(Image from Dec 22nd ed. of the Taiwan News. Sorry, no link available.)
So what DOES a pudgy-faced Hamas-tani learn when he and his little Fatah playmate aren’t on the outs?
#1: Genocide. A quote from the Hamas Charter, Article 7:
…the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) aspires to Allah’s promise, no matter how long that should take…
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews."
#2. Perpetual War. Hamas Charter, Article 13:
There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.
#3. Harmonious relations with other religions – but only under Islamic domination. Hamas Charter, Article 31:
Under the wing of Islam, it is possible for the followers of the three religions – Islam, Christianity and Judaism – to coexist in peace and quiet with each other. Peace and quiet would not be possible except under the wing of Islam.
Hey, it works! Why, just look how well mad Mahmoud gets along with Uncle Kahn. Now THERE’S a dhimmi who really knows his place!
(Image from the Dec 14th ed. of the Taipei Times.)
How dare that Jewish upstart take away Lien Chan’s stepinfetchit championship like that?
(Image from the May 4/05 ed. of the Washington Post.)
#4. Draconian punishments for those who disagree with their jihad. Hamas Charter, Article 32:
Leaving the circle of struggle with Zionism is high treason, and cursed be he who does that.
So if your average 5-year old has a passion for genocide, perpetual war, religious subjugation and totalitarian persecution of dissenters, then yeah, he and the Taiwan News‘ tearful Islamofascist have LOTS in common.
Should there actually be a civil war between Hamas and Fatah, I’m hopin’ neither side runs out of bullets. Anyways, here’s a comparison that’s a little closer to the mark than the Taiwan News‘. Wicked riff on "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
UPDATE: Spent a few hours writing this post late at night and then realized the cartoonist may not have been portraying Hamas and Fatah as CHILDREN, but instead may have been showing that Palestinian children were VICTIMS of the fight between those two movements. Ugh. Momentary urge to hit the delete button. Suppress it though – the post says what I meant at the time.
Just one observation about this second interpretation: Wouldn’t Palestinian children be victims of Hamas and Fatah REGARDLESS of whether the two terrorist groups happen to be getting along at any given time or not?
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