“The Prophet said, ‘War is deceit.’” (Bukhari 4.52.269)
“Muslim Brotherhood Intellectuals Debate Whether Hamas Should Be Untruthful About Its Goals When Addressing The West,” MEMRI, December 24, 2020:
Al-Hiwar TV aired a debate featuring several intellectuals affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood on December 24, 2020, in the wake of the recent normalization agreement between Morocco and Israel, which was signed by Islamist Moroccan Prime Minister Saadeddine Othmani. The discussion then turned to Hamas policy in addressing the West. Osama Abuirshaid, executive director of American Muslims for Palestine, said that Hamas states its support for a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, even though this contradicts its “principled” goal of one state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. He said that if Hamas had insisted on declaring its real goal, no one in the West would talk to them. Dr. Azzam Al-Tamimi, a U.K- based academic and the Head of Al-Hiwar TV, said that Hamas cannot convey contradicting messages, one to the West and another to the East, and that this has not led to any achievements. For more about Osama Abuirshaid, see MEMRI TV clips No. 5558 and 5487. For more about Azzam Al-Tamimi, see MEMRI TV clips No. 7703, 7349, 7269, 6581, 6093, 3374, 2339, 2297, 1663, 921, 886, and 742.
Dr. Azzam Al-Tamimi: “The thing that I, and many others, could never have imagined is that we would see the [Moroccan] PM, who belongs to an Islamic movement, sign a normalization agreement with the Zionist entity.”…
Abuirshaid: “Did Hamas talk about a two-state solution or did it not? We don’t call it a two-state solution. We call it a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, but what does it mean? Am I supposed to accept that Hamas does not believe in Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea? Absolutely not! Hamas does believe in Palestine from the River to the Sea, but it has the principled position on the one hand and the political position on the other. The political position adapts with the constraints of reality, but it does not mean that Hamas has abandoned its principles.
“I am convinced that at no moment has Hamas given up on its principles regarding Palestine in its entirety. But when Hamas needs to talk to the world…Brother, let me tell you, the world is vile. It is vile! The world does not let you breathe. We saw what they did in Gaza. They starved them to death. We saw what they did in Iraq. They starved them to death. We saw what they did in Syria. They let them be slaughtered.”
Al-Tamimi: “Hamas’s statements about accepting a state within the 1967 borders was a mistake, and I criticized it from day one, and I still do… – And I defended it. That decision was a mistake. They assumed that they would get some political gain in return, but they did not get anything. On the contrary…It caused confusion with regard to what people understand to be Hamas’s goals. When you say that you accept a state within the 1967 borders, at least some people would understand that you accept the existence of a Zionist state next to it.”…
gravenimage says
American Muslims for Palestine top dog: Hamas wants to destroy Israel completely, but can’t say that openly
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Murderous thugs debate about whether they should lie to decent people about being murderous.
God, I hate Islam.
maria says
they are not human beings they are nazis of the worst type and now there are many of them in the the House of representatives: Tlaib, Omar, Sansour, jamal and their cooperatives AOC, Presseley
and then Farrakhan, Keith Ellison and many more
OLD GUY says
Why do we call these men intellectuals and scholars? We should call them what they are, supporters of the terrorist regimes that continue the violence around the world, in the form of dictatorships. These people don’t want peace, they want to rule the world at all cost. If they destroy Israel, they will just move on to another part of the world to cause disorder and violence. They want total domination, PERIOD.
Jean Gordon says
“In every generation, tyrants rose against us,” but where are they all now? Dead, gone, and remembered only in history books.
This islamic hate-fest is just the latest example of this; they’ll be eventually be gone, replaced by another bunch of thugs. We’ll survive, as we’ve done for thousands of years.