And yet the world expects Israel to negotiate with these terrorist anti-Semites?

In the Katib Wilayat mosque one recent Friday, the imam was discussing the wiliness of the Jew.

“Jews are a people who cannot be trusted,” Imam Yousif al-Zahar of Hamas told the faithful. “They have been traitors to all agreements — go back to history. Their fate is their vanishing. Look what they are doing to us.”

At Al Omari mosque, the imam cursed the Jews and the “Crusaders,” or Christians, and the Danes, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He referred to Jews as “the brothers of apes and pigs,” while the Hamas television station, Al Aksa, praises suicide bombing and holy war until Palestine is free of Jewish control.

Its videos praise fighters and rocket-launching teams; its broadcasts insult the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, for talking to Israel and the United States; its children’s programs praise “martyrdom,” teach what it calls the perfidy of the Jews and the need to end Israeli occupation over Palestinian land, meaning any part of the state of Israel.

Yeah -- these folks sound like real partners for peace, don't they.

But the Israelis are expected to make concessions to them and abide by those concessions.

Despite the fact that one of the concessions made by the Palestinians at Oslo 15 years ago was the elimination of such anti-Semitic incitement in the media and mosques under control of the Palestinian Authority. Like most of the concessions made by the Palestinians in negotiations, it has been ignored in practice.

Hamas -- and much of the Palestinian people -- will not be happy until the blood of the Jews of Israel flows like a river through the streets. Until that attitude changes, why should Israel negotiate at all?