DN! Clinton Vows to Starve Palestinians:
"Clinton Vows Continued US Boycott of Palestinians
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has renewed US vows to boycott the Palestinian government unless Hamas meets US-Israeli demands. Clinton testified Wednesday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: We will not deal with nor in any way fund a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, unless and until Hamas has renounced violence, recognized Israel, and agreed to follow the previous obligations of the Palestinian Authority. And that is our policy, and that is exactly what is guiding us, but we want to leave open the door that that can happen."
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Hamas accuses Israel of hindering prisoners exchange
No Mideast prisoner swap (for now):
"Al-Jazeera 090318
[LinkTV/Mosaic]
- Israel fully responsible for breakdown of negotiations - Hamas."
Hamas: Our people are not children of a lesser God
Source: PIC
Date: 18/03/2009 - 04:45 PM
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has held Israel responsible for the breakdown of Egyptian-mediated negotiations over a possible prisoner swap with the apartheid Zionist regime.
Hamas officials described statements by outgoing Israeli premier Ehud Olmert as “theatrical” and “mendacious from A to Z.”
One Hamas official in the Gaza Strip remarked that “Olmert is as mendacious as he is criminal,” adding that “what else would you expect from the killer of thousands of children and civilians?”
On Wednesday, the Israeli government decided to impose a new “set of punishments” against the Gaza Strip.
The Zionist government, which had signaled that a prisoner swap deal with Hamas was within reach, suddenly changed its mind, accusing Hamas of “inflexibility” and “making exaggerated demands.”
Hamas’s demands actually remained unchanged ever since the Shalit affair began more than thirty months ago when Palestinian guerillas captured the Israeli occupation soldier during a cross-border battle with the Israeli army.
Olmert on Tuesday, 17 March, launched a tirade against Hamas, calling the movement a “terrorist group.” Olmert utterly ignored Israel’s own terrorist record of killing and murdering thousands of innocent Palestinians during his reign of power.
In December and January, the Israeli army carried out a huge blitz on the Gaza Strip, killing and maiming more than 5,000 people, including hundreds of children, and utterly destroying the bulk of the coastal enclave's civilian infrastructure.
Similarly, the Israeli army killed and maimed thousands of innocent civilians during the 2006 onslaught on Lebanon and dropped millions of cluster bomblets on the Lebanese countryside.
Israel routinely calls its Arab victims “terrorists” while considering its own superior terror “legitimate self-defense.”
Israel holds as many as 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of them political activists incarcerated without charge or trial.
“We are not a defeated nation”
Trying to justify his government’s refusal to release the leaders of the Palestinian intifada (uprising) from Israeli prisons, Olmert said the release of “bloody terrorists” was a red line which Israel was not ready to cross.
“Israel will not give in to Hamas’s dictates as long as I am prime minister. We will not cease our efforts (to release Shalit from Hamas’ custody), but we have redlines and will not cross them. We are not a defeated nation.”
Israel had offered to release only 350 of the 450 political and resistance leaders imprisoned in Israel in connection with their resistance to the Israeli occupation during the last Palestinian intifada or uprising.
However, Hamas refused to compromise on the release of the remaining 100 prisoners, arguing that “as Shalit has a family, our prisoners also have families that are awaiting them to come home.”
Hamas’s spokesmen in Gaza also dismissed arguments made by Israeli leaders that some Palestinian prisoners were responsible for the death of Israelis.
"Israel has murdered thousands of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese civilians with White Phosphorus shells and cluster bombs. Israel has been murdering Palestinians ever since its creation. Israel itself is the world’s premier murderer, liar and thief," said Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza.
Masri told reporters that “it is time Israel realizes that our victims are not children of a lesser God and that Jewish blood is not more precious than Palestinian blood.”
Hamas’s officials involved in the negotiations held Israel fully responsible for the breakdown of the talks.
Osama Mazeini said Hamas was negotiating in good faith, adding that Israel wanted to “dictate on us unacceptable conditions such as which prisoner should be released.”
Israel also demanded that dozens of prisoners be deported to Syria, a concept Hamas described as “virulent and despicable.” Syria refused, with one Syrian official saying “Palestinians have a country, it is called Palestine.”
According to Osama Hamdan, Hamas’ representative in Lebanon, Israel had agreed to “the number” of prisoners to be released but not specifically to those on Hamas’s list and not to how they would be released.
Hamdan said Israel rejected some of the names, thinking that this could bear some fruit in view of the pressure that would be created by Olmert’s imminent departure from office.
He also revealed that Israel wanted Shalit to be released before it released the Palestinian prisoners, which he described as “unacceptable.”
