To quote from the original Hamas charter: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it just as it obliterated others before it ... The day of judgment will not come until Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.”
Exactly two years ago in London
The car parade by Hamas supporters in London last week, calling for the killing of Jews and the rape of their daughters, was sickening.
Yet this and other dangerously loaded language is not being voiced solely by radicals or extremists. It has become a regular feature of mainstream political debate in Western societies. From journalists in major media organisations, trade unions, acclaimed intellectuals in universities, in the halls of the United Nations and, more disturbing still, from elected members of parliaments across the Western world.
They include members of both the Democrat “squad” in the United States and the British Labour Party, politicians across Europe and even certain elements of the ALP and the Greens here in Australia.
If you cheer for Hamas, you should understand it wants Israel wiped from the map
May 27, 2021 — 5.30am
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” So goes the catch-cry chanted by anti-Israel demonstrators around the globe over the past 10 days.
Let there be no doubt about what these words mean to the people who coined them.
