albawaba.com - 12/18/2008
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Ismail Haniyeh Israel has recently received messages from "senior Arab official" urging the Hebrew state to resume its assassinations attacks in the Gaza Strip, the Tel Aviv-based Maariv reported. According to the newspaper, one of the messages even said "take their heads off", in reference to ...
haaretz.com - 12/18/2008
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haaretz.com —
The militant Islamist organization Hamas announced Thursday evening
that the cease-fire with Israel in Gaza is over,...
24 hours before the six-month truce was due to expire. "The calm, which was reached with Egyptian sponsorship on June 19 and expires ...
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Hamas: Gaza cease-fire with Israel is ...
news.yahoo.com - 12/19/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
JERUSALEM Hamas formally announced the end of its
unwritten, often-breached truce with Israel on Friday as Palestinian...
militants in the Gaza Strip fired four rockets into southern Israel. The Israeli military said two rockets were fired Friday ...
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Hamas declares Gaza truce with Israel is at an end - ...
jpost.com - 12/25/2008
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jpost.com —
Hamas on Wednesday remained as defiant as ever
and said it would continue to fire rockets at...
Israel as an act of "self-defense." Hamas also mocked what it described as the "state of confusion" in Israel over how to react to the latest spree of rocket ...
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Hamas mocks Israel's nonresponse to Kassams | Israel | ...
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Dan Diker: Who is listening to Arab warnings about Hamas?
Power Line —
... was first reported in the Italian newspaper Corriera Della Serra.
Washington and Western allies would do well to take notice. There is clear and growing concern and even incredulity among not a few Arab leaders and former officials at what they see as underlying naiveté behind what appears to be a softening of the US and Israeli posture towards Hamas.
I can't find an English-language version of the Maariv story cited by Dan, but it is discussed in this Arab Middle East report.
Dan Diker: Who is listening to Arab warnings about Hamas?
Israpundit —
... reported in the Italian newspaper Corriera Della Serra.
Washington and Western allies would do well to take notice. There is clear and growing concern and even incredulity among not a few Arab leaders and former officials at what they see as underlying naiveté behind what appears to be a softening of the US and Israeli posture towards Hamas.
I can’t find an English-language version of the Maariv story cited by Dan, but it is discussed in this Arab Middle East report
Does The “Arab World” Want Israel To Defeat Hamas?
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
I am seeing something interesting over at Powerline, and comparing and contrasting it to stories in the news.
Here is the article cited in Powerline:
Al Bawaba:
Posted: 18-12-2008
”Arab states urge Israel to kill Gaza leaders”
Israel has recently received messages from “senior Arab official” urging the Hebrew state to resume its assassinations attacks in the Gaza Strip, the Tel Aviv-based Maariv reported. According to the newspaper, one of the messages even said “take their ...
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