Nazi analogy
Olmert likened the popular Islamic movement to the Third Reich, suggesting that the small and surrounded movement posed a great threat to world democracies.
The utterly corrupt analogy, observers here suggest, reflected Olmert’s frustration by the failure of all Israel’s bullying tactics against Hamas, including the unrelenting harsh blockade of the Gaza Strip, to force the movement to free Shalit in return for a “more modest price” that would allow Israel to save face.
This is what Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin alluded to following the Israeli cabinet session Tuesday.
“Had we agreed to Hamas’s conditions as they insisted on the final day of negotiations, it would have caused serious security damage to Israel.”
Israeli Military Intelligence director Amos Yadlin was more elaborate in explaining why Israel refused to free key Palestinian political and resistance leaders.
“Submitting to Hamas’s demands would have dealt a mortal blow to moderate elements in the Palestinian Authority and the entire Middle East, while extremists would have been greatly strengthened.”
Israeli sources had reported that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas had been warning Israel on several occasions against releasing a large number of Palestinian prisoners at this time on the ground that this would phenomenally strengthen Hamas while adversely affecting the western-backed PA regime.
The PA dismissed the Israeli reports as “cheap disinformation.”
Interestingly, neither Israel nor Hamas said they would terminate talks aimed at realizing a prisoner swap in the foreseeable future.
However, it is obvious that Olmert and his outgoing government hope that imminent advent to power of the manifestly right-wing Israeli government, headed by Likud leader Benyamin Netanyahu, will convince Hamas to back down or at least backtrack on its original demands regarding the number prisoners it wants to see freed in exchange for Shalit. Hamas described Israeli hopes to that effect as “wishful thinking.”
Netanyahu himself has been silent on the issue and is not expected to voice his opinion until he is sworn in as Prime Minister, probably by the end of next week.
The would-be premier had hoped that the Olmert government would get Shalit freed before the new government assumes power.
Additional Israeli sanctions against the already tormented Gazans will include further tightening of the blockade and barring the entry into Gaza of more essential items and consumer products.
This would represent a direct challenge to growing American and European calls urging Israel to relax the 3-year-old draconian siege to Gaza.
Palestine Video - A Palestine Vlog
"Al-Jazeera 090318
[LinkTV/Mosaic]
- Israel fully responsible for breakdown of negotiations - Hamas."
Hamas: Our people are not children of a lesser God
Source: PIC
Date: 18/03/2009 - 04:45 PM
By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied East Jerusalem
The Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, has held Israel responsible for the breakdown of Egyptian-mediated negotiations over a possible prisoner swap with the apartheid Zionist regime.
Hamas officials described statements by outgoing Israeli premier Ehud Olmert as “theatrical” and “mendacious from A to Z.”
One Hamas official in the Gaza Strip remarked that “Olmert is as mendacious as he is criminal,” adding that “what else would you expect from the killer of thousands of children and civilians?”
On Wednesday, the Israeli government decided to impose a new “set of punishments” against the Gaza Strip.
The Zionist government, which had signaled that a prisoner swap deal with Hamas was within reach, suddenly changed its mind, accusing Hamas of “inflexibility” and “making exaggerated demands.”
Hamas’s demands actually remained unchanged ever since the Shalit affair began more than thirty months ago when Palestinian guerillas captured the Israeli occupation soldier during a cross-border battle with the Israeli army.
Olmert on Tuesday, 17 March, launched a tirade against Hamas, calling the movement a “terrorist group.” Olmert utterly ignored Israel’s own terrorist record of killing and murdering thousands of innocent Palestinians during his reign of power.
In December and January, the Israeli army carried out a huge blitz on the Gaza Strip, killing and maiming more than 5,000 people, including hundreds of children, and utterly destroying the bulk of the coastal enclave's civilian infrastructure.
Similarly, the Israeli army killed and maimed thousands of innocent civilians during the 2006 onslaught on Lebanon and dropped millions of cluster bomblets on the Lebanese countryside.
Israel routinely calls its Arab victims “terrorists” while considering its own superior terror “legitimate self-defense.”
Israel holds as many as 10,000 Palestinian prisoners, many of them political activists incarcerated without charge or trial.
“We are not a defeated nation”
Trying to justify his government’s refusal to release the leaders of the Palestinian intifada (uprising) from Israeli prisons, Olmert said the release of “bloody terrorists” was a red line which Israel was not ready to cross.
“Israel will not give in to Hamas’s dictates as long as I am prime minister. We will not cease our efforts (to release Shalit from Hamas’ custody), but we have redlines and will not cross them. We are not a defeated nation.”
