http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hamas/ en-us Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:12:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284656/posts Hamas on Thursday criticized a report issued by global human rights group Amnesty International, which accuses both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes in Gaza. Hamas said in response that the report was "imbalanced and unfair". In its first in-depth human rights report on the recent Israeli offensive in Gaza, Amnesty International accused both Israel and Hamas of committing war crimes during the fighting earlier this year. The group charged that the Israel Defense Forces killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of Gaza Strip homes in attacks that amounted to war crimes, and denounced Hamas for firing... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284656/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 05:12:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283007/posts (IsraelNN.com) In a public address delivered on Al-Aqsa TV by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, the Damascus-based terror boss informed Arab viewers that U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama came to power in the United States due to Islamic jihad in the Middle East. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283007/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:42:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282940/posts There is only one difference between Hamas the terrorist group that control's Gaza and Fatah, the terrorist group that controls Judea and Samaria. Hamas is open about it terrorist goals, Fatah (controlled by Palestinian President Abbas) tries to maintain a shroud of "moderation" Of course their moderation belies the truth. Take for example this little skit (video above) that Palestinian Media Watch found on PA Television where Fatah brags about its terrorist abilities. The broadcast event was attended by senior PA/Fatah leaders, including Muhammad Dahlan, former head of PA security; Kadura Faras, head of the PA Prisoners’ Association; Nasser Al-Qidwa,... PMW/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282940/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:48:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282882/posts Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. --Albert Einstein Former Congresswoman, and professional nut job Cynthia McKinney fits Einstein's definition perfectly. This past December McKinney, who was once arrested for slapping a US Capitol Policeman who asked her for ID, decided to get on a boat in an attempt to get around Israel's blockade and dock the vessel in a war zone so she could help and resupply the terrorist group Hamas. McKinney was on the boat as it was damaged by an Israeli navy vessel which rammed it three times before it was... Fox News / The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282882/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:24:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282712/posts DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas said Thursday that he welcomed what he called “new language” by President Obama toward the group. The remarks by the group’s leader, Khaled Meshal, appeared to be part of a tentative outreach by Hamas to the United States in recent weeks. NY Times/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282712/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:42:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281732/posts Why Iran's Changed Forever Reuel Marc Gerecht: Whatever Happens In Tehran, There's No Going Back To Khomeini's Islamic Republic. Who's Who Iran's Election: Key Players A look at the most important figures in Iran's contested presidential election. Stories Candidate Withdraws Iran Fraud Complaint Intensified Crackdown Mutes Iran Protests (Weekly Standard) Reuel Marc Gerecht, a Weekly Standard contributing editor, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The modern Middle East has had numerous "game-changing" moments, when history turned. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, Muhammad Ali's conquest of the Nile Valley in 1805, and the... cbs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281732/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:18:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280058/posts Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech at Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies on June 14th was more than an exercise in judicious phraseology. It returned realism to Israeli foreign policy and set out a clear and precise diplomatic formula that reflects the worldview of the Israeli majority. Rather than dwell on issues secondary to Israel's survival, he set forth the principles upon which a lasting peace could be achieved. His speech was historic, if only because it set aside rhetoric in favor of political realities. With the experience of Gaza fixed in his mind, Netanyahu insisted that any future... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280058/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:28:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279745/posts Iran's growing influence in Latin America is a "potential risk" to the region, the newly-appointed head of the US Southern Command, General Douglas Fraser has warned. Fraser, who on Thursday takes charge of US military operations in 31 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, expressed "real concern" about the Islamic Republic's links with "extremist organizations" in the region. "The real concern is not a nation-to-nation interaction, it is the connection that Iran has with extremist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and the potential risk that that could bring to this region," Fraser told journalists ahead of taking up the... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279745/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:48:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279563/posts European diplomatic sources said Thursday that kidnapped Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit will be transferred to Egypt in the coming hours or coming days. This information has yet to be confirmed by Israeli officials. According to the European sources, Shalit's transfer is the first stage of an agreement between the various Palestinian factions, assisted by Egyptian mediation and done in coordination with the United States and with the support of Syria. Shalit will be used as a "deposit" toward the completion of a prisoner exchange between the Palestinian factions, the sources said. The agreement will include the exchange of... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279563/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:35:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2279346/posts Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch reports this info from a well placed source : "Today, FBI Executive Assistant Director Tom Harrington is meeting at FBIHQ with Imam Majid of the ADAMS Center in Sterling,VA. Imam Majid is also the Vice-President of the Islamic Society of North America - a known Muslim Brotherhood entity and un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Trial in Dallas in which all defendants were found guilty of leading the Hamas front group. This was the largest terrorism financing trial in the history of the United States." This comes on the heels of reports that former... Amerisrael http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2279346/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:14:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279019/posts "Hamas authorities should immediately allow Sgt. Gilad Shalit of Israel to communicate with his family and to receive visits from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)," Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, a day before the third anniversary of his captivity. "Hamas's prolonged incommunicado detention of Shalit is cruel and inhuman and may amount to torture," Human Rights Watch said. Hamas authorities are obligated by the laws of war to allow Shalit to correspond with his family, but during his three years of captivity, Hamas has passed on only three letters he has written and a voice recording. Neither... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279019/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278960/posts Arabs in Kalkilya, adjacent to the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, fear that Hamas will stage a coup similar to the one on Gaza two years ago, residents and political leaders told the American National Public Radio (NPR) network. “The Hamas leadership wants to take over [Judea and Samaria] and the proof is that they have discovered large weapons cache right here in Kalkilya in Hamas areas,” Kalkilya’s Fatah representative Ahmed Shreen told NPR. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278960/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2278658/posts I was lurking around the liberal blogs today just to see what the crazies are up to. Lo and behold, I see some entry http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/24/746365/-Hamas-and-Hezbollah-do-not-need-anyones-apologies and look at the poll!!! nearly half of the users will not condemn Hamas or Hezbollah! Jesus, I didn't think liberals were that crazy. I then preceded to read some of the posts, and saw that there were some reasonable people on Israel vs. Jihad, the two-state solution, but the vast majority of posts are pro=jihad and anti-Israel, and try to avoid condemning Hamas and Hezbollah! You'd think people who claim to be such lovers... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2278658/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:15:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277774/posts Six Missing Israeli Soldiers By Norma Zager and Ari Bussel “The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see…” Ayn Rand Three years ago a Jewish son was taken from his parents. Hamas terror organization kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad during an incursion from Gaza into Israel. His captors have denied access to him by Red Cross workers in violation of the Geneva Convention. For three years his parents have suffered with worry for their son. For three years a merciless enemy has held captive a young man, a soldier. While Gilad Shalit became... "Postcards from Israel - Postcards from America" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277774/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:16:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277373/posts SNIPPET: "The American Civil Liberties Union released a report June 16 (together with a You Tube video) attacking the U.S. government's efforts to shut down terrorist-financing charities. The report was based on 120 interviews, 115 of which were conducted with Muslim community leaders and other Muslims "directly affected by" U.S. government policies regarding the charities. It suggests (contrary to a substantial body of evidence) – that the U.S. government was wrong to have acted against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation and other charities accused of raising money for terrorist... INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277373/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:57:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277142/posts Oh boy--that ACLU !! Every time someone even thinks of something to do with religion they usually throw a royal canary followed by a lawsuit. I have even heard rumors that once, someone tripped and fell in a state capitol building. When the person got up someone asked him if he was OK. When he answered, "yes, thank God" twelve ACLU lawyers were all over the guy with subpoenas in less than 30 seconds. See the American Civil Liberties Union claims to be a group designed to protect our constitutional rights. Of course, only when its convenient. For example their... IPT/the lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277142/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:46:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276683/posts Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered the release of 'all' Hamas prisoners, including those held on security charges, a senior aide told al-Jazeera from Ramallah on Monday. Azzam Ahmed, the head of the parliamentary bloc of Abbas’ Fatah party charged with holding reconciliation talks with the rival Hamas movement ruling Gaza, told the Doha-based channel the release would get underway in the coming days. The