Of course, Hamas will keep on attacking anyway even if Iran is not attacked. They are just fishing for another pretext. From AFP, with thanks to JE:
THE radical Palestinian group Hamas will step up attacks against Israel if the Jewish state takes military action against Iran, its political chief has said in Tehran.Khaled Meshaal also praised Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his "courage" in having dismissed the Holocaust as a myth and calling for Israel to be moved out of the Middle East to Europe or North America.
"Just as Islamic Iran defends the rights of the Palestinians, we defend the rights of Islamic Iran. We are part of a united front against the enemies of Islam," Mr Meshaal told reporters.
"Each member of this front defends itself with its own means in its region. We carry the battle in Palestine. If Israel launches an attack against Iran, we will expand the battlefield," he told a news conference.
Earth to Khaled (Dhalek?) Meshaal~ if Israel is forced to go so far as to have to defend itself against Iran, do you really think a minor offensive to wipe You out would bother them very much more?
RE: Just as Islamic Iran defends the rights of the Palestinians, we defend the rights of Islamic Iran. We are part of a united front against the enemies of Islam," Mr Meshaal told reporters.
To the apologists, notice how many times the name ISLAM was used in the above short paragraph!
Since when did the Persians of Iran decide to become Islamic??
Will the world wake up?
Hamas will expand the battlefield if Israel attacks Iran's nuke facilities?
(gasp)
Hmmm... Islamics vow to attack Israel... hmmm.
Does a dog bark? Does a cat meow? Does a bear shit in the woods?
(snicker)
That's stating the obvious... but only the politically correct dense types (read - the media and our politicians) don't get it.
Since when did non-Arabic Persia become Islamic? I don't think there was any decision about it when Islam rolled over the Persian Empire in the middle 600s AD.
Do you ever notice that there is never an offer of peace coming from the Palestinians, or Iran or for that matter almost any Islamic country. The initiative is always taken by western countries. The muslim countries are always calling for jihads with or without any provocation they can form, from the misshandling of the Quran to the plain and simple fact that the others are non muslims. Their provocations are born in the teachings of the Quran, and the hadiths and they are without compunction when it comes to their religion. I hope I never hear the President or any other politician refer to Islam as the religion of peace again. We still have way to many dhimmis in the western world let alone our own leaders. Still hoping that the sleeping giant wakes up.
Astute, Mackie. Astute. The truth must be spread, no matter how much the media hates it.
Detonating an EMP over Iran should stop this insanity....
Now will some government somewhere PLEASE DO IT. Before the world is blown up by these madmen? or by Vladimir Putin?
"Hamas vows revenge if Iran attacked"
A few more stupid Mohammedans blowing them selves is not going to 'eradicate' Israel.
Lets get real, have they ever stopped taking revenge? Its the same old record being played once again.
Hamas go do something constructive.
I wonder if the Israelis have developed neutron bombs? Certainly a few well placed ones would
make Gaza more manageable.
Looks like someone in the Seattle area is a JWer..
letter to the editor today..
"Curious how "Muslims next door: Brace for change" [Islam in America, editorial, first of 3 parts, Dec. 11] manages to overlook the butchering of Christian children (for being Christians) while on their way to school in Indonesia a few weeks ago; the stoning earlier this year of the adulterous woman in Nigeria; the deadly riots in Nigeria last year by Muslims over the Miss World competition; the stoning last year of the lesbian in Somalia; female "circumcision" (genital mutilation); the ongoing death penalty for "blasphemy" in (among others) Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia; the ongoing enslavement and genocide of non-Muslims in the Sudan; and the concepts of dhimmitude [subordinate status] and the jizya [taxation of non-Muslims] in Muslim countries.
I'm not certain who is worse: the Mohammed Attas of the world or their liberal "diversity at any price" enablers. (What a surprise! They're always Democrats!)
The last time I looked, I couldn't find any current, comparable acts in any Christian country.
Your willful ignorance and P.C. equivocating are astounding. Until the Muslim "community" proves by words and deeds that it renounces jihad, dhimmitude and jizya for non-Muslims, I'm not going to trust them with my freedoms.
— John Nelson, Mercer Island"
About 1300 years ago when the Persian General Rustam got beat by a band of lizard eaters on camels and horses at the Battle of Qaisiya.
The Shi'a consider themselves to be True Islam, and they consider the Sunni to be pretenders, the Sunni consider the Shi'a to be mushrik (polytheists).
The alliance between Shi'a and Sunni is one of convenience and politics, but as events show it doesn't hold in Iraq.
