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Hamas celebrates: “We have won the military battle”

Aug 7, 2014 3:58 pm By Robert Spencer

Mideast Israel PalestiniansAs far as Hamas is concerned, they won the military battle as soon as Israel agreed to a ceasefire. In Islamic law, one only calls for a truce when one is losing. “‘Resistance!’ Cry Crowds at Hamas Gaza Victory Rally,” AFP, August 7, 2014 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

Hundreds of Palestinians poured onto the streets of Gaza City on Thursday to attend a Hamas victory rally, chanting support for resistance against Israel, an AFP reporter said.

Loudspeakers mounted by the roadside blared out Hamas victory songs as the crowd — most of them men but with some children dressed in combat fatigues and carrying toy guns — gathered in the square outside the parliament building.

A huge Palestinian flag hung behind a podium where speakers whipped up the crowd with chants of victory on the eve of the scheduled expiry of a 72-hour truce with Israel.

“We have won the military battle and with the permission of God we’ll win the political battle,” Hamas MP Mushir al-Masri told the crowd.

“Resistance, resistance, resistance!” chanted the demonstrators.

Four weeks of fighting between the armed Islamist faction and Israel killed 67 people on the Israeli side, including 64 soldiers, and more than 1,880 Palestinians, of whom the U.N. says more than 1,300 were civilians.

One of the few women at the rally told AFP her home had been destroyed in the Israeli bombardment.

“I have come here today to tell the whole world we are with the resistance. We have only two options: dignity or death, so we chose dignity,” she said, refusing to give her name and wearing a headscarf and a long dress.

Diplomatic efforts entered a final countdown in Cairo on Thursday as Egyptian mediators rushed to broker an extension to the ceasefire which is due to expire at 0500 GMT on Friday, shuttling between Israeli and Palestinian teams.

An Israeli official has said Israel would be prepared to prolong the ceasefire “unconditionally”, but Hamas has denied that any agreement to extend the calm exists.

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  1. Charli Main says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 4:19 pm

    Well, Hamas have won haven´t they ???
    They have played the ” poor Gazan victim” card on the world stage and successfully got Israel vilified for their” brutality” against the ” poor suffering Palestinians”.
    Tomorrow, British TV stations are going to run nationwide appeals for money to help rebuild all the schools, hospitals and mosques destroyed by all those nasty Israeli air strikes.
    Billions of aid dollars have been poured into the Gazan shit hole and 40 years later it is still a shit hole.
    Why ??? because most of the money has been used to line Hamas pockets and buy weapons to continue the war against the infidel, while the “poor Gazans” have been left to continuing stewing in their own shit.

    • Michael McGee says

      Aug 7, 2014 at 10:57 pm

      The thing Israel was brutal, now I am no supporter of Islam but it is good to be honest. Israel stuffed when they bombed a UN sanctioned safe haven. This is not an endorsment for Hamas, but it is how I see. I have been following Robert and Pamela for some time now, Ive been a real fan, but this dishonesty I am a bit disappointed in.

      • NDB says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 8:02 am

        So… brainwashing is real. My dad used to call it: taking it hook, line and sinker.

      • BC says

        Aug 8, 2014 at 9:26 am

        It is easy to rearrange a few bodies wherever you want for propaganda purposes and film them. A dead body is a dead body you cannot say whose weapons killed them. This was faked. Hamas are completely unscrupulous about propaganda and will tell any lies they think useful.
        There is also plenty of evidence coming out now that Hamas was firing weapons from residential areas, mosques and churches. Of course that is too late as the fable of Israel’s ‘atrocities; is well established.

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 4:30 pm

    Simple explanation of the “Middle East Question”.Send to all lefties:

  3. Beagle says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    “Hundreds”?

    In a place like Gaza ruled by HAMAS with an iron fist that’s not saying much. Unfortunately Israel is too civilized to exploit a target of opportunity when it presents itself on a silver platter.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 4:33 pm

    These morons are delusional!!

    • Dave Lindesmith says

      Aug 7, 2014 at 4:57 pm

      Morons in the extreme or spreading the ‘lie story’ they hope will stick to any nearby wall. I heard that these savage monkeys were in Egypt to get the IDF to pleeeeeeeze make the Jews stop. Would of liked to have been a fly on the wall to document the conversation.

  5. JeffS says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    Every conflict with them is the same. The muslims provoke until finally Israel gets fed up and retaliates. The muslims cry and moan about what big, genocidal bullies Israel is and moans for them to stop, and the world yells at Israel to stop. Israel stops. The muslims brag that they beat Israel up. If I was an artist I’d do a cartoon about this.

  6. Champ says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Won the battle? Have they LOST their minds? No, they’re LYING …again!

