{"id":145,"date":"2004-03-24T19:47:30","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T19:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=145"},"modified":"2004-03-24T19:47:30","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T19:47:30","slug":"we-should-talk-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"We should talk to them.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The naive left claims that we should use diplomacy and negotiate with terrorists. By killing terrorist leaders like Israel did to Ahmed Yassin, the co-founder and &#8220;spiritual leader&#8221; of Hamas, Israel is &#8220;perpetuating the cycle of violence&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>One thing I learned in the Marine Corps is that you need to kill people who want to kill you. Sounds harsh, but its true. And Hamas certainly wants to kill Israel. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/world\/para\/docs\/880818.htm\">Hamas&#8217; founding charter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How do you negotiate with people who don&#8217;t want to negotiate? Islamic terrorists (e.g. Hamas) only want to kill. There is no alternative. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion. &#8221; -W. R. Inge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The naive left claims that we should use diplomacy and negotiate with terrorists. By killing terrorist leaders like Israel did to Ahmed Yassin, the co-founder and &#8220;spiritual leader&#8221; of Hamas, Israel is &#8220;perpetuating the cycle of violence&#8221;. One thing I learned in the Marine Corps is that you need to kill people who want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=145\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We should talk to them..&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}