The New Hamas/Palestinian Authority Government

On Thursday, representatives of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority sat down in Cairo and announced they were forming a new unity government. This means that the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority (P.A.) is now in bed politically with a terrorist organization.

This puts the Obama Administration in a bind. They want to support a Palestinian state but are prevented by law to negotiate with Hamas. How will they now support a Palestinian effort to establish a state allied with a terrorist organization?

This also jeopardizes the financial support the P.A. receives from the United States. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said one of the stipulations for the P.A. to receive U.S. foreign aid is to recognize Israel “right to exist.”

But Hamas – the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood - has stated in its charter it wants to continue to fight Israel and kill the Jews.

Here’s what their charter says:

Article Seven

“... Hamas is one of the links in the Chain of Jihad in the confrontation with the Zionist invasion. It links up with the setting out of the Martyr Izz a-din al-Qassam and his brothers in the Muslim Brotherhood who fought the Holy War in 1936; it further relates to another link of the Palestinian Jihad and the Jihad and efforts of the Muslim Brothers during the 1948 War, and to the Jihad operations of the Muslim Brothers in 1968 and thereafter.

But even if the links have become distant from each other, and even if the obstacles erected by those who revolve in the Zionist orbit, aiming at obstructing the road before the Jihad fighters, have rendered the pursuance of Jihad impossible; nevertheless, the Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah's promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said:

The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! This will not apply to the Gharqad, which is a Jewish tree (cited by Bukhari and Muslim).”

Here’s an excerpt from an interview we did with Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Hamas.