lickety jackblog

Sarge, you'll be happy to know that your recent post (re: Palestinian democracy) has sparked quite a few interesting conversations among our friends in the Windy City of late. To wit, as the tangent continues to unravel, my roommate just sent me this:

We will not sell our people or principles for foreign aid
Khalid Mish'al, head of the political bureau of Hamas

A snippet:
"Our message to the Israelis is this: we do not fight you because you belong to a certain faith or culture. Jews have lived in the Muslim world for 13 centuries in peace and harmony; they are in our religion "the people of the book" who have a covenant from God and His Messenger Muhammad (peace be upon him) to be respected and protected. Our conflict with you is not religious but political. We have no problem with Jews who have not attacked us - our problem is with those who came to our land, imposed themselves on us by force, destroyed our society and banished our people."

-The Guardian

posted by Little Gordie @ 6:31 PM