google.com - 1/31/2009
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1 day ago GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) More than 5,000 Hamas supporters rallied in Gaza on Friday, as a leader of the Islamic militant group emerged from hiding to declare victory in the 23-day Israeli offensive that devastated much of the Palestinian territory. Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Hayeh ...
michaeltotten.com - 2/1/2009
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michaeltotten.com —
Khaled Abu Toameh is not your typical Palestinian
journalist. He began his career at one of Yasser...
Arafat's newspapers and today he writes for the Jerusalem Post . He has produced video for European TV stations, and even blogged for a while at ...
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A Minority Report from the West Bank and Gaza
news.yahoo.com - 2/4/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
JERUSALEM A U.N. spokesman says Hamas police in
Gaza have seized thousands of blankets and food parcels...
meant for needy residents. Spokesman Christopher Gunness says Hamas police raided a U.N. warehouse in Gaza City on Tuesday evening. He says police ...
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UN says Hamas seized Gaza food aid and blankets - Yahoo! ...
pajamasmedia.com - 1/28/2009
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Energizer Hamas
Jules Crittenden —
... Still going! Hamas leader emerges from the rubble to declare victory. I’m getting the impression even the AP appreciates the absurdity : GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — More than 5,000 Hamas supporters rallied in Gaza on Friday, as a leader of the Islamic militant group emerged from hiding to declare victory in the 23-day Israeli offensive that devastated much of the Palestinian territory. Hamas lawmaker Khalil al-Hayeh appeared in public for the first time since the war’s start on Dec. 27 and remained defiant despite Hamas’ heavy losses.“We thank God when we see our houses ...
Iran to Obama: Your willingness to talk proves your weakness
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... .) The significance of this isn’t that they’re using The One’s outreach to their own ends; self-aggrandizing propaganda is what Islamists do, after all, which is why Israel kicking the hell out of Hamas for a few weeks somehow gets spun as a Hamas victory. The significance is that it shows how obsessed the regime is with the perception that it’s winning its ideological battle with the west, to the extent that even rare attempts at rapprochement from the U.S. are sneered at as crude concessions of defeat. Like I’ve said before, that bodes very, very ill given how much ...
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