[lbo-talk] Hamas Charter

[Colin Brace]

On 8/1/06, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This has not much relevance to Hezbollah, Lebanon, and
> the current conflict, but someone earlier scoffed at
> the idea that Hamas could be described as
> anti-semitic, so I am positing this:
>
> "Article Twenty-Two: The Powers which Support the
> Enemy

Just curious: in what way do you interpret this has being
anti-semitic? Rather than denigrating Jews the way, say, many earlier
Americans denigrated Native Americans, this text attributes
preternatural power and influence to Jews. It is ludicrous of course,
and reminds me of the kind of overheated rhetoric from the Cold War
period, but it doesn't by definition discount the validity of the
group's aspirations as voiced elsewhere in that document, as much as
one might disagree with them privately.

-- 
  Colin Brace
  Amsterdam