"We are all Hamas": the real voice of its messengers in London

This morning at 8:34, the BBC Radio 4 Today programme gave extended airtime to the impeccably bland establishment voice of Sir Jeremy Greenstock, speaking on behalf the Forward Thinking pressure group. It sees itself as a promoter of peace through dialogue in the Middle East conflict. 

But you've only got to listen to speakers from Forward Thinking in full flow to see that they are in fact apologists for Hamas. Greenstock stressed that Hamas' charter commitment to the destruction of Israel is to be regarded as purely rhetorical, because their 2006 election manifesto did not include the elimination of Israel as a goal. The latter part of his statement is quite true. It just leaves out the equivalent statements of commitment to increasing jihad and ending "the occupation" which I've documented in my previous post today. And astoundingly, Greenstock actually claimed that the rockets currently being fired at Israel were not being fired by Hamas, but by Fatah and by Islamic Jihad. 

Unsurprisingly, this particular statement was not nailed by the Today presenter.

But in case you're in any doubt, listen to the speech in the clip above from Dr Azzam Tamimi, who is Hamas' leading public speaker in the UK today, notorious for his statement some years back that he would love to blow himself up by carrying out a suicide bombing in Israel. 

It was made in the course of a London anti-Israel rally over the weekend, to loud cheers of encouragement from his audience. It shows what sentiments lie behind the "We are all Hamas" slogans being chanted in demonstrations in London outside the Israeli embassy every day, and being brandished against the pro-Israel rally in London yesterday. 

It does nothing less than celebrate Hamas terrorism, declare the "good news" that the Hamas military machine is unweakened, and that Israel will cease to exist through its resistance.

So doesn't this count as "glorification of terrorism", illegal under British law? Somehow, I doubt if the UK authorities will do anything to stop this particular voice of Hamas continuing his incitement of would-be jihadis in London. 

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[Fran Waddams, Anglican Friends of Israel]

Jeremy Greenstock boasted about meetings between Hamas and Sinn Fein in this interview.

THIS

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qgVE0ppM06g&eurl=http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1020137739453

is what happened in Castle Court shopping mall, Belfast at a stall run by Israeli young people.

Is this the sort of fruitful interaction Sir Jeremy was praising?