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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• August 28, 2014 at 5:00 am
It is
important to note that these cease-fire demands are not part of Hamas's
or Islamic Jihad's overall strategy, namely to have Israel wiped off the
face of the earth.
Many
foreign journalists who came to cover the war in the Gaza trip were under
the false impression that it was all about improving living conditions
for the Palestinians by opening border crossings and building an airport
and seaport. These journalists really believed that once the demands of
Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are accepted, this would pave the
way for peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
To
understand the true intention of Hamas and its allies, it is sufficient
to follow the statements made by their leaders after the cease-fire
announcement this week. To his credit, Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas's leader,
has never concealed Hamas's desire to destroy Israel.
Hamas
and its allies see the war in the Gaza Strip as part of there strategy to
destroy Israel. What Hamas and its allies are actually saying is,
"Give us open borders and an airport and seaport so we can use them
to prepare for the next was against Israel."
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Masked Hamas gunmen celebrate their
"victory" over Israel before the international media this
week. (Image source: Facebook/Palestinian Information Center)
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Statements made by Hamas and Islamic Jihad leaders and spokesmen
following the announcement of the long-term cease-fire agreement with
Israel this week serve as a reminder of their true intentions and
strategy.
Over the past two months, the two groups, together with several
armed factions in the Gaza Strip, repeatedly announced that their main
goal was to end the "siege" on the Gaza Strip and build their
own airport and seaport.
During the cease-fire talks in Cairo, the Palestinian groups
repeatedly and stubbornly insisted that complying with these demands,
along with opening all the border crossings with the Gaza Strip, was the
only way to end the violence and achieve a long-term cease-fire with
Israel.
However, it is important to note that these cease-fire demands are
not part of Hamas's or Islamic Jihad's overall strategy, namely to have
Israel wiped off the face of the earth.
by Burak Bekdil
• August 28, 2014 at 4:00 am
A
front-page headline was particularly revealing: They (Israel) bombed a
mosque in Gaza! Including the exclamation mark!
A
quick internet search, if you typed "mosque bombing
Shiite-Sunni," would give you 782,000 results on July 16.
Why
did we not hear one single Turkish voice protest the death of 300,000
Muslims in Darfur?
Hamas's
Charter is must-read fun.
Jihadists keep on saying that "they love death more than we
love life." Good for them.
Then there are the proxy jihadists. In 2012, Iran's Revolutionary
Guard Corps commander, Mohammad Ali Jafari, said that, "Iran
provided the Palestinian organizations the technology to produce Fajr-5
and other missiles, and they can now produce these missiles themselves in
large quantities." Apparently, Iran will fight Israel down to the
last Palestinian. And so will Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the Sunni mullah.
It's one of the rare qualities Sunni and Shiite Islamists feature: They
have an obsession about fighting Israel at times when their Sunni and Shiite
militants are not busy killing each other.
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