It’s quite common in the Islamic world, or at least in the mainstream Islamic media and vocal opinion, to forget that the Prophet Mohammad urged Muslims to live peacefully with the “people of the book” or the Christians and Jews whose faiths are the roots of Islamic belief. Haaretz reports that Hamas TV, that cheerful channel, has a new video out purporting that “Satanic Jews” were the masterminds of the Holocaust. Apparently David Ben Gurion was the ringleader.

The accompanying commentary claims that Ben Gurion said “the disabled and handicapped are a heavy burden on the state.” To rid them of that scourge, the video claims, Ben Gurion and “the Satanic Jews thought up an evil plot to be rid of the burden of disable and handicapped in twisted criminal ways.”

This disregards the whole Nazi element, of course. I imagine that Hamas believes Mein Kompf was written by Ben Gurion as well. Indeed, Holocaust denial has reached new heights in the Arab world. And it’s not limited to the “fringe” or to terrorist organizations like Hamas. In fact, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Prime Minister, who has called the Israeli actions in Gaza a Holocaust, wrote a rather laughable denial of the Nazi Holocaust before he was named Prime Minister–and called a “moderate” by many Americans and world leaders. A moderate? The sad thing is, he really is a moderate compared to Hamas. The Hamas program goes on to say:

The Holocaust “was a joke, and part of the perfect show that Ben Gurion put on,” said Amin Dabur, head of the Palestinian Center for Strategic Research organization, in the video.

These are the people we’re supposed to be dealing with to achieve peace? Jimmy Carter thought he could actually convince them that peace was in their best interests when it seems obvious to me that peace is the last thing Hamas desires. They want blood and treasure, and the only thing that allows them to get the power they need is a perpetual war against Israel.

The only way to achieve peace is to dismantle the terrorist operations in Gaza and the West Bank and deal with men who may actually want peace–men like the racist Mahmoud Abbas, as despicable as he may be.

There sure are some strange things taking place in the Middle East right now. And I don’t like any of it! This past week has been one of historic proportions. First we have this crazed liberal, former President Jimmy Carter, going to Israel on what he likes to think of as a goodwill mission. The only problem there is, where’s the goodwill?

There certainly wasn’t any “goodwill” created when Carter announced that he would be meeting with exiled Hamas deputy chief Khaled Meshal. And I doubt seriously that there was much goodwill created when Carter met earlier in the week with other members of the Hamas hierarchy. And there probably wasn’t a lot of goodwill when Carter laid a wreath at Arafat’s grave, either.

The goodwill wasn’t present when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and other high-ranking Israeli’s refused to meet with the American apostate. (more…)