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2007-06-20 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas Mouthpiece Writes NY Times OpEd Piece

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Posted by tu3031 2007-06-20 11:57|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 There's people in Hell wantin' ice water, but they're not gonna get it either.

Posted by Whealet the Weasel2574 2007-06-20 14:14|| 2007-06-20 14:14|| Front Page Top

#2 same dude got an op ed in the Wash Post (a day after Jimmy Carter urged recognition of Hamas).

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Engage With Hamas
We Earned Our Support

By Ahmed Yousef
Wednesday, June 20, 2007; Page A19

GAZA CITY, Palestine -- The Palestinian National Authority apparently joins the list of elected governments targeted or toppled over the past century by interventionism: nations that had the courage to take American rhetoric at face value and elect whomever they would. No doubt some in Washington persist in the fiction that the United States is following a "road map" to democracy for Palestinians, just as others believe the Iraq war has been a sincere exercise in nation-building. Neoconservative strategists have miscalculated, however, and Hamas is stronger than ever.

For the first time in months, Gaza is secure. This may be a momentary peace as Israel prepares an attempt to retake parts of Gaza. Yet neither blunt force nor U.S. subterfuge will extinguish Palestinian aspirations for self-governance, free from outside interference.

Posted by mhw 2007-06-20 14:37|| 2007-06-20 14:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Gaza is secure? I s'pose that's one way of looking at it...

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-20 15:43|| 2007-06-20 15:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Time will tell, Ahmed (#2). In the mean time, I'm stocking up on popcorn.

Posted by Bobby 2007-06-20 16:10|| 2007-06-20 16:10|| Front Page Top

#5 The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has now tried to replace the winning Hamas government with one of his own, returning Fatah to power while many of our elected members of Parliament languish in Israeli jails.

Sort of tells you something right there, doesn't it?

It tried to engage the international community to explain its platform for peace.

Killing all the Jews is just so peaceful, isn't it?

Our stated aim when we won the election was to effect reform, end corruption and bring economic prosperity to our people.

Along with chopping off heads, hands and clitties.

bring about the release of the British journalist Alan Johnston, whose kidnapping in March by non-Hamas members is a stain on the reputation of the Palestinian people.

Here's some news for you, the Palestinian people themselves are "a stain on the reputation of the Palestinian people".

We reject attempts to divide Palestine into two parts and to pass Hamas off as an extreme and dangerous force.

What part of "Terrorist Organization" do you not understand?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-06-20 21:19|| 2007-06-20 21:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Hamas mouthpiece? I assumed you meant Jimmy Carter.

Posted by DMFD 2007-06-20 22:56|| 2007-06-20 22:56|| Front Page Top

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