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Posts Tagged ‘Hamas’

Haniyeh, “Our hand is extended for national reconciliation”

By Mary Rizzo • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Biography, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War

GAZA, (PIC)– Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haneyya has stressed on Tuesday that the Hamas Movement was going to the Palestinian national dialogue with open heart and mind, and that the hand of Hamas was and still is open for national reconciliation.
“We look at the upcoming Palestinian national dialogue in Cairo with [...]



Journalist discloses details of Israeli-PA security meeting

By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 23rd, 2008 • Category: Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, War, Zionism

 
In the picture, two of the generals who are arranging military actions with Fatah military leaders and the new Prime Minister of Israel…
 
These same generals met with top Fatah military leaders to plan Jenin 2…
From www.xpis.ps WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH FROM OCCUPIED PALESTINE
Nahum Barnea is a prominent Israeli journalist and regular columnist at the mass-circulation newspaper, Yedioth [...]



The Joke of Palestinian “democracy” under Fatah, Israel

By Khalid Amayreh • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Nakba and Right of Return, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

WRITTEN by Khalid Amayreh in occupied Palestine
Jockeying for an advantageous public posture vis-à-vis Hamas, the Fatah movement has been calling for the organization of presidential and parliamentary elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The proposal is being touted as the only way to resolve the enduring crisis between Fatah and Hamas, following the latter’s [...]



Ramzy Baroud - Palestinian Unity: Goal or Mantra?

By Ramzy Baroud • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa used exceptionally tough language during a Cairo news conference 9 September, when he lashed out at Palestinian factionalism, saying that the League is going as far as studying the possibility of imposing sanctions on quarrelling Palestinians.
“I am extremely angry with the Palestinian organisations… We are studying the measures to be [...]



Adib Kawar - A response to Ziad Asali’s “Miscalculation”

By Adib Kawar • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

Regarding the Op-Ed: Miscalculation How Hamas wastes Palestinian lives by Ziad Asali:
It is shocking to read Ziad Asali’s opinion, which shows how much he, especially as a supposed Palestinian intellectual, is ignorant of the history of his homeland and that of Zionism, which tells us how adamant Israel is on emptying [...]



Casting Stones

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 4th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Mary's Choice, Palestine, Resistance, War

WRITTEN BY DAN ALBA
The United States government is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, and fellow neocons—including most member of Congress, the State Department, the Pentagon, and so-called think tanks—are war criminals, terrorists, and traitors. They have hijacked U.S. policy and have chosen to continue and accelerate on a crookedly jagged path [...]



Jimmy Carter’s Mid East Lesson

By Mary Rizzo • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Israel, Middle East Issues, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Zionism

By Tommaso Di Francesco, translated by Diego Traversa
The diverging international reactions to former American President Jimmy Carter’s initiative in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and the attention it is receiving from the Arab and Muslim world underscores a fact that has been ignored in Italy and Europe.
Indeed, what we’re facing is the arrival at an original [...]



PCHR condemns detention of 3 journalists by …. WEST BANK INTELLIGENCE (!?)

By Mary Rizzo • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine

PCHR Condemns Detention of 3 Journalists and a Columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence in the West Bank
 
PCHR strongly condemns the detention of 3 Palestinian journalists and a columnist by the Palestinian General Intelligence Service (GIS) in Bethlehem and Qalqilya towns in the West Bank on Thursday, 8 May 2008. PCHR believes that such arrests [...]



Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry: Lies are Truth

By Mary Rizzo • May 10th, 2008 • Category: Analysis, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Palestine, Zionism

The people in the press staff of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry are talented science fiction writers. Almost nothing that they write has any bearing on reality, and it seems that they use Orwell’s 1984 as a guidebook for news dispatches. All that they need to do is look at the facts on the ground [...]



Abbas’s Presidential Guard fighting opposition to Israeli occupation

By Mary Rizzo • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Israel, Newswire, Palestine, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY ERNESTO PARAMO
Three people were injured on Tuesday, following the deployment to the Jenin governorship last Saturday of a large PA military force, which included the US trained Presidential Guard, to squelch any resistance to the brutal and murderous Israeli occupation, in what has been called “Operation Smile and Hope”, a military operation which [...]