"Hamas attacks will spark reprisal, Israel says; Livni rules out contacts with rulers of Gaza" by Aron Heller, Associated Press | February 3, 2009
HERZLIYA, Israel - Israel's foreign minister threatened yesterday to keep hitting Hamas as long as it attacks Israel, ruling out negotiations with the Islamic rulers of Gaza just eight days before national elections in which she is running for prime minister.
Tzipi Livni made her tough statement as a Hamas delegation headed for Cairo for talks today with Egyptian mediators on a long-term truce with Israel. The talks build on a two-week informal cease-fire that followed Israel's bruising offensive in Gaza.
Yeah, Israel TALKS PEACE and PLANS WAR!
Events yesterday underlined the urgency of the talks in Cairo. An Israeli missile hit a car in the town of Rafah, killing a Palestinian militant, hours after warplanes bombed the nearby Gaza-Egypt border in an effort to destroy tunnels that Hamas uses to smuggle in weapons and supplies.
The Israeli military said the target of the airstrike was a car carrying militants who fired mortars at Israel. Palestinian officials said a militant in the car was killed and another was wounded, along with two bystanders. The attacks were retaliation for more than a dozen rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza on Sunday.
Yup, Israel is always retaliating in the Jewish Mafia War Daily!
The fire decreased considerably yesterday, with the military saying that two mortar shells exploded at a border crossing in southern Gaza during the day.
I no longer believe a damn wiord the lying NaZionist military says; they have lied too much, and everytime they open their mouths, out comes another one.
In Cairo, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said the group, which calls for the destruction of Israel, would make its decision about a truce after a final round of talks with Egyptian mediators expected today. The Hamas delegation arrived in Cairo late last night.
Of course, when the SHOE is on the OTHER FOOT, the Zionist papers IGNORE IT:
Zionist Rabbi Sanctions Holocaust Against Palestinians
He said the delegation would listen to "the summary of the Egyptian contacts and talks that have been conducted with the Israelis or other concerned parties." Israel and Hamas refuse to deal directly with each other. In Syria, Mohammed Nasr, a member of the exiled leadership of Hamas, said the group was ready for a one-year truce with Israel in exchange for reopening the Gaza Strip's borders and lifting the economic blockade.
Yeah, WE KNOW WHO is BLOCKING PEACE!
The crossings, Gaza's main economic lifeline, have largely been closed since Hamas violently seized control of the territory in June 2007 from forces supporting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, whose administration is now limited to the West Bank.
Yeah, never mind that they WON ELECTIONS and are the LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT of Palestine -- not USrael's Fatah traitors!
Hamas, which controls Gaza, and Egypt reject outside forces patrolling their border, while Israel is hesitant to reopen any border crossings, concerned that militants and explosives could be smuggled into Israel and weapons into Gaza. Continued violence could work against Israel's outgoing government in the Feb. 10 elections and bolster hard-line opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seen as the front-runner.
Netanyahu has called for Israel to oust Hamas from power in Gaza. In a speech yesterday at an annual security conference sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Center, Livni did not go that far, but she was clear in her refusal to deal directly with the Islamic militants.
Hamas does not accept a place for a Jewish state in an Islamic Middle East and has sent dozens of suicide bombers into Israel.
What about that TRUCE OFFERED, a-holes?
Yup, NOTHING ABOUT the OCCUPATION and all ITS CRIMES!!
Just "suicide bombers for year." FUCK YOU, Jewpress!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A Hamas political leader based in Damascus, Khaled Mashaal, was in Iran on Sunday and yesterday, where he met the country's top leaders to thank them for their support during the Gaza offensive. He called his movement's most powerful ally a "partner in victory."
Yeah, the damn fucking NaZionist propagandists are never going to stop making that link for you, shit-eaters!
Btw, where are the Iranian weapons?
Also yesterday, in Paris, Abbas backed Egypt-led efforts to bring calm, warning that the cease-fire in Gaza remains fragile. Abbas met with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as part of his effort to drum up diplomatic support for a unity government of Palestinian factions and to push for a role in rebuilding Gaza.
Abbas. Unity government. Pfffftt!