Israel had offered to release only 350 of the 450 political and resistance leaders imprisoned in Israel in connection with their resistance to the Israeli occupation during the last Palestinian intifada or uprising.
However, Hamas refused to compromise on the release of the remaining 100 prisoners, arguing that “as Shalit has a family, our prisoners also have families that are awaiting them to come home.”
Hamas’s spokesmen in Gaza also dismissed arguments made by Israeli leaders that some Palestinian prisoners were responsible for the death of Israelis.
"Israel has murdered thousands of innocent Palestinian and Lebanese civilians with White Phosphorus shells and cluster bombs. Israel has been murdering Palestinians ever since its creation. Israel itself is the world’s premier murderer, liar and thief," said Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza.
Masri told reporters that “it is time Israel realizes that our victims are not children of a lesser God and that Jewish blood is not more precious than Palestinian blood.”
Hamas’s officials involved in the negotiations held Israel fully responsible for the breakdown of the talks.
Osama Mazeini said Hamas was negotiating in good faith, adding that Israel wanted to “dictate on us unacceptable conditions such as which prisoner should be released.”
Israel also demanded that dozens of prisoners be deported to Syria, a concept Hamas described as “virulent and despicable.” Syria refused, with one Syrian official saying “Palestinians have a country, it is called Palestine.”
According to Osama Hamdan, Hamas’ representative in Lebanon, Israel had agreed to “the number” of prisoners to be released but not specifically to those on Hamas’s list and not to how they would be released.
Hamdan said Israel rejected some of the names, thinking that this could bear some fruit in view of the pressure that would be created by Olmert’s imminent departure from office.
He also revealed that Israel wanted Shalit to be released before it released the Palestinian prisoners, which he described as “unacceptable.”
Nazi analogy
Olmert likened the popular Islamic movement to the Third Reich, suggesting that the small and surrounded movement posed a great threat to world democracies.
The utterly corrupt analogy, observers here suggest, reflected Olmert’s frustration by the failure of all Israel’s bullying tactics against Hamas, including the unrelenting harsh blockade of the Gaza Strip, to force the movement to free Shalit in return for a “more modest price” that would allow Israel to save face.
This is what Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin alluded to following the Israeli cabinet session Tuesday.
“Had we agreed to Hamas’s conditions as they insisted on the final day of negotiations, it would have caused serious security damage to Israel.”
Israeli Military Intelligence director Amos Yadlin was more elaborate in explaining why Israel refused to free key Palestinian political and resistance leaders.
“Submitting to Hamas’s demands would have dealt a mortal blow to moderate elements in the Palestinian Authority and the entire Middle East, while extremists would have been greatly strengthened.”
Israeli sources had reported that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas had been warning Israel on several occasions against releasing a large number of Palestinian prisoners at this time on the ground that this would phenomenally strengthen Hamas while adversely affecting the western-backed PA regime.
The PA dismissed the Israeli reports as “cheap disinformation.”
Interestingly, neither Israel nor Hamas said they would terminate talks aimed at realizing a prisoner swap in the foreseeable future.
However, it is obvious that Olmert and his outgoing government hope that imminent advent to power of the manifestly right-wing Israeli government, headed by Likud leader Benyamin Netanyahu, will convince Hamas to back down or at least backtrack on its original demands regarding the number prisoners it wants to see freed in exchange for Shalit. Hamas described Israeli hopes to that effect as “wishful thinking.”
Netanyahu himself has been silent on the issue and is not expected to voice his opinion until he is sworn in as Prime Minister, probably by the end of next week.
The would-be premier had hoped that the Olmert government would get Shalit freed before the new government assumes power.
Additional Israeli sanctions against the already tormented Gazans will include further tightening of the blockade and barring the entry into Gaza of more essential items and consumer products.
This would represent a direct challenge to growing American and European calls urging Israel to relax the 3-year-old draconian siege to Gaza.
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Hamas popularity worries Arab governments - 13 Jan 09
Hamas popularity worries Arab governments - 13 Jan 09:
"Since beginning its offensive in the Gaza Strip Israel has repeatedly declared it will maintain attacks to smash what it calls the Hamas terrorist machine. However, as Israel's bombardment continues, the appeal of Hamas in the Arab world appears to be growing. Al Jazeeras Hashem Ahelbarra reports on how the war has left Hamas gaining popular support."
Palestine Video - A Palestine Vlog
"Since beginning its offensive in the Gaza Strip Israel has repeatedly declared it will maintain attacks to smash what it calls the Hamas terrorist machine. However, as Israel's bombardment continues, the appeal of Hamas in the Arab world appears to be growing. Al Jazeeras Hashem Ahelbarra reports on how the war has left Hamas gaining popular support."
