jpost.com - 1/5/2009
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Mahmoud Zahar, a top Hamas strongman in Gaza, on Monday urged Hamas fighters to "crush" IDF forces who have invaded the territory. He also hinted at greater efforts to attack Israeli civilians. Speaking on Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV, Zahar praised Hamas fighters and urged them to "crush your enemy." He ...
israelnationalnews.com - 1/6/2009
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israelnationalnews.com —
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas spokesman Mahmoud Az-Zahar claimed victory for
Hamas on Monday, saying Hamas had succeeded in “destroying...
Israel's sense of security” with its rocket attacks. Zahar made his proclamation in video footage sent from a secret ...
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Zahar Claims Victory, Calls to Kill Jewish Children - ...
jpost.com - 1/6/2009
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jpost.com —
As the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip
entered its 10th day, Hamas has begun sending conflicting...
messages regarding its intentions. These contradictory messages, Palestinian political analysts said, reflected the state of confusion in Hamas and raised ...
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Analysis: Hamas desperate for lull | Middle East | ...
pajamasmedia.com - 1/5/2009
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pajamasmedia.com —
Those who point to the inefficiency of Hamas
rocket attacks act as if they wouldnât be happy...
to have more efficient or deadly rockets or that they regret the ones that fall on kindergartens and hospitals. So Hamasâ open pride in its mass murder ...
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RonRosenbaum.com » Some Differences Between Hamas ...
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Jihad Watch —
... Surely you've also sent a strongly-worded letter to Hamas honcho Mahmoud Zahar, who today said that Israelis "have legitimized the killing of their children by killing our children. They have legitimized the killing of their people all over the world by killing our people." ...
Operation Cast Lead: Day 11
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... , whose predecessors defended Israel's northern borders and who saved Israel from ruin during the 1973 Yom Kippur War when their unit went into the breach and stopped the oncoming Syrian armor from pouring down and out of the Golan Heights. The incident involved an errant tank shell, which shows just how difficult things are for Israeli soldiers fighting in the urban warrens of Gaza City and the refugee camps. Hamas is busy trying to spin things in their favor , but the fact is that ...
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Bush puts onus on Hamas for any Gaza truce —
Reuters: Politics 1/5/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush insisted on Monday that any ceasefire to end the Gaza crisis must include provisions to prevent Hamas from continuing to use the coastal strip to fire rockets into Israel.
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