After they worked so hard to make sure there wouldn't be one?
Livni, meanwhile, threatened to renew Israel's offensive if the attacks from Gaza were to continue.
As if it ever stopped! They have been BOMBING EVERY DAY SINCE!
"If by ending the operation we have yet to achieve deterrence, we will continue until they get the message," she said.
Livni called for Israel to pursue peace with moderate Palestinians and Arab states.
"If we don't draft an initiative in Hebrew, it will be dictated to us in Arabic, French or English," she warned.Yeah, so? Peace knows no language you disgusting Jewish ***!!!!
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Of course, the AmeriKan jewsmedia always FAULT HAMAS for the lack of peace!!
"No rush to talk with Abbas, Hamas says; Accuses leader of siding with Israel during Gaza war" by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters | February 3, 2009
A Palestinian girl at the United Nations club at the Shati refugee camp, where her family has been living after they lost their house during Israel's 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip. (Mahmud Hams/ AFP/ Getty Images)
DAMASCUS - Hamas will not push for Palestinian reconciliation talks if President Mahmoud Abbas insists on the supremacy of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Islamist group said yesterday.
In a statement, a high-level Hamas official accused Abbas of siding with Israel during its invasion of Gaza and seeking to "return on Israeli tanks" to govern the territory.
Abbas on Sunday rejected a call by Hamas to replace the PLO with an organization less dominated by his allies and said recognizing the primacy of the PLO in representing all Palestinians was a condition for dialogue.
Despite the creation of a Palestinian Authority to govern the territories, the PLO still wields great influence as the internationally recognized "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," including those in refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. Unlike Hamas, it has recognized Israel.
"Mahmoud Abbas spoke impulsively, perhaps reflecting the confusion he is living in after the victory of Hamas and the resistance in Gaza. We assure him that we are not begging for dialogue and we are not running after it," Hamas official Mohamed Nazzal said in Damascus, where Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal lives in exile.
Hamas regards its position as stronger after withstanding the three-week Israeli offensive on Gaza, which killed more than 1,300 Palestinians, including 700 civilians. Ten Israeli soldiers and three civilians were killed. Hamas and Israel declared separate cease-fires Jan. 18.
"Abbas and his entourage were waiting for the collapse of Hamas and the resistance to go back to Gaza on Israeli tanks after many of them fled in their underwear in June 2007," Nazzal said.
Hamas defeated Fatah forces loyal to the Western-backed Abbas and seized control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007, leaving Abbas and his Fatah faction controlling only the West Bank.
It NEVER STOPS, does it?
Relations between Hamas and Fatah have plummeted since.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
Hamas and Islamic Jihad are not part of the PLO, which is dominated by Abbas and factions loyal to him, despite a 2005 agreement to bring them under its umbrella. Hamas official Ayman Taha told Reuters in Cairo from Gaza: "Our position is clear. Our demand is the rebuilding or reform of the PLO, but if the other side insists on not reforming the PLO or rebuilding it, it is our right to look at other options."
Palestinian political commentator Ali Badwan said although the PLO was largely defunct as an organization, Hamas's entry would raise legitimacy of the Islamist group and weaken Fatah.
"The PLO has wide Arab and international recognition. Its institutions are barely alive but as a political tool it is useful," Badwan said.
"Hamas considers the PLO as having been hijacked by Fatah and wants to redress the balance. That would only weaken Abbas and his men," he added.--more--"
So if it is not a military assault, it is a political one.
"At Tufts, Blair says Hamas must be drawn into talks" by James F. Smith, Globe Staff | February 3, 2009
Tony Blair, the former British prime minister and current Mideast peace envoy, said yesterday that attempts to isolate the militant Hamas movement in Gaza have failed, and that Hamas needs to be drawn into negotiations for a durable peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
Notice how they never lying mention war criminal under Bliar's credentials?
Blair told an audience of several thousand students at Tufts University in Medford that unless Hamas becomes part of the negotiating process, the cycle of violence in the region will grind on for months or years.
And CUI BONO? You are not still seriously believing that Israel wants peace, are you?
