Shaking Hands With Hamas (Joseph Farah On The True Worth Of A Bill Clinton Promise Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 04/07/06 | Joseph Farah

[goldstategop]

It was April Fool's Day this news item was reported – so I waited for confirmation that indeed this event actually happened.

In London, former President Bill Clinton told the BBC that he would shake hands with Hamas if the Arab terrorist group provided the same assurances on rejecting terror as the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Asked if he would negotiate with the hard-line terrorists who have won elections in the Palestinian Authority, Clinton responded: "If they made the same assurances that Arafat did. He had made private assurances, and he made public assurances, that he did not support terror any more and would try to restrain it. So, if Hamas would say, suppose they say, 'OK, look, we can't change our theory, we can't change our document, we can't change our history, but we're in government now and the policy of the Palestinian government is no to terror and yes to negotiations. As long as we're in government, we'll honor that policy.' If they did that, I would support dealing with them."

This statement leaves me wondering, "Is it mental illness that drives people to make the same mistakes over and over and over again? Or, is it that they are simply evil?"

I waited several days to address this posturing by Clinton because I was so angered by it. I needed to calm down. Let's take this crazy idea apart.

Yasser Arafat's renunciations of terrorism were as phony and meaningless as a Bill Clinton promise. Is there actually a human being on the planet who doesn't get that yet?

By the time Arafat died his miserable death, has any good been accomplished by negotiating with him? Had any lives been saved?

It would take someone as morally corrupt and intellectually bankrupt as Bill Clinton to use Arafat as the model for future peace negotiations. This is beyond astonishing. It was all a game with Arafat. The record is clear now. He never had any intentions of stopping the violence and the attacks on Jews. It was just a strategy he employed to keep the money flowing in from the United States and European Union. It was a ploy to buy time and a position of strength from which to defeat his enemy.

Does anyone even need to be reminded of this any more? Evidently Bill Clinton does.

The one thing that is refreshing about Hamas is that there is less hypocrisy and deception at work within its leadership. Hamas officials tell you where they stand. They stand for the destruction of the Jewish state and the eradication of the Jewish people. Period. End of story.

But all Hamas would have to do to win over Bill Clinton – and presumably other equally idiotic Western leaders – is to say some magic words. They wouldn't have to mean them any more than Arafat did. Because in international politics, it's not what you do that counts, but what you say.

Arafat did not renounce Islamic terrorism. He practically invented it. I dubbed him the godfather of modern Islamic terrorism. Without Arafat, there would be no Osama bin Laden. Until the day he went to Hell, he never stopped practicing and preaching the violent "liberation" of Israel – at least not in Arabic. What he told Clinton privately doesn't really matter or count. What he told anyone privately or publicly shouldn't make a bit of difference. It's what people do that counts. And Arafat remained a bloody, abhorrent monster until the say he died.

Clinton is coaching these Hamas monsters to wear a disguise like Arafat did. That's what it comes down to. In fact, it should surprise no one that Clinton would shake hands with these fiends. Anyone who would shake hands with Arafat would likely shake hands with Hamas. There's no moral difference.

And who would want to shake hands with Clinton? This is a man who, like Arafat, would say or do whatever is necessary to further his own agenda. In fact, he would say or do anything for a fee. Let's face it, Bill Clinton would shake hands with the Devil himself if it would mean the spotlight, money, power and babes.

But there is an important lesson here – because of what Bill Clinton represents. He represents the perspective, the "conventional wisdom," the worldview of the Democratic Party.

When Clinton says he would negotiate with Hamas if they changed their tune, what he is doing is explaining the national security policy of the Democratic Party. This is the way they decide who is good and who is evil, who is dangerous and who is not – on the basis of what they say.

They never learned the lesson that appeasement never works. They never learned the lesson of Neville Chamberlain. They never learned the lesson of Oslo. They are prepared to keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

Results don't count. It's the process that is important.

And remember to whom he is married.

[goldstategop]

Do you trust a Bill Clinton promise? Then like Joseph Farah says, you get what you deserve - and more. Just remember to whom he is married. They're a birds of feather when comes to morality, justice and the truth.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[glorgau]

The phrase "stuck on stupid" comes to mind.

