The earthquake
Hamas members showing their Election fingers
And so it came to pass.
The earthquake whose warning
rumblings the secular Palestinian leadership insistently refused to heed has
struck. The era of Fatah is over. The Islamists have taken control.
"No one will vote for
Hamas," Nidal Abu-Dahan, Mahmoud Abbas's bodyguard, declared derisively in
this column two weeks ago (Why the Palestinians are voting for Hamas),
defiantly discounting a series of local election results across the West Bank
that had already proved the contrary.
Hamas will get "50.5
percent," Ziad Dayyeh, one of those newly elected local councillors,
predicted in the same column, averaging out the municipal election showings and
actually, as it has turned out, underestimating the disgust with which ordinary
Palestinians have come to regard the Fatah fat cats.
Until yesterday, Israel and the rest
of the West were grappling with the problem of how to relate to a Hamas
minority in a still Fatah-dominated new Palestinian Authority government, as
deaf as Abbas and his colleagues to the scale of the shift on the Palestinian
street. Now there can be no escaping the Islamist reality, even if Abbas proves
prepared to serve as the fig-leaf, the acceptable, secular, face of the
Palestinians' new leadership.
Until yesterday, Israel and much of
the West were issuing demands that Hamas put down its arms as a pre-condition
for substantive contacts, that it abide by the democratic pre-condition for one
rule of law, one legitimate force of arms. Now Hamas's leaders might assert
that, in apparently fair elections, the Palestinian public has entrusted them
with the rule of law, that they bear the single legitimate force of
arms.
Ordinary Palestinians will tell you
that they voted for Hamas because the Fatah PA cheated them and stole from
them, whereas the Islamists have proved themselves exemplars of good governance
at the local level. Many will stress that their vote for Hamas was not a ballot
for a renewed campaign of suicide bombings and shooting attacks on Israeli targets.
And many Hamas officials will
doubtless highlight, as Ziad Dayyeh did when I met with him in El-Bireh two
weeks ago, that the patron of those suicide bombings and of Hamas itself,
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, provided religious legitimacy for a suspension of such
attacks and a temporary accommodation with Israel.
But Hamas's founding charter is
uncompromising in its intolerance of Israel. It strives "to raise the
banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine" and prescribes
"resistance and quelling the enemy" as "the individual duty of
every Muslim, male and female."
Some may seek comfort in the belief
that an ascent to government could prompt a greater sense of responsibility, a
move to moderation. But Hamas's intolerance is based on a perceived religious
imperative. No believing Muslim, in the Hamas conception, can be reconciled to
Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. To deny that, for Hamas, is blasphemy.
And that is the ideology to which the Palestinian people, for
whatever reason and by their own free hand, have just tied their fate. That is
the guiding ideology with which Israel and the West will now have to grapple.
I fear that our going in Afghanistan
and Iraq and our peace tinkering with the Palestinians for the express purpose
iin setting up democracies in the Middle East, regardless of how well intended
these plans may be, will ultimately lead to the Islamic super-state of the
antichrist.
And if we (the US and our Western allies who have stood by our
side) objected to Islam on the basis of it’s rogue and murderous leaders like
Saddam, the Taliban and now Iran, what will our Allies and us have left to
object to when Muslims in these countries freely elect their radical Islamic
factions?
What we see in the Palestinians elections is that the terrorists
have adapted to western demands but at what cost to them? None. On the other
hand this election was extremely costly to Israel who in the last three years
ceded all of Gaza to the Palestinians. They ceded Jewish entire west bank
communities, whose Israeli citizens were dragging out at gunpoint in military
raids. They ceded highway rights for Palestinian vehicles to drive on highways
through Israel.
Despite the judgment blathered by “the prophet” Pat Robertson on
the Stroke of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, no sooner than Prophet Robertson
found his utterance “would cost him” to
the tune of millions if not a billion dollars in his interest in the creation
of “Jesus-Land” in Israel, then the great “holy prophet” Robertson immediately
back peddled on “His word of the Lord” trodding underfoot Christ and the Gospel
for financial gain.
The US having forced Israel to give into all of these concessions
over this election has some grave responsibilities to Israel for the new
vulnerabilities there concessions have caused. Will we create a US or UN buffer
zone or DMZ around Israel? I don’t think public sentiment would allow that.. A
better answer would have been to have lopped off part of Iraq -- the western dessert portion and built a
power plant water plants and an entire city and community free of charge and
given this to the Palestinians and this may have cost the US and UN a billion
or 5 billion dollars – but the Palestinians would have been moved away from
Israel and had at least a one country buffer between them and the Palestinians.
This now is no longer and option and instead we are now faced with
even graver problems than when we first began this latest round of peace talks
with a people that have sworn the destruction of Israel.
These terrorist organizations in not only Palestinia, but in Iraq,
and soon in Afghanistan have now become political parties. -- How hard is that
when in these countries all their criminals and all their Islamic extremists
are not only allowed to vote, but they have been allowed also to set up their
own political parties – democracies in which terrorist leaders can also run for
office? We see here that all of this is
just a snap of the finger.
This is the same thing that I have been trying to explain what God
has shown me about Europe and the EU’s fall into Islam. These have created the
mechanism for their own overthrow by allowing within their borders millions of
Muslims who will vote for Islam every change they get. And by that I mean they
will vote for radical Islam and will take over Europe. What they could not do
with the sword in the crusades they can now do without having to fire a
shot. And what happens when they gain
control of the EU’s nukes? In the book of Revelation we see that the commerce
city of the world is nuked. Now in my mind I cannot say what that city is New
York? Hollywood? Paris? Tokyo? Hong Kong? Or even Beijing? But we can see
that the merchants of the world would mourn at the loss of any of these.
This process has been set in motion and the die has already
been cast. And we know that once they get enough countries under their control
in Europe all this Mr. nice guy talk of moderate peace loving Islam will be
over. And then they will come out with their sharp knives their guns and bombs
just like it is in Gaza just like it is in Iraq and just like it is all those
soviet Islamic Republics.
I am a bit frustrated and perplexed. I have only recently seen this
scenario of a Grand Islamic Caliph and I am unsure that there is a way to deal
with this. It appears to me that we despite our good intentions are painting
ourselves in the corner.
For the past year I have written several articles and been examining the roots
of Mohammed, and some of their end time prophecies and comparing those with the
bible. And in a twisted way they agree with the coming of the antichrist and
the false prophet with the exception they call them their delivers. They speak
of their radical Islam being under attack and put to the wall --Are we not
now doing this in our war against Terror?