HAMAS

We hold Israel to a civilized standard because HAMAS has no civilized standards.

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist  until Islam will obliterate it,

just as it obliterated others before it."

     Preamble to the covenant of HAMAS.  

HAMAS:

Loud speakers on the minarets 

The vengeful words they say 

Death to the prophet's enemies 

so Allah will be praised 

Distorted ideologies 

cast death a sallow eye

The faithful pray for martyrdom

beneath a crimson sky

Homicides by suicide 

pack C4 in a vest 

Prophets prescribe Zionists die 

a vengeful god is blessed 

Rockets fire from crowded houses

Positioned with intent 

Israeli rounds come crashing down 

Civilian lives are spent 

Cameras filming mangled corpses

A propaganda coup 

Sick scenes of mass atrocities

What they were meant to do 

With Israel's atrocities

paraded on a stage 

the left turns co-conspirator 

To militant outrage

The militants of Palestine

Fanatic Lunatics

You are the peoples enemy

A pack of Heretics 

A scourge upon the holy land 

A warrior perverse 

Humanities catastrophe 

a genocidal curse 

"The day of judgement will not come about 

until Muslims fight Jews and kill them. Then

the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, 

then the rocks and trees will cry out,

Oh Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, 

Come and kill him."

    Article 7 from the covenant of HAMAS.

    Taken straight from the Koran 

Author's Note

Nazi anti Semitic propaganda poster. In the Arabic world holocaust denial is a common core belief and it's assumed everything that goes wrong is an Israeli plot to undermine the Arab world. The media is to busy focusing on the corpses piling up in Gaza (Israel should be held accountable for it's heavy handedness.) to report on the Arabic world's rabid anti-Semitism. The main reason they won't report on it is because it wouldn't be PC by casting the Arabic/ Muslim world in an unfavorable light IE "racist," the ultimate offence in our culture. There's no doubt Israel has committed crimes in the occupation and subjugation of the Palestinian people and Israel should be held accountable for those crimes but we need to remember what Israel is fighting against. Despite what some extremists may say in the media Israel has not, and never has had, a document calling for the eradication of the Arabic people. With extremist groups all across the middle east with funding from Iran, Saudi Arabia and other oil rich nations hell bent on destroying Israel, the same can not be said for the Arab world. This is a complex, difficult story. With all the dead children coming out of Gaza it's impossible for any civilized human being not to be horrified and look to Israel for some kind of restraint with the reason being, the world knows we can't look to HAMAS for anything but more bloodshed. Israel's the only hope for stability in the region.

Reviews

[Marie]

I have read your poem, and I have read these other reviews, and I am thoroughly confused. I totally respect people of all faiths, and I wish that peace were possible, but it is not. People were created with a built in survival instinct, and it will keep them fighting.

[Baby Ricochet]

It's a very confusing, complicated situation. Thank you Marie

[Mary Christabel George]

"Distorted ideologies
cast death a sallow eye
The faithful pray for martyrdom
beneath a crimson sky"

This is Powerful.

I don't know when will it stop? All prayers for Peace is going futile I feel. A sad but a true thing you shared.

[Tree]

I like your pieces on these types of controversial matters because you do a good job of looking at all sides. There is an unbiased and well thought out argument to your geo political work. (I read the piece about Israel needing to take responsibility too).
You do your homework B.R, and you have a sharp and open mind that helps put your findings into perspective.

DPaz

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks Diego. I appreciate it

[NoelHC]

Well stated and to the point. My son did two tours in Afghanistan, and his stories reflect your point here as well.
The media, for whatever reason seems to give terrorists a free pass.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it.

[B. Maaitah]

I hate to discuss politics, I hate to get into wars and religion and etc... but if you're interested in the subject, I suggest you hear both side's story.. Hamas isn't on a mission to eradicate Israel, Hamas is merely an armed resistance against an occupying entity that is Israel, Hamas and Gaza have been under siege by none other than Israel for the past 9 years, they are not allowed to travel or even go to nearby towns, no export/import action for any kind of products including food supplies or clothes or anything... and for the past month they've been under Israeli bombing where they are losing their homes, their families, their children.. and let's not talk about those who died may they rest in peace, let's talk about those Palestinians who actually survive, no education because schools have been bombed, no homes, cause entire neighborhoods are bombed, they will continue to live PTSD and traumas of all kinds.. Hamas wants to end the siege so that the people of Gaza can live like you and I live, a dignified human life.. and Israel's response to that, is more bombings... I don't expect to change your views, but I'm sharing you mine, I'm against innocent people's killing on both sides, I don't wish to see Israelis lose their families, their sons, their mothers, or anything dear... but when I compare the damages that Israel has suffered to that suffered by Palestinians, my compassion cannot but go towards them because they are the weaker part here...

[Baby Ricochet]

Honestly. After two deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan, I don't believe either side. In Iraq the local sheikhs would tell us all they wanted was peace while the clerics were telling their followers to kill all of us. One guess who had the biggest influence. It's a situation where what they say is one thing and what they do is another. All to common in an occupied land, like Iraq, like Gaza. There's no doubt Israel has had a boot at the throat of the Palestinian people for decades now just as there's no doubt HAMAS militant wing who wants to obliterate Israel. On the ground in situations like what's happening in Gaza the line between defense, duty and atrocity isn't just blurry, it's out and out non existent in some places. I'm on the side of the people under the bombs. Palestinian, Israeli, Syrian, Iraqi, whoever. They're the ones paying the price for all this insanity.

[TL Boehm]

I am at the point where I don't even know how to respond although I do believe the media spin does more damage than good, on so many levels. I don't believe Israel is without blame but I do not support HAMAS. Perhaps I'm just old and crotchety and jaded. But you touched on a point many don't bring up. HAMAS has one agenda and it isn't peace the way we understand it.