[nightdriver]

"Because in international politics, it's not what you do that counts, but what you say."

That's also a good definition of liberalism.

They don't want to be judged on their results, just their intentions.

(I'll never forget John Edwards saying that if John Kerry gets elected, Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk!)

Snort!!

[Lewite]

The many years of lying and deceit that has come forth from the Clinton's should tell us that they have no value what so ever. They are morally bankrupt. Joseph Farah has hit the truth on the button with this post.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

INTERNET-HAGANAH - Database: "HAMAS" (Read More...)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "THE MULLAH-HAMAS AXIS" by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen (March 14, 2006) (Read More...)

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MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1087: "HAMAS LEADER KHALED MASH'AL AT A DAMASCUS MOSQUE: THE NATION OF ISLAM WILL SIT AT THE THRONE OF THE WORLD AND THE WEST WILL BE FULL OF REMORSE - WHEN IT'S TOO LATE" (February 7, 2006) (Read More...)

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WorldNetDaily.com: "HAMAS 'CAPABLE OF U.S. ATTACKS' Terrorism experts warning nation potentially at risk from militants" by Aaron Klein (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JERUSALEM - Hamas has cells inside the United States that are technically capable of attacking the country, terrorism experts and senior security officials told WorldNetDaily.") (October 16, 2005) (Read More...)

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JNEWSWIRE.com: "HAMAS: CHRISTIAN ZIONISM IS OUR ENEMY" by Jerusalem Newswire Editiorial Staff (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Hamas terrorist organization has singled out Christian supporters of Israel, putting them on notice that it views their actions as "criminal," making them enemies of the Palestinian Arabs.") (August 22, 2005) (Read More...) (Note: This url may expire.)

[philman_36]

It was just a strategy he employed to keep the money flowing in from the United States and European Union.
Ol' Bubba even wanted a Nobel Peace Prize out of it and even he failed. Not that he didn't try, it's just that Arafat, just like Hamas, didn't and doesn't really want peace...only the money America sends.

Hamas officials tell you where they stand. They stand for the destruction of the Jewish state and the eradication of the Jewish people. Period. End of story.
The Israeli's may want peace and the Americans may want peace, but the linch pin in all of this "peace" is the Arabs and they've repeatedly declared what their intentions are and it isn't "peace".
Arab and Islamic intentions are to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth.

I said much of the same thing a couple of days ago.

Folks better look at how many Arabic countries are in the UN.
Nobody has shown me yet where Bubba can't be voted in as UN SG. Garner enough support in the right areas of the world and...WALLAH! UN SG.
he's gotta do something, what with hs wife peeping through windows and all...

[philman_36]

Bill Clinton Eyes U.N. Post Thursday, October 21, 2004
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has set his sights on becoming U.N. secretary-general. A Clinton insider and a senior U.N. source have told United Press International the 56-year-old former president would like to be named leader of the world body when Kofi Annan’s term ends early in 2006.
“He definitely wants to do it,” the Clinton insider said this week.
A Clinton candidacy is likely to receive overwhelming support from U.N. member states, particularly the Third World. Diplomats in Washington say Clinton would galvanize the United Nations and give an enormous boost to its prestige. But the former president’s hopes hang on a crucial question that will not be addressed until after the presidential elections: can he get the support of the U.S. government — a prerequisite for nomination?

The Next “S-G”
No one who is not acceptable to both Beijing and Washington can get this job, and the two countries have significantly different views of what the role of the United Nations should be.
Snip...Bear in mind also that at the United Nations, Asia may not be what you think. For bureaucratic and historical reasons, the Asian group runs from the shores of the Mediterranean to the far islands of the South Pacific; it includes most of the Arab world and even Turkey, which has, in Kemal Dervis, currently head of the U.N. Development Program, an excellent dark-horse candidate respected by all.
About the Author: Richard Holbrooke, an ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration, writes a monthly column for The Post.

Well, Bubba is acceptable to China.
and it's a proven fact that Bubba accepts from the Chinese...LOL
Under UN bylaws, the Secretary General may not be from a country with a seat on the Security Council. Sure, that’s what it says, but, as history has taught us, rules are made to be broken.

Is U-Haul international?
All you have to do is move...

[SJackson]

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