Israel and Hamas are observing a fragile, informal truce in Gaza after Israel invaded to stop rocket attacks against its civilians. But before Hamas can take part in negotiations, Blair said, the Gaza-based Palestinian movement must accept long- established principles including recognition of Israel and renunciation of violence....
Of course, ISRAEL DOESN'T HAVE TO RENOUNCE VIOLENCE!!!!!
And WHEN is ISRAEL going to RECOGNIZE PALESTINE, 'eh?
Blair said progress was only possible once all parties committed not to resort to violence while they talked....
Which means ISRAEL is the DICK!!!!!!
Being willing to engage Hamas at all would mark a shift from the Bush administration's policy of shunning the hard-line Hamas, which has controlled the Gaza Strip since Hamas won an election in 2006 and then wrested control of the territory from the Fatah faction, which still controls the West Bank. Blair has spoken out in recent days for a new approach to avoid strengthening the extremists' hand.
Good Lord, I can't believe it: the MSM ADMITTING HAMAS WON ELECTIONS!!!
Of course, they buther the next phrase, but one out of three articles ain't bad, huh?
Listing three critical elements of a peace initiative, Blair said the first step should be a reinvigorated political negotiation process. He said President Obama had signaled he takes seriously his commitment to drive the parties actively toward agreement.
To serve as Israel's slave.
Second, Blair said, international players must do more to strengthen Palestinian institutions in the West Bank, including security forces.
Translation: the international community must back USrael's agents!
Improving governance in the West Bank has been a major focus for Blair since he became envoy in late 2007 for the so-called Quartet, comprising the United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union. Blair said that even with turmoil in Gaza, the West Bank achieved economic growth and increased tourism last year.
Third, Blair said, a new approach to Gaza "should harm the extremists and help the people. I fear that until now, it may have been the other way around."
What a piece of shit Bliar is!! Just go away you lying, war-criminal fuck!!!!
Blair was at Tufts to deliver the 2009 Issam M. Fares lecture, named for the Lebanese financier and politician who supported Middle East studies at Tufts since the early 1990s.
Blair's talk began 90 minutes late because a snowstorm in London delayed his flight.
That 'cause of global-waming, s***-head?
Related: London Bridge is Falling Down
He said that after all the storm's drama in London, he felt somewhat sheepish when he realized Boston had far more snow yet seemed to be coping fine. "It kind of makes you wonder who was in charge over there for all those years," he said.
NOT ME! WE KNOW WHO is running your Zionist-occupied government!!!
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"Hamas open to yearlong cease-fire; In exchange, seeks full opening of Gaza borders" by Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press | February 4, 2009
I believe that is the only reference to Israeli aggression in this piece.
CAIRO - Hamas officials said yesterday that they are ready to commit to a cease-fire with Israel for at least a year in exchange for a full opening of Gaza's borders, as the group began a new round of truce talks with Egyptian mediators.
At the same time, foreign ministers of pro-US Arab nations, including Saudi Arabia, met in the United Arab Emirates in a show of unity in support for Egypt's efforts to forge a long-term truce and against Iran, Hamas's most important ally.
But Hamas is Sunni and Iran Shia; why aren't they killing each other, jews*** press?
Egypt is trying to mediate a durable cease-fire in place of the temporary and increasingly wobbly truce that ended the Gaza war last month. It has set a deadline of tomorrow for the Islamic militant rulers of Gaza to accept a deal. But the complicated details of an accord appeared unresolved with border security arrangements a key obstacle.
"There is an agreement in principle about a calm for one year," said Ahmed Abdel-Hadi, a Lebanon-based Hamas official. "But the movement could show flexibility regarding the time . . . if there are guarantees and commitments to lift the sanctions and open the borders," he told Gaza's Al Quds Radio, signaling the possibility of extending the truce beyond a year.
Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said the Palestinian group is open to extending the cease-fire for 18 months. Abdel-Hadi said Hamas rejects a gradual opening of the border crossings or linking a truce deal to a release of Israeli soldier Sergeant Gilad Schalit, held by Hamas-allied militants in Gaza since June 2006.
