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and our children's thirst with your blood.'
•'We will not leave until you leave the Muslim countries.'
•'...we will destroy you, blow you up, take revenge against you, purify the land of you, pigs that have defiled our country... This operation is revenge against the sons of monkeys and pigs.'
•'Jihad is the only way to liberate Palestine – all of Palestine – from the impurity of the Jews.'
But here’s the twist. The Israelis appear to be not overly hostile to Wolfensohn’s initiative; and here’s why:
While both Israel and the Quartet are wary of helping Hamas, they also fear ‘starving’ the Palestinian people by a total aid cut-off. ‘There is an acute awareness among Israeli decision-makers, from within the IDF all the way to the highest national level, that for legal, moral, and strategic reasons, this would be a harmful and potentially disastrous outcome,’ Lerman writes. Among the potential disasters: increasing radicalization (increasing?) of the Palestinian population, and deeper inroads by Iran.
The goal is ‘to peel the Hamas government off the people who may have voted for it -- but still need to be offered an alternative way to keep their families alive,’ by allowing NGOs and aid agencies to provide aid directly to recipients. ‘After all, Hamas previously did the same to Fatah, by maintaining a parallel structure,’ Lerman writes. ‘We are now called upon to help beat them at their own game.’
James Wolfensohn agreed to float the trial balloon. And through his own flamboyance and unpredictable character, he has given the State Department plausible deniability should the American public get wind of his efforts to allow the Gulf Arabs to fund a Hamas-run terror state in the Palestinian Authority. It’s a fool’s game, and it doesn’t pass the smell test.
It seems from this that, faced with a choice between people who want to exterminate it, and being held by the world to be responsible for causing those people themselves to starve – despite the fact that the only reason they are in such a position is their genocidal purpose – Israel would rather take its chances with the extermination than the condemnation by a morally bankrupt world.
Has any other people in the history of the planet ever been exposed to such a hideous dilemma – and left to swing in the wind upon its horns?
