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Hamas: Left Gave Us Confidence to Continue Suicide-Bombings
Israel National News ^ | 19:12 Sep 09, '04 / 23 Elul 5764

Posted on 09/09/2004 3:41:09 PM PDT by yonif

In a damning condemnation of left-wing behavior, a new book on the “Al-Aqsa Intifada,” quotes Hamas leaders saying that the behavior of Israel's left-wing encourages them to continue their attacks.

The book, “The Seventh War” – written by journalists Avi Yissocharov from state-run Voice of Israel radio and Amos Harel from Haaretz – was based on a comprehensive investigations and interviews with Hamas leadership in Gaza and Israeli prisons, carried out by the two journalists.

Yissocharov told Channel 1’s ‘New Evening’ program this afternoon that Hamas leaders told him over and over again that it was the Israeli left-wing that encouraged them to continue to carry out terror attacks.

Yissocharov outlined the general consensus among Hamas leadership he had interviewed for the book: “The Israeli left-wing and your ‘peace-camp’ are what ultimately encouraged us to continue to carry out suicide bombings. We tried, through our attacks, to create fragmentation and dissention within Israeli society, and the left-wing encouraged us in that regard. When we heard about the ‘Pilot’s Letter,’ the refuse-niks and the elite soldiers refusing to serve [in Judea, Samaria and Gaza –ed.] it strengthened our confidence in the effectiveness of the suicide bomber. The disengagement from Gaza is proof of our victory. The fact that Sharon is willing to withdraw unconditionally is basically equivalent to raising a white flag and retreating. Only by force are we able to teach the other side what to do.”


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gazaplan; israel; suicideterror; theleft; waronterrorism
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To: yonif
Of course, the enemy of my enemy is my friend!
Press here
21 posted on 09/09/2004 5:23:39 PM PDT by yatros from flatwater (Postmodernism, among the many 'isms brought to you by Lucifer, Father of Nuance.)
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To: JoJo Gunn

I think you are missing the point that these kooks illustrate more clearly than anything the incoherant views of the far left and, of course, their intellectual honesty. They actually spend money to get to these events so ultimately it is their loss while still benefitting the economy.


22 posted on 09/09/2004 5:36:19 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Florida 2000: There Would Have Been No 5-4 Without A 7-2)
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To: Jeeper
When will the worlds liberals ever learn? Weakness merely encourages these people.

Exactly, do you think that the U.S. even under a Democrat would put up with Terrorists attacking us every other day?
No Way!!
If we were Israel and we had a neighbor that was doing that to us how long would it take for us to put an end to it???
Totally amazing...

CD

23 posted on 09/09/2004 5:41:11 PM PDT by Coffee_drinker (Bush will not outsource our national security!)
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; BykrBayb; LakeLady; bridgemanusa; Darksheare; Dr Snide; faithincowboys; ..

This is a reader 4 sure.


24 posted on 09/09/2004 6:28:42 PM PDT by stockpirate (Dick Morris; Before he spoke, supporting Bush was a duty one owed to the fallen. Now, it is an honor)
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To: yonif

"Could the left in America be doing the same in the eyes of Al Queda and other terror groups>"

Yes.


25 posted on 09/09/2004 6:34:11 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: yonif

"When we heard about the ‘Pilot’s Letter,’ the refuse-niks and the elite soldiers refusing to serve [in Judea, Samaria and Gaza –ed.] it strengthened our confidence in the effectiveness of the suicide bomber."

This is exactly the effect that people warned about.
It's the same effect that Jane and John , et al, had in Vietnam.


26 posted on 09/09/2004 6:39:27 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: yonif

The Enemy Within™ and The Fourth Estate™ = terrorists, seditionists, traitors and subhuman hate-America filth. They all need to be duly charged, rounded-up, tried, convicted and executed.


27 posted on 09/09/2004 6:39:41 PM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: yonif

BTW - are these soldiers still in jail?


28 posted on 09/09/2004 6:42:01 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: yonif

That's what I always thought about the Israeli left, that they had no spine and were appeasement weasels.


29 posted on 09/09/2004 6:42:03 PM PDT by Ciexyz ("FR, best viewed with a budgie on hand")
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To: yonif

Most of us are already aware of the effect of propaganda. Even most of those who propagandize for the enemy of aware of it. Only a handful of useful idiots are oblivious to effects of their actions.


30 posted on 09/09/2004 6:46:34 PM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: yonif
Could the left in America be doing the same in the eyes of Al Queda and other terror groups America is fighting in the active sense? (I say active sense, not to say Hamas is not an enemy of America, but that America is not actively going after it in the same sense of going after Al Queda in Afghanistan).

I've stopped trying to follow the logic of the Left. They critique chr*stianity from a European enlightenment point of view yet celebrate the "pristine" superstitions of "indigenous pipples" and now fundamentalist islam against that very same viewpoint. They supported Ayatollah Khomeini's (mach shemo) islamic/Communist revolution in Iran while using the terms "ayatollah" and "mullah" to label the chr*stian right. They condemn "white racism" while advocating a lily-pure Gaelic-Communist Ireland. They insist on a "multicultural" Britain while advocating the ethnic cleansing of the English who live in Scotland.

In the last analysis Leftism seems to boil down to hatred of the United States of America--a somewhat ironic fact considering the American Revolution was the first radical chic cause celebre of the International Left and the rough Continental backwoodsmen were celebrated by the same European intellectuals who now hate their descendants and sympathize with a non-western medieval "theocracy."

31 posted on 09/09/2004 6:56:31 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki kol 'elohei-ha`ammim 'elilim . . . veHaShem Shamayim `asah!)
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To: torchthemummy

I'm scratching my head.


32 posted on 09/09/2004 7:02:02 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered.©)
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To: yonif

"Could the left in America be doing the same in the eyes of Al Queda and other terror groups America is fighting in the active sense?"

Yes. Al Queda and other terrorists want to divide the west. They will keep attacking, keep trying to break the coalition - like they apparantly did with Spain and the Phillipines - and encourage the rift between USA/UK and France/Germany.


33 posted on 09/10/2004 12:42:23 AM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: monkeyshine

This is a great article


34 posted on 09/10/2004 12:52:10 AM PDT by Lori675
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To: yonif

And read Yossef Bodansky's book on the Arab-Israeli situation in the 1990's (can't recall the name, something like "Peace at any Cost"): Who, you may ask, encouraged the Left in Israel to offer concessions and, in the process, promoted the idea that Israel was weak?? Who? Who? Could that have been (drum roll) Bill Clinton, Maddy Albright, and Martin Indyk??


35 posted on 09/10/2004 7:06:01 AM PDT by Remole
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