(melaniephillips.com) Melanie Phillips - What is the reaction in Britain to the creation of Hamastan in the West Bank and Gaza? They look at Northern Ireland and say, well, the IRA turned into Sinn Fein and now they are part of a peaceful and democratic government. But the Islamist terror represented by Hamas is of a completely different order from Irish republican terror. The bottom line was that if Britain had given in to its demand for a united Ireland, it would not have been the end of Britain. The IRA did not want to eradicate the British, murder all Britons, and impose a Catholic tyranny. The Islamists want to eradicate Israel, murder all Jews, and impose an Islamist theocracy on the land. That is a non-negotiable position. It is not susceptible to moderation. The Hamas agenda is not a political agenda as understood by the West, which separates church and state. The Hamas agenda is pure, undiluted religious fanaticism.
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