Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting.

The fighting has killed 10 Palestinians and an Israeli, casting doubts on assessments that the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas might improve relations between the bitter foes. Despite the worst bloodshed in months, both sides indicated they were interested in restoring calm.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News
 
US State Department: Terrorist Designation of HAMAS Operative Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma'il Abu Ghazala

The State Department has designated Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma’il Abu Ghazala under E.O. 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. This action will help stem the flow of finances to Abu Ghazala by prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with him and freezing any assets he may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
Designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997, HAMAS has carried out attacks – such as suicide bombings, rocket launches, improvised explosive device attacks, and shootings – against civilian targets inside Israel

Terrorist Designation of HAMAS Operative Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma'il Abu Ghazala
 
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants

Robert Bernstein, Founding Chairman Emeritus, Human Rights Watch; Chairman of Advancing Human Rights
Two dominant forces have defined Arab nations in modern times: autocratic leadership that has denied basic freedoms to its own people, and a deeply ingrained and institutionalized anti-Semitism, centered on a hatred of Israel. Freedom is a growing possibility in light of the Arab Spring, but for this freedom to lead to peace, progress must be made in ending hate speech and incitement to genocide. This is particularly true in Gaza, the West Bank, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Iran. Yet at this moment of possibility, the United Nations is fueling discord and anti-Semitism.

The United Nations is doing this by granting legitimacy to Hamas, a terrorist Islamic group, and the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas. A vote to add to the United Nations a new member state that calls for the elimination of its neighbor [Israel] and glorifies terrorism will make peace harder--not easier--to achieve.

The call to genocide has been accompanied by a sophisticated arms buildup along Israel's Lebanon border over the past five years, defying Security Council Resolution 1701, which called in 2006 for an end to hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel.

The speaker of the Hamas parliament, Ahmad Bahr, called in APril 2007 for the murder of Jews, "down to the very last one"

Israel takes extraordinary steps to protect civilians on both sides--steps approved by military experts, such as using pamphlets, phone calls and even noise bombs to scare people away from locations before a bombing

The real obstacle to long-term peace is the endless and overwhelmong words of hate and incitement to genocide effectively spread to Arabs and Palestinians. One example is the textbooks given to millions of children in Saudi Arabia, distributed in the Arab world and beyond, that label Jews "monkeys and pigs" This continues to foment discord, radicalism and violence.

There will be no peace between Israel and the Arabs while hatred and incitement to genocide continue. Sixty years of spewing hate won't be undone in a day.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...9/26/gIQAWU5y2K_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions
 
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting.

The fighting has killed 10 Palestinians and an Israeli, casting doubts on assessments that the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas might improve relations between the bitter foes. Despite the worst bloodshed in months, both sides indicated they were interested in restoring calm.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News
Hamas now has a great opportunity to step up and become real leaders for the good of the palestinian people and help the world to veiw them as more than just another terrorist organization. If Hamas would wipeout the islamic jihad terrorists causeing this new violence they would show the world and Israel that they are serious aboutdoing more than paying lip service to removeing terrorism from gaza.This would give Hamas some legitamacy and creadability in further negotiations.
 
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting.

The fighting has killed 10 Palestinians and an Israeli, casting doubts on assessments that the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas might improve relations between the bitter foes. Despite the worst bloodshed in months, both sides indicated they were interested in restoring calm.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News
Hamas now has a great opportunity to step up and become real leaders for the good of the palestinian people and help the world to veiw them as more than just another terrorist organization. If Hamas would wipeout the islamic jihad terrorists causeing this new violence they would show the world and Israel that they are serious aboutdoing more than paying lip service to removeing terrorism from gaza.This would give Hamas some legitamacy and creadability in further negotiations.

If every Muslima offered to adult breast-feed every Israeli, as is Islamic custom, there would be peace. :clap2:

Islam and The Nursing of Adults

Saudi Clerics Advocate Adult Breast-Feeding

 
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting.

The fighting has killed 10 Palestinians and an Israeli, casting doubts on assessments that the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas might improve relations between the bitter foes. Despite the worst bloodshed in months, both sides indicated they were interested in restoring calm.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News
Hamas now has a great opportunity to step up and become real leaders for the good of the palestinian people and help the world to veiw them as more than just another terrorist organization. If Hamas would wipeout the islamic jihad terrorists causeing this new violence they would show the world and Israel that they are serious aboutdoing more than paying lip service to removeing terrorism from gaza.This would give Hamas some legitamacy and creadability in further negotiations.

