Comments on: Hamas changing? http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/ None Sine Causa Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:36:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: probligo http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4533 probligo Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:11:53 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4533 Ed, can't agree. The IRA had the intention of replacing the British administration of Northern Ireland, (elected by a Protestant majority), with an Irish administration dominated by a Catholic minority. Ed, can’t agree.

The IRA had the intention of replacing the British administration of Northern Ireland, (elected by a Protestant majority), with an Irish administration dominated by a Catholic minority.

]]> By: Ed http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4523 Ed Fri, 20 Oct 2006 01:58:00 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4523 Hamas and the IRA are two different entities. The IRA was created to violently oppose another country. Hamas was created to violently destroy one. The IRA never had as a goal establishing itself as a replacement government for England. Hamas was created to replace the Israeli government with a new entity based on Shar'ia law. That is indeed their simplistic worldview. Can you point to a single act of theirs that contradicts this? Hamas and the IRA are two different entities. The IRA was created to violently oppose another country.

Hamas was created to violently destroy one.

The IRA never had as a goal establishing itself as a replacement government for England. Hamas was created to replace the Israeli government with a new entity based on Shar’ia law.

That is indeed their simplistic worldview. Can you point to a single act of theirs that contradicts this?

]]> By: Dave Justus http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4514 Dave Justus Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:40:49 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4514 Sort of like an IRA that renounced violence would cease to be an IRA? Other options are of course always possible. Hamas might not choose to take other options, but the people that make up Hamas certainly can make other choices. I am also far from sure that they are as simplistic in their worldview as you would like them to be. Sort of like an IRA that renounced violence would cease to be an IRA?

Other options are of course always possible. Hamas might not choose to take other options, but the people that make up Hamas certainly can make other choices. I am also far from sure that they are as simplistic in their worldview as you would like them to be.

]]> By: Ed http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4512 Ed Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:57:31 +0000 http://www.davejustus.com/2006/10/19/hamas-changing/#comment-4512 A Hamas which renounces violence would not be Hamas. It's only reason for existing is to violently destroy Israel and supplant it with an Islamist, fundamentalist, theocratic dictatorship. Hamas will either continue in accordance with its charter and violent raison d'etre, or it will be militarily defeated. No other options are possible. A Hamas which renounces violence would not be Hamas. It’s only reason for existing is to violently destroy Israel and supplant it with an Islamist, fundamentalist, theocratic dictatorship.

Hamas will either continue in accordance with its charter and violent raison d’etre, or it will be militarily defeated. No other options are possible.

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