Hamas has repeatedly abused and violated the truce, but now sees fit to call it off. One can expect continued, outwardly mixed signals from the "political" wing of Hamas, eager to buy more time by misleading the gullible in Washington and Tel Aviv. "Hamas' military wing: Truce is over," by Yaakov Lappin for YNet News:
Hamas's Qassam Brigades have declared an end to a ceasefire with Israel, according to a statement released on Wednesday evening.
The call to end the truce appeared on Hamas's official website, in both English and Arabic, and is the first time in months that Palestinian armed forces directly under the control of the Hamas government openly threatened to attack Israel.
Abu Obaida, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, said in the statement that "the truce with the Israeli occupation is no longer valid," citing the "assassination of Islamic Jihad commander" Mahmoud Qassem as the reason.
Qassem was shot dead in the West Bank by Israeli Border Police on Tuesday, after security forces traced a foiled suicide bomb attack planned for Tel Aviv back to him.
In Hamas' statement, Abu Obaida said: "This crime falls in line with a plan to liquidate Palestinian resistance in the West Bank in particular."
"The Zionist enemy continues to try to separate between the Bank and Gaza, and we will not accept that. The assassination in Jenin comes as part of an attempt to take out the Palestinian resistance, especially in the West Bank. We demanded from the start that the ceasefire must include the entire homeland and not be divided at the enemy's discretion," he said.
Abu Obaida called for Palestinian organizations to "unite" and "retaliate" against Israel, saying that "the time has come to restore the honor of the Palestinian resistance."
He added that the Qassam Brigades were "reorganizing their lines in the West Bank after sustaining painful strikes."
Hamas's terrorist cells were largely destroyed in the West Bank by IDF operations in response to a series of bomb attacks between 2001 and 2004, although Hamas remains the strongest armed force in Gaza.
Throughout the duration of the 'truce,' rockets launched from Gaza have continued to land in southern Israel, and security forces say they foiled many terrorist attacks aimed at targets within Israel.
What else is new.
It's a war.
Their leadership should be picked off and killed.
in the West: a message in the mosque of peace with the infidel or get the hell out.
Ho-Hum, business as usual.
And who is financing Hamas?
Exactly where is their financial support coming from?
Can we find those paper trails?
Do you think they would ever dis-allow their determination to follow the 36 Articles of the Hamas Charter which they claim is locked in stone and signed in blood?
Nothing has changed and nothing will short of an occasional hudna to rebuild.
If Israel had the leadership that it should have, it would know what to do when the rockets come a flyin'.
But . . .
. . . it has the leadership that it voted in, apparently what it wants.
Suffer on with Olmert. Suffer on with Kadima.
Whenever an opportunity is there to hurt its enemies--mortally--Israel botches it: The war with Hezbollah, and now, the coming war with Hamas.
Not so surprising...they never intend to comply when they make these 'cease fire' agreements...Dont forget, that according to Allah and Mohammad, A 'true believer', says the prayers, pays the tax, bows in homage, and renounces agreements with Jews.
Hamas is honoring the last part. "Never make an agreement with a Jew that you intend to keep". Or so says Abdullah the Chief Camel Keeper. He was the Chief Camel Keeper of Saddams, now defunct, 'Iraqi Camel Corps'. But then, what does he know, he spent most of his time with a shovel and bucket, cleaning up after Saddams camels. The last I heard of him he was studying to become an Imam. Thats understandable, when you cant shovel camel dung, become an Imam, the positions are nearly interchangable.
Yes, expect more Hamas/Islamic renouncing agreements with Jews. It comes with shoveling dung and an Allah-uck attitude.
Did anyone get up this morning, take a sip of coffee and check the news coverage to see how the latest truce (hudna) was holding up? We've long since reached the point where the ceasefire bantor coming from the Palis is meaningless to all except the MSM and politicians, to whom it only serves political purposes.
There was a truce?
Man those Russians are smart.
Man those Russians are smart. ....and good lookin'!
'...Exactly where is their financial support coming from?'
All roads lead to Mecca, brother...
In the name of all that is good and holy in this world and the next...
WHY are we still trying to put together cease-fires and resolutions and peace talks and treaties?
How willfully ignorant can people be? It's not difficult to see.
in the West: a message in the mosque of peace with the infidel or get the hell out.
Nope. Such a messge would only be further deceit.
Message should simply be "get the hell out and don't let the door hit you in the a**!"
Because the era of Christians "turning the other cheek" is quickly fading.
You kow "The Golden Rule" right? So it seems to me that blowing up mosgues and school buses full of muslim kids should be fair game.
DEATH TO IRAN!
DEATH TO ISLAM!
Truthfully, I thought Israel was the only country honoring the truce in the first place.
the winds of war are blowing across the middle east.
Israel will explode one day and war will be waged.
prepare be armed be ready for war is coming and coming soon.
I pray to the one true God to bless America, Israel, England, Canada, Australia, Darfur, Porte Rico and our Fighting Forces across the world, to keeps us safe and Free and destroy our enemies.
The Texican.
God Family America and Freedom the only choice at any cost.
War is not picking off leaders; political skirmishes are picking off leaders. War targets the enemy and that’s where this will end up, the sooner the better. I support the enemy feeling emboldened.
A single Trident missile has more explosive power that was unleashed in all of World War II, including the two atomic bombs.
…maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down…
One more dead militant Palestinian
I am not a fan of Woolsey, but he gets to the point in these comments in an article in United Press International especially that last line.
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20070222-114011-5778r
Iran's nuclear weapons program has alarmed the Sunni states of the Middle East and six of them, including Egypt and Saudi Arabia, are moving forward with their own nuclear programs. "Iran," said Woolsey "has now triggered a Shiite-Sunni nuclear arms race in this volatile region."
