All Journal Posts Tagged 'hamas' (47)

Abbas says he has "no desire" for re-run

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Thursday that he has "no desire" to run for re-election. Speaking on TV, Abbas said he had informed Fatah and PLO officials of his decision late on Wednesday night. PA officials said that Abbas's decision was a protest of the US administration's failure to force Israel to stop construction work in the West Bank settlements. They did not rule out the possibility that Abbas would change his mind before the January 24 election.… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on November 6, 2009 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

Israel to swap 20 wannabe killers for Shalit tape

In a deal that may augur a breakthrough in the long captivity of IDF corporal Gilad Shalit, the Israeli security cabinet on Wednesday morning approved the release of 20 female Palestinian prisoners and detainees -- most of whom were involved in attempts to kill Israelis in one way or another. In return, Israel is expecting to receive a recent recording of Shalit, snatched by Palestinian infiltrators over three years ago near the border with Gaza, and held in isolation since… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on October 1, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments

Peres: Goldstone report mocks history

President Shimon Peres on Wednesday lambasted the Goldstone Commission's report on Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, saying in a statement that the report "mocks history and fails to distinguish between aggressor and those acting in self-defense." Peres claimed the commission members would not have written such a report, which accuses Israel of war crimes, "had their children been living in Sderot, under the constant threat of Hamas rockets." The president blamed Hamas for laun… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 16, 2009 at 10:36pm — 5 Comments

Israel rejects UN war crimes report, says it supports terror

Israel called the Goldstone Commission Report "nauseating" on Tuesday, saying it created an unjust "equivalence of a democratic state with a terror organization" and lacked the context of a decade of terrorist attacks by Hamas. The commission, established by the UN Human Rights Council and led by former South African constitutional court judge Richard Goldstone, concluded that "Israel committed actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity," during Oper… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 16, 2009 at 3:00am — 2 Comments

Obama Reaches Boiling Point On Settlements Freeze

The announcement by Israel’s Defence Minister - Ehud Barak - on September 7 that Israel will proceed to complete 2500 housing units in the West Bank - and commence building another 455 units there - is Israel’s response to the demand by President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Israel freeze all settlement activity in the West Bank including “natural growth”. It is also an answer to the Palestinian Authority whose chief negotiator - Saeb Erekat - said on 31 August: "There… Continue

Added by david singer on September 15, 2009 at 7:00am — No Comments

Hamas enforces: Women, don't laugh! Men, don't swim topless!

Hamas has established Morality Units to supervise proper public behavior in Gaza. According to a member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Kayed Al-Ghoul: "Hamas in Gaza today maintains a type of tyranny... and seeks, through undemocratic means of coercion and despotism, to enact laws that enforce their ideology and their party's world-view on the entire Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip... Hamas enforces [wearing of] the h… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on September 10, 2009 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Hamas objects to UN plan to teach Holocaust to Gaza kids

Hamas slammed the United Nations Sunday, saying the organization planned to teach Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip about the Holocaust. The UN agency which runs schools in the enclave would not confirm any change, Reuters reported. Calling the Nazi genocide of the Jews "… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on August 30, 2009 at 11:00pm — 6 Comments

Palestine - Pressure and Purges Panic Jordan

Jordan’s King Abdullah is fast beginning to realise the serious ramifications threatening the continued rule of the Hashemite family dynasty in Jordan resulting from the failure of negotiations over the last 16 years to create a new Arab state between Jordan and Israel - “the two state solution“. Jordan’s intensive diplomatic support for the “the two state solution” has come apart at the seams as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas - emboldened by comments made by President Obama - no… Continue

Added by david singer on August 20, 2009 at 3:42pm — No Comments

Palestine - Abbas Accelerates Into The Abyss

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has signed his own death warrant as the preferred Arab partner to negotiate the allocation of sovereignty in the West Bank between Arabs and Jews. His demise follows his failure - after being re-elected as Chairman of Fatah in Bethlehem this week - to propose or procure any changes to the constitution of that terrorist organization at its first convention held in the last 20 years. The constitution of Fatah presently calls for the destruction of Is… Continue

Added by david singer on August 13, 2009 at 3:01am — No Comments

Bibi caves on IDF pullback from Arab cities. What next?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has collapsed under European and American pressure, ordering the IDF to withdraw from four Arab cities in the West Bank, removing roadblocks and effectively surrendering security control to the Palestinian Authority, without receiving anything in return. In the past, similar withdrawals have led in short order to roadside ambushes and suicide bombing attempts. In his visits to Italy and France last week, Netanyahu was pressured to toe the… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 28, 2009 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Carter: Remove Hamas from US terror list

