Former terrorist says West ignores real Hamas agenda

Former Palestinian terrorist, Walid Shoebat, says the West continues to pursue a failed idea that somehow terrorism against Israel will stop when the Palestinians get their own homeland.

"The core issue is not an issue of land whatsoever. It's an issue of wiping the state of Israel out. If you look at even suicide bombing -- historically, if you look from 1980 until 2003, let's say -- 224 suicide bombings out of 300 existed in Islamic countries with no occupation whatsoever," he notes. "So it's not simply the desire to create a Palestinian state. It is the desire to destroy the Jewish state, and that's what we see." (Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 1/10/2009)