"We are going to deal with all the issues as one package, because we are going to avoid the trap of gradual implementation," he said. Hamas demands that any truce include the opening of borders into Gaza, which Israel and Egypt have largely kept sealed since the group seized control of the territory from the rival Fatah faction in 2007.
Do I even have to say it?
Hamas also wants a role in administering the border crossings in recognition of its power in Gaza.
Well, they SHOULD HAVE ONE!!!
They are the ELECTED and LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT!!!!
Israel says it won't ease the 20-month blockade of the densely populated and impoverished coastal strip without international guarantees that Hamas will be prevented from smuggling more weapons into Gaza. It does not want any deal to give Hamas a role in controlling Gaza border crossings.
As long as ISRAEL is not allowed to "smuggle in" anymore AmeriKan armaments.
Hamas remains committed to Israel's destruction and refused to renounce violence. Both the United States and Israel consider it a terrorist group.
Has ISRAEL RENOUNCED VIOLENCE? When was the last time Hamas INVADED anybody, huh?
Yeah, I DO GET TIRED of JEW SHIT MEDIA!!!!!!!
In the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi, foreign ministers from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Mideast nations gathered yesterday for a hastily convened meeting that represented a more assertive effort by pro-US Arab governments to push Hamas toward an Egyptian-mediated truce - and away from Iran.
It made starkly clear the split in the Arab world between US allies and the pro-Iranian camp, particularly Syria, which backs Hamas and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
MORE BULLSHIT LIES from the ZIONIST PROPAGANDISTS!!
Syria was not invited to the meeting - nor was Qatar, which has taken an increasingly pro-Hamas turn since Israel's Gaza offensive.
So it was just a bunch of like-minded Zionist Arabs for Israel kicking it around, huh?
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"In violence late yesterday, the military said troops fatally shot a Palestinian who threw a grenade near the Gaza-Israel border. It said soldiers entered Gaza briefly to search the area."
Turns out the guy was a farmer! Yeah, ISRAEL'S VIOLATION of the TRUCE (did they call it that) and REINVASION get ONE PARAGRAPH!!!
"Hamas leader emerges from hiding to lead cease-fire talks; Cairo to mediate indirect meetings with group, Israel" by Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press | February 8, 2009
Palestinians stood near a crater yesterday made by an Israeli airstrike near the border of Egypt and Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. The offensive was in response to rockets fired on Israel. (Eyad Baba/associated press)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - One of Gaza's top two leaders emerged yesterday from six weeks in hiding, leading a Hamas delegation to Egypt for cease-fire talks and reiterating that the Islamic militant group is "flexible" over who should lead reconstruction in the devastated territory.
WTF? These guys are the "terrorists?"
Tell 'em to quit being so god-damn REASONABLE, will ya?
Mahmoud Zahar and three other Hamas officials crossed from Gaza into Egypt yesterday, en route to Cairo. Egypt is mediating indirect talks between Israel and Hamas to reach a durable truce. Hamas wants Israel and Egypt to lift their 20-month border blockade of Gaza, while Israel wants improved guarantees that Hamas will be prevented from smuggling weapons into Gaza.
On the Egyptian side, Zahar told reporters Hamas would be flexible about who will take charge of reconstruction. Thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed or damaged during the war, causing an estimated $2 billion in damages.
I think ISRAEL should be made to PAY REPARATIONS!!!!!!
Hamas initially insisted it should supervise the spending. However, international donors are reluctant to hand huge sums to the Islamic militants.
"We are flexible on who should be in charge of rebuilding," said Zahar who, apparently fearing assassination, had been in hiding during the three-week offensive and even after a tentative cease-fire took hold in mid-January.
Why would he be fearing that, and from who? Certainly not peace-loving Israel!
The Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, still has not appeared in public. In the West Bank, Hamas's rival, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, said yesterday that he will transfer $50 million in emergency aid to Gazans whose homes were destroyed or damaged in the offensive.
The UN is putting together a detailed report on the war damage. It is to be presented to donor countries in Egypt on March 2. The conference is expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for rebuilding Gaza. Fayyad said the emergency payments will be taken from the current Palestinian budget.
Israel unilaterally halted its three-week military offensive on Jan. 18, and Hamas militants also stopped firing a day later, but the two sides have not agreed on the terms of a cease-fire. Sporadic violence has continued since.
