Liebesgrüsse aus Ramallah
Der Einzug der Hamas in die palästinensische Politik bedeutet ihre Abkehr vom Terrorismus. Meinen manche Nahostexperten. Glaube soll ja zuweilen Berge versetzen.
There is, however, overwhelming evidence pointing in the opposite direction. For example, Mahmoud al-Zahar, the group’s leading figure, gave a series of interviews in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in which he explained that the group sees noconnection between the elections and the Oslo process — which is dead anyway — and that any cease-fire along the 1967 borders would not come with a recognition of Israel or relations with it, but would be merely a step in the continued struggle. “Some Israelis think that when we talk of the West Bank and Gaza it means we have given up our historic war,” Zahar told an Israeli newspaper in late October. “This is not the case.” As for Hamas’ stance on democracy, Zahar’s words have been equally discouraging: he proclaimed, “We will join the Legislative Council with our weapons in our hands,” later adding, “In the Islamist Palestinian state, every citizen will be required to act in accordance with the codes of Islamic religious law” — not exactly a Western vision of how democracy should function.
schreibt dagegen Michael Herzog in “Foreign Affairs”. Und das iranische Mullahregime, das den Terror der Hamas so emsig finanziert, soll zum Dank eine Botschaft in Ramallah erhalten. Meint Hamasführer Mashaal.
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