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| Assad congratulates Hamas on 'victory' over IDF in Gaza |
| 2009-01-25 |
| Syrian President Basher Assad met with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal Saturday morning, where he congratulated him for the "victory achieved by the Palestinian resistance in Gaza", the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported on Saturday. According to the article, Assad told Meshal, currently in exile in Damascus, that the Palestinian peoples' response to Israel Defense Forces operation "Cast Lead" was evidence of their "commitment to their inalienable rights to their land and homes, and of their deep faith in their ultimate victory over occupation and aggression." During the three-week offensive in the Gaza Strip, over 1,300 Palestinians are reported to have been killed. Thirteen Israelis were killed, 10 of them soldiers. The article says that members of the Hamas delegation who met with Assad thanked the Syrian people for their "support of the Palestinian people's steadfastness in Gaza during and after the aggression." The delegation reportedly told Syrian officials that Syria is the first stop in a tour of countries in the Middle East in order to "express their gratitude to them for standing by the Palestinian people during the aggression." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Boy, a complement from ASSAD?? Words fail. |
| Posted by: Free Radical 2009-01-25 17:22 |
| #8 death for these people is victory apparently..... go figure |
| Posted by: hmmmmm 2009-01-25 17:19 |
| #7 May Hamas and Hezbollah have many more victories like this one. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-01-25 13:15 |
| #6 Is the average Pali that dense that they don't recognize that? That's a trick question, right? |
| Posted by: Beavis 2009-01-25 11:53 |
| #5 The Heroes of Damascus claim victory while the schmucks in Gaza get slaughtered. Is the average Pali that dense that they don't recognize that? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-25 11:32 |
| #4 100 to 1 exponent that a Paleo will get killed and Assad claims victory...any more evidence needed to conclude that the "not playing with a full deck" coinage had these people in mind and the Peace Process is doomed to failure? |
| Posted by: HammerHead 2009-01-25 11:16 |
| #3 Half the Israeli soldiers killed were killed by friendly fire, so Hamas's direct results were even worse. |
| Posted by: Odysseus 2009-01-25 10:30 |
| #2 The Arab mind. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-01-25 08:23 |
| #1 Don't forget to tell all the dead guys. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-01-25 00:30 |