Hamas: Bush Doesn't Have A Clue
By Sam Hamod
Al-Jazeerah, January 29, 2006
President Bush has shown his global ignorance once again. Though an intelligent former president on the ground, Jimmy Carter, said this was a fair election and that aid to Palestine should be continued—GW still doesn’t get it.
Hamas’ rise to power is not that of a “terrorist group,” but a group that represents the Palestinian people who are sick and tired of the Israeli and American continually focusing on the “process talks,” but never getting any decisions that fair to Palestinians, and people who are sick and tired of seeing their lands, their homes, their churches and mosques destroyed by Israel and its “security wall,” and through more army attacks on Palestinian civilians, abuses at checkpoints that dot every hamlet, village and Palestinian city or route, and who are sick of the corruption inside the old Arafat Fatah leadership that has taken care of itself but not taken care of the Palestinian people.
But, GWB says he won’t talk with Hamas; but he doesn’t understand, neither he nor the Israelis have ever talked with the Palestinians—aside from Jimmy Carter, all American presidents and Israeli leaders have always told the Palestinians what to do and that they had no reason to stand up for their rights as human beings.
President Carter is correct, aid must continue, and America had better get used to talking with people that GWB doesn’t like, and that many Israelis don’t like, because like the stones the children throw (at the risk of their lives), some day, even the stones will throw themselves, in a Biblical sense, and the real losers will be America and its brutal and cruel ally, Israel.
Oh by the way, if the U.S. cuts off aid to Palestine because of Hamas, you can be sure there will be aid coming openly, or on the sly, from other Arab and Muslim countries, individuals and even Iran. Thus, the leverage GWB thinks he has is non-existent! He has no credibility in the Middle East, especially in Palestine. So as far as the Palestinians are concerned, it’s none of his business, and he can keep the paltry aid he gives anyway, a mere pittance compared to what America and GWB give to Israel.
Hamas is the voice of the new Arab renaissance; it will spread into other Arab countries, and America will be the poorer for it unless GWB and his advisors, such comedians who pretend to be diplomats, like Dennis Ross and others of his ilk, wake and realize that Hamas if part of the new Arab dream of independence and self-respect, something Islam is all about, all the time. Though Muslims prefer peace, if it comes to abuse, then they must stand up, as Hamas does, and has done, so that they refuse the abuse and stand strong against it.
Dr. Sam Hamod is a former advisor to the State Department, editor of 3rd World News in Wash, DC and edits www.todaysalternativenews.com
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