Israel and Hamas

Much time has been spent on news reports concerning how Hamas won such a strong victory in recent Palestinian elections. I can see only 2 big reasons, each of which is very troubling for all concerned. The first is the rampant corruption among the previous Palestinian leadership. They did nothing to help the common Palestinians. They also made a pretention of conducting a peace process with Israel. But it is becoming apparent that even talk of negotiating with Israel is enough for these people to view the Palestinian Authority as suspect. Let's face it Jihad by violent, cultural and demographic means is underway and most liberal westerners don't have a clue about the historical and religious background of what's happening.

The pretense is gone now, Hamas has already said what they think about Israel, about Jews and about the Holocaust. They reject it all as western propoganda. They say the struggle will continue, that is well known under the label of jihad. Now Israel must make a choice, they can not live with this kind of threatening posture and activity in their midst. Of course they don't have many options in the international arena, so they are in a bind. If they continue to live in denial of plain statements about violence and annihilation and keep giving away land in some pretended one sided peace process they may end up in the predicament prophesied by Zechariah in which hald the city is taken. At least 2 Israeli political parties want to make it even easier by giving it away. What a shame. This is appeasement that in the end will not work, even from a purely secular standpoint. Dhimmitude is threatening not just Israel but the whole of the western secular & Christian worlds. Thank G_d that there will be another option shown to the world in future times. Jerusalem will be the capitol of the world someday soon and it will be Jewish.