Elder: Fisking Hamas' spokesman to the West

Elder of Ziyon
13 June '11






(A simple question, a simple lie, smooth sailing, yes? But Elder pulls it about piece by piece, doing the job that the Globe and Mail have long ago likely forgotten about. Y.)


The Globe and Mail has a Q&A with Ahmed Yousef, Hamas spokesman for the West.

Question: Do you believe that there exists a Jewish people with roots in the Holy Land? Shouldn’t they be allowed a state?

-- Mark Surchin of Toronto, Eric Beckerman, Jon Kerner


Answer: Historically speaking, the Holy Land has been inhabited by members of the three Abrahamic faiths (Islam, Christianity and Judaism). However, the Zionist project usurped this land in order to establish a Jewish state. The indigenous people who were living on the land were forcibly removed from their homes in 1948 and they remain as refugees waiting to return as set out by UN resolution 194. We as Palestinians cannot comprehend why Israel insists that there must be a Jewish state when the land has been home to all three religions over the long course of history.

Yousef is saying here that there is no such thing as a Jewish people, and that they are merely members of a religious group. As such they don't have the right to have a state, and by implication "Palestine" should not be exclusive to one religion.

Yet the Hamas charter states the exact opposite in the relationship between Islam and nationalism:

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