Forbes Magazine Features Anit-Israel Professor for Commentary

[Christian Zionist]

Forbes.com, the online edition of Forbes magazine, describes itself  as being "among the most trusted resources for the world's business and investment leaders." But the magazine's June 17th online commentary, written by radical, anti-Israel professor Ian Lustick, was based in an alternate reality, so counterfactual and bizarre as to raise serious questions about the general editorial judgement at Forbes.

In his column, entitled  "Israel Could Benefit From Hamas," Lustick redraws the nature of Israel's battle with Hamas from an existential one threatening the Jewish state to a religious battle against Islam. He turns truth on its head, whitewashing the terrorist Hamas regime as a peace-seeking organization which a jihadist Israel seeks to destroy.

Lustick dismisses as Israeli "propaganda" the characterization of Hamas as a terrorist organization akin to Al Qaida, despite its designation as such by most of the Western world, including the U.S., Canada, Japan, the U.K., Australia, and the European Union. Although Hamas and Al Qaida similarly exemplify the definition of "terrorist" by targeting civilians in order to terrorize nations, Lustick apparently does not view terrorist attacks in the same light when their civilian victims are inside Israel. Explaining why he differentiates Hamas from Al Qaida, a group whose "terrorist" designation he evidently accepts, Lustick writes:

    Hamas is not Al Qaida. Hamas has never carried out violent attacks outside of historical Palestine.

Lustick goes on to describe Hamas as an organization seeking peaceful, competitive coexistence with the Jewish state:

    In a variety of Sunni Arab countries the Muslim Brothers and affiliated groups (Hamas is in this category) have agreed to compete peacefully in the social, cultural and ideological spheres while foregoing direct military or political attacks on the secular governments. In effect Hamas has offered Israel the equivalent – a generation long "hudna" (armistice) during which a Muslim Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza would exist alongside of a Jewish State in Israel. (Emphasis added)

Of course, this is false. Contrary to Lustick's idealized version of events, there was never any genuine offer by Hamas to "exist alongside a Jewish state in Israel" for "a generation."

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http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_print=1&x_context=2&x_outlet=232&x_article=1886

[muman613]

"Historical Palestine" IS ISRAEL!

What is he talking about... We know that Palestine is what the Roman empire named the land of Israel after the Roman invasion... Why doesn't he talk about Historical Israel...

[Ari Ben-Canaan]

What a disgusting, hateful, devious antisemitic evil person.


http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm

Hamas Principles

The principles of the Hamas are stated in their Covenant or Charter, given in full below. Following are highlights.

    "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).

    "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "

    "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors."

    "After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying."

The charter is a rather classical Islamist document, applied to the local issues. It declares that Jihad (in the sense of armed battle) is the only solution. It cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a ludicrous anti-Semitic forgery.

The "Zionists" and the freemasons and others are blamed for what Hamas and radical Islamists see as the major calamities of the world, especially the French Revolution.

One of the most ominous aspects of the Charter however, is this Hadith:

    Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of Zionism in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

        "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree,  would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Muslim).

The implication is clear: Allah promised that the Jews will be murdered, and the Hamas "aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take."