From AP:
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that next month's Moscow talks with Hamas leaders were aimed at bringing the militant Palestinian group into the Mideast peace process."We are counting on all this to foster progress toward a situation in which Hamas will be a legitimate, integral and useful part of the peace process in the Middle East," Lavrov told reporters...
President Vladimir Putin's invitation to the militant group, made at a news conference in Spain earlier this month, was the latest bid by Moscow to invigorate its role in Mideast peacemaking after years of taking a back seat to the United States. The invitation stunned Israel and other nations.
Hamas's parliamentary victory prompted threats from the United States and European Union to cut off massive aid to the Palestinians unless the group responsible for scores of suicide attacks and designated a terrorist organization by many Western nations recognizes Israel and renounces violence.
But Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Andrei Denisov, told the Russian daily Izvestia earlier this week that cutting off international aid to the Palestinians would be "counterproductive."
"In history there are many examples of radicals coming to power and adopting a more realistic and constructive stance," Denisov was quoted as saying. "We all hope that Hamas will show sense."...
"We all hope that Hamas will show sense."...
I do believe Russia has lost all of theirs. Actually, it has been bought and paid for. Screw them and their terrorist buddies.
Russia hasn't lost it. They are back to doing exactly what they've done since 1917. They just can't seem to understand that they keep picking the losing team- even if they do manage to do a Lot of damage in the process.
"We all hope that Hamas will show sense."...
Dont hold your breath...
All of this back and forth and doubletalk has become so confusing, I don't know who is on our side anymore.
I know HAMAS won't show any sense. They are a lost cause that I don't even count in the game.
its obvious whose side russia is really on
any side but the states
yes, we all know how very competently Russia has managed its problems with Islamists on its own turf, don't we, and how much Yasser Arafat benefited from the wisdom gained from Ho Chi Mihn (position your issue as a human rights issue and the world will be eating out of your hand). Can't wait to see what miracles the Russians work with Hamas.
The Russians have a solid premise: You need a fake government to be able to deal with a fake people.
All the Russians are saying that is that if in this situation you can't accept fakery then you can't deal.
75 years under communism has taught our Russian friends a thing or two about how to make a fake democracy (the Soviet) lord over a fake people (the Proletariat).
Whenever I see the Russians being obtuse, I wonder how much of it is payback
for the U.S. position on the Chechens and insisting that they negotiate with them.
"In history there are many examples of radicals coming to power and adopting a more realistic and constructive stance..."
Ya' mean like Lenin (engineering famines killing millions once he gained power) or Stalin (purges killing tens of millions once he inherited power after possibly poisoning Lenin) or Mao (all of the above, plus the "Great Leap Forward" pseudo-science disaster of forced collectivization, and "The Cultural Revoltion" in which native Chinese culture was wantonly and insanely destroyed, killing tens of millions)?
Glad to know what kind of history is being taught in Russia these days.
The Bizarro world version.
As Pete Townsend sang:
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
"But Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Andrei Denisov, told the Russian daily Izvestia earlier this week that cutting off international aid to the Palestinians would be "counterproductive."
Then Let Russia provide it.
As far as the USA providing foreign aid, ENOUGH!
When are our politicians going to learn to quit fueling the fire?
Russia is positioning itself in the ME in order to carve it's own slice of the pie.
While they are saying military action may be the only option, I's not stopping them from dangling the carrot in front of Iran's Mullahs one more time to be it's nuclear watchdog, supplier of fission material, and of course make money doing it.
This seriously hampers Iran's vision of itself being the supreme ruler of the entire ME one day. If this is "offer" destroys that dream, it's likely Iran will reject it.
This opens a door for Russia regardless. Who would be able to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities while causing the least international unrest? Russia.
It's not beyond reason that the USA and Russia could come to an agreement giving Russia a large piece of the Iranian pie as reward, and Russia in turn could appease China and prevent them from doing something stupid by establishing a reliable oil line through Russian territory to China from Iran.
This also gives Russia much leverage over Europe, control of the oil it depends on. Having Europe under it's thumb is something long desired by Russia.
This takes much of the pressure off the USA, while fully capable of making quick end to Iran's mad mullah's sinister plans, a coalition effort between Russia and the USA would be seen in a positive light. Iran is but a bug to be crushed, it's carcass divided up.
There wouldn't be much objection from the Sunni's and the Saudi's who fear a powerful Shia war machine on their doorstep. They know full well what Iran's ambitions are.
But Russia stands to gain either way. A temporary "agreement" with Iran they know wouldn't last very long, just long enough for the mad Mullahs to gain enough power to proceed with their plans.
Wiping out the Mullah Mafia once and for all is of better benefit for Russia in the long run, although Europe may not think so, other than it removing a nuclear armed Islamic lunatic from their doorstep.