Once again, we get Zionist bias in the report.
Yup, Israel's was unilateral -- even though they have NEVER STOPPED!!
Hamas stopped a day later (allegedly), but that isn't unilateral. Israel's bombing must have made them do it!!
On Friday, Israeli warplanes struck four smuggling tunnels and a weapons depot in the area of the Gaza-Egypt border, the Israeli military said. The airstrikes came in response to two rockets fired from Gaza on Israel....
Yeah, sure, it came in "response." Standard lie they put out, and I'm not buying the CYA NaZionist excuse anymore!
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"Yesterday, two rockets fired by Palestinian militants struck southern Israel, the Israeli military said. The attack violates the informal cease-fire that was declared after Israel's offensive ended."
Who is firing those rockets?
I was going to go purchase a Jewish Mafia War Daily today, but now I'm not so sure. I'm sick of eating Zionist shit with my morning coffee.
Update: What a surprise!!!
And if you can believe it, the scum Zionist MSM are taking the lying up a notch!
GAZA CITY - Israeli aircraft struck two targets in the Gaza Strip and a Gaza militant died in a clash with troops on the border yesterday, as an official of the moderate Palestinian government accused Hamas of trying to boost hawkish candidates in Israel's election.
Yeah, Israel didn't KILL HIM -- he died!!!
The violence on the eve of the vote occurred as Egyptian mediators continued their efforts to cement a long-term cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, after the three weeks of intense fighting that racked the coastal territory last month. Israel's military said the two air strikes early in the day targeted militant positions and were a response to rocket fire from Gaza aimed at southern Israel on Sunday.
Yeah, and CUI BONO?
The military also said soldiers spotted an armed militant trying to sneak into Israel from Gaza overnight and opened fire, after which a bomb belt the man was wearing detonated. The militant group Islamic Jihad said that one of its fighters had been killed, but blamed an air strike.
You think I am believing the LYING NaZionist military and their WEAK, LAME-ASS LIE?!! NOT ANYMORE and NEVER AGAIN!!!!!
Riad Malki, foreign minister in the moderate Palestinian government based in the West Bank, charged that Gaza's Hamas fighters were firing rockets into Israel in hopes of influencing today's national election.
First, I saw a Hamas guy on DemocracyNow and he said they don't care-- either one will be a Zionist killer -- and secondly, that's jewsmedia code for Israel's agent in Palestine!
He said Hamas didn't want to see a pro-peace government elected in Israel because it would pursue a political deal with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Don't worry: THEY WON'T!!!
The Islamic militant group "wants instability in the region," Malki said during a visit to Poland. Abbas's government is "very much worried" that the rocket attacks might "really push Israeli public opinion and the voters to vote for an anti-peace government," Malki told reporters in Warsaw.
Well, they are going to GET THAT ANYWAY!!!
And if this ZIONIST BULLCRAP is true, then what is with the TRUCE TALK ABOVE? See what I mean about LYING SHIT JEWSMEDIA!!!!
Citing security concerns, Israel imposed a closure on the West Bank during the voting, banning Palestinians from entering Israel. A military statement said exceptions would be made for humanitarian cases. Gaza Palestinians are barred from Israel under a longstanding order.
Yeah, MINIMIZE the COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT and WAR CRIMINAL SEIGE, you piece of....
The violence coincided with stepped-up efforts to strengthen the shaky cease-fire that ended Israel's devastating offensive.
And CUI BONO? I'm tired of arguing it because the whole world knows what's up.
Cat is out the bag: WE ALL KNOW WHOM the WAR CRIMINAL LIARS are!!!!
Israel unilaterally ended its offensive Jan. 18 and Hamas announced its own cease-fire the same day, but clashes have continued.
But Hamas' ceasefire isn't unilateral.
In talks being mediated by Egypt, Hamas is seeking to get Gaza's blockaded border crossings open, while Israel wants an end to arms smuggling into the territory and the return of a soldier captured in June 2006. A delegation from Hamas was in Damascus yesterday to consult with the Islamic movement's exiled leadership.
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