Hamas has been at the forefront in ceasefires. Hamas convinced all Palestinian factions to have a ceasefire with Israel when the "roadmap" was signed. They held that ceasefire for a year and a half even though Israel went into Palestine the very next day and killed three Palestinians. Hamas did not stop that ceasefire until Israel killed that family on the beach. Hamas had the ceasefire with Israel before Cast Lead even though Israel never kept up with its side.

Israel always considers ceasefires to be one sides. The Palestinians must stop their violence while Israel still does what it wants.
 
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting.

The fighting has killed 10 Palestinians and an Israeli, casting doubts on assessments that the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas might improve relations between the bitter foes. Despite the worst bloodshed in months, both sides indicated they were interested in restoring calm.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News
Hamas now has a great opportunity to step up and become real leaders for the good of the palestinian people and help the world to veiw them as more than just another terrorist organization. If Hamas would wipeout the islamic jihad terrorists causeing this new violence they would show the world and Israel that they are serious aboutdoing more than paying lip service to removeing terrorism from gaza.This would give Hamas some legitamacy and creadability in further negotiations.

Hamas has been at the forefront in ceasefires.
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Hamas Constitution
Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it

The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/hamas.asp

US State Department: Terrorist Designation of HAMAS Operative Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma'il Abu Ghazala
The State Department has designated Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma’il Abu Ghazala under E.O. 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism. This action will help stem the flow of finances to Abu Ghazala by prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with him and freezing any assets he may have under U.S. jurisdiction.
Designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997, HAMAS has carried out attacks – such as suicide bombings, rocket launches, improvised explosive device attacks, and shootings – against civilian targets inside Israel

Terrorist Designation of HAMAS Operative Muhammad Hisham Muhammad Isma'il Abu Ghazala
 
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A new round of violence between Israel and Palestinian militants has Gaza's Hamas rulers caught between reluctance to take on Israel and discomfort with reining in fellow Islamists from smaller, more radical groups involved in the fighting.

The fighting has killed 10 Palestinians and an Israeli, casting doubts on assessments that the recent prisoner swap between Israel and Hamas might improve relations between the bitter foes. Despite the worst bloodshed in months, both sides indicated they were interested in restoring calm.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News
Hamas now has a great opportunity to step up and become real leaders for the good of the palestinian people and help the world to veiw them as more than just another terrorist organization. If Hamas would wipeout the islamic jihad terrorists causeing this new violence they would show the world and Israel that they are serious aboutdoing more than paying lip service to removeing terrorism from gaza.This would give Hamas some legitamacy and creadability in further negotiations.

Hamas has been at the forefront in ceasefires. Hamas convinced all Palestinian factions to have a ceasefire with Israel when the "roadmap" was signed. They held that ceasefire for a year and a half even though Israel went into Palestine the very next day and killed three Palestinians. Hamas did not stop that ceasefire until Israel killed that family on the beach. Hamas had the ceasefire with Israel before Cast Lead even though Israel never kept up with its side.

Israel always considers ceasefires to be one sides. The Palestinians must stop their violence while Israel still does what it wants.

So hamas should waste this opportunity? I guess that would make sense to a brainless moron like you.
 
Hamas now has a great opportunity to step up and become real leaders for the good of the palestinian people and help the world to veiw them as more than just another terrorist organization. If Hamas would wipeout the islamic jihad terrorists causeing this new violence they would show the world and Israel that they are serious aboutdoing more than paying lip service to removeing terrorism from gaza.This would give Hamas some legitamacy and creadability in further negotiations.

Hamas has been at the forefront in ceasefires. Hamas convinced all Palestinian factions to have a ceasefire with Israel when the "roadmap" was signed. They held that ceasefire for a year and a half even though Israel went into Palestine the very next day and killed three Palestinians. Hamas did not stop that ceasefire until Israel killed that family on the beach. Hamas had the ceasefire with Israel before Cast Lead even though Israel never kept up with its side.

Israel always considers ceasefires to be one sides. The Palestinians must stop their violence while Israel still does what it wants.

So hamas should waste this opportunity? I guess that would make sense to a brainless moron like you.

