Hamas and the PA are One
Charles Johnson
Thu Jun 19, 2003 at 8:28 am PDT • Views: 166
Alyssa Lappen writes an open letter to the president, pointing out the fallacy of drawing an artificial (and false) separation between the PA and Hamas: Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are One.
Dear Mr. President:
The Road Map dangerously subverts the U.S. War on Terror.
As a journalist specializing on Middle East history, I urge you to refocus on the goals you brilliantly outlined on June 24, 2002. We must not ask Israel to negotiate for a Palestinian State until the renewed terrorist attacks stop and the terrorist infrastructure is dismantled.
Hamas is not at war with the Palestinian Authority, despite a PR campaign to the contrary. The PA has worked actively with Hamas for years. In 1995, it wrote a pact with the Islamist terrorists in Hamas. Mahmoud Abbas’ protests are evidently for show. On March 3 of this year, Abbas urged that violence continue.
A draft of the Hamas-PA pact, appended below, ran on Sept. 20, 1995 in Egypt’s Al-Ahram government weekly. Article 12 requires the PA to cease all preventive security and let Hamas operate without PA interference. The agreement gives Hamas a role in the PA government, which Abu Mazen fulfilled by naming a Hamas partisan as education minister.
Indeed, PLO political chief Farouq Al-Qaddoumi confirmed on Jan. 3, 2003, Fatah was “never different from Hamas … Strategically, we are no different from it.”
Once again, the terror gangs have told us in their own words what they plan, and how they intend to achieve their goals.
Frank says: