{"article":{"id":147272,"heading":"Hamas emphasizes need for Israeli withdrawal","author":"IMEMC.ORG","created":"2006-02-15 03:43:56","modified":"2006-02-18 19:41:53","last_modified":"Sun, 19 Feb 2006 02:41:53","article":"

Hamas has faced the challenge of forming a new Palestinian government since winning a majority of seats in Palestinian legislative elections on January 25th. As a resistance movement, Party leaders have assured supporters that their ongoing focus will be on resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, an occupation ruled illegal by international law.

Meanwhile, acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his government's position: \"We will not conduct any negotiations with Hamas or with anyone who is part of it or dependent on it.\" However, he left open the possibility of ongoing negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, \"without closing off diplomatic avenues, if those exist, to continue progressing\".

Hamas leader Mashal challenged the Israeli requirement that Hamas agree to the tenets of the so-called 'roadmap to peace', saying that Israel itself was not adgering to it. He said Monday, \"Since no one is abiding by the dispositions of the road map, the Palestinians also feel it is not expedient to adhere to it,\" he said.

Hamas leaders still plan to meet with Russian president Vladimir Putin, after an invitation was extended to the new Palestinian ruling party last week. French leaders have supported the meeting, and South Africa's and Venezuela's Presidents, Thabo Mbeki and Hugo Chavez, respectively, have asked for meetings with Hamas as well. \"Russia is the first of the countries in the Middle East Quartet [Russia, the EU, US and UN] that respected the choice made by the Palestinian people and made it clear once again that it does not consider Hamas an extremist and terrorist movement,\" said Mashal in his Monday statement. <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.imemc.org\/content\/view\/16681\/1\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Khalid Mashal, a leader-in-exile of the Palestinian Hamas party, stated Monday in an interview that Israel must withdraw its troops from Palestinian territories as a prerequisite for peace talks. \r\n"If Israel recognises our rights and pledges to withdraw from all occupied lands, Hamas, and the Palestinian people together with it, will decide to halt armed resistance."\r\n","numcomment":12,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2006\/02\/mashal11.jpg","filesize":"2.3 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2006\/02\/147272.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2006\/02\/mashal11.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2006\/02\/mashal11.jpgthumb.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":147458,"heading":"George Clooney-at a glance","article":"The thumbnail pic reminds me of George Clooney with a beard,","author":"Confused","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-17 02:51:49","modified":"2006-02-17 02:51:49","fileurl":""},{"id":147460,"heading":"israel emphasizes need for Hamas to stop blowing themselves up on crowded busses.","article":"israel emphasizes need for Hamas to stop blowing themselves up on crowded busses.","author":"fresca","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-17 03:12:33","modified":"2006-02-17 03:12:33","fileurl":""},{"id":147465,"heading":"give up busses?","article":"That would work if you gave Hamas F 16s and tanks.\r\nEven the playing field to reduce bus bombings.","author":"non sense","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-17 04:06:55","modified":"2006-02-17 04:06:55","fileurl":""},{"id":147472,"heading":"then It's busses","article":"Any people, whether you believe them imaginary or not, have a right to resist their genocide.\r\nSo I guess busses are going to blow.\r\nAs does the policies of piracy that created this awful mess.\r\nYou can't even nuke them with your 200 plus arsenal of nuclear weapons.\r\nOr maybe no one's thought of that .","author":"so don't bitch about it.","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-17 05:39:13","modified":"2006-02-17 05:39:13","fileurl":""},{"id":147474,"heading":"Until the muslims evolve, I'm sure you're right.","article":""Any people, whether you believe them imaginary or not, have a right to resist their genocide."\r\n\r\nNothing that has happened to the "palestinians" AT ALL since the stopped being Egyptians, Jordanians, and Syrians in 1967 has been even remotely akin to genocide.\r\n\r\nWhen "palestinians" die in retaliation for murders they've committed that is not genocide.","author":"fresca","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-17 05:49:12","modified":"2006-02-17 07:53:23","fileurl":""},{"id":147492,"heading":"My, my, my","article":"\r\nIt took you all THAT long to realize that - YES - I'm as crazy as a LOON? That I'm as crazy as your old Aunt Nelly that you keep up in the attic? \r\n\r\nNow doesn't that seem awfiully quintessentially leftist for you all not to notice that? \r\n\r\nBear that in mind. \r\n\r\nit's amazing that for a bunch of self-proclaimed searchers of truth and lovers of peace that you all are so dense! \r\n\r\nFor instance, I'm definetly a LOON. But I've yet to come across anyone around here - except for one person - who truly truly realizes that! \r\n\r\nYou'd think that changing the mind of someone with an opposing and pathologically racist view like mine would be a goal. I guess not. Because I'm a LOON! I'm a LOON I tell you! I'm a LOON! \r\n\r\nIt's not much more important than that! \r\n\r\nbanning crazy loony racists like me does nothing but make la-imc better. \r\n\r\nSurprise...!: I really don't like Jews anymore than I do Palestinians! \r\n\r\nI'm just a crazy LOON looking for attention the only way I know how! \r\n\r\nbesides, I'm giving la-imc editor johnk BLOWJOBS! \r\n\r\nand THAT'S why he won't ban me!\r\n","author":"fresca","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-17 08:02:56","modified":"2006-02-17 14:24:25","fileurl":""},{"id":147613,"heading":"let me add some of my thoughts. all my own.","article":"LET ME DESCRIBE LIFE IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE. I'VE RETAINED OR ADDED CAPS FOR EMPHASIS: \r\n\r\nIn case you were still wondering what life as a "palestinian" was like: \r\n\r\nTry to imagine daily life under these conditions: \r\n\r\n"Palestinians" live in limbo in a country, before called "Palestine", now occupied by a repressive foreign zionist army and a system of institutionalized and codified racism called zionism. \r\n\r\n"Palestine" was wiped off the map by Jews, like Hitler once tried with Poland. Now Jews were driving people off their land and taking their homes. Both engaged in ethnic cleansing, but Jews are now more successful at it, having done so for the past 60 years. Hitler only had about 5 years.\r\n\r\nThis old country was called "Palestine". The new country is called Israel. \r\n\r\n"Palestinians" now have no recognized nation of their own, no right of citizenship and no power over their own daily life. This is life under zionism. The Western imperialist powers gave "palestinians" land to the Jews in order, they say, to make up for the holocaust in Europe, for they didn't want too many Jewish refugees coming to England or the U.S., or even staying in Europe for that matter. They also hoped that they could use a Jewish state to control the Middle East, especially oil. \r\n\r\n...ACTUALLY THE "PALSTINIANS" OLD COUNTRY LOST THE LAND THEY WERE ON, WELL THE JEWS TOOK IT, AND "PALSTINIANS" NEW ALIEN COUNTRY, ISRAEL, NOW "THE JEWISH STATE", TRIED TO ANNIHILATE ARAB NEIGHBORS ARMIES IN 1967 TO GAIN MORE LAND. THE JEWS NEEDED STILL MORE LABENSRAUM, EVEN MORE THAN THEY TOOK IN 1948, MORE FROM WHICH THEY WERE GIVEN BY THE IMPERIALISTS BEFORE 1948.\r\n\r\nThis was called the Six Day War. \r\n\r\nThis was when they Israel started yet another pretextual war (sort of like the U.S. in Iraq) invading its' neighbors for land. It was when IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING, Israel "pre-emptively" SURPRISE ATTACKED Egypt, Syria and Jordan, claiming that they were about to attack Israel. Prime Minister Menachim Begin later admitted that, "We knew that Egypt was not going to attack Israel." Israel wanted the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights (it said for "protection", but later it came out that it was for Israeli farmers), and the West Bank. Israel wanted "labensraum" to expand its settlements. \r\n\r\nThis kind of "pretextual war" happened before in 1956 when Israel, conspiring with Britain and France to take over the Suez Canal, but since they hadn't told the U.S. first, the U.S. made them leave. \r\n\r\nThe 1967 Six Day War was when Israel also attacked a U.S. military vessel called the USS Liberty, trying to make the attack look like the Egyptians did it. Israel had hoped to kill everyone on board, or left them to drown, and sink the ship. But that didn't happen.\r\n\r\nThe USS Liberty picked up communications that Israel had indeed intended to attack Jordan to seize Jerusalem and the West Bank.Israel knew what the mission was of the USS Liberty and, despite the clear United States flag flying high, proceeded to attack the USS Liberty TOO. The Jews were brazen! Not one pass, but several attack passes. The deliberate attack was a clear attempt to keep the USS Liberty from notifying Jordan that Israel was about to seize Jerusalem. The Jews get what the Jews want. The attack lasted for over an hour, critically disabling the U.S. vessel. Numerous Americans were killed and many more were wounded. Most people know that Israeli paratroopers then seized Jerusalem without much of a fight. \r\n\r\nThe Six Day War was a popular triumph in the U.S. press and what ensued was a long Anglo-Jewish cover-up in Israel and Washington to keep Americans in the dark about what their supposed Middle East ally had done in the Anglo-Jewish alliance to control oil in the Middle East. The Jews are very clever: they can get their cake (courtesy of Uncle Sam) and eat it too. \r\n\r\nBy this time, not even Congressmen or U.S. presidents could defy or go up against the Jewish lobby in the U.S. anymore. A Jewish lobby that could marshal Jewish voters ALL OVER THE COUNTRY to make or break politicians and presidents in electorally important "must win" states like New York, Florida, California and Illinois. The Jews get what the Jews want. \r\n\r\n"...OF COURSE YOU "PALSTINIANS" COULD HAVE HAD ALL THIS LAND IN 1948"\r\n\r\nBut the Jews made sure that you didn't. But, after all, how many people would willingly give away over half their country to an invading foreign population?\r\n\r\n\r\n"OR AFTER THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS BUT THE ARAFAT REFUSED ..." \r\n\r\nAT LEAST THAT WAS ANOTHER COVER STORY. THE JEWS ARE VERY GOOD AT THAT. THAT WAS THAT "ARAFAT WAS OFFERED 97% OF WHAT HE WANTED, BUT HE SLAPPED IT DOWN". ONLY RECENTYLY, YEARS LATER, HAS THAT STORY BEEN, OCCASIONALLY, PUBLICLY REFUTED BY EVEN ISRAELI HISTORIANS, AMERICAN NEGOTIATORS WHO WERE THERE, AND AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT (CARTER). \r\n\r\nNow the "palestinians" continue to live in a constant state of fear. The Jewish occupier imposes economic strangulation and collective punishment by restricting free movement; enclosing population centers; closing borders; barring most of your people from working inside "its country"; imposing regular curfews, roadblocks, checkpoints, electric fences and separation walls and continues to build new settlements in your Occupied Territories (on "palestinians" land in what's left) violating the Geneva Conventions prohibiting an occupier from settling its population on conquered land. \r\n\r\nOF COURSE, BEYOND THE FACT THAT THE "PALSTINIANS" HAVE NO COUNTRY BECAUSE, WELL SEE ABOVE ALL THESE CONSTRAINTS EXISTS BECAUSE OF THOSE PEOPLE'S PENCHANT FOR CROSSING SAID BORDER (THE STEADILY EXPANDING BORDER OF ISRAEL) AND EXPLODING IN CROWDED PUBLIC SPACES. AND WHEN "PALESTINIANS" DON'T THE JEWISH OCCUPATION GOVERNMENT WILL KEEP ASSASSINATING "PALSTINIANS" LEADERS AND KILLING "PALSTINIAN" WOMEN AND CHILDREN UNTIL THEY ARE AGAIN PROVOKED TO STRIKE BACK WITH JUST ABOUT ALL THE JEWS HAVE LEFT THEM -- THE "PALSTINIANS" OWN BODIES. \r\n\r\nOKAY JEWS HAVE LEFT "PALSTINIANS" WITH ALMOST NOTHING, BUT I SUPPOSE "PALSTINIANS" ARE BRAVER THAN THE JEWS. THE JEWS ONLY FIGHT WHEN THEY HAVE OVERWHELMING ODDS IN THEIR FAVOR, ESPECIALLY ARMS GIVEN TO THEM FROM THEIR FAVORITE UNCLE SAM. \r\n\r\nLUCKY FOR THE JEWS THE U.S. IS MUTE ON THE SUBJECT OF ISRAEL'S CONTINUED STATE TERRORISTIC BOMBINGS AND REPRESSIVE TREATMENT OF THE "PALSTINIAN" PEOPLE. ESPECIALLY HANDY IS THAT THE U.S. IS ALSO QUIET ON THE FAR WORSE TREATMENT THAT THE "PALSTINIAN" PEOPLE RECIEVED FROM THE COUNTRY THAT ORIGINALLY STOLE THEIR LAND THEY WERE PROMISED AFTER WWI, WHEN BRITAIN PROMISED ARABS INDEPENDENCE FOR COOPERATING WITH IT AND THE ALLIES IN WWI. LUCKY JEWS. \r\n\r\nThe Jewish occupier also sends its troops, tanks and heavy armor into neighborhoods at will to maraud and destroy. It also strikes at will from the air with sophisticated missle-firing attack helicopters and F-16s and deliberately inflicts eardrum shattering and terrifying sonic booms. And it gives its military\/security forces the right to freely harass, arrest or kill extra-judicially any of your people - man, woman or child on any pretext with impunity. YES, THE JEWS GET WHAT THE JEWS WANT. \r\n\r\nOF COURSE, YOU'LL SEE A PATTERN OF LOTS OF TANKS, ROCKETS AND SOLDIERS SOON ONE AFTER ANOTHER ONE BLOWING UP CROWDED PUBLIC SPACES AND EVEN REFUGEE CAMPS. FUNNY HOW THOSE JEWS SEEM TO FOLLOW ONE AFTER ANOTHER. \r\n\r\nThe Jewish occupier bulldozes homes and the people in them if they don't escape in time (usually in middle of the night and without warning or notice) as punishment or for lacking a permit to build on their own land, in their own country or for any other reason. It steals land relentlessly hoping it will have it all one day or at least all the parts it wants. It detains, imprisons and tortures thousands of your people for the real or perceived crime of fighting for their freedom against an oppressive occupier. THE JEWS GET WHAT THE JEWS WANT. \r\n\r\nHOW UNFORTUNATE "PALSTINIANS" HAVE SUCH FANTASTICAL AND HYPERBOLIC AMERICAN AND ISRAELI JEWS, ALWAYS ABLE TO SCREAM ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST, ON OUR SIDE TO CONCOCT AND EXZAGERATE. AND AGAIN, HOW CAN A COUNTRY STEAL ITS OWN LAND? GOD PROMISED THE JEWS ISRAEL IN PALESTINE.","author":"fresca","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-18 10:18:54","modified":"2006-02-18 13:26:21","fileurl":""},{"id":147620,"heading":"Let me add some thoughts","article":"In case you were still wondering what life as a "palestinian" was like:\r\n\r\nTry to imagine daily life under these conditions:\r\n\r\nYou live in limbo in a country occupied by a repressive foreign army and a system of institutionalized and codified racism.\r\n\r\n...ACTUALLY YOU'RE COUNTRY LOST THE LAND YOU'RE ON WHEN THEY TRIED TO ANNIHILATE ON OF THEIR NEIGHBORS IN 1967..\r\n\r\nYou have no recognized nation, no right of citizenship and no power over your own daily life.\r\n\r\n...OF COURSE YOU COULD HAVE HAD ALL THIS IN 1948 OR AFTER THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS BUT YOU DECLINED...\r\n\r\nYou live in a constant state of fear. The occupier imposes economic strangulation and collective punishment by restricting free movement; enclosing population centers; closing borders; barring most of your people from working inside "its country"; imposing regular curfews, roadblocks, checkpoints, electric fences and separation walls and continues to build new settlements in your Occupied Territories (on your land in your country) violating the Geneva Conventions prohibiting an occupier from settling its population on conquered land.\r\n\r\nOF COURSE, BEYOND THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE NO COUNTRY BECAUSE, WELL SEE ABOVE, ALL THESE CONSTRAINTS EXISTS BECAUSE OF YOUR PEOPLES' PENCHANT FOR CROSSING SAOD BORDER AND EXPLODING IN CROWDED PUBLIC SPACES.\r\n\r\nThe occupier denies your people their basic human rights including those under the Fourth Geneva Convention which governs the treatment of civilians in war and under occupation. There are 149 articles of this Convention. The occupier violates almost all of them and in so doing is committing war crimes according to international law. The UN Human Rights Commission determined it's also committing "crimes against humanity" against your people. This concept comes from the 1945 Nuremberg Charter drafted by the U.S. to try Nazi war criminals. The international notion of a "crime against humanity" was established to define what Hitler did to the Jews. The UNHRC ruled this is what the occupier is doing to your people, and that this act is the historical and legal precursor to the international crime of genocide as defined by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.\r\n\r\nLUCKY FOR YOU THE UN IS MUTE ON THE SUBJECT OF YOUR CONTINUED TERRORISTIC SUICIDE BOMBINGS AND REPRESSIVE TREATMENT OF YOUR OWN PEOPLE. ESPECIALLY HANDY IS THAT THE UN IS ALSO QUIET ON THE FAR WORSE TREATMENT YOU'VE RECIEVED FROM THE COUNTRIES THAT ORIGINALLY STOLE THE LAND YOU WERE GIVEN IN 1948...EGYPT, SYRIA AND JORDAN. LUCKY YOU.\r\n\r\nThe occupier also sends its troops, tanks and heavy armor into neighborhoods at will to maraud and destroy. It also strikes at will from the air with sophisticated missle-firing attack helicopters and F-16s and deliberately inflicts eardrum shattering and terrifying sonic booms. And it gives its military\/security forces the right to freely harass, arrest or kill extra-judicially any of your people - man, woman or child on any pretext with impunity.\r\n\r\nOF COURSE, YOU'LL SEE A PATTERN OF LOTS OF TANKS, ROCKETS AND SOLDIERS SOON AFTER ANOTHER ONE OF YOU BLOWS UP IN CROWDED PUBLIC SPACES. FUNNY HOW THEY SEEM TO FOLLOW ONE ANOTHER.