Palestinian Ma’an news agency, however, quoted sources close to Abbas as saying Hamas prisoners would only be released on “condition they do not pose a threat to general security and law and order.” Abbas had... Khaleej Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276683/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:12:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276408/posts DEBKAfile's military sources confirm that the Army of Islam, the Palestinian al Qaeda cell in Gaza tried to assassinate former US president Jimmy Carter by planting a 200-kilo bomb in the path of his exit through the Erez crossing after he held sympathetic talks with its Hamas rulers. The Israeli military watched the huge device from across the border. Carter had a lucky escape; the bomb would have been lethal had it exploded. The UN security guards escorting Carter must have been forewarned and his life saved. Hamas sappers defused the device but later denied it was there. Nevertheless, some... The Debka File http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276408/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:29:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276158/posts Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize winner and I will join 34 others taking medical, school, and building supplies to Gaza. I'd like to thank Nadira Kaili and Erin Connors of Atlantic Television News for donating dollars to help in my purchase of school supplies for Gaza's children. And I want to thank Jay Winter Nightwolf for the turquoise good luck ring that he gave me for this journey. On Tuesday, June 16, President Carter visited Gaza and said that he was almost brought to tears by what he saw. He said that he felt partly responsible because the... Pan-African News Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2276158/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:45:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276095/posts Palestinian Hamas members are helping the Iranian authorities crush street protests in support of reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, two protesters told The Jerusalem Post On Tuesday. They made their allegations as rioting on a scale unseen in Iran for nearly a decade continued in the wake of the elections and the allegations that the results were falsified. The protests have now spread from Teheran to other major cities. Mousavi insisted on Tuesday that he would "protect" his supporters' votes "at all cost, even if I am at risk." Shouting from a car roof to a roaring crowd of... THE JERUSALEM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276095/posts#comment Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:48:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275359/posts It is one of the oddities of the global war on terrorism that while al-Qaeda is almost universally condemned, its Sunni terrorist counterparts in Hamas continue to attract a devoted following. Former president Jimmy Carter annually sings Hamas’s praises, insisting to all who will listen that Western governments must reach out to Gaza’s jihadist rulers. At “peace” demonstrations and on college campuses, banners are waved in honor of the group openly sworn to the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews worldwide. All this and more is the subject of Steven Plaut’s devastating new pamphlet, “Hamas: The Terror Elite.”... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275359/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:28:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274727/posts As the post Iranian election protests continue in Iran, I recently asked how long will it be before the Mullahs take the gloves off? Apparently that time is not far off. Sunni terrorist group from the Palestinian Authority, Shi’ite mullahs of Iran join to crush street protests Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274727/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:19:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/913240/posts MOSSAD'S KILLING MACHINE COMES TO BRITAIN A killing war between Israel's Mossad and Islamic fanatics came closer this weekend in Britain. The Israeli intelligence agency has sent four members of its kidon assassination squad to this country, to join fifteen other handpicked katsas, its relentless field agents. Their brief is to "disable" any of the "close to 50" British Muslims that the extremist Islamic group, Al-Muhajiroun, last week boasted were ready to carry out suicide missions similar to the one in Tel Aviv. Al-Muhajiroun spokesman, Asif Butt, said the 50 were "primed and ready to go". The threat was sufficient... GlobeIntel and GordonThomas.ie http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/913240/posts#comment Sat, 17 May 2003 13:17:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274017/posts Poor Jimmy Carter, he is like the Charlie Brown of ex-Presidents. Once a year he goes to meet with the terrorists of Hamas and just when he thinks he is going to be able to Kick That Football of Peace, they pull it away. Last April he met the terrorists in Syria and upon his return he made a statement that Hamas might be willing to accept the right of Israel to "live as a neighbor next door in peace." No sooner did he make that statement Khaled Mashaal the Hamas leader announced that Carter made it all up. So... Magic Valley News/the Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2274017/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:05:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273843/posts Relevant Excerpt: On Tuesday two protesters told The Jerusalem Post that Palestinian Hamas members are helping the Iranian authorities crush street protests in support of Mousavi. They made their allegations as rioting on a scale unseen in Iran for nearly a decade continued in the wake of the elections and the allegations that the results were falsified. The protests have now spread from Teheran to other major cities. * * * Hamas formally welcomed incumbent Ahmadinejad's ostensible reelection victory on Saturday. The Palestinian Islamist movement receives arms and funding from Iran, and its members have often received training there, including... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273843/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:51:07 GMT