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Monday, December 15, 2008
Tens of thousands attend 21st Hamas anniversary rally
Hamas: Massive rally affirms popular backing to resistance:
Over 300,000 attend Hamas Anniversary Rally
Hamas: Massive rally affirms popular backing to resistance
[ 14/12/2008 - 09:05 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas on Sunday said that the huge masses that took part in its celebration marking the 21st inception of the Movement indicated failure of economic and political siege to weaken Hamas.
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said in a press release that the massive participation in the celebration pointed to failure of the negotiations course and success of resistance project.
He said that the hundreds of thousands who attended the rally also indicated that Gaza was steadfast despite the siege and that the Palestinian people were still backing Hamas.
The huge rally further poses as the de facto response to the "rabid" campaign against Hamas, the spokesman elaborated.
For his part, Ra'fat Nassif, the West Bank Hamas leader, said that his Movement decided not to organize a similar rally in the West Bank due to the restrictions and the harassment against the Movement there at the hands of the PA in Ramallah.
He told the Gaza rally in a telephone address that the Movement was adamant on its track despite the PA persecution.
Palestine Video - A Palestine Vlog
Over 300,000 attend Hamas Anniversary Rally
Hamas: Massive rally affirms popular backing to resistance
[ 14/12/2008 - 09:05 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)-- Hamas on Sunday said that the huge masses that took part in its celebration marking the 21st inception of the Movement indicated failure of economic and political siege to weaken Hamas.
Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said in a press release that the massive participation in the celebration pointed to failure of the negotiations course and success of resistance project.
He said that the hundreds of thousands who attended the rally also indicated that Gaza was steadfast despite the siege and that the Palestinian people were still backing Hamas.
The huge rally further poses as the de facto response to the "rabid" campaign against Hamas, the spokesman elaborated.
For his part, Ra'fat Nassif, the West Bank Hamas leader, said that his Movement decided not to organize a similar rally in the West Bank due to the restrictions and the harassment against the Movement there at the hands of the PA in Ramallah.
He told the Gaza rally in a telephone address that the Movement was adamant on its track despite the PA persecution.
Palestine Video - A Palestine Vlog
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Mosaic News - 9/19/08: World News from the Middle East
Mosaic News - 9/19/08: World News from the Middle East: "'Mosques are not Immune from War in Iraq,' Al Jazeera TV, Qatar
'Yemeni President Promises to Hunt Down terrorists,' Al Arabiya TV, UAE
'Cholera Outbreak in Iraq,' Alhurra
'Livni reaches out to Meretz,' IBA TV, Israel
'Al Qaeda Affliated Group Threatens to Attack Hamas,' Palestine TV, Ramallah
'Bashar al Assad on Iran,' New TV, Lebanon
'Delhi gears up to fight terrorism,' Al Jazeera English, Qatar
'Ramadan in France,' Dubai TV, UAE
'Israel's October Surprise?,' Link TV, USA
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani."
'Yemeni President Promises to Hunt Down terrorists,' Al Arabiya TV, UAE
'Cholera Outbreak in Iraq,' Alhurra
'Livni reaches out to Meretz,' IBA TV, Israel
'Al Qaeda Affliated Group Threatens to Attack Hamas,' Palestine TV, Ramallah
'Bashar al Assad on Iran,' New TV, Lebanon
'Delhi gears up to fight terrorism,' Al Jazeera English, Qatar
'Ramadan in France,' Dubai TV, UAE
'Israel's October Surprise?,' Link TV, USA
Produced for Link TV by Jamal Dajani."
