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If you fear treachery from any of your allies, you may fairly retaliate by breaking off your treaty with them." (Surah 8:51-)
If you fear treachery from any group [of non-Muslims], throw back [their covenant] to them, [so as to be] on equal terms [with them]. For Allah loves not the treacherous. Let not the unbelievers [all non-Muslims] think that they can get the better [of Muslims]. They [non-Muslims] will never frustrate [you]. (Koran 8:58-59)
Fitzgerald: Truces and tribute: -- jihadwatch.org
Jihad Watch Board Vice President Hugh Fitzgerald discusses the peculiar unreality that pervades Western dealings with Hamas:
Islam does not command Muslims to allow the Infidels to retain some territory as long as they yield other territory. It does not say that any land once part of Dar al-Islam can ever be relinquished. For that matter, it does not say that there is any part of Dar al-Harb that can remain forever outside Dar al-Islam. The duty of every Muslim is to engage in jihad fi sabeel Allah, Jihad in the way, in the path, of Allah, whether individually or as part of a collective, and whether by active participation or by supporting and protecting those who do actively participate.
Treaties can be made with Infidels, but they are not treaties that will last indefinitely. They should last, at most, 10 years, although in some cases they may be "renewed" until such time as the Muslim side is stronger, and the Infidels have become weaker -- weaker because of those very treaties they signed.
"Treaties are to be obeyed" -- Pacta sunt servanda -- is a concept in Western jurisprudence. Western leaders need to understand it is not part of Islam. This is not a secret. They can begin with Majid Khadurri's "Law of War and Peace in Islam" and read about the accepted Muslim understanding of treaties made with Infidels.
There is no ambiguity about it. None. Treaties are not "peace" treaties but "truce" treaties. That's it.
And "war is deception." It is all laid out, by the way, in books and articles by Arab strategists. They don't hide it. They assume, and so far have assumed rightly, that the Israelis and the Western world will simply ignore those books and articles and will ignore what Islamic treaty-making is all about, because it is just too painful to contemplate. But what is too painful to contemplate, because it happens to be true, is exactly what must be contemplated. All Infidels must share that pain, and make policies, accordingly.
“War is deception.” What Hamas has been asked to do is merely utter some words that will satisfy, in the most obviously unsatisfactory manner, the minimum demands of those who see nothing wrong with what is nothing more than the payment of Jizyah. American and European Infidels make payments to the local Arabs, who were renamed after 1967 the "Palestinians." But in reality those "Palestinians" are merely the Arab shock troops, plausibly decked out as a "nationalist" movement (nonsense), in the Lesser Jihad against the Infidel state of Israel. |
