memri.org - 12/30/2008
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Following are excerpts from Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al's, declaration of December 14, 2008, in which he stated that Hamas is ending the "Tahdiah" on December 19, 2008 . The statement was aired on Al-Quds TV on December 14, 2008: Khaled Mash'al : "The tahdiah ['calm'] was limited to six months, ...
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com - 1/2/2009
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Nizzar Rayyan, the Hamas leader who was killed,
along with two of his wives and several of...
his children, in an Israeli bombing raid earlier this week, was one of the more bellicose Hamas leaders I have known. I saw him last in Gaza two years ago, at a ...
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Nizar Rayyan of Hamas on God's Hatred of Jews
dailymail.co.uk - 1/3/2009
foxnews.com - 1/2/2009
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Friday, January 02, 2009 As Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice and other world leaders try to broker...
a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, one former member of the militant Islamic organization said there will never be lasting peace ...
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Son of Hamas Leader Gives Glimpse Into Terror ...
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... The "tahdiah" mentioned is the cease-fire. In fact, the leader of Hamas, Khaled Mash’al, announced on December 14 that Hamas was ending the "Tahdiah" on December 19: ...
Confronting Hamas' Genocidal Jew-Hatred
Jihad Watch —
... work we have frequently featured here), and his campaign to resist the jihad at the UN Human Rights Commission. From The American Thinker, January 2:
As my colleague Robert Spencer observed, Israeli President Shimon Peres appeared flummoxed by Hamas' intransigence in comments made to Haaretz, reported December 30, 2008. "This shooting has no point, no logic, and no chance," Peres told Haaretz after Hamas' open renunciation of the ceasefire agreement (not to mention its prior extensive violations ...
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