  7. pdxnag says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 5:51 pm

    “Resistance!”

    Is that like a mob in America chanting “Peaceful, protest.” as they assault some hapless soul caught in their grasp?

  8. Jade says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 6:18 pm

    Fire one more rocket, Hamas. See what happens.

  9. Wellington says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 6:28 pm

    There’s something in the extremely mixed-up Islamic way of looking at the world that allows for Muzzies to claim victory even when they’ve had their ass wipped. This occurred during the Six-Day War when Nasser made ridiculous pronouncements about Arab victory, all the while his forces were being humiliated by the IDF. It occurred again most certainly with Baghdad Bob et al. in Iraq (even seculars like Saddam Hussein and his ilk are not spared the decrepit Islamic mindset, so expansively cancerous is it). And just take a look at all the absurd bragging that Iran has done about defeating the American military, or now the psychopaths who make up the ISIS asserting that they will not stop until the black flag of Islam flies over the White House. Sundry more examples of this stupid Muslim bragging exists aplenty.

    This particular pathology of Muslims is simply one of many. Jew-hatred is another. The complete lack of a Golden Rule for all, regardless of religious belief, is one too. So is the inherent misogyny rooted deep down in Islamic teaching. Yet another pathology is the typical gloating that Muslims engage in about finally triumphing over everyone else. Well, there are many more to be sure. Many.

    Islam is so screwed up. This religion is by far the worst and most awful religion ever created by man. In fact, if one were challenged to come up with a worse religion than Islam, it would be hard to top this monstrosity of a religion, even for theory’s sake. Islam is, in effect, the “perfect storm” of religion at its worst. But meanwhile, the IDF kicked ass in Gaza and I for one am quite glad of this.

    • Angemon says

      Aug 7, 2014 at 6:45 pm

      Wellington posted:

      “There’s something in the extremely mixed-up Islamic way of looking at the world that allows for Muzzies to claim victory even when they’ve had their ass wipped.”

      That goes as far back as the treaty of Hudaibiya.

      • Wellington says

        Aug 7, 2014 at 7:01 pm

        Agreed, Angemon.

        Well, to grasp what Islam is really all about, one need go no further in past time than the life of Islam’s reputed founder, who was a sicko, though a very clever sicko, many times over. Uncover the rot in Mohammed and one, in effect, uncovers the rot in all of Islam.

        Destroy Mohammed and you destroy his warped belief system. It’s this simple———and yet this complicated.

  10. JR Kipling says

    Aug 7, 2014 at 11:25 pm

    There is no way out of this but to locate these people in place completely out of sight and sound of Israel. Because their culture will always blame its failures on anyone but themselves. They will recover from this and be back at it in 6 months. But if they were in Sinai withe 200 miles of sand between them that would stop it.

  11. shaji says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 5:56 am

    very crazy nations on the earth.Muslims and Jews.Do they both believe in God?

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 8, 2014 at 10:19 pm

      The Muslims follow a religion – or a cult – of blood and war.

      The Muslims sometimes *pretend*, and lie, and tell foolish people that their god is the same as the god of the Jews…but it is not.

      For example: the God of the Jews is a God who loves truth and truth-telling, and makes and keeps agreements (covenants); he is faithful and truthful, and his followers are supposed to tell the truth, and supposed to keep their word.

      The god of the Muslims, on the other hand, is described as a deceiver, a trickster, the best of deceivers; it teaches its followers that lying and treaty-breaking are okay when done in order to advance the power of Islam. And what we see in practice, the world over, is that Muslims are People of the Lie. They lie to each other and to us, all the time.

      The Jews are *not* crazy; I think they are amongst the sanest people on earth. They love and affirm life; they believe that life is holy. They fight as they do now, only in order to protect life: the lives of their children and themselves, threatened by the Death Worshippers who live in Gaza.

      The Muslims worship and love *death*, their own death but even more, the death of others, of you and me. because they believe that if we reject Islam, if we refuse to be ruled by Muslim slavemasters, then we deserve to be killed, and Muslims have the right to try to kill us.

  12. BC says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 9:30 am

    It is a well established Muslim tactic to fire from the protection of civilians. At the time of the Suez ‘crisis’ remember that? I talked to British soldiers who were disgusted at the Egyptians forces fring from buildings with women and children inside. There are no ‘rules of engagement’ for Islamic fighters.

  13. alyn21 says

    Aug 8, 2014 at 11:22 am

    Because Israel did not finish the job by destroying Hamas in a way Hamas did win.
    As long as they are still standing they can rearm and start the who business all over again. And with a muslim friendly world media such as CNN to cheer them on they can continue doing this forever.
    When will Israel learn.

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