Hamas practices "Taqiyya" – a religious justification for lying to enemies in war
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Every time Hamas goes to war with Israel – the current conflict is the fifth since 2008 – the terrorist organization repeats the same lies and the pro-Hamas crowd on university campuses and, more disturbingly, many in the media, believe them.
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Hamas’ latest lie, announced last week, is that Hamas would lay down its arms and agree to a truce of five years or more with Israel in return for the creation of an independent Palestinian state based on Israel’s pre-1967 borders.
That would mean a Palestinian state including Gaza, the West Bank (with Jewish settlers removed) with its capital in East Jerusalem and with the right of return for all Palestinian refugees from previous conflicts going back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
Israel captured Gaza and the West Bank in the Six-Day War of 1967, when the combined armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan attempted to drive Israel into the sea, the origins of today’s chant of creating a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea,” which means all of Israel.
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The Six-Day War was the second of three existential wars where Israel’s enemies tried and failed to annihilate it.
The others were in 1948, launched the day after Israel became an independent nation, and in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
Failed attempts to exterminate Israel are nothing new.
In that context, there are several problems with Hamas’ latest offer of a temporary truce.
First, Hamas practices “Taqiyya” – a religious justification for lying to enemies in war.
On this point, it’s amazing how the pro-Hamas crowd disbelieves everything Israel says about the conflict but uncritically accepts everything Hamas says, the classic definition of a useful idiot.
Second, various Hamas officials have made similar “offers” as the one it made last week in 1988, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012 and 2017, typically with the provision that the agreement will be temporary.
The reason Hamas sets time limits on any truce with Israel – one of the longest was a proposal for 30 years – is that it allows it to remain consistent with its ultimate goal of destroying Israel, no matter how long it takes.
The sincerity of these various offers of a temporary truce with Israel by Hamas can be judged by the fact that Hamas’ “peace” offer in 1988 was made two months before it issued its founding charter, which called for the destruction of Israel and the extermination of its Jewish population.
Among other insane ideas featured in Hamas’ 1988 charter was its belief the Freemasons and Rotary and Lions Clubs were part of an international Jewish conspiracy “behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds,” with the goal of “annihilating Islam.”
As if that wasn’t sufficiently clear about Hamas’ intentions with regard to the Jews, its founding charter also proclaimed that:
“Hamas has been looking forward to implementing Allah’s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him!”
At this point, pro-Hamas apologists will frantically point out that Hamas issued a new charter in 2017 in which it reframed its war against the Jews as a war against Zionism, which we should all believe because Hamas said it.
Hamas apologists also point out that in the 2017 charter, Hamas again proposed the concept of “a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees … to be a formula of national consensus” (sound familiar?).
But it then goes on to again deny Israel’s right to exist, stating “there shall be no recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist entity (aka Israel),” which it describes as a “racist, aggressive, colonial and expansionist project,” while calling for the continuation of the armed struggle against it.
Somewhat hilariously, immediately after Hamas released its 2017 charter and many in the media misinterpreted it as a softening of its call for the destruction of Israel in its 1988 charter, a senior Hamas official quickly announced that Hamas had in no way abandoned its core belief of conquering all of Israel and replacing it with a Palestinian state.
That’s the problem with believing anything Hamas says given its belief in taqiyya – a religious justification for lying to its enemies in war.
lgoldstein@postmedia.com
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