\r\n\r\nIt bulldozes homes and the people in them if they don't escape in time (usually in middle of the night and without warning or notice) as punishment or for lacking a permit to build on their own land, in their own country or for any other reason. It steals land relentlessly hoping it will have it all one day or at least all the parts it wants. It detains, imprisons and tortures thousands of your people for the real or perceived crime of fighting for their freedom against an oppressive occupier.\r\n\r\nHOW FORTUNATE YOU HAVE SUCH FANTASTICAL AND HYPERBOLIC AMERICAN LEFTISTS ON YOUR SIDE TO CONCOCT AND EXZAGERATE. AND AGAIN, HOW CAN A COUNTRY STEAL ITS OWN LAND?..","author":"fresca","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-18 13:26:01","modified":"2006-02-18 13:26:01","fileurl":""},{"id":147623,"heading":"Hamas on Tape","article":"\r\nShortly after its stunning election victory, Hamas posted on its\r\nofficial website parting video messages from two suicide bombers,\r\nincluding one who vowed the terrorist group would drink the blood of\r\nJews until they "leave the Muslim countries."\r\n\r\nAnother terrorist urged his mother to be joyous over his death and his\r\n"wedding" with the "Maidens of Paradise."\r\n\r\nThe terrorist act glorified in the video, which can be viewed here, took\r\nplace Dec. 7, 2004, reported Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch.\r\nHamas, responsible for more than 100 suicide bombings and scores of\r\nshooting and rocket attacks, won overwhelmingly in the Jan. 25\r\nPalestinian parliamentary elections and will form the next government.\r\n\r\nEach terrorist had a separate message for Jews. The first said:\r\n\r\n"My message to the loathed Jews is that there is no god but Allah, we\r\nwill chase you everywhere! We are a nation that drinks blood, and we\r\nknow that there is no blood better than the blood of Jews. We will not\r\nleave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and\r\nour children's thirst with your blood. We will not leave until you leave\r\nthe Muslim countries."\r\n\r\nThe second terrorist declared:\r\n\r\n"In the name of Allah, we will destroy you, blow you up, take revenge\r\nagainst you, [and] purify the land of you, pigs that have defiled our\r\ncountry... This operation is revenge against the sons of monkeys and pigs."\r\n\r\nThe second terrorist also told how he saw his death for Allah as a wedding:\r\n\r\n"I dedicate this wedding to all of those who have chosen Allah as their\r\ngoal, the Quran as their constitution and the prophet [Muhammad] as\r\ntheir role model. Jihad is the only way to liberate Palestine \u2013 all of\r\nPalestine \u2013 from the impurity of the Jews."\r\n\r\nHe then spoke directly to his mother.\r\n\r\n"My dear mother, you who have cared for me, today I sacrifice my life to\r\nbe your intercessor (on Judgment Day). O my love and soul, wipe your\r\ntears, don't be saddened. In the name of Allah, I've achieve all that\r\nI've aspired. Don't let me see you sad on my wedding day with the\r\nMaidens of Paradise. So be happy and not sad, because in the name of\r\nAllah, after death is merciful Allah's paradise."\r\n\r\nThe clip has a farewell scene in which the mother helps the terrorist\r\ndon his explosive vest. The scene is accompanying by a song with the\r\nlyrics, "My dear mother, don't cry over us."\r\n\r\nPalestinian Media Watch notes the lyrics are similar to a music video\r\nthat ran on Palestinian Authority television for years in which a boy\r\nasks his parents to be happy over his coming death: "My beloved, my\r\nmother, dearest to me most. Be joyous over my blood and do not cry for me."\r\n\r\nThe Israeli news monitor commented that on numerous occasions, the final\r\nmessages of Palestinian suicide bombers reflected what they had been\r\nhearing in the PA media.\r\n\r\nAfter filming their goodbyes, the two Hamas suicide terrorists went to\r\nthe Gaza Strip's Karni Crossing and killed an Israeli soldier.\r\n\r\nThe clip also has scenes of terrorists preparing a tunnel and hiding\r\nexplosives in it.\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/www.pmw.org.","author":"Davidben","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-18 14:03:38","modified":"2013-11-11 00:38:19","fileurl":""},{"id":147645,"heading":"only one solder?","article":"that's terrible.\r\namateurs give everyone a bad name. They need to unionize and provide codes for proper use. Training, training, training.\r\nThis sloppiness is inexcusable. ","author":"Waste of HE","parent_id":147272,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2006-02-18 19:41:54","modified":"2006-02-18 19:41:54","fileurl":""}]}