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Gerald Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive doctoral work in Middle East studies, has lectured on numerous university and other platforms. He has debated many of the best Arab and pro-Arab academics in public debates and on television. Mr. Honigman is widely published in academic journals, magazines, newspapers and other publications.


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PostSat Nov 12, 2005 12:20 pm     Hamas and the Upcoming Elections    


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Time To Put Up Or Shut Up

By Gerald A. Honigman

Hamas should be allowed to run in the upcoming Palestinian Arab elections.

True, Hamas rejects Israel's very right to exist--no matter what its size--so this goes against even what the phony Oslo peace process calls for.

And while Hamas' own patron saint, Sheikh Izzedin al-Qassam (for whom the brigade which blows up buses and restaurants is named for, along with the rockets aimed at Jews as well), was a native of Latakia, Syria along with scores of thousands of other allegedly "native Palestinians" (along with most others who flocked into the Mandate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from other "Arab" lands according to the Records of the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commissions and other solid documentation), Hamas rejects the rights of Jews to any part of the Dar ul-Islam. Keep in mind that half of Israel's Jews were refugees from so-called "Arab" and/or Muslim lands.

Nevertheless, as long as Israel follows through with what needs to be done, Hamas' candidates should be on the slate.

What sense is there to keep playing the same old game?

The Arafatians now in power have made clear over and over that they differ with Hamas only in tactics.

As I've often stated before, blown buses bring bad press. The end goal--Israel's destruction--is the same for both, as a quick view of the Palestinian Authority's own statements, websites, textbooks, media, maps, and such illustrates. Abbas' own military folks have repeatedly stated that Israel will be the sole target of their arms. Recall that Condi was in Israel not long ago demanding that the Jews themselves supply the PA with those arms.

Poll after poll taken among Palestinian Arabs show that even if Israel returned to its 1949 nine-mile wide, armistice line-imposed, rump state status, most Arabs would still support terrorism and reject its right to exist.

So folks...there's no nice way of putting this. Israel faces deadly, rejectionist enemies and must deal forcefully with this unfortunate reality sooner rather than later.

Give it credit...Unlike the let's-destroy-Israel-but-by-other-more-acceptable-means Arafatians, at least Hamas is up front and honest on these issues. So there's no doubt as to how Hamas must be handled. No Israeli concessions short of national suicide will suffice for it.

And that's why Hamas needs to be a choice for Arab voters the next time around.

The Arab Street needs to make a collective decision--so Hamas itself cannot alone be blamed--for the policies that will then be carried out in its name.

If Hamas wins, the Arab voters will have told the entire world that they reject the alleged "two-state" solution that others--including the American State Department and such--falsely claim that they accept. The reality, of course, is that even the alleged PA "moderates," such as Abbas and Qurei, openly reject the right of a Jewish Israel to exist, speak only in terms of a hudna (ceasefire--not permanent peace), and have called all such dealings with the Jews merely a Trojan Horse designed to bring about the Arabs' ultimate goal. And for this the Jews are expected to give away the store.

When the predictable next atrocity against Jewish innocents is then carried out (notice how Kofi Anan & Co. cry out profusely about innocent Arabs killed at a wedding in Jordan but typically make excuses when Jews are the targets, killed at Passover Seders, weddings, and the like), terror will have a democratically-decided address.

Nations have gone to war for far less than seeing their own people repeatedly butchered.

So, Israel must make very clear--and not just by blowing hot air--that it will consider any terror subsequent to the Palestinian elections an act of war.

After the elections, if the new Arab government shows--unlike the current one, which still allows terror to continue--that it is truly willing to fight the sources of terror and enemies of permanent peaceful coexistence with a Jewish State (again, no hudna manure...please), then Israel should allow for a grace period and offer assistance.

If, however, as will most likely be the case, the new, democratically-elected government opts to just play more good cop/bad cop games with Israel, the Jews need to finally wise up and do what must be done:

Unleash pure hell on the murderers of Jewish innocents.

