By Andrew L. Jaffee

Israel has to play nice while Palestinians elect murderers for their government. Here’s what Hamas’ “leadership” represents:

Mr Meshaal has said the Islamist movement will never recognise Israel, despite threats from the US and EU to cut funding to the Palestinian Authority.

“We will never recognise the legitimacy of the Zionist state that was established on our land,” he wrote in his column, To Whom It May Concern, in the al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper.

“Our message to the United States and Europe is the attempts you are exerting to make us abandon our principles and struggle will be wasted and will not achieve any results.”

Not only is Hamas a bunch of genocidal maniacs; they are liars and historic nincompoops. “Our land” land is a bit presumptuous, to say the least.

There is ample ancient evidence of a Jewish presence in “Palestine” since 2000 BC, which can easily be found in any reputable archaeological journal; evidence of a continuous Jewish presence in the Holy Land; evidence that Arabs, not just Jews, were immigrants into the Levant; and finally, we know that Arabs violently rejected the hallowed concept of a Palestinian homeland in 1948.

It is disheartening to feel it necessary to remind people of Jewish roots in the Middle East, but I know too many “leftists” that buy the Palestinian revisionist dogma as truth.

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