Javier Solana says: ‘Hamas doesn’t want to destroy Israel’.

Hamas wants to “liberate the Palestinians,” not to destroy Israel, Javier Solana, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

In an interview following his talks in Tel Aviv with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Solana insisted that it was “not impossible” for Hamas to change and “recognize the existence of Israel.”

History had shown that people and nations “adapt to reality,” he said. “I don’t want to lose hope.”

Pressed as to whether he was underestimating the fundamentalist religious imperative at the heart of the Hamas ideology, Solana said, “I cannot imagine that the religious imperative, the real religious imperative, can make anybody destroy another country... Therefore that is an abuse of religion...”

“I don’t think the essence of Hamas is the destruction of Israel. The essence of Hamas is the liberation of the Palestinians,” he added. “The liberation of their people, not the destruction of Israel.”

This mind-blowingly obtuse utterance has to rank right up there with Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time.” In order to believe something like this, you have to ignore decades of statements from Hamas leaders—not to mention the genocidal Hamas charter itself. This is the European sickness, encapsulated in one incredibly stupid man.