"When all jet fighters leave the skies of Gaza, we will stop firing rockets," said Dawud Shehab, a senior member of Islamic Jihad.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News

The ball is in Israel's court.
 
Hamas has been at the forefront in ceasefires. Hamas convinced all Palestinian factions to have a ceasefire with Israel when the "roadmap" was signed. They held that ceasefire for a year and a half even though Israel went into Palestine the very next day and killed three Palestinians. Hamas did not stop that ceasefire until Israel killed that family on the beach. Hamas had the ceasefire with Israel before Cast Lead even though Israel never kept up with its side.

Israel always considers ceasefires to be one sides. The Palestinians must stop their violence while Israel still does what it wants.

So hamas should waste this opportunity? I guess that would make sense to a brainless moron like you.

"When all jet fighters leave the skies of Gaza, we will stop firing rockets," said Dawud Shehab, a senior member of Islamic Jihad.

Hamas caught in bind as Gaza violence heats up - Yahoo! News

The ball is in Israel's court.

:lol:

Time Magazine: Globally Isolated and Economically Crippled: Why Hamas is Losing Gaza
Besieged by Israel and the West, which regards it as a terrorist group, and cut off from the Palestinian majority in the West Bank, Hamas has little to offer beyond its jihadist credentials — and the promise of clean government. So it's hardly surprising that the party has been rapidly losing ground in its stronghold. Recent surveys by leading pollsters conclude that if elections were held in Gaza today, Hamas, an acronym in Arabic for the Islamic Resistance Movement, would not be returned to power. A June poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that Hamas would get just 28% of the vote, a steep decline from the 44% plurality it won in 2006.
Especially alarming for the Islamists is a precipitous drop in support for the party among Gaza's youth: two-thirds of the population is under 25. In a March survey taken in the afterglow of the protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square that led to the ouster of Egypt's dictator, Hosni Mubarak, more than 60% of Gazans age 18 to 27 said they too would support public demonstrations demanding regime change.

Soon after that poll, 10,000 turned out at a rally to voice a more modest demand — that Hamas end the bloody rift with Fatah, the secular party it bested six years ago. Hamas sent thugs to break up the demonstration. "We came out to say the people should be united, and they attack us!" says Shadi Hassan, 22, who lives in a refugee camp and sells cigarettes. "We are suffocated, and we need regime change."


Even party stalwarts agree that they've lost the street. "The majority of people want a change, yes," says Ahmed Yusuf, a former deputy foreign minister for Hamas who now runs a think tank called House of Wisdom. "They are not happy with the way Hamas is governing Gaza. Wherever you look is miserable life." Forty percent of Gazans live in poverty. The rate of unemployment is approaching 50%, among the highest in the world, and is likely to worsen as the population of 1.6 million doubles in the next 20 years. "Because they believe in God, they don't think a lot about the future," says Gaza economist Omar Shaban, who heads the Pal-Think think tank. "You won't find someone in Hamas who is thinking about 2045. They say, 'Oh, God will provide.'"

Globally Isolated and Economically Crippled: Why Hamas is Losing Gaza - TIME
 
The ball is in Israel's court.

:lol:

Islamic Scholar Bernard Lewis
If the peoples of the Middle East continue on their present path, the suicide bomber may become a metaphor for the whole region, and there will be no escape from a downward spiral of hate and spite, rage and self-pity, poverty and oppression.

Ivy League Cornell University Partners With Israel's Technion University To Create Genius School

The city's "genius school" competition heated up Tuesday when Cornell revealed it's teaming with Israel's Technion university on a proposal for an applied-sciences campus.

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology is a globally ranked research university based in Haifa. Half the Israel companies on the NASDAQ are headed by Technion alumni. "The Technion is the driving force behind the miracle of Israel's technology economy," Cornell President David Skorton said in a statement.
Cornell teams with Israel's Technion university in bid to win city's 'genius school' campus - New York Daily News

Investor's Business Daily: How Free Israel Prospers As Islam Remains In The Dark

Israel, a New Jersey-sized nation of 7.5 million people (1.7 million of whom are Arab) filed 7,082 international patents in the five years ending in 2007. By contrast, 28 majority-Muslim nations with almost 1.2 billion people — 155 times the population of Israel — were granted 2,071 patents in the same period. Narrowing the comparison to the 17 Muslim nations of the Middle East from Morocco to Iran and down the Arabian Peninsula, the 409 million people in that region generated 680 patents in five years.
This means that the Arab and Iranian world produced about one patent per year for every 3 million people, compared with Israel's output of one annual patent for every 5,295 people, an Israeli rate some 568 times that of Israel's neighbors and sometime enemies.

