More dishonesty from the left

Yesterday, Nahid Hattar wrote and amazing article titled "looking together for new horizons". In it, he outlines a view to deal with Hamas, which he says we should embrace. Why? Because Russia is talking to Hamas and the US doesn't want us to. Sounds reasonable. Moreover, he argues that the problem between Jordan and the PA was Fateh's relationship with Israel. I had to read that a couple of times to make sure that is what he said.

The dangerous part of the analysis comes at the end, where he sees the insistence of Hamas' leaders on retaining their Jordanian nationality as a willingness and desire to reunite with Jordan. Now this is where it gets scary. We should renounce both our peace agreements, reunite and demand for full Israeli withdrawal.

Now, I doubt that Palestinian voters elected Hamas so that the would come back to the Jordanian monarchy. So, under what conditions would Hamas want to reunite with Jordan (bypassing the question as to whether Jordanians want this)? Obviously, they wouldn't agree to playing a secondary role as the IAF does here. They would look to take over. So, basically Hattar is asking for a Hamas theocracy on both sides of the river, and we can live happily ever after.

I had trouble before understanding Hattar's leftist-East Jordanian world view. Now he has bastardized it even further demanding Hamas rule on the East Bank as well, so now I am totally confused. Of course, I have written before about the strange relationship between Jordanian Leftists and Islamists, and why nobody takes leftists seriously any more.

The bottom line is that leftist thought is fundamentally different from Islamist thought. A leftist shouldn't be simply a Christian Islamist. And if Christian leftists think that they will be able to ingratiate themselves with the Islamists by using cheap political stunts, they are sadly mistaken. They simply make disposable clowns out of themselves.