Berman Post report that: "A charity run by the interior minister of Hamas has offered $1.4 Million for a captured Israeli soldier. Given how much they keep talking about wanting peace, I assume that they only want to talk to the soldier and then will let him go. You know, the way they are talking to Gilad Shalit." Well that's where Israel's trading prisoners for a video of one captured soldier,...
Hamas political bureau member Muhammad Naser has said that the movement will not sign the Egypt-brokered Palestinian reconciliation document, and blamed the Egyptians for the reconciliation's impasse. Source: Paltoday.com, November 19, ... November 20, 2009, 11:43 am
Thanks to our pals at Infidels Are Cool - good guys who are on-the-ball when they say "...And the left whines about “living conditions” in Gaza…": GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Gaza "charity" headed by the interior minister of the Hamas terrorist organization on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Arabs and Muslims...
Former head of Mossad, Efraim Halevy, who headed the agency from 1998 to 2002, spoke this week to ABC Radio PM about the importance of engaging Hamas: Well as you know I am on record for the last six years saying that Hamas should be part of the solution not part of the problem. In the last [...]
Mahmoud Abbas was interviewed in Arabic by the BBC last night, and he proved yet again that the oft-used appellation "moderate" is a misnomer. The Israeli press is reporting on some of his more outrageous statements. "Those who have to resist are the people, and there are different types of resistance, like in (West Bank villages of) Bilin and Naalin, where people are injured every day"...
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Resistance will continue: Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal vows of planning a new political initiative that would discard vain negotiations and instead adopt resistance to redress Palestinian rights. “Not much hope could be upheld for a future Palestinian state as long as the Zionist occupation persists; Israel pushes ahead with plans to build more homes for Jewish [...]
In an interview published Thursday in the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Hayat , a Hamas spokesman said that the jihadist movement is loyal to "Palestinian principles" in its policy of terrorism against the Jews until Israel ceases to exist. Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas claimed earlier this month that Hamas had agreed to the establishment of a Palestinian...
In an interview , Abbas says they're discussing a Palestinian state with temporary borders. Hamas is denying it. But if the talks were secret, that's to be expected. The claim comes, perhaps not coincidentally, a few days after a senior Israeli general spoke in notably positive terms about how Hamas has nearly halted rocket attacks from Gaza, and also restrained other Palestinian militants of late....
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian physician, born in Jerusalem and living in the West Bank city of Ramallah. He came in second behind Mahmoud Abbas in the 2005 Palestinian presidential election. Currently, Barghouti is the Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative, a political party that was formed in 2002 with Edward Said, Dr. Haidar Abdel-Shafi [...]
URL: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3123 . Source: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. In early September, three senior leaders of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood (MB) resigned from the organization's executive bureau after it voted to dissolve the MB political department -- one of the few remaining components of the organization controlled by moderates. The resignations...
I know. Despite the security assurances swirling around Israel's decision to call off Cast Lead. I mean, sure the international community made identical assurances in the context of Israel's original withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. And sure those first assurances were provided with an extra exclamation point, where Palestinian shelling was understood to justify massive Israeli retaliation. And... [[...
by Michael J. Totten Hezbollah's Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah recently announced that he could hit any and every place in Israel with long-range missiles. That would mean that, unlike in 2006, Hezbollah could strike not only the northern cities of Kiryat Shmona and Haifa but also Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ben-Gurion International Airport, and the Dimona nuclear-power plant. I dismissed his claim as...
Here's a delicate way to put it. Milwaukee-area Muslim Religious Director Zulfiqar Ali Shah was not allowed to partake in a trip to Israel which would have been paid for largely by Milwaukee-area Jewish donors . As a result, the Muslims have quit the Interfaith Council. (We'll leave aside the question of chutzpah for a moment and go to the whitewashing job.) ...Jewish leaders said Israel would refuse...
Related: Gallup and Rasmussen polls have Obama approval rating below 50%. Anyone with a lick of common sense could have seen that end result. Barack Obama finally had to admit this week that he would not close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by his self-imposed deadline of January 2010 — and would not set a new deadline, either. What happened? The AP investigated — and discovered...
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell After 30 years of a harsh, totalitarian and dogmatic Islamic theocracy, the June 12 th elections in Iran have provided a platform for people, for the first time, to voice their opinion on not only the vacuum of democracy but also criticise how Islam is being used as a veneer for this abusive, austere and autocratic...
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Fascinating contention, Nadia! I very much enjoyed it! And I agree: false binary between moderates and extremists. On a different, more provocative...
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