“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
“Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” — Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, as quoted in the Hamas Charter
“Hamas: Jihad Is our Path,” CBNNews.com, May 1, 2014
JERUSALEM, Israel — A week after rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas signed a reconciliation deal, senior Hamas officials say a unity government won’t change anything.
Senior Hamas leaders Khaled Meshaal and Mahmoud al-Zahar said they remain committed to jihad (“holy” war) against Israel.
“Our path is resistance and the rifle and our choice is jihad,” Meshaal said by audio-conferencing to the 1,000 attendees at the funeral of Adel and Imad Awadallah. “There is no past or future without jihad and resistance. Jihad is our path.”
The Awadallah brothers were at the top of Israel’s most wanted list in part for masterminding a suicide bombing at a Tel Aviv café and the kidnapping and murder of an IDF soldier in 2001 during the Second Intifada (armed uprising).
Israel handed over their remains more than 16 years after they were killed in a fire fight on the outskirts of Hebron.
The funeral was the largest gathering of Hamas followers in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) in years.
Meanwhile, al-Zahar said Hamas will not take orders from Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas nor will the deal change their strategy.
“The reconciliation deal will not change Hamas at all and will not bring the organization to recognize Israel’s right to exist,” the Times of Israel quoted Zahar from an interview in the Egyptian paper Alyoum Sabaa.
Israel also turned over other terrorists’ remains, including those of the suicide bomber who killed 15 Israelis, including seven children, and wounded 130 others at the Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001….
mariam rove says
oh my!!!! What a surprise this is!!!!!!!!!!!!!! M
Walter Sieruk says
That picture of that Hamas leader joining hands with that leader of Fatah does bring to mind the wisdom that is found in the Bible. For the Bible teaches in Proverbs 11:21. “Though hand join in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished.” [K. J. V.]
Champ ✞ says
“Jihad is our path” …
“There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.” — Proverbs 14:12
john spielman says
Ah, the faces of EVIL!
ibn Muslim says
Allah is my lord. Islam is my life. The Qur’an is my guide. The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is my role model. The sunnah is my practice and paradise is my goal.
Stand Fast in the Liberty says
If you want to be a slave, and yet be treated as an adopted son, a joint-heir of all heaven’s fabulous riches, to live in peace and godliness in the hereafter, you’d better not rely on the works of your hands. Even mohammed has stood before a holy God and given an account of his life. Unfortunately, he was found wanting, as are all who trust in their own efforts.
Only by casting yourself on the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ and confessing Him as your Savior so He may clothe you in his perfect righteousness, will you be made acceptable to God.
I’m praying for you friend. That you may discover the truth.
mariam rove says
Allah is my enemy. Islam is an evil ideology, pedophiles are not my role models, sunnah is inhumane and and yes I agree with paradise is my goal. I am in it as we speak, NYC that is. M
dumbledoresarmy says
Mariam
That is BRILLIANT.
Salah says
“The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is my role model.”
Really? this piece of garbage is your role model?
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/12/perfect-man-of-islam.html
john spielman says
Dear Ibn muslim: You have NO CHANCE at paradise since your sins are UNFORGIVEN by God and NO amount of good works can erase your sins. God is just and he will not ignore your (or my) sin. All who sin apart from the Law (of Moses) will perish apart from the Law, St Paul said. The Bible says that “without THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD, there is no forgiveness of sins” The blood was an innocent animal in the Old Testament, while in the New Testament it is the blood on the Jesus the lamb of God, God incarnate who died for your sins. If you reject this such precious free gift of God, you and all who rejct Christ Jesus’ gift will face the full wrath of God and the everlasting fire, separated for ever from God and His light and Glory.
Salah says
“Meanwhile, al-Zahar said Hamas will not take orders from Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas nor will the deal change their strategy.”
As I said before, this “reconciliation” farce is meant to allow Hamas to “save face”. After loosing its “mentor”, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, Hamas HAD to SUBMIT to Abbas. It WILL take orders from the Palestinian Authority, it WILL tale orders from Abbas, and it WILL eventually fade out and disappear in the dustbin of history. This “reconciliation” is nothing more than a defeat for Hamas thanks to the Egyptian uprising.
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-end-of-muslim-brotherhood.html
harbidoll says
Abbas thinks he can get out of this alive! by handing things over to hamas; by having elections which hamas will win. Abbas has run the “process & dialoging” with Israel to the dead end. the question is what weapons have/will they bring in with them.
duh_swami says
So did Hamas turn peaceful or did Fatah get warlike again?
It won’t be long till Hamas kicks Abbas out and takes over the whole shooting match. And it will be a shooting match…It always is,
mortimer says
“oblierate” … let’s think about that word
elisheva14 says
Anyone with any smarts would know that Hamas would not change their perspective and aims: to irradicate Israel. They are obsessively commited to that goal. Periodically they have to lie to fool the “blind”. Only people who already hate Israel and the Jews would see anything positive from this alliance of 2- men who are vehemently anti-Semetic. There was never a shred of truth in believing that they had changed and were Pro-Peace. There is not a shred of a chance of Peace. Israel has to do what is needed to stay alive. The World’s Leaders are constantly making life more and more difficult for Israel’s survival. They are collaborating for the Fall of Israel. It is truly a MIRACLE that Israel has survived and prospered. What other Nation could survive such coordinated efforts to destroy it?