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by Bassam Tawil
• March 15, 2017 at 5:00 am
- What Hamas says, day
and night, in Arabic, tells the real story. In fact, Hamas
officials are very clear and straightforward when they address
their people in Arabic. Yet some Western and Israeli analysts
do not want to be bothered by the facts.
- Some reports have
suggested that Hamas leaders Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh
are the ones pushing for the changes in the movement's
charter. However, even if Mashaal and Haniyeh succeed in their
mission, there is no guarantee that Hamas's military wing
would comply.
- Hamas has also
denied its intention to cut off its ties with the Muslim
Brotherhood. "The reports are aimed at tarnishing the
image of Hamas in the eyes of the world," explained a top
Hamas official. He also denied that Hamas was planning to
abandon the armed struggle against Israel in favor of a
peaceful popular "resistance."
Armed Hamas militiamen on parade with a
vehicle-mounted rocket launcher in Gaza, in August 2016. (Image
source: PressTV video screenshot)
What does
Hamas mean when it says that it "accepts" an independent
Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem
without recognizing Israel's right to exist?
Is this a
sign of moderation and pragmatism on the part of the extremist
Islamic terror movement? Or is it just another ploy intended to
deceive everyone, especially gullible Westerners, into believing
that Hamas has abandoned its strategy of destroying Israel in favor
of a two-state solution?
Recent
reports have suggested that Hamas is moving towards "declaring
a Palestinian state over the 1967 borders."
by Vijeta Uniyal
• March 15, 2017 at 4:00 am
- As it now turns out,
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was right about a
"secret deal" all along.
- In a government
report published last month by the German newspaper Rheinische
Post, experts recommended an annual intake of up to
300,000 migrants a year for the next 40 years, to counter
lower German birth rates.
- As they embark on a
bizarre social engineering project on a continental scale,
members of Germany's political class evidently do not see the
need to consult even their own electorates. Instead, they
apparently believe in creating irreversible facts on the ground,
and giving voting rights to migrants permanently residing in
Germany.
Pictured above: German Chancellor Angela Merkel
meets with Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara, on
February 3, 2017. (Image source RT video screenshot)
"Never
believe anything until it has been officially denied," people
use to say in days of the Soviet Union. Today, the same seems to be
true for the European Union's migrant policy. When German
Chancellor Angela Merkel engineered the EU-Turkey deal on migrants,
it was widely described by the European politicians and the media
as a "breakthrough". Merkel and other EU leaders agreed
on offering a down payment of €3 billion to the regime of Turkey's
President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in return for its promises to
"stem migrant flows".
In December
2015, nearly four months before the EU-Turkey agreement was even
formalized, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused
Chancellor Merkel of working on a "secret deal" with her
Turkish counterparts. President Orbán was quite specific in his claims,
apparently certain that Berlin would soon reveal the details to the
public.
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