And despite the sympathy of the Iranians and Shi'a towards the Palestinians, that too is only a political position. The Persians still consider the Arabs to be lizard eaters, barbarian, illiterate savages.
Any Sunni Shia alliance is political and temporary, although the Shari'a of both are almost identical. the theology (unimportant to the west but of paramount importance to Muslims) are incompatible.. and remember that Khomeini instigated a take over of Mecca during the Hajj in 1980, in which 200 French Paratrooers were quickly Shahada'ed,as the Saudi National Guard would not enter Mecca to put down the rebellion, and in 1987 Iran sent 155,000 pilgrims including half the members of the Majlis (Parliament) and Khomeini's wife Khadija - with instructions to start a political riot, and take over the Grand Mosque with instructions to declare Khomeini as leader of the Muslim world, 402 persons died in that riot.
I think Lear that you confused Islam with Arabic, but then again there is good reason for that, the Iranians puff up their chest and declare that they aren't Arabs, but they have been Arabized, as Islam is Arab culture deified, and Iranians even give their sons Arab names, Farsi is written in Arab script and the Qur'an is read in Arabic in Iran.
And the only difference between the Iranian Chador and Burqa and the Sunni Abaya is the name.
Nariz: My point is that most of the Iranians despise the mad mullahs and Islam. Many Iranian student dissidents are tortured and killed each week and the UN (and the world for that matter ) does nothing to protest. See the FreeIran Website.
what I have to say as a brave iranian is F__k islam and mohammad the pig(and I only blank the letters out of respect for the authors of this site praise be upon them)
lets make one thing clear Islam is NOT iranian.
F__k you mohammad the pig.
I curse you every day as long as I am alive.
take your god da?m religion and burn it in the arabian desert ou come from.
kill the hizbollah and mullahs and let the world live in peace please. if you dont have the balls to do it let me do the job.. i do a good job.
while I wont kiss anyone's ass but i have no issue with anybody but I have issue with islam ..
F off islam die in the dumpster
burn korans and curse the pig mohammad alwayws
The word "defend" apparently has a different meaning in the farci vernacular. Could Meshaal mean that Hamas will defend the right of Iran to perpetrate aggression towards Israel in the name of Allah, therefore the act of aggression is really a defencive act? Hmmm? Ah yes this is an act of abrogation of course?
Why is it so important for Meshaal and Ahmandinejad to call the holocaust a myth while calling for the removal of Israel? Is this his way of saying that there was no true reason for establishing the state of Israel? So what actually happened to the Jews under the Nazis Mr. Meshaal? Can you explain away what really occurred in 1940s' Germany by just claiming it was all a myth, or just a nightmare some people may have had? If you new the truth about the holocaust as the rest of world does, could you really handle the truth?
posted by Mackie :
"If you new the truth about the holocaust as the rest of world does, could you really handle the truth?"
They already know the truth.
By denying the holocaust and creating the myth that it never happened, that it was all a lie designed to create sympathy for the Jews, designed to create a homeland for the Jews, they hope to whip the Islamic world into an even greater frenzy of hatred against Israel...if such a thing is possible.
They reason that maybe that frenzy will reach a point where everyone demands a second holocaust.
Mike_W:
PRECISELY!
So does this mean Isreal will be able to Use her MOP and clean up this mess for once and all??
Israel save the world once again if the hammas send in their armys from other countries JUST WIPE THEM OUT !!
Yes like the Americans Droped the bomb on Japan to save her people you can do the same to save your people!!
The USA has forgiven herself and has no regret nor should you!!
IT IS TIME FOR THE WORLD TO BE FREE AGAIN!!
Part of the aAmerican Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
GOD BLESS THE USA AND HER FIGHING FORCES AND ALL WHO FIGHT WITH HER GIVE THEM STRENGTH, WISDOM, SIGHT, AND COURAGE TO DESTROY ALL ISLAMIC TERORIST AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEM GIVE THE WORLD COURAGE TO STAND UP AND FIGHT THIS EVIL AMEN
Well, a hearty todah rabah to Khalid Mash`al for proving once again that there is no "Palestinian people" but only an Ummah Islamiyyah. It is time for the Israeli govt to properly deal with all the Arab Nazis and Islamic Nazis, like Mash`al, his brethren in Hamas [by the way, the Hebrew word "hamas" is used in the book of Genesis in the story of Noah to describe the state of the world before the Flood "The earth was full of 'hamas'" {= brutality,cruelty, violence, etc.}], his spiritual brethren in Iran, like Ahmadeviljad, etc.