Posted on 08/05/2014 6:56:25 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Understanding what the Muslim Brotherhood's Gaza branch wants by studying its theology, strategy, and history.
In the spring of 2009, Roger Cohen, the New York Times columnist, surprised some of his readers by claiming that Iran’s remaining Jews were “living, working and worshiping in relative tranquility.”
Cohen wrote: “Perhaps I have a bias toward facts over words, but I say the reality of Iranian civility toward Jews tells us more about Iran—its sophistication and culture—than all the inflammatory rhetoric.”
Perhaps.
In this, and other, columns, Cohen appeared to be trying to convince his fellow Jews that they had less to fear from the Iran of Khamenei and (at the time) Ahmadinejad than they thought. To me, the column was a whitewash. It seemed (and seems) reasonable to worry about the intentions of those Iranian leaders who deny or minimize the Holocaust while hoping to annihilate the Jewish state, and who have funded and trained groups—Hezbollah and Hamas—that have as their goal the killing of Jews.
Cohen’s most acid critics came from within the Persian Jewish exile community. The vast majority of Iran’s Jews fled the country after the Khomeini revolution; many found refuge in Los Angeles. David Wolpe, the rabbi of Sinai Temple there, invited Cohen to speak to his congregants, about half of whom are Persian exiles, shortly after the column appeared. Cohen, to his credit, accepted the invitation. The encounter between Cohen and an audience of several hundred (mainly Jews, but also Bahais, members of a faith persecuted with great intensity by the Iranian regime) was tense but mainly civil...
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
We already know. When Israel gave back Gaza a few years ago they attacked Egypt.
If Hamas got its wish list, one need look no further than that public fence displayed by Isis in Iraq a few days ago - spiked with severed heads and bodies, as to the future of Israelis. While many innocents in the hands of terrorists may be given the option of conversion and taxation and submission, the options offered to Jewish Israelis would be simply death, or a long swim to the west.
All you need to answer that question is to read the Hamas Charter.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp
Cutthing through all the rabid drool, the Charter basically says that Hamas would eradicate Israel, exterminate the Jews, and join forces with virulent jihadists like ISIS to subjugate the world under Islam.
What “would” or what are they doing? They do what they want now.
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