How many times can a man turn his head, pretending he just doesn’t see?
He was hungry- Sentence reduced for Russian man who cannibalized his mother
Can a woman rape a man?
Every man has his price!
Revealing Many Shades Of Women Of Our Times!
Bob Dylan wrote these words almost 50 years ago in his song “Blowing in the Wind”. He was writing about a different war and a different time, but the words are still applicable.
How many times must Hamas leaders make the same statements, swearing that only the total destruction of Israel will satisfy them before their western “supporters” realize that they support an organization no less virulent and hate-filled than the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, better known as the Nazis?
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Hamas leader Zahar rejects PA peace talks with ‘brutal occupier’
Gaza strongman Mahmoud Zahar said the movement would resist peace efforts and criticized the Palestinian president for joining the negotiations.
By The Associated Press
A top Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip rejected compromise with Israel in a fiery speech Wednesday, a day after gunmen killed four Israelis in a strong reminder that the Islamic militant group refuses to be ignored in any Mideast deal.
President Barack Obama denounced the West Bank ambush as he launched a two-day summit marking the first Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in nearly two years.
Hamas has claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s shootings, a vivid reminder that the Iranian-backed group may be locked out of the peace negotiations but remains a key player in determining their outcome.
In an address to Hamas members, Gaza strongman Mahmoud Zahar said the movement would resist peace efforts and criticized the Palestinian president for joining the negotiations.
“Today marks the start of direct negotiations between someone who has no right to represent the Palestinian people and the brutal occupier, to provide a cover for Judaizing Jerusalem and stealing the land,” Zahar said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been locked in a fierce rivalry with Hamas since the group seized Gaza from his forces in a violent takeover in 2007, leaving him only in control of the West Bank.
In a swift response to the shooting, Abbas’ forces rounded up 250 low- and mid-level Hamas supporters throughout the West Bank in what the group said was the largest sweep in recent memory. Hamas officials called the roundup arbitrary and an act of treason.
“The enemy of the Palestinian people is the Zionist enemy,” Zahar said.
Zahar rejected the idea of compromise with Israel, saying that liberating all the land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River – a reference to Israel's destruction – is a moral and religious duty. He said Palestinians must not abandon armed resistance against Israeli occupation.
Despite Zahar’s tough words, it's unclear whether the militants will try to derail the negotiations with more attacks or whether the shooting was an isolated incident.
The group – shunned by the West and Israel as a terror organization – possesses a large arsenal of rockets that it could launch at Israeli border towns. But Hamas has largely refrained from attacks since suffering heavy losses in an Israeli offensive early last year.
We are not talking about revealing our cards now, said Hamas official Ahmed Yousef.
The main Mideast mediators – the United States, the United Nations, Europe and Russia – have not spelled out how Gaza fits into their peace plans.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak wrote in an op-ed piece in The New York Times on Tuesday that reconciliation between Hamas and Abbas’ Fatah movement is critical to achieving a two-state solution and renewed an offer of Egyptian mediation.
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“Brutal occupier”? That would be almost funny coming from a man whose organization has killed more Palestinians in the past four years than the IDF has in the same period of time – including ALL the casualties from Operation Cast Lead. If there’s a “brutal occupier”, its name is Hamas.
He is right about one thing, though—Mahmoud Abbas has no right to negotiate for the Palestinians—but neither does Hamas.
Mahmoud Abbas was elected in January of 2005 for a 4-year term as President of the Palestinian Authority. His term was up in February, 2009.
Hamas gained a majority of seats in the Palestinian Parliament in the January 2006 elections, also for a 4-year term. This term has also expired (February 2010).
So what we have here are two democratically elected factions that have overstayed their elected terms of office. At best, neither can be considered more than a lame-duck administration with a mandate for maintaining the status quo until new elections can be held.
Hamas has loudly claimed “credit” for the two shooting incidents, one the night before the inaugural meeting of the talks on Tuesday, killing four civilians, and one last night, wounding an Israeli civilian driving a car, with his passenger being seriously injured in the resulting crash, claiming that “this is only the beginning”.
Even the Secretary-General of the UN has condemned these shootings.
If there is a real enemy of the Palestinian people, its name is HAMAS.
So, Bob Dylan had it right, even though he was talking about a different conflict in a different time… How many times can a man turn his head, pretending he just doesn’t see—that Hamas is nothing but a murderous bunch of thugs dedicated to their own agenda, which is nothing less than genocide?
