New “Palestinian” Poll Data Out - AWRAD
“88 percent believe that the results of the confrontation in Gaza prove that armed struggle is the best means of achieving Palestinian independence.”
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(Source: awrad.org)
(Source: israelnationalnews.com)
“88 percent believe that the results of the confrontation in Gaza prove that armed struggle is the best means of achieving Palestinian independence.”
Download and read the English Report.
(Source: awrad.org)
When do the Peace Talks start?
Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal on Saturday rejected ceding “an inch of Palestinian territory” to Israel or recognizing the Jewish State, reported AFP.
Mashaal, on his first ever visit to Gaza, made the remarks in a speech marking the 25th anniversary of the founding of the terror group.
“Palestine is our land and nation from the (Mediterranean) sea to the (Jordan) river, from north to south, and we cannot cede an inch or any part of it,” he said.
“Resistance is the right way to recover our rights, as well as all forms of struggle — political, diplomatic, legal and popular, but all are senseless without resistance,” added Mashaal, according to AFP.
Addressing the longtime rivalry between Hamas and the Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, he said, “We are a single authority, a single reference, and our reference is the PLO, which we want united.”
He was referring to the Palestine Liberation Organization, to which Hamas does not belong Mashaal said a year ago that it and other factions were “on the path to joining” it.
In 2007, Hamas ousted Fatah forces from Gaza after several weeks of bloody street battles. The two factions have been fighting ever since.
The parties attempted to resolve the feud between them when they signed a reconciliation deal in May of 2011. The deal has repeatedly faltered as the parties spar over its implementation.
As he arrived in Gaza on Friday, Mashaal told crowds he hoped his next visit would be to “Jerusalem, Ramallah and a liberated Palestine.”
He said his visit to Gaza was his “third birth”, referring to an assassination attempt by Israeli Mossad agents in 1997 as his previous “re-birth.”
“I pray to God that my fourth birth will come the day we liberate Palestine,” Mashaal said. “Today is Gaza. Tomorrow will be Ramallah and after that Jerusalem then Haifa and Jaffa.”
The celebrations in Gaza come just over two weeks after an Egyptian-brokered truce ended Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense, which targeted Hamas’s terror infrastructure in Gaza..
“We used only 10 percent of our capacity in the fighting,” a masked spokesman for Hamas military wing the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades told the crowd, according to AFP.
“If you had escalated (your attacks), so would we have,” he told Israel. “We will cut the hand that extends in aggression against our people and leaders.”
A huge portrait of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, killed by Israel in 2004, dominated the main stage on Saturday, as did one of Hamas military commander Ahmed Jaabari, whose targeted killing by Israel marked the beginning of the Gaza military operation.
Between them was a model of an M75 rocket, of the sort Hamas terrorists fired at Israeli cities during the last escalation.
Six Executed In Gaza For Working With Israel (Warning: Graphic).
So much for Gaza being the victim.
This is what Israel reaps from uprooting Jews from Gaza and handing the Land over to our enemies and the enemies of G-d!
When will Israel stand tall and fight for the Jewish People instead of bowing to those who wish us dead?
If it weren’t so deadly serious, western media’s ignorance of this elephant in the room would be laughable.
Unfortunately, it’s deadly serious.
Hamas MP Sheik Yunis Al-Astal proclaims that when it comes to persecuting the Jews, it’s time for the baton to be passed from the Nazis to Islam.
“They want peace”, you say?
The Israeli Left reaches breaking point with Hamas
Yesh Din V’Yesh Dayan. Or why we are fighting in Gaza.
22-Jun-12: Killing little children, then turning them into martyrs and blaming it on other people
We mentioned in an earlier posting today [“22-Jun-12: For now, there’s somewhat less drama down south, but peaceful it’s not.”] that Hamas, the thugocracy that rules Gaza, had staged a funeral for a tiny child of two, calling her a “martyr” and disgustingly wrapping her body in a Hamas flag. While they claimed her life ended in an Israeli attack, someone from Hamas had already admitted to the BBC [see “Palestinian Girl’s Death: Hamas Owns Up”] that the toddler’s death was in fact caused by its own terrorists. No Israeli forces were involved.
Though most of the mainstream media reported the death as caused by Israel or at minimum that there were credible claims that it was all Israel’s fault, there’s a new and authoritative version. A UN agency has come forward (hat tip Challah Hu Akbar) to confirm the Israeli version of the facts.The little girl was yet another innocent victim of the Palestinian Arab rocket men, and she was not the only child to suffer in this particular incident. Click here to see how the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in “Occupied Palestinian Territory” reports on “two incidents on 18 and 19 June [in which] an 18-month-old Palestinian baby was killed and four other children (aged between 3 and 12) were injured when Palestinian rockets fell short inside Gaza and hit two houses in the Beit Hanoun and Az Zeitoun areas”Tragically but consistent with their outlook on life - and on death - the Paltimes website published grotesque photographs of the “martyred” toddler, Hadeel al-Haddad. We won’t reproduce them here.Archive photo of crying child in Beit Hanoun, Gaza Strip
As it happens, her surname is the same as that of the child killed
by a failed Hamas rocket this week [Image Source]
Hamas as a Hybrid Terrorist Organization: 60 Seconds with Dr. Boaz Ganor
Dr. Boaz Ganor, the Deputy Dean of the Vander School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy at the IDC Herzliya, explains Hamas’ goals and tactics.
A hybrid terrorist organization, Ganor says, is an organization that is involved both in politics and violence. Hybrid terrorist organizations are even more dangerous than “classic” terror organizations, he says.