But he rejects the widely held notion that Shiite and Sunni Islam cannot collaborate against the West. "Seventy years ago it was the conventional wisdom that communists and Nazis would never cooperate, and that was largely true -- until the Stalin-Hitler Pact."
I went over there to find some stuff on abuild-up of troops on the syrian border with Israel that I saw earlier.
Truce? What truce? Probably lasted all of one day.
pez,
It seems the US Military has called off a test called Divine Strake in the old Nevada Nuclear testing grounds. I saw it at UPI. It involed 700 TONS! of explosives in a tunnel. ????
That name is a little weird.
Aunt Bea; Strange times. Everything seems to boil down to small arms, big bombs, and a game of chicken.
Here is a good link about Hamas.
http://www.conceptwizard.com/terror/a1.html
Attention IDF, Hamas, the official elected government of Palestine, has declared war on you stating "the truce is officially off!" Palestinians cannot hide any longer behind their burkas or children.
Fire at will! Fire at will! Until you receive an unconditional surrender, fire at will. Let the Palestinians retreat to Syria or Lebanon!
The best thing about Hamas is that they are at least honest in their intention. A declaration of war is refreshing from savage heathens who ignore any civilities in their war making.
David England how true your posts rings true. l would add, let the world understand, that Hammas and their supporters want Israel destroyed. And with Israel, Hammas and their supporters want the rest of infidels world destroyed. So let Hammas understand, start your war, and Israel and the free world will end it for you.
As champ said, "What truce?"
There is no such thing as a Muslim truce. Hudna is all there ever will be. Those who proclaim that a truce has been reached with any Islamic organization may instantly be dismissed as mentally defective.
"How willfully ignorant can people be?"
To quote Albert Einstein:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It appears that, in order to finally break the liberal mindset's fixation on appeasing Muslim sensitivities, it will require an Islamist atrocity so horrendous that no human being with a detectable pulse will be able to deny the need for total war. Fortunately or, rather, unfortunately we probably will not have to wait too very long for this.
"Throughout the duration of the 'truce,' rockets launched from Gaza have continued to land in southern Israel, and security forces say they foiled many terrorist attacks aimed at targets within Israel."
No justice. No peace.
"Hamas' military wing: Truce is over,"
"Madduck: Fuck off and die!"
David E...Fire at will! Fire at will! Until you receive an unconditional surrender, fire at will.
David...who is will? Why are we fireing at him?
Zenster -- liberals are "wishful thinkers", that's why they fall for this crap. Rather than facing the Truth about Islam, they would rather believe in something that isn't there; believe in something that isn't True about Islam, because no one wants to believe that evil really DOES exist in human form and may be living right next door.
"Rather than facing the Truth about Islam, they would rather believe in something that isn't there ..."
You mean, like, Political Correctness? Perish the thought.
"Their leadership should be picked off and killed."
Permit me to (not so politely), suggest:
1. Ayman al-Zawahiri
2. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
3. Ayatolla Kahmeini
4. Mullah Muhammad Omar
5. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir (Bashir)
6. Moqtada Sadr,
7. Abu Hamza al-Masri,
8. Mullah Krekar (AKA: Abu Sayyid Qutb),
9. Khaled Meshal
10. Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
11. Ismail Haniya
12. Mohammed Abbas
13. Yusuf al-Qaradawi
14. imam Ahmed Abu Laban
15. Sheikh Taj Al-Din Al-Hilali
16. imam Omar Bakri Mohammed
17. imam Abdel-Samie Mahmoud Ibrahim Moussa
18. imam Sheikh SyeSyed Mubarik Ali Gilani
19. Abdullah al-Faisal
20. Sheik Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi
21. Dr. Mahmoud al-Zahar
22. Prince Sultan Ibn Abd al-Aziz
23. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz
24. Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz
for the information of unicorn, olmert's party got less than 1/4 of the vote in last March's election. So olmert and his gang of crooks did not have any mandate from the people. However, since his party was the largest in the Knesset [parliament], the president asked olmert to form a new govt. He is not our leader. He merely holds office. There is enough evidence to indict him for several crimes. But the attorney-general [M Mazuz] is protecting him.
olmert's voters, as far as I know, were mainly middle-aged women who had viewed Sharon as the man on a white horse and olmert inherited Sharon's aura when Sharon became incapacitated around Jan 1, 2006.
Hamas' military wing calls off "truce" with Israel
And things were going so well...
"Qassem was shot dead in the West Bank by Israeli Border Police on Tuesday, after security forces traced a foiled suicide bomb attack planned for Tel Aviv back to him."
There was a truce?
Posted by: The fanatic at February 22, 2007 02:04 PM
fanatic:
I suggest you read two interviews Jamie Glazov conducted with Bill Warner of the Centre for the Study of Political Islam recently published on line at frontpagemag.com where he explains very succinctly what sets Islam apart from other faiths - its duality. Links below if you wish to read all of both articles.
Warner: "Our enemy is the civilization of dualism. The ultimate nature of Islamic civilization is duality. Dualistic Islamic ethics and politics propose one behavior for Muslims and another behavior for the unbelievers (kafirs). Islam has declared that the civilization of dualism must annihilate that civilization which is based upon a unitary view of humanity—ours. It is logically impossible for a civilization based upon a unitary view of humanity to co-exist with a civilization based upon duality."
So, that's how it's not a violation of a proported hudna with Israel for a Hamas operative to be planning a suicide attack on Tel Aviv, but it's an Israeli violation for thwarting one.
The Study of Political Islam:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26769
The Infidel Revolution
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27030