Hamas: een foto spreekt 1000 woorden tegen

 

De zogenaamde "Elders" hebben onlangs een ontmoeting gehad met Hamas leider Meshaal, waar volgens hen prima mee te praten is. Meshaal zou volgens allerlei deskundologen indirect hebben ingestemd met een Palestijnse staat binnen de pre-1967 wapenstilstandslijnen en daarmee dus ook met Israels bestaansrecht. Behalve het feit dat hij dit zelf talloze malen heeft tegengesproken en hij bovendien eist dat miljoenen nakomelingen van de vluchtelingen uit 1948 naar Israel mogen 'terugkeren', spreekt de afbeelding waaronder het gezelschap gezellig zit te praten, ook andere taal. Je zou maar onder zo'n kaart moeten praten.

 

RP

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A picture contradicts a thousand words

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/10/picture-contradicts-thousand-words.html From Reuters: Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal (2nd R) meets members of The Elders delegation Lakhdar Brahimi, Ela Bhatt, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former Irish President Mary Robinson (L-3rd R) in Damascus October 19, 2010. The Elders are on a tour of the Middle East to build support for a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. While Reuters and the wannabe tribal elders claim that they want a peace agreement between Israel and the Arabs, the poster shows quite the opposite. Right above Jimmy Carter's head is a map of Hamas' vision of "peace" - a world without Israel altogether. It is telling that the self-proclaimed global leaders allow themselves, without compunction, to be props in a Hamas advertisement for the destruction of Israel. One wonders whether they would take a walk with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a gaggle of wire-service reporters to survey Iran's exhibition of Holocaust-denial cartoons, or if they would have agreed to a photo-op in front of a picture of the World Trade Center crashing down. The fact is that the public and prominent display of maps showing a Judenrein "Palestine" (whose only relationship with historic Palestine is that it portrays areas that Jews have some level of political control over) is no less offensive than proud pictures of 9/11. The world has become numb to such an outrage, of course. You will have to look long and hard to find any so-called "peace" activist saying a word against these graphic paeans to ethnic cleansing that are pervasive in the Arab world. But make no mistake - that is what a map of "historic Palestine" is. It's ubiquity makes it no less offensive, and for people who truly want peace, this should be obvious. (The words on the poster are the Koranic verse that Muslims use to claim that Mohammed journeyed to Jerusalem, h/t Ali.)