Sunday, September 21, 2008
News reports from Press TV 17-19 September 2008
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Egypt reopens Rafah crossing for two days
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:15:45
Ashraf Shannon, Press TV, Gaza
Lack of medicines endangering Palestinian patients
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:13:00
Lauren Booth, Press TV, Gaza
UN envoy draws a grim picture of situation in Palestine
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:55:23
Mike Mazzocco, Press TV, United Nations
Hamas: Livni pursuing policy of aggression against Palestinians
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:32:24
Yousef Al-Helou Press TV, Gaza
Gazans frustrated as observing second Ramadan under siege
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:10:16
Ashraf Shannon, Press TV Gaza
Egypt reopens Rafah crossing for two days
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:15:45
Ashraf Shannon, Press TV, Gaza
Lack of medicines endangering Palestinian patients
Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:13:00
Lauren Booth, Press TV, Gaza
UN envoy draws a grim picture of situation in Palestine
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:55:23
Mike Mazzocco, Press TV, United Nations
Hamas: Livni pursuing policy of aggression against Palestinians
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:32:24
Yousef Al-Helou Press TV, Gaza
Gazans frustrated as observing second Ramadan under siege
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:10:16
Ashraf Shannon, Press TV Gaza
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Mosaic News - 8/29/08: World News from the Middle East
Mosaic News - 8/29/08: World News from the Middle East:
"'Somali Islamic Groups Reject Peace Agreement,' Al Jazeera- Qatar
**Free Gaza Boat Departs with Sick Children,' Dubai TV- U.A.E
'Sharif Pulls Out Of Pakistan's Ruling Coalition,' Al Arabiya- U.A.E
'Sudanese Rally Behind Al Bashir,' Sudan TV- Sudan
**Jordan Warms Up to Hamas,' IBA TV- Israel
'Floods Kill More Peole in India,' Al Jazeera English- Qatar
'Humantarian Crisis in Georgia,' Press TV- Iran
DNC- From An Arab Prism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvmlT4...
Produced by Jamal Dajani"
"'Somali Islamic Groups Reject Peace Agreement,' Al Jazeera- Qatar
**Free Gaza Boat Departs with Sick Children,' Dubai TV- U.A.E
'Sharif Pulls Out Of Pakistan's Ruling Coalition,' Al Arabiya- U.A.E
'Sudanese Rally Behind Al Bashir,' Sudan TV- Sudan
**Jordan Warms Up to Hamas,' IBA TV- Israel
'Floods Kill More Peole in India,' Al Jazeera English- Qatar
'Humantarian Crisis in Georgia,' Press TV- Iran
DNC- From An Arab Prism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvmlT4...
Produced by Jamal Dajani"
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Talk to Jazeera - Khaled Meshaal - 05 Mar 08
Talk to Jazeera - Khaled Meshaal - 05 Mar 08 - Pt. 1:
"A report released this week by the American magazine Vanity Fair disclosed a plan by the US administration to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas by arming rival Fatah forces through millions of dollars worth of weapons. This as Israel waged its deadliest round of attacks on Gaza since 2000.
Al Jazeera's Hashim Ahlbarra meets with Hamas' Khaled Meshaal, head of the group's political bureau, and asks him about the report.
In this episode of Talk to Jazeera, Mishaal ,talks about the leaked US plan of arming Fatah and instigating a civil war in Gaza.
He also talks about rocket fire from the coastal strip and answers questions about a possible truce with Israel.
Mishaal says the surfacing of this report vindicates Hamas' coup of Gaza, claiming that it was a pre-emtive measure forced upon them to preserve their existence and the voice of those who voted for them.
Al Jazeera also questions the leader on Hamas' logic behind rocket attacks from Gaza in light of the recent onslaught by Israel and the humanitarian loss as a result.
The Hamas leader is questioned about his links with Iran and where the group gets its backing from. Mishaal denies any funding or armament from Iran and insists that Hamas is an independent group, reliant on no one.
On talks with Israel, Mishaal says that following the "holocaust" perpetrated by the Israelis, talks are out of the question. He also says that Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president, should reassess his position on talks as well."
Part 1
Part 2
Palestine Video - A Palestine Vlog
"A report released this week by the American magazine Vanity Fair disclosed a plan by the US administration to overthrow the democratically-elected Hamas by arming rival Fatah forces through millions of dollars worth of weapons. This as Israel waged its deadliest round of attacks on Gaza since 2000.
Al Jazeera's Hashim Ahlbarra meets with Hamas' Khaled Meshaal, head of the group's political bureau, and asks him about the report.
In this episode of Talk to Jazeera, Mishaal ,talks about the leaked US plan of arming Fatah and instigating a civil war in Gaza.
He also talks about rocket fire from the coastal strip and answers questions about a possible truce with Israel.
Mishaal says the surfacing of this report vindicates Hamas' coup of Gaza, claiming that it was a pre-emtive measure forced upon them to preserve their existence and the voice of those who voted for them.
Al Jazeera also questions the leader on Hamas' logic behind rocket attacks from Gaza in light of the recent onslaught by Israel and the humanitarian loss as a result.
The Hamas leader is questioned about his links with Iran and where the group gets its backing from. Mishaal denies any funding or armament from Iran and insists that Hamas is an independent group, reliant on no one.
On talks with Israel, Mishaal says that following the "holocaust" perpetrated by the Israelis, talks are out of the question. He also says that Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian president, should reassess his position on talks as well."
Part 1
Part 2
Palestine Video - A Palestine Vlog
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