The awarding of Nobel Prizes in the quantitative areas of chemistry, economics and physics shows a similar disparity, with five Israeli winners compared with one French Algerian (a Jew who earned the prize for work done in France) and an Egyptian-American (for work done at Caltech in California).

But wealth isn't the sole explanation for this disparity in intellectual innovation. Saudi Arabia enjoyed a per capita income of $24,200 in 2010. Yet the Kingdom averages an anemic 37 patents per year compared with Israel's 1,416 per year — and there are 3 1/2 times more Saudis than Israelis, meaning that Israel's per capita output of intellectual property is 132 times greater than Saudi Arabia's.

The telltale signs of Israel's economic rise can be seen in the Tel Aviv skyline and the new office complexes around Jerusalem. International giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. was founded in 1901 by three pharmacists in Jerusalem. Today it employs 40,000 around the world. Teva has a market cap of $44.2 billion — the most highly valued company based in Israel and the ninth-largest firm traded on the Nasdaq

A few miles from Teva's gleaming office campus west of the Old City sits the former national mint building for the British Mandate. Built in 1937, this renovated building, along with the old Ottoman Empire railway warehouses next to it, houses the JVP Media Quarter and 300 entrepreneurs.

The complex hosts Israel's leading venture capital firm, Jerusalem Venture Partners, as well as 35 startups and a performing arts center for good measure. JVP, which has helped launch 70 companies since 1993, has more than $820 million under management with seven active venture capital funds.

The Media Quarter concept was created in 2002 when JVP founder Erel Margalit wanted to create a media-focused incubator that combined technology, culture, art and business. JVP has shepherded 18 initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, including some of the largest Israel-based companies: Qlik Technologies, Netro Corp., Chromatis Networks, Precise Software, Cogent Communications.

Less than 300 miles separate the purposeful creative buzz in the JVP Media Quarter from the restive streets of Cairo, where the Muslim Brotherhood tells Egypt's unemployed that their plight is the fault of corrupt capitalists and Jews. It doesn't take a Nobel Prize-winning economist to figure out where these two economies are going.

How Free Israel Prospers As Islam Remains In Dark - Latest Headlines - Investors.com

Israel Trumps The Arab World

DOHA: There is no doubt that Israel is superior to all Arab countries in the sphere of Information Technology, a comparative study between Arab nations and Israel on ‘Scientific Research and Patent Rights Compared’ conducted by Dr Khalid Said Rubaia, a Palestinian researcher at American Arab University in Palestine, says.

Israel spends 4.7 percent of its total GDP on scientific research, which is the highest in the world. However, Arab states are spending 0.2 percent of their total incomes and Asian Arab countries around 0.5 percent of their incomes on research, said
the report.

Regarding patent rights, Israel has registered 16,805 patents. However, Arab countries have only 836 patents which is 5 percent of what Israel has.

Israel spends 0.8-1 percent of the total expenditure of the world on research work and Arab states spend 0.4 percent. It means Israel spends more than double that spent by Arab countries in
this field.

Israel spends 4.7 percent of its income on research. However, Arab countries spend 0.2 percent of their total income on the same. United States spends about 2.7 percent of its income, UK 1.8 and Germany 2.6 percent on research work.

Asian Arab countries spend less than 0.1 percent of their total income on research work which is five times less than African countries which are spending 0.5 percent of their total income, according to a Unesco report. Arab countries spend about half of Israel though their GDP soared 11 times that of Israel and the area is more than 649 times.

Regarding per capita expenditure on scientific research, Israel stands at the number one position by spending $1272.8 per capita. United States ranks second with $1205.9 and Japan third by spending $1153.3. However, the Arab countries ranked hundred times less than Israel by spending an average of $14.7 annually per capita.

And the oil rich Asian Arab countries spend $11.9 per capita which is equal to African poor countries whose per capita expenditure reached $9.4.

Israel trumps the Arab world
 

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