palestinecenter.org - 12/28/2008
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Hamas Charter (1988) The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate You are the best community that has been raised up for mankind. Ye enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency; and ye believe in Allah. And if ...
haaretz.com - 12/30/2008
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haaretz.com —
Three days into Operation Cast Lead, Israel is
proposing a diplomatic exit. A ground operation likely looms
in an effort to increase the pressure on Hamas. At the same time, however, others argue that the air force is close to exhausting its target ...
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ANALYSIS / Hamas is hoping for an IDF ground ...
jpost.com - 12/29/2008
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jpost.com —
Defense Minister and Labor chairman Ehud Barak on
Monday said that Israel would expand its military operation
in the Gaza Strip until all the goals were achieved. He spoke at a special Knesset session attended, among others, by Foreign Minister Tzipi ...
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Barak: This is 'all out war' on Hamas | Israel | ...
topics.nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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topics.nytimes.com —
Fatah became preeminent among Palestinian factions in the
1960s though a series of strikes against Israel --
in its eyes, successful military campaigns, though condemned by Israel and the West as terrorism -- and by the end of the decade it was the ...
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Al Fatah - The New York Times
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Israel’s long-overdue strike against Hamas: A time for war
Israpundit —
... No matter how many compromises Israel makes, as Hamas violates agreements, and rockets continue to rain down on southern Israel, the Jewish State has been left with no option except massive military force in order to protect its civilian population. Enough is enough. There can be no hope for Israel to negotiate with Hamas, as the group’s founding charter states: ...
The Hamas Charter
The Corner on National Review Online —
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 [image] The Hamas Charter [ Jonah Goldberg ] Just for the record , some highlights: Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." "The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. " "There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, ...
McCarthy: Breaking the Will of the Palestinians
Articles on National Review Online —
... worthy of statehood and its privileges. Contrary to the prevailing elite view, legitimacy is not conferred by such facile exercises as the holding of popular elections though such exercises are not without consequences, which we will come to momentarily. There are certain minimal requirements for statehood, not least of which is accepting the right of one s sovereign neighbor to exist. At present, no representative of the Palestinian people concedes this right to Israel. As its 1988 charter makes plain, Hamas unapologetically seeks Israel s destruction. This is why Hamas ...
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO OPEN CHANNELS WITH HAMAS?
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... negotiations with Hamas early on in his administration, but he is being urged by advisers to initiate low-level or clandestine approaches, and there is growing recognition in Washington that the policy of ostracising Hamas is counter-productive. [...] There are a number of options that would avoid a politically toxic scenario for Obama of seeming to give legitimacy to Hamas....Read the rest HERE. Isn't the Hamas Charter clear about its mission? Israel will rise and will remain erect ...
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lefarkins.blogspot.com 12/28/2008 — Some depressing holiday news : Waves of Israeli aircraft swooped over the Gaza Strip on Saturday, firing missiles at Hamas’s security headquarters and killing more than 200 people, bringing the highest death toll in Gaza in years in a crushing ...
Hamas and Palestinian Civilians
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Calling Hamas, part 2
powerlineblog.com 12/28/2008 — Haaretz carries an informative account of the planning that went into Israel's current offensive (Operation Cast Lead) in Gaza. Haaretz's account emphasizes the intelligence-gathering underlying the operation:
[Defense Minister Ehud] Barak gave ...
The Beatdown Continues: 'Hamas Has Nothing Left But Rockets'
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 1/7/2009 — These chicken-shit terrorists are still hiding behind children and killing members of Fatah. They can't hold up against the IDF and except for the rockets, all they have left is a sympathetic media. Thankfully the Israelis are largely ignoring the ...
Can Israel Break the Will of Hamas?
jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com 12/29/2008 — A reader asks. The answer: I don't think so. Maybe momentarily. But Hamas will find ways to regain its "honor." Usually, this means exploding buses. The even deeper question: Can Israel force the overthrow of the Hamas government in Gaza? I'm not sure ...
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