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The HAMAS organization in Gaza has declared they are launching a Coastal Force (Navy) ------ despite the fact they have no ships yet. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/news/article_1341797.php/New_Hamas_navy_to_start_work_soon_spokesman_says__Roundup_ Also, in the next few days, a...

Well, that's a pleasant surprise. After four months I wasn't expecting to see him make it out alive, to be honest, especially after they pictured him wired up to explosives. Nice to have some good news for a change.

In another recent thread, there was some discussion about whether or not Israel would continue aid and assistance to the people in Gaza, despite the HAMAS taking over there. Israel is trying hard to get food and supplies through ---- but the terrorists are trying their hardest to stop it...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,284673,00.html (note, this is an AP Story I first saw at Faux) Jimmy, all that street cred you had built up after your milquetoast presidency is about gone. Cash out before its all gone bud.

What $1.6 billion in US aid is buying, part 2. Looks like Hamas is familiar with Rogers and Hammerstein: You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught from year to year, It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear— You’ve got to be carefully taught...

BREAKING NEWS: The leaders of the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a deal on a unity government Thursday night (Saudi time). The Qatari satellite channel Al-Jazeera aired images from Hamas-Fatah talks in Mecca, showing the signing ceremony attended by Saudi Arabia's King...

These are very sick people and need to be destroyed no matter how fervently they rationalize their position. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1841622006

Yes! Absolutely true! Um... but it's not Joe Lieberman. It's Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman. Of course, Israeli politicians are lining up to denounce him, but that a person that high in the Israel government would say such a thing is telling. Hopes of moderation, always...

I believe it is an essential prerequisite to any sort of future peace...so I have a question. What does "recognize Israel" mean....what are they being asked to recognize? Is it reasonable that what they are expected to recognize be reasonably defined?

"Breaking news" so expect it to be updated as the day progresses: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5121164.stm This could remove one of the final "principled" road blocks that remain between the two sides.

...as if it wasn't already...:rolleyes: How do you make peace with fundies who are even unwilling to recognize that you exsist? Concurrently how can a third party broker peace between fundies and Israel when the fundies are unwilling to recognize Israel exsists? And finally, How do you make...

Well the Palestinian election is over and HAMAS wins big. So who does Fatah - who's been in power since 1994 - blame for the loss? Israel is responsible for Fatah's loss in the election...go figure :rolleyes: ....at least according to the useful idiot Saeb Erekat. So where does that leave the...

In a meeting in Gaza city, the Jerusalem Post reports, Abbas--on stage with Hamas leaders--praised the Palestinian "martyrs" (suicide bombers) and claimed that if the Palestinians want to live like "normal nations in a century" they should (currently) stop the "armed Jihad" and start the...

Eh? Does this mean that they're not going to sanction any more bombs on buses in Israel? Or are Israelis not civilians? Or does the political bureau pretend to have nothing to do with the violence, a la Sinn Fein? From here

Oh, and for those of you who claimed that Abbas' roamnce with Hamas is limited to their "charities", it turns out that he will recruit them to the PA security forces, thus arming the very people he is supposed to "disarm" in the interest of "peace". In the meanwhile also finds time on his busy...

Abbas did better than expected. He actually waited a WHOLE WEEK after the "peace meeting" and "new future" (blah blah blah) meeting at Sharm a-Sheikh to unfreeze Hamas' funds so they can rearm for the next round of battle with israel--the real point, of course, of Abbas' "re-starting of the...

Previously, on the Hypocrisy Sandwich thread, I had asked: Well, sports fans, that was yesterday and this is today. " Sheikh Hassan Yousef announced that Hamas now accepts a Palestinian independent state within the 1967 borders, along with a long-term truce with Israel" Of course, no sooner...

UNRWA Gaza head says group employs Hamas members - Oct. 4, 2004 13:14 Canada looking at UN agency over Palestinian connection - Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:03:01 EDT I move for the Red Cross to employ Al Queda members in order to remain "neutral".... :rolleyes:

On purpose http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2847237

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/4/18/latest/16966HamasinG&sec=latest It appears that Hamas is making an attempt to improve the retirement plan of their upper management.

The BBC is reporting breaking news that the leader of Hamas, Abdul Aziz Rantisi, has been assassinated by an Israeli helicopter attack on his car.

Hamas has claimed the US shares the blame and as such shall be dealt with. While laughable, in my opinion, would a threat of this nature allow the US to deal with the group as a terror threat to the US? I mean we could see the end of them in a few months which really wouldn't hurt anyone if...

we live in dark times.

This article from TIME magazine speculates that Hamas will use GUlf War II as an excuse to expand their terror operations to include US targets as well as Israeli. Hamas is a long-standing, experienced and efficient terrorist orgainisation with an extremely fanatical following. I think it is...