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EmailHamas: Give Us West Bank So We Can Destroy Israel
by Khaled Abu Toameh, gatestoneinstitute via dailyalert.org,
September 7, 2014
What Hamas and Iran are saying is that if and when Israel pulls back to the pre-1967 lines, they, together with other Palestinians, would bring weapons into the West Bank to achieve their goal of eliminating the “Zionist entity.”
Abbas’s initiative also ignores that Hamas could easily seize control of the West Bank through force or through the promised free and democratic elections, which recent polls show Hamas is assured of winning. Abbas is demanding something that would bring about his own demise.
