Voting In a Terror Regime

Near future, San Juan, Puerto Rico Crowds or supporters, many of them firing automatic weapons into the air in joy, welcomed the new president of the Free State of Puerto Rico, into her offices today. "Now comes the hard work to liberate our sisters and brothers from under the oppressive gringo yoke," said Maria Torres through an interpreter. Torres, great-granddaughter of Alberto Torres, one of the famed liberation fighters from the early days of the revolution, when he fought the fascisti with Fuerzas Armadas Liberacion Nacional Puertoriquena (FALN) in the 1970's and 80's. "We must continue our armed struggle until not a single Spanish speaker suffers under the English yoke of oppression," Governor Torres said, waving one of the Cuban cigars for which she is famed for smoking -- and which has caused her not to be allowed into the United States. While the American Secretary of State complained commented on the aggressive start to La Presidenta Torres' rule, government officials dismissed the statement as a tactic meant to undermine Puerto Rico's place as a peer among nations. "We will not be cowed into obedience," an Interior Ministry spokesman said, "the time when the Great Satan could do that to us has passed.

Sound absurd? I think so. There isn't a country that I know of that would willingly bring to power an arch enemy at their border, or permit another country to do so. Iraq certainly wouldn't want that -- except, of course, that a majority of Iraqis are loyal, through clan or religion, to neighboring Iran, but that's a different story.

Hamas, avowed opponent of Israel, advocator of the destruction of the State of Israel, official terrorist organization by both American and international acclaim, is picking up the weapon of the vote. Under cover of supporting democracy, the United States and other Western powers may end up assisting in the installation of a mortal enemy around almost all of Israel's land border. Like other Iranian-backed sister organizations such as Hizballah, it gains converts to its fold by out-providing social services to its target populations -- while killing or derailing more legitimate organizations, such as the PA or the Lebanese governments, from doing the job that they, rightfully, should do. Check out this clinical discussion with one of the inventors of the suicide bomber.

I'm not going to go int0 a long discussion about whether Hamas is a terror organization or not; you can find out more about that here, here, here, here, here and here. I'm pointing to how terror organizations use the freedoms and tools extant in an open democracy to injure it. We trained the terrorists who flew the planes into the towers in our flight schools. We

Hamas is not a political organization: The following is a direct quote from the Hamas charter (Article 13):

Now and then the call goes out for the convening of an international conference to look for ways of solving the (Palestinian) question. Some accept, others reject the idea, for this or other reason, with one stipulation or more for consent to convening the conference and participating in it. Knowing the parties constituting the conference, their past and present attitudes towards Moslem problems, the Islamic Resistance Movement does not consider these conferences capable of realising the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitraters. When did the infidels do justice to the believers? ... 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. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with.

Highlighting in the text is mine. This is no different than a party dedicated to the abolition of democracy and installation of a dictatorship running for the Presidency, except these folks can scare up the needed votes, and I mean that literally. Hamas in an election isn't an act of democracy, it's an act of terrorism.

So the discussion about the Palestinian Authority allowing Hamas to run in upcoming elections is nothing other than their throwing up their hands and facing the inevitable. And the inevitable consequence to Hamas sitting on one side of Israel's future
crenellated border will be the destruction of the Palestinian State, by Israel, by Western forces, or by civil war.

The real choice Abbas needs to make now is whether to disarm the militias and terror organizations in his midst. He does it now at great peril, or it will be done for his successors, for he will not live to see the peace he claims to strive towards.