This documentary by Patrick Martin, Inside Hamas, is undrinkable. It stinks propaganda and cheap interests. If your desire is to surrender everything that we have, all that we have accomplished to this bunch of terrorists, why don’t you just say so? Your pro-Palestinian agenda is literally disgusting. In this documentary, and I’m not even sure we can call it that way, we only hear the Palestinian side of the story, which is, as always, that they are the victims of bloodthirsty Israelis who can’t control themselves massacring innocent civilians, children and women. You mention in the film that the Muslim Brotherhood was founded in the 1920s. O.K. But do you know that it was aligned with Nazi Germany during WWII? That Hasan al-Banna, its founder, offered the help of his group to Adolf Hitler and that Hitler accepted? Do you know that PIJ, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, do the nazi salute when they meet? That Israel received something like 12 000 rockets in the last years alone? You probably know these things…but it doesn’t fit with your agenda to mention them. Another gross and demented element in the document is the use of the term « resistance » to describe the activism and terrorism activities of the Hamas. Thanks for the reference to my site…but that’s not what I do. I think the Jews are good people, that the State of Israel has legitimacy and I don’t condone violence justified with religious bigotry. Resistance is the struggle against political or religious systems that are trying to keep humans down. The Hamas is everything but that. They are dedicated to the destruction of Israel, the only democracy in that part of the world, and they won’t rest until it is accomplished. You see, for the Islamists, the problem with Israel is that…it’s populated by Jews. The so-called Palestinian refugees are sometimes expelled, denied citizenship, refused entry by Arab countries. The Arab League created the Palestinian refugee problem when they rejected the two-state plan for Palestine in 1947 and when a few of its countries attacked Israel in 1967. Do Palestinians care about that, do they manifest, organize Intifadas, protests, etc? No…because these countries are populated by Arabs and Muslims and they don’t want to hurt their brothers… So all the hatred, frustrations, disappointments are re-driven, re-targeted toward Israel…because they’re Jews and Jews don’t have the right to possess their own state. Like the Koran says, Jews are pigs and dogs, so it doesn’t bother if you harass them or kill them…they’re just Jews.
I used to buy the Globe and Mail to read during my lunch break. But it’s over. From now on, I will buy the National Post. They respect Israel, the Jews, and they know how to differentiate between terrorists and real moderates or true resistants. Frankly, the world is going to pieces and with these kind of attitudes, we can be sure that it will be destroyed. In finishing, by the way, be sure of one thing: whatever lip service you might provide for Islamists, when the time comes, they will get rid of you if you don’t convert to Islam. Holy Jihad requires that all non-Muslims be killed unless they do so. Documentaries like can’t save anyone’s life.
Inside Hamas
Well, this time, you got it right. This article by Margaret Wente is honest and represents a good job of journalism. That I can respect. Ok, I admit that last time I may have burned a few fuses when I blogged about Patrick Martin’s documentary Inside Hamas. I was so infuriated by what appeared to me as a nasty peace of propaganda that I couldn’t resist denouncing it ferociously. That was duty as a responsible citizen to do so anyway. Next time I will try to remain more cool, but you have to admit that you, The Globe and Mail, pushed really far our tolerance and patience. It is one thing to express an opinion but it is another to take people for fools. With that article, we can see that Wente took the time to assess the situation and the basic facts, and the whole thing is balanced and credible. I can’t understand why Martin didn’t put the same efforts to bring similar results in his documentary in the first place. You know what? I think Wente should share notes with Patrick Martin… Judging by their respective views on the Israeli-Palestinian situation, it looks as if they are not talking about the same conflict. Overall, I will say it is good reporting. I am happy to see that there are still people with good judgement at the Globe. The second article has been published by the National Post last week on the subject and it goes around the same lines. The two articles complete each other very well.