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April 23, 2005
Sharing Jokes with Hamas
Topics: Middle East News and Perspectives- Danial Pipes
Shortly after Yusra Azzami, 20, strolled with her fiancé and her sister on the beach in Gaza last week, the vigilantes from Hamas formed suspicions
that she was engaged in "immoral behavior." They followed her, shot her
dead as she sat in her fiancé's car, dragged her corpse out and
mutilated it savagely with clubs and iron bars.
This atrocity follows on Hamas having murdered over four hundred Israelis going about their daily business since 2000. Unsurprisingly, the American and other governments consider Hamas as a terrorist organization.
But how do they deal with such an organization? Two very different approaches exist, and President George W. Bush has articulated them both. In June 2003, he stated that "the free world, those who love freedom and peace, must deal harshly with Hamas" and specified that "Hamas must be dismantled." Last month, however, he offered Hezbollah a chance to prove it's not a terrorist organization and redeem itself "by laying down arms and not threatening peace."
Posted by Hyscience at April 23, 2005 9:14 PM
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