Former President Jimmy Carter said that the Obama Administration should remove Hamas from the terrorist list, he told media during a joint press conference with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh following their meeting today in Gaza. He said he plans to keep pressing for the change when he meets with U.S. officials. The former president said he tried to convince Hamas leaders to denounce violence, accept the existing interim agreements and recognize the right of the Jewish state… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 17, 2009 at 5:30pm — 10 Comments

Netanyahu offers conditions for unarmed Palestinian state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he would support establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel only if it were demilitarized and came with Palestinian acceptance of Israel as the nation of the Jewish people. While paying lip service to President Barack Obama's vision of a regional peace framework, Netanyahu insisted that the Jewish people's right to the land of Israel went back three thousand years to the Biblical patriarch, the Jewish… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 14, 2009 at 9:30pm — 9 Comments

New Obama nuances raise alarms in Jerusalem

In the run-up to President Barack Hussein Obama's speech in Cairo, new verbal formulation have policy analysts in Jerusalem popping the Pepto-Bismol. On settlements, for the first time, Obama has joined the chorus of what were previously his senior officials by explicitly referring to "natural growth" as among the US prohibitions regarding Israeli communities in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. "I've said very clearly to the Israelis both privately and publicly that a… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on June 4, 2009 at 10:01am — 21 Comments

Outgoing Olmert brags about IDF reach, hinting at Sudan op

In one of his last speeches as Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert boasted of the long arm of the Israel Defense Forces, all but confirming news reports of Israeli air strikes on Iran-sourced weapons convoys in Sudan during Operation Cast Lead in January. Sudani and US sources also confirmed the strikes, which were first reported by CBS. "We operate everywhere where we can hit terror infrastructure - in close places, in places further away, everywhere where we can hit terror infra… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on March 27, 2009 at 12:00pm — 3 Comments

Why the prisoner swap never happened, and won't, anytime soon

Israel Insider Staff The failure of the Hamas ultimatum for the mass release of more than 1400 terrorists was assured from the start, however much Israel and Israelis desired to achieve the release of kidnapped soldier Col. Gilad Shalit. Among the terrorists on the Hamas must-free list were mass murders responsible for killing hundreds of Israelis in the nation's most terrorious bombing and shooting attacks, a list of carnage that brings chills to anyone present in… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on March 20, 2009 at 1:30pm — 10 Comments

No deal: Negotiators for Shalit return from Egypt empty-handed

Despite apparent signs of flexibility from Hamas, Israeli negotiators for the release of kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit are returning without an agreement. Apparently the Islamic terror group was unwilling to accept even the wholesale concession, even capitulation, that the Olmert government was prepared to make in terms of freeing more than a thousand Palestinian prisoners, including mass murders and masterminds of some of the most horrific terror attacks against Israeli c… Continue

Added by Israel Insider on March 16, 2009 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

Clinton Faces Terror Funding Dilemma

As Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel continue despite the Israeli cease-fire, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will arrive today in Egypt to convene an international conference aimed at coordinating international aid for Gaza.

While Clinton and other world leaders contend aid to Gaza will not be transmitted directly to the Hamas-controlled regime in Gaza and will instead be transferred through the Palestinian Authority (PA) and/or the United Nations Relief a

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Added by Israel Insider on March 2, 2009 at 3:00pm — 9 Comments

Turns out that 3 civilians were killed near UN school, not 40

9 fighters and 3 non-combatants were killed in IDF return fire to Hamas mortar attacks deliberately launched next to a UNRWA school on January 6.

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Added by Israel Insider on February 16, 2009 at 4:17pm — No Comments

Israel: No ceasefire or open crossings without Shalit free

Israel will not agree to a truce with Hamas in the Gaza Strip unless it includes the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit, the Prime Minister's Office said in a rare statement released on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, emphasizing its intended importance. "Israel will not reach any understandings regarding the calm (cease-fire) before the release of Gilad Schalit," the statement read.

Since the end of Operation Cast Lead, Israel and Hamas have been holdi

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Added by Israel Insider on February 14, 2009 at 8:30pm — 7 Comments

UN suspends Gaza aid after Hamas steals supplies again

UNRWA informed the IDF on Friday that it is suspending its humanitarian aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip after Hamas stole 200 tons of supplies that the United Nations organization had transferred to the Palestinian territory for humanitarian purposes.

The seizure of the supplies took place Thursday night and in response, and UNRWA officials informed the Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration that it was suspending its deliveries of flour

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Added by Israel Insider on February 6, 2009 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

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