And his nephews have even served in the Israeli Army. Kind of puts all those Israeli atrocity stories that Haniyeh and his friends spout in a new light, doesn't it? From the Telegraph, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Israel regards Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Hamas prime minister, as an enemy of state. But three of his sisters enjoy full Israeli citizenship, having moved 30 years ago to the desert town of Tel Sheva.Some of their offspring have even served in the Israeli army, the force responsible for decades of Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, an occupation that the Islamist movement, Hamas, was founded to fight.
The Daily Telegraph tracked down the Haniyeh sisters, Kholidia, Laila and Sabah, to a town in southern Israel. That they live in Israel is a closely guarded secret and nowhere is it guarded more secretly than Tel Sheva, a town inhabited mainly by Israeli Bedouin on the edge of the Negev desert."There is no reason to speak to my wife,'' said Salameh Abu Rukayek, 53, who married Kholidia. "It is private business and you are not welcome asking questions about my wife.''
Blind since birth, Mr Abu Rukayek sat on a thin floor cushion and said he was happy living in Israel. "Our life is normal here and we want it to continue,'' he said.
Perhaps he felt discussion of his wife's family links might jeopardise his relatively comfortable lifestyle....
Mmm-hmmm.
Since the nephews served in the Israeli army, how about drafting them in and sending them on the next anti-Palestinian operation after the next atrocity enacted by them - be it Fatah, Islamic Jihad or even Hamas?
Good place to test their loyalties.
From article:That they live in Israel is a closely guarded secret...
Not any more.
Terrorist-affiliated Bedouins living in peace in Israel? Serving in the army? After Bedouin IDF Sergeant Taysir al-Heib gave British Jihad-tourist Tom Hurdall the low-down back in 2004, much to the glee of the baying MSM hyenas? That's no way to run an Apartheid!
Paris, 2 June (AKI) - More than 50,000 people have signed a petition asking French president Jacques Chirac to curb what the promoters of the initiative say is growing hatred and discrimination towards Muslims in France. The main French Muslim associations launched the campaign in March, prompted by what they said was incidents contributing to deform the image of Islam," in the eyes of the French people.
The promoters singled out the decision by several French newspapers to publish satirical cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed - images considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
The appeal was aimed at Chirac, "who has always expressed his good will in strengthening the spirit of fraternity and respect", to intervene and adopt the necessary legal measures to prevent an "escalation of hostilities towards Islam or God and his prophets," the promoters said.
The appeal was not aimed at "limiting the freedom of opinion and expression," but to curb "the spread of a spirit of hatred that is threatening the entire system and the values of co-habitation.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Religion&loid=8.0.306056413&par=0
Well, lets see. Lets allow all people to come and live in our country, they don't even have to pledge an allegiance. Shoot as long as we all get along , nobody asks to many questions. Well have peace in our land ,rite! Kinda like when you have illegales here in America you wonder where their allegiance really is. Peace is always good when you don't have to work for it. Is their a tax credit for this stuff anyway?
The appeal was aimed at Chirac, "who has always expressed his good will in strengthening the spirit of fraternity and respect", to intervene and adopt the necessary legal measures to prevent an "escalation of hostilities towards Islam or God and his prophets," the promoters said.
( bye bye france....viva la mahammad )
And apparently not a single one of those three sisters living in Israel goes around saying "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy."
Has Israily intelligence thought of tapping 'Muslim Sister's' phone line? I bet the 'Muslim sisters' get a call before every bombing to stay away from the next bombing site...
I think these circumstances of these sisters and relatives of Hamas preferring life in Israel over a muslim paradise should be publicised worldwide immediately.
Their situation is newsworthy and nobody in a political situation of interest can demand privacy these days. Look at Samon Rushdie, Ayan Hirsi Ali , the Danish cartoonists or the Afghani apostate . Where was their right to privacy ?
Expose these hypocrits . It has wide implications.
What is noteworthy is that these three sisters of a Hamas leader can live free and unmolested in Isreal. Yet no Jew is allowed to live in Gaza.
Hugh wrote:"And apparently not a single one of those three sisters living in Israel goes around saying "I'm in mourning for my life. I'm unhappy."
I never fail to boggle at just how muslims of any degree of lethality(ie from your friendly neighbourhood Muslim to joe terrorist) can stand there and make the most obvious of hypocritical statements without blinking an eyelid.
You see, I have neverunderstand that hypocrisy as we know it is not part of the Islamic lexicon not is the shame that they should feel at being such blatant and universal hypocrites.
When we look at Muslim or our own behaviour we look through a window of almost reality where we compare it with acceptable behaviour of our own and as per our own morality codes and we judge accordingly.
When a Muslim looks though a window at western behaviour,he is in fact only looking into a distorted mirror where he sees pallid and twisted reflections of Islamic behaviour and he judges this in terms of his Koranic indoctrination. When he looks into the window and observes Muslim behaviour he sees a direct reflection of his own and cannot even see a problem.
It may be an explanation but it still is not an excuse.
There are more Arabs now in Israel than ever left it - over a million.
They are the best fed, best treated, and doctored and schooled AND the only democratically represented Muslims in the world. They don't have ALL the rights Israelis have - for instance they're exempt from serving in the army.
What a vicious brutal system of apartheid.
What I see is they have shown the world their image. No one has to say a thing one way or the other. Most of them around the world live in peace while their families go around killing everyone they can. Especially those who don't bow to Islam. Most of the world is real sick of it and I don't know of anyone who would like to become a killer full of hatred and want to kill for any god or even live in a flood of hate. the US is seeing them for what and who they are and we are not going to bow and if this crap keeps up and added to that and all the threats, we have had enough. To offer the word hate and killing and death...no thanks. We are going to fight back as we have all lost our patience. Do they think we are the only ones who know how to fight, to kill for our own or do they think they put fear in us so often we will bow? They best think again. they want to stay here, then they best be peaceful or go home. This is our country of freedom and they are the only people who came to push their religion on us, the answer is: they all have the freedom to leave..only peace loving good people who obey the laws of our country, obey the constitution , declaration of Independence and know our bill of right and know we all serve our own G-d. And ilegals? If America would just realize that they are breaking the law, bringing in all the old disease and that our medicaid and disease has doubled, that they get free food stamps, housing, education and medical while we go without, even our troops are homeless and growing, fighting for medical. We are broke at the ilegal expense. Come Nov there will be changes as we take our country back..Watch Paul Revere Ride, who is hitting all capitals and will end up in washington on June 12th. For all you freedom loving Americans ,,its time to stand up and be counted, wile you still have a country and rid ourselves of this administration that I voted in twice because I believed them. Time to go Independent and vote in a Constitutionalist.or quit whinning...
And (Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Hamas prime minister’s) nephews have even served in the Israeli Army
Whoa. Somebody better get on the phone and tell Hugh Hewitt that having a few devout Moslems in the U.S. Armed Forces does not a Unicorn make.
Not that Hugh, a Harvard Man, will be disappointed to hear this news. Cuz he won't listen, or read, or understand, or even care (except about his prestige and net personal worth).
Disloyalty, into your nation it will come. Or has already.
Since their uncle does not recognize Irael's right to exist, Israel needs to take these soldiers, or former soldier, if full dress uniform and put them on TV.
They obviously recognize Israel's legitimacy, since they have Israeli citizenship and served in the IDF. Have them, on television, challenge their uncle to recognize Israel and to not dishonour his own family's service defending Israel. Have them do this in both Arabic and Hebrew. As former soldiers (I suspect they may still be reservists) they can be required to do this.
If if they only do it as takkiya, it will still be effective PR for Israel.