Jake Tapper interviewed Mosab Hasan Yosef, the son of the founder of Hamas who as a young man courageously turned against what his father was doing. (I read about him some years ago.)
Here's part of what he said about Hamas and its goals:
Mosab Hasan Yosef: "Well, they are a religious movement and this is what everybody is afraid to say. I…
Jake Tapper interviewed Mosab Hasan Yosef, the son of the founder of Hamas who as a young man courageously turned against what his father was doing. (I read about him some years ago.)
Here's part of what he said about Hamas and its goals:
Mosab Hasan Yosef: "Well, they are a religious movement and this is what everybody is afraid to say. If Hamas was a political movement then we can satisfy their political ambition but Hamas is a religious movement that does not believe in political borders. You know, they want to establish an Islamic state on the rubble of the state of Israel. They want to annihilate the Jewish people and the Jewish state. They want to kill everybody who support Israel then establish an Islamic state...They want to establish eventually an Islamic state, a global state...[T]he more power, you know, we give them, the more aggressive they are going to be.."
So:
1. Hamas is not "resisting" oppression of Palestinians. Hamas just wants the Jews gone and wants Islam imposed by force -- on the whole world.
2. There is no "political" 2-state solution that would satisfy Hamas or its sympathizers -- including the people in other parts of the world chanting "from the river to the sea."
3. The motives of Hamas are religious.
4. Other people are afraid to say that the motives are religious -- because a billion Muslims will get mad or something.
Therefore, it's just a lot easier to blame the whole Middle East problem on the Jews. There aren't very many of them; they won't get as mad; and they're more likely to be self-critical.
Jake Tapper interviewed Mosab Hasan Yosef, the son of the founder of Hamas who as a young man courageously turned against what his father was doing. (I read about him some years ago.)
Here's part of what he said about Hamas and its goals:
Mosab Hasan Yosef: "Well, they are a religious movement and this is what everybody is afraid to say. If Hamas was a political movement then we can satisfy their political ambition but Hamas is a religious movement that does not believe in political borders. You know, they want to establish an Islamic state on the rubble of the state of Israel. They want to annihilate the Jewish people and the Jewish state. They want to kill everybody who support Israel then establish an Islamic state...They want to establish eventually an Islamic state, a global state...[T]he more power, you know, we give them, the more aggressive they are going to be.."
So:
1. Hamas is not "resisting" oppression of Palestinians. Hamas just wants the Jews gone and wants Islam imposed by force -- on the whole world.
2. There is no "political" 2-state solution that would satisfy Hamas or its sympathizers -- including the people in other parts of the world chanting "from the river to the sea."
3. The motives of Hamas are religious.
4. Other people are afraid to say that the motives are religious -- because a billion Muslims will get mad or something.
Therefore, it's just a lot easier to blame the whole Middle East problem on the Jews. There aren't very many of them; they won't get as mad; and they're more likely to be self-critical.