The Palestinians' electing of the militant Islamic terrorism organization HAMAS to their government is proof positive that there is NO being nice to these people. Since the US government's position is supposed to be NO NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS eliminating Palestine from any potential US aid is in line with our policy. Seeing that we now have a record budget deficit this wouldn't be a bad opportunity for us to put our money (or rather save our money) where our mouth is and get busy reducing that deficit by redistributing funds saved by NOT going to the terrorists and their new 'government'.
Denisov is clearly wrong. Eliminating Palestine as a candidate for potential aid is NOT counter-productive for the US taxpayer (does anyone outside America know they exist?).
As far as Russia is concerned, it has colluded with terrorists in the past as Claire Sterling's book "Network of Terror" exposed. The Russians just seem to think we're stupid (which sometimes we are). Old habits die hard. We may just have to eliminate any commerce with the Russians too in order to get them to cut this out (if we can).
No one should be providing logistical support for international terrorism, Islamic or otherwise (most of it IS Islamic however).
Peace process needs Hamas............destroyed
Mullahmasher
You are so right, of course the Ruskies are playing a double game and one that they going to win gains. Remember Putin's brother died of starvation during seige of Stalingrad; Beslan hit him personally very hard and HE HAS ORDERED THE ARMING AND TRAINING OF YOUNG PEOPLE TO FIGHT
TERRORISM ALL OVER RUSSIA. Russia's economy is on the up and the whole country is regaining some of the confidence they lost. To understand Russia you have to put on Russian shoes: who was responsible for the not so secret arming & funding of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which cost so many Russian lives, who not so secretly armed & funded Bosnian Muslims with their Arab friends in Yugoslavia...?? Oh yes the lives of Slavs went very cheap together with their land - is not U.S pushing at this very moment to give what was once Christian Slav Kosovo to their Albanian Muslim friends? This as a sop to the Saudis and a gesture which adds to the steadily growing list of enemies of America- Saudi of course is no real friend of the "Big Satan" but every huge mosque built without protest on Christian land is an advance of Islam on the West-are you aware that the village of Gorna Maoca in Bosnia is being run by Arab Wahabbis under presumably Sharia Law??
This is Byzantium all over again and in it America plays the sorry part of the Crusaders who due to greed & short sighted policy attacked & fatally weakened the Byzantine Empire-Orthodox
Christians- so they fell with the entire region to waiting Muslim wolves... One can just hope Putin has enough savvy also knowledge of history that the same doesn't happen again.
America herself is weakened by a war costing billions a day on two fronts also natural disasters at home. Meantime China is rising as a
superstar on the not too remote horizon. I am all in favour of having RUSSIA AND AMERICA AS STRONG AS THEY CAN POSSIBLY BE. I only wish they
could be UNITED to fight Islam.
OT.
The russian government has just announced that they denied permit to Moscow homosexuals to hold a "Pride parade" at the begining of May.
One of the reasons is the fact that they have received a warning from the muslim leaders that there will be violence on the streets of Moscow if such an event occurs,violence that will surpass the Mohammad cartoon protests..
Everyone is caving in!
According to BBC Dhimmis" Talgat Tadzhuddin-head of Muslim Spiritual Board [not Vodka hehe}in Central Russia told Interfax News Agency 'that Muslim Anti-Pride protests COULD BE ANGRIER THAN THOSE SEEN ABROAD OVER THE MUHAMMED CARTOONS! He reportedly called for THRASHING OF PARADERS.
Interesting trivia-in Russian slang a gay man is called a blue boy a 'GOLUBOY.'
A gay woman is called pink 'ROZOVAYA.'
'PIDOR' corruption of pederast and meaning 'pervert' is still much used as an insult in Russia. Yeah, guess they're not PC correct like BBC yet.
As for 'PIDOR MOHAMMED' describes that paedophile well-PIDOR MO,PIDOR MO, PIDOR MO...
"Peace process needs Hamas..."
Like a fish needs a bicycle.
The russian government has just announced that they denied permit to Moscow homosexuals to hold a "Pride parade" at the begining of May. One of the reasons is the fact that they have received a warning from the muslim leaders...
Maybe this will bring the gay community to life on the Islamic War.
Whatever happens, what constitutes a victory for the Islam and its Moslems is the statement not made, the parade not had, the book not published, the article not printed, even the private thought not ventured.
Submission, that's the name of the game.
Peace process?
There IS no peace process.
It should be clear now, based on the free vote of palestinian peoples, there never HAS been a peace process. From 1947 to today, it has all been the same. REJECTION.
The only process will be the result of the battlefield.
It is only we hopeful morons in the west who ignore the words WAQF and FATAH.
There is simply NOTHING to discuss
Just about any "foreign aid" "America" gives out is just proof-positive that we're willing slaves to world socialism(collectivism=totalitarianism).
It's a good-cop-bad-cop routine with Hamas.
The war consists of 3 factions of collectivists fighting-- The Fabian-Marxists(GOP-Blair), the Leninists(DEMS-Russia-China, maybe others), and the Islamic-Jihadists(counter-attack).
