Terrorist Hamas’ Stunning Victory Poses a Grave Threat forIsrael
Dear Felice,
I’m sure you were as horrified as I was when the terrorist organization Hamas won ashocking 76 out of 132 seats and gained an absolute majority in the Palestinian Parliament.
Hamas’ founding Charter states, “There is no solution for the Palestinian questionexcept through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time”…is blatant in its antisemitism, saying that Jews “...werebehind World War I…They were behind World War II…There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it.” …and declares Zionism to be “behind thedrug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds.”
Beyond rhetoric, Hamas has launched thousands of terror attacks against Israel withsome 50 ‘successful’ suicide bombings that left 430 innocent Israelis dead and thousands maimed.
(Members of the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, parade in the streets of the northern town of Beit Lahia as theycelebrate the radical Islamist movement's win this week in the parliament poll, 27 January 2006. AFP International Photo)
The Center needs you to join a massive campaign to demand that governments,international organizations and religious leaders effectively isolate Hamas from the world community unless and until it renounces terrorism and Jew-hatred, andrecognizes the State of Israel’s fundamental right to exist. We have already begun pressing world leaders on this critical issue.
To date, despite warnings from world leaders, Hamas’ top candidate has declared thatthe now-ruling party will continue its efforts to destroy the Jewish State. In fact, the most beloved member of Hamas’ newly won parliamentary group is a woman whocelebrates the ‘heroism’ of her three sons, each of whom became a suicide bomber.
The Wiesenthal Center was the first to translate Hamas’ genocidal antisemitic Charterin 1988 and have helped debunk claims that there has ever been any structural difference between Hamas’ terrorist and social activities. Today, we are using high-levelcontacts with leaders at the European Parliament in Strasbourg and officials in the United States and Canada, urging them to bar normal diplomatic relations with andfinancial support for the Palestinians until Hamas abandons its genocidal agenda against the Jewish State.
There are those who are calling for cooperation with Hamas, citing it as thePalestinians’ legitimate leadership choice. Let us not forget that Adolf Hitler also gained power through Germany’s democratic process.
There is no doubt that Hamas can and will utilize its control of Palestinian educationand media to create new generations of youthful suicide bombers. Already, the Hamas-run summer camps teach children warfare tactics and Jew-hatred. And their charterexplicitly states that Hamas aspires to “instill the spirit of Jihad in the heart of the nation so that they would confront the enemies and join the ranks of thefighters.”
Now, it is time for civilized nations to suspend all diplomatic relations and stop allfunding -- billions of dollars in aid -- of the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Authority unless and until it renounces its twin covenant of terrorism and genocidal hatredof the Jewish people.
Hamas must choose the uniform it is going to wear. They cannot be parliamentarians byday and terrorists by night. The choice is before them.
This e-mail was sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, aninternational organization with 400,000 members, promoting tolerance and combating antisemitism worldwide.
