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In Gaza, Hamas's Insults to Jews Complicate Peace
NY Times ^ | April 1, 2008 | Steven Erlanger

Posted on 04/01/2008 7:58:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

At Al Omari mosque, the imam cursed the Jews and the "Crusaders," or Christians, and the Danes, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He referred to Jews as "the brothers of apes and pigs," while the Hamas television station, Al Aksa, praises suicide bombing and holy war until Palestine is free of Jewish control.

Its videos praise fighters and rocket-launching teams; its broadcasts insult the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, for talking to Israel and the United States; its children's programs praise "martyrdom," teach what it calls the perfidy of the Jews and the need to end Israeli occupation over Palestinian land, meaning any part of the state of Israel.

Such incitement against Israel and Jews was supposed to be banned under the 1993 Oslo accords and the 2003 "road map" peace plan. While the Palestinian Authority under Fatah has made significant, if imperfect efforts to end incitement, Hamas, no party to those agreements, feels no such restraint.

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Along with Mr. Marcus's group, the Middle East Media Research Institute, or Memri, also monitors the Arabic media. But no one disputes their translations, and there are numerous Palestinians in Gaza -- in the hothouse atmosphere of an overcrowded, isolated territory where martyr posters and anger at Israel are widespread among Fatah, too -- who are deeply upset about the hold Hamas has on their mosques and on what their children watch.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: condirice; fatah; gaza; hamas; islam; israel
"And stop slouching!"
1 posted on 04/01/2008 7:58:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SJackson; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

The Times with the understated headline of the month
(NYT, terrorism and Obama mentioned)
American Thinker | Rick Moran | Rick Moran
Posted on 04/01/2008 2:07:33 PM PDT by K-oneTexas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995119/posts

Fatwa: Killing Hamas members OK
MEMRI
Posted on 05/22/2007 7:16:40 AM PDT by Valin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1837776/posts


2 posted on 04/01/2008 7:58:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv
If you haven't seen this yet, watch.

Sky News interviews Khaled Meshaal

3 posted on 04/01/2008 8:12:38 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hey, I wonder if that new UN Resolution calling for limitations on “abuses” of Free Speech would apply to the Hamas savages (see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995303/posts)?

I didn’t think so, but there’s really no need for you to laugh so hysterically.


4 posted on 04/01/2008 8:34:59 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: SunkenCiv

So pray tell, how did the anti-Israel Times, run by a family that Jewish in name only, find out about this? Never mind that we’ve known about it for a decade. And why are they running it now?


5 posted on 04/02/2008 2:24:54 AM PDT by Berosus (Support our troops, bring them home -- from the Balkans.)
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If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. or WOT [War on Terror]

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6 posted on 04/02/2008 5:04:09 AM PDT by SJackson ( G-d da*n America, J Wright; Don't tell me words don't matter!, BH Obama)
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To: Berosus

...and if the insults complicate peace (difficult to complicate something that doesn’t exist though), what do decades of murders by Arab murderers do?


7 posted on 04/02/2008 5:54:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_____________________Profile updated Saturday, March 29, 2008)
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To: Berosus
Why is the New York Slimes running this story now? Because it fits their current agenda of making Abbas look like a "moderate" and a "peace partner" by comparison to Hamas. That's essential to legitimatize the Annapolis initiative.
8 posted on 04/02/2008 7:13:09 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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