"Democracy"= eumphemism for "Socialism"(Marxism).
The fact???
Most humans simply can't handle freedom. But let's pretend.(green mohawks, Satanism, and "self-employment= individual-freedom-choice) Hahaha!
In Soviet Russia, jihad declares YOU!
"is not U.S pushing at this very moment to give what was once Christian Slav Kosovo to their Albanian Muslim friends?"
Posted by: Morgane
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Actually that was the Clinton admins doing, And it was against the better advise of the Russians. In fact Clinton came very close to starting WW4 with the Russians over the whole Balkans issue. In short, Clinton bombed the wrong side over false claims of a genocide that never existed. Clinton also has friends in high places in Yugoslavia, one only has to look back tow ho was Clinton's school pal to figure out who they are.
Today, it is these same socialist/elitists within the UN and the Islamic element that is selling Serbs out, destroying what took 200 years to achieve at the turn of the 20th century (casting off yoke of the ottoman empire, Islamic slavery) and cost the Serbs dearly again to preserve during Hitlers reign of terror and alliance with Islam.Husainni was given control of an entire waffen ss division comprised of turbin wearing muslims who massacred over 100,000 Serbs along with the Jewish population.
Along came Clinton, and in one swoop, has taken over 300 years of struggle and placed the Serbs at the brink of genocidal extinction.
You are correct about the presence of Arab Wahabbis in the region, they have been running training camps right under the noses of the UN, periodically attacking the Serbs who are basically fenced in and "protected" by the UN peace keepers, while the Albanian muslims go about "cleansing the land of the historical orthodoxy, looting and burning churches to the ground, bulldozing them, using some as public urinals and desecrating graveyards.
Where are the protests?
Your analogy to the Crusades is a bit wrong however. They were of a defensive nature, the 3 petitioned by the pope were only to retake the holy lands captured by Muhammadan crusades, only 2 of these three made it to their destination, the third never made it past Greece. None were wholly successful. The Pope also made it clear the Jews were not to be harmed.
The Crusades were lead by Kings and overlords, not by the Church. If you can imagine, these armies moved slowly and "on their bellies", meaning they lived and died along the way, like slowly moving cities, raising livestock, families, training new solders as others were killed or retired, died of old age. Of course they were not perfect, anyone resisting their advance were swallowed up, there were disputes among the various overlords, who all went on these crusades for one main reason, to improve their fortunes.
The Byzantine empire was destroyed by the Muhammadans, actually they put up little fight because they became weak from within, much like the Roman empire did, (and America and western civilization is) before the Muhammadans even got there. They were already taken over and those not murdered outright were being converted to Islam before the first crusade even arrived.
Of course this is only a rough description and is full of slight error. It takes a lot of reading to fully understand what went on during that period, the infighting, betrayals, victories and defeats.
All in all, the two main crusades were only mildly successful, the third fizzled out. There were later crusades of course, but they were never petitioned for by the Church, and like all crusades, wrongly labeled "Christian Crusades".
None of the actual participants carried a pocket bible around with them.
Later, it was only resistance to Muhammadan invasions which halted their advances, and local offenses in places like Spain, southern France, and other fringes of Europe that expelled the Muhammadans.
In fact, if it wasn't for Ghingis Khan, who really laid a severe beating on the Muhammadans, they may well have succeeded in overtaking all of western Europe, and the west may never have been born.
Again, it takes a writer, like Robert and hugh to take all the information and put it into a readable form that follows a timeline.
It's one thing to read it, and quite another to write it.
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The russian government has just announced that they denied permit to Moscow homosexuals to hold a “Pride parade” at the begining of May.
One of the reasons is the fact that they have received a warning from the muslim leaders that there will be violence on the streets of Moscow if such an event occurs,violence that will surpass the Mohammad cartoon protests..
To the Gay Community in America:
If Islam conquers America, every gay person in America will be hunted down and stoned or beheaded. I do not agree with your life style, but in America you have the right to live as you wish in America. I and countless other Americans will fight for your freedom and rights as we will for all Americans. Islam will not allow Gays, Christians, Jews or any Infidel to live if Islam conquers America.
Gay America, time is running out;
Standup now and help us convince our Federal government that Islam has to be stopped at all costs before it is too late. America’s survival depends on all Americans fighting Islam.
Join us at www.jihadwatch.org
And be a part of the solution in stopping the violence and murdering across the world by Islam and the Muslims.
The war with Islam is inevitable and it is near.
Prepare, be armed, be ready.
The Texican.
Freedom. The only choice at any cost.
Comment by The Texican — February 18, 2006 @ 3:20 am - February 18, 2006
Jihad Watch is a great site, but the word needs to be spread across America.
If you know a site that can help with the Islamic problem, post there and lets arose America before it is to late.
The Texican,
Freedom. The only choice at any price.