This blog entry is one a series exploring the Hamas charter with a view to exploring the worldview of the movement which currently controls Gaza and was responsible for the recent conflict. I think that an examination of its charter will say all that needs to be said.
Today, we look at the preamble. Included in the preamble are these two paragraphs:
When the idea was ripe, the seed grew and the plant struck root in the soil of reality, away from passing emotions, and hateful haste. The Islamic Resistance Movement emerged to carry out its role through striving for the sake of its Creator, its arms intertwined with those of all the fighters for the liberation of Palestine. The spirits of its fighters meet with the spirits of all the fighters who have sacrificed their lives on the soil of Palestine, ever since it was conquered by the companions of the Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, and until this day.
This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised.
You will note that the preamble is clear - it is intended to "clarify" what the organization stands for in order to attract adherents.
You will also note what Hamas is all about: "Our struggle with the Jews." Let there be no doubt that Hamas sees no distinctions between Israelis and Jews. Their stated objective is to continue until "the enemy is vanquished."
How could Hamas have such a view of the world? If we look elsewhere in the preamble we find this view of Muslims and the Jews and Israel:
"Ye [Muslims] are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in Allah. And if they who have received the scriptures [Jews] had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them, but the greater part of them are transgressors. They shall not hurt you, unless with a slight hurt; and if they fight against you, they shall turn their backs to you, and they shall not be helped. They [Jews] are smitten with vileness wheresoever they are found; unless they obtain security by entering into a treaty with Allah, and a treaty with men; and they draw on themselves indignation from Allah, and they are afflicted with poverty. This they suffer, because they disbelieved the signs of Allah, and slew the prophets unjustly; this, because they were rebellious, and transgressed." (Al-Imran - verses 109-111).
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).
So, the death of innocent Israelis and Jews is OK because Jews "are smitten with vileness..were rebellious and transgressed." And, in case anyone thought that Hamas was simply a political movement attempting to improve the conditions for the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank, it is clear that Hamas' goal is the "obliteration" of Israel.
I will continue to work through the rest of this toxic charter for one reason and one reason only. I do not believe that peace can possibly begin to sprout in an environment as poisonous as the one created by an organization governed by such a charter. Hamas now controls a quasi-state with full command of the educational, governmental and military apparatus of this statelet. This does not bode well for peace.
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