Israel must first issue an ultimatum to the new Arab government.

When that ultimatum is predictably next ignored, it must declare war, fight to win, and tell the hypocrites in the United Nations and elsewhere to ask themselves what they would be doing if they were in Israel's shoes.

And the Arabs will have brought this all upon themselves by democratically electing a government which openly calls for the destruction of both Jews as a nation and as a people.

One more time...

What other nation would have put up with this reality as long as Israel already has?

President Bush has repeatedly stated that those who support terror will be treated as the terrorists themselves. America has followed through with this wise policy in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. Collateral damage in super power America's own wars has been far more than that caused by tiny Israel's struggle to survive.

America needs to remember this when Israel follows through with what it too must do.

And if America does this, the hell with what the rest of the world thinks.

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PostSun Nov 13, 2005 11:11 am        


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All very true. However you will have to keep in mind the hypocrisy of the American government. Before you can count on them for anything.
Examples......
1. They are conducting a "War on Terror". Yet they fund the PA with close to a billion dollars a year, and are now offering to pay the salary of terrorist if they quit the group they are with and sign up to the PA Police Force.
This is insane. Everyone knows the PA and most Arabs want Isreal wiped out. As the Iranian Prez. openly admitted.
2. Once again Bush has purposely twisted or omitted what is stated in the Quoran. Stating Islam is a religion of peace.

Nothing can be farther from the truth. Anything that says you can't be friends with this person or that person, or endorses beheading, terrorizing, deceiving, amputating limbs and forced conversion to their belief is not and should not ever be put into the category of peacefull.

The American government must decide if they want to be politically correct or be truthfull. Its very rare that they are one in the same.

One solution to American funding of the PA and this proposed terrorist paychecks is to use the "Patriot Act" against the American Congress, Senate, and President. It is conceivable that all three could be charged with giving material support to a terrorist organization.

The biggest problem is you can't get the American media to mention anything bad about the Quoran or Islam. So getting the public support needed for this would be very difficult if not impossible.


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PostMon Nov 14, 2005 1:11 am        


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Dear Mr. Honigman
In the words of Golda Meir z"l "What took you so long?"
Back in the days of the birth of the Oslo Agreement there were those who were saying Israel was talking to the wrong party in reviving the infamous
then all but vanquished monster Arafat, instead of having direct negotiations with the leaders of the early stone throwing Intifada. True the Intifada leaders would have been too scared of each other to come to the table and communicate but that would have justified and forced Israel to take just the step you are calling for now.

War is the lowest form of communication but in its restricted form in which Israel has engaged it is the most costly where her enemies are 'sacrificing' a single useless life at the cost to Israel of as many as 30 often most valuable and at least, innocent bystander dead plus the multitude of unsung 'forgotten victims' so badly injured that in many cases they wish they had succumbed. Families grieving the loss of or damage to beloved breadwinners continue to suffer as they descend into poverty as a result.

We seldom need to swat flies these days as we did 60 years ago because
widespread action was taken to eradicate this scourge. Building walls may be effective in protecting an area temporarily but the disease of Islamism will continue to gain strength on the other side of the wall which protects it too.


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PostTue Nov 15, 2005 8:10 pm     "What Took You So Long?"    


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Obviously the responder hasn't read many of the author's earlier writings...many posted right on this site..."Too Predictable," "Blowin' Hot Air," "Blackjack Lessons," "The One, Ten Punch," etc. and so forth...


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PostWed Nov 16, 2005 1:48 am        


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FORGIVE ME MR.HONIGMAN. YOU ARE CORRECT, I AM INDEED A NEWCOMER TO THESE COLUMNS, CONSEQUENTLY I MISSED YOUR PREVIOUS ARTICLES SUPPORTING THE SAME CONTENTION AND MILDLY ACCUSED YOU BASED ON A SERIES OF ONE.
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