“Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas…” — Barack Obama, March 21, 2013
“As far as I am concerned, there is no difference between our policies and those of Hamas.” — Mahmoud Abbas, March 15, 2013
“Killing Jews is worship that draws us close to Allah” — Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV
“Hamas praises shooting that killed Israeli man, wounded his wife and son,” from the Associated Press, April 15 (thanks to all who sent this in):
JERUSALEM — The prime minister of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday praised a shooting that killed an Israeli and wounded his wife and son as they drove through the West Bank the previous evening en route to a Passover Seder.
Speaking in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh said the attack outside the city of Hebron “brought back life to the path of resistance” against Israel and warned of more attacks in the Palestinian territory.
Monday’s shooting came just before the start of the weeklong Jewish holiday of Passover as families gather after sundown for the Seder meal. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Hamas and Israel are bitter enemies and have engaged in several rounds of fighting since the militant group seized power in Gaza in 2007 after ousting forces loyal to the Palestinian Fatah party led by President Mahmoud Abbas in fierce street battles. The two Palestinian groups have not reconciled despite several attempts and Hamas now rules Gaza while Abbas governs part of the West Bank.
“We tell the enemy and anyone who thinks he is able to tame the West Bank … the West Bank will be the future point of our struggle with the enemy,” Haniyeh said.
Israeli media said the wounded woman was told in hospital that her 40-year-old husband was killed. It said their wounded son is nine years old.
The attack could further complicate U.S. attempts to salvage the troubled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war from Jordan and Egypt.
Two decades of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have not produced results, and the latest U.S. mediation attempt, launched last year by Secretary of State John Kerry, also seems on the verge of collapse.
Kerry has said he wants to see a deal, or at least the outlines of one, by the end of April. But the two sides remain locked in a dispute over the terms of extending talks, without having made any apparent progress on issues such as borders and security arrangements.
Attacks like Monday’s were common in the West Bank during the Israeli-Palestinian fighting last decade, but the level of violence dropped significantly in recent years.
Still, The Israeli rights group B’Tselem said Palestinians have killed 17 Israeli civilians in the West Bank since 2009, not counting Monday’s fatality.
The group “strongly condemned” the shooting, adding that “attacks against civilians within Israel’s borders are no different from attacks against settlers living in the West Bank.”
“The argument that there is justification for killing settlers as part of the struggle against Israeli occupation is both legally and morally groundless,” it said, adding that all civilians must be protected.
In 2002, at the height of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a Passover Seder at a hotel, killing about 30 people and wounding over 100.
Jay Boo says
Two decades of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have not produced results
Islamic delusion is Non-negotiable because
Islam is built on a frame of deceit and is sold … AS IS
Manufacturer has refused to issue a product recall for this product for 1400 years.
Product has major known SAFETY defects and is completely un-repairable.
Islamic dealerships continue to place all the blame of its poorly designed product on its consumers and competitors.
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duh_swami says
One state, two states, or ten states, the jihad against Israel will continue.
Allah does not lose momentum due to political agreements between humans. Allah gave all that land the pious, all of it, not some of it. The pious will not rest until all the trespassers and squatters are driven off or killed.
On the other side, Israel has a right to protect itself from the pious, who’s entitlement to the land is dubious at best.
Charli Main says
Allah gave the WHOLE WORLD to the Muslims. Mohammed´s ¨ divine revelations¨ Koran is the indisputable proof to the Muslims that everything belongs to them.
We are all squatters and trespassers living on THEIR land and the fundamental objective of the Muslims is to drive of or kill the occupiers of THEIR land.
john spielman says
that’s because according to the Bible,the god of this world is Satan(Allah) and Satan /Allah “can give it to anyone he pleases” ( to paraphrase Satan’s conversation with Jesus in the wilderness when he promised the world to Jesus if only Jesus worshiped him -Satan)
So it is true that Satan has given the world to those who worship him and the darkness he represents. That darkness is islam and Allah is Satan!
dumbledoresarmy says
Except, of course, that the Satan LIED when he said the world – the created universe – belonged to him.
Psalm 24: “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein”.
**The earth is the LORD’s**.
satan is the ‘god’ of ‘this world’ in the sense that he is the ‘god’ or the inspirer or the admired model of proud and powerful and evil people who – like Pharaoh, like Haman, like the followers of mohammed the Mad – set themselves against YHWH.
mortimer says
Why does Obama not take such obvious genocidal statements seriously? What does he think they don’t mean their words?
kikorikid says
Obama has not and will not discus the evils of Islam
because that would be “Blaspheme” forbidden in
Shariah Compliance. Same-same “Workplace violence”.
Recently, Obama, authorized the influx of thousands
of Muslims that have had only “incidental” contact
with terrorism. BUT, he has NOT authorized a
single Christian refugee to enter the U.S.A.
Obamas and Holders anti-White, anti-Christian
views are clearly documented.
Walter Sieruk says
Of course the Hamas guy would indeed praise any Muslim who murders Israelis citizens. That’s the warped , evil and mad mindset of those Muslims who are into the militant jihadism of Islam, Sura 9:111, 47:4. This does bring to mind the Wisdom of the Bible. Which teaches in Ecclesiastes 9:3. “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they join the dead.” [N.I.V.]
Jay says
But Shhh – because if you say anything against these people you will be an labeled an Islamophobe. BFD… these people want to kill us. These pedophile -woman haters – want to kill us. That’s why they dance in the street when we die. But shhhh we don’t want to be intolerant – and islamophobic now do we?
Bettina says
What is this dude? Why does he bother Watchers with his atheistic mumbo-jumbo? Ignoring him is the best offense — he’ll leave when he gets tired of his one hand clapping.
Jan says
Yet again this obnoxious bore, ‘mr dude’, demonstrates his monumental stupidity, and lack of elementary reasoning power.
It is *mohammedans*, not Christians, who are celebrating the murder of an Israeli, and the wounding of his wife and child.
It is not what people believe that makes them immoral or evil, but how they put those beliefs into practice.
By their fruits you shall know them. That is merely logical, intelligent observation.
But ‘mr dude’ is stupid. A fool who has read a couple of books by Dawkins, imperfectly understood what he’s read, and now trumpets his stupidity for all to see.
He’s a waste of space.
Henry says
No hope of peace will ever come through negotiation with either of these two, they’re both bent on destruction of Israel. Neither of them has an ounce of wisdom, or the courage to stop lying to their people.
Rose Gandy says
Top dog? No, that’s not correct. He’s underneath. He’s the dog on the bottom! The top dog enjoys the bottom dog…the bottom dog just supplies the pleasure.