John Kerry warns Israel against Apartheid

by: Michael D. Evans

Secretary of State John Kerry has taken his “dog and pony act” to the world stage. In a meeting of a group of Trilateral Commission senior representatives and specialists from the United States, the European Union, Russia, and Japan, Kerry said that Israel was on the verge of becoming an “apartheid state” if it didn’t give the Palestinians their own nation. What a colossal display of audacity from one who is supposed to be Israel’s ally. Said Kerry:

“A two-state solution will be clearly underscored as the only real alternative. Because a unitary state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class citizens—or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state” (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/report-kerry-says-israel-risks-becoming-apartheid-state-060425281.html#IP21cCS).

This is outrageous! How dare Mr. Kerry accuse Israel of embracing segregation if it does not capitulate to a terror state? Not only is the Palestinian Authority a terrorist organization and the world’s most infamous, but now it has united with Hamas, an even more evil group.

Hamas is on the international terrorist lists of the US, the EU, the UK and Canada, as well as other countries globally. When Osama bin Laden was killed, Hamas condemned the US action. In January 2011, Hamas enlisted Jaish-al-Islam (Army of Islam), its al-Qaeda affiliate in Egypt to murder twenty-four Coptic Christians. In 2013, Hamas executed sixteen Egyptians and wounded 130 in the Nile Delta.

The Hamas Charter calls for the annihilation of every Jew in the State of Israel. On March 13, 2008, Hamas called for a mahraqa (Holocaust) of the Jews. Its leaders have declared that Allah punished the Jews by means of the Germans, and now it is the turn for Islamic nations to punish them once again. It would not be possible in one article to name the number of suicide bombings that have been launched in Israel by Hamas, i.e., bombings that took place at Dimona, Kerem Shalom, the Eilat bakery, Kedumim, Rosh Ha’ir restaurant, Ha’Sharon mall, Hadera market, Beersheba central bus station, Stage Club, Carmel market, French Hill Junction, and more (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks).

Rather than John Kerry attacking Hamas and the PA over the demonic unification of two terrorist organizations, he attacked Israel. Most of the Middle East Arab states consider themselves Muslim countries. Does Secretary of State Kerry call them apartheid states? No! He reserved that term for Israel. In Saudi Arabia, Christians are not allowed to wear a necklace with a cross or carry a Bible openly. Has he called it an apartheid state?

Six million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II. This is Holocaust Remembrance week in which we remember the dead, and Kerry dares to refer to the Jewish state of Israel as an “apartheid state.” Had Israel been a state during World War II, there would have been fewer Holocaust victims.

Arabs living in Israel are afforded more rights than those living in any Islamic state. Israeli Arabs have the right to vote in elections and to hold office. Women have the same rights as men. This “apartheid” slur against Israel because its leaders have sanctioned a wall of protection separating the country and a terror state is insanity. Tell this to the people of Sderot in southern Israel where thousands of rockets have been lobbed at them from Gaza.

Aparthied was a state-sanctioned system of racial discrimination between 1948 and 1994 dominating every aspect of daily life in South Africa. This is not even remotely the case in Israel.

Several years ago, I debated Al Sharpton regarding this very issue on MSNBC’s Hardball. I said to him, “For a moment I would like you to imagine you are the mayor of Harlem. The Ku Klux Klan has just fired thousands of missiles into your city. Hundreds of Black people have been killed and wounded. And, by the way, that the people of Harlem cannot live in any area occupied by the Klan. Now, I would like you to defend the KKK. That’s precisely what you are doing by defending Hamas and the PA.”

It appears that John Kerry needs to study his genealogy. Surely, he is related to British Prime Minister Arthur Neville Chamberlain who served from 1937 to 1940. He conceded the Sudentenland region of Czechoslovakia to Hitler all in the name of appeasement. He sent a signal to the West that it did not have the moral courage to confront evil (http://www.biography.com/people/neville-chamberlain-9243721#awesm=~oCKEJuuAVNoNjj).

What a pathetic signal Secretary of State John Kerry has just sent to the evildoers of the world—from Putin in Russia, to Kim Jong-un in North Korea, to Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran.

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Dr. Michael Evans is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. His latest fiction book, Born Again: 1967 is available at www.TimeWorthyBooks.com.

Hamas, Terrorists with an Agenda

by: Michael D. Evans

Hamas, the terrorist organization that occupies Gaza, is hard at work trying to convince the US Secretary of State that its name should not be on the list for Foreign Terrorist Organizations. In its attempt, numerous European Union countries have been contacted in an effort to bolster that endeavor. The purpose of Hamas and its leader, Khaled Mashaal, has always been to create an Islamic state in the territory awarded Israel by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

The fallacy in the proposal is that Hamas leaders have no intention of changing its fundamental policy as stated in its charter: The annihilation of Israel. Like its cousin, the Palestinian Authority, it wants all of the land on which the Jewish people reside. Nor are its chiefs willing to disarm, to stop the flow of tens of thousands of rockets and mortars from Iran into Gaza in order to achieve its goals. In other words, Hamas wants all the perks of removal from the terrorist list without paying the price.

It is incongruous that the ploy by Hamas to shed its terrorist label corresponds with Egyptian reports that the organization is now dabbling in terrorist attacks in that country. Those reports have been refuted, but the suggestion coincides with the infiltration of the Sinai by other terrorist groups—including al-Qaeda.

One Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad, indicated that the pressure to bring about a change of attitude among EU countries has had positive results in both the West and other Arab countries. It appears that on Wednesday, April 24, Hamas and Fatah, at least, buried the hatchet and announced plans for a joint government. US State Department head John Kerry seemed stunned by the announcement. Those who follow terrorist activities in the Middle East know that it would be easier for a leopard to change its spots than for Hamas and Fatah to recognize Israel’s right to exist, and suspend attacks against her. This is confirmed by the near-daily rocket attacks aimed at some area inside Israel.

According to a Washington Post report: Abbas made a revealing choice – rather than choosing peace with a democratic neighbor he decided to align with murderous, terrorist, Jihadist Islamists. Abbas celebrates the release of terrorists and luxuriates in the alliance with them.

Those who believe Mahmoud Abbas is a viable peace partner in negotiations between the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government are sorely mistaken. Like his predecessor Yasser Arafat, Abbas has had ample opportunities to come to an agreement with his Israeli counterpart—opportunities which had been squandered by his refusal to disarm the terrorist factions within his territory and to recognize Israel’s right to exist.

Several arguments abound as to why the Palestinian Authority continues to reject any and all offers of a Palestinian State as did Yasser Arafat in 2000 and as Mahmoud Abbas has continued to do. Formal statehood would limit the ability of the PLO and Hamas in Gaza to commit acts of terrorism. This was a lesson learned when Gaza achieved pseudo-statehood. It became easier for Israel to retaliate when attacked. For the PA to achieve statehood would be a catastrophic move: It would lose the “victim” status which it has enjoyed for decades, and would lose sizeable donations from US, EU, and Arab backers. Would that those organizations, including the UN and Russia come to understand that the Palestinians do not want a state. It would rob them of the cover they now enjoy when it comes to terroristic acts against the Jewish people in Israel.

The question begs to be asked: How could any right-thinking EU leader, or for that matter the US Secretary of State, believe for a moment that Abbas and Hamas are willing to forgo the Jew-hatred that drives the terrorist organizations?