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Hamas: Obama doesn't represent change
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by 158 | January 23, 2009 at 10:20 am
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Hamas does not like Obama.
Hamas does not like anyone
who says they must stop
killing Jewish children.
"Obama is still on the same path as previous leaders and also will make the same mistakes as Bush that ignited the region instead of bringing stability."
"Obama is insisting on not bringing any change even though his campaign slogan promised to bring change," Hamdan told Al-Jazeera television in an interview. "I don't think this is a very successful step toward dealing with the region, and this will mean the next 4 years will be a failure for the region."
The spokesman said Obama should have talked about the need for Israel not to attack Gaza rather than for Hamas to stop its rocket fire.
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at 13:17 on January 23rd, 2009
Please substantiate your claim that Hamas kills Jewish children? Are you equating Israelis with Jews, as in a monoculture closed society scheme? Are you trying to rationalize a massacre of 100s and 100s of Gazan children by Israeli war criminals this past month? Such a disrespect for common human rights, the kind that are all over the net by paid IDF bloggers, to try and diffuse any concerted effort to build public opinion that will lead to the prosecution of Israeli war crimes. Such actions of the IDF only increase the likelihood that they cannot defend their careless and brutal agression against children, so the transparent excuse of blaming the other or trying to justify Israeli mass murder of Palestinians as an act of revenge for some horrible act that represents at most only 1% of the revenge massacre inflicted by the Israeli armed thugs on their terror march of death over Gazan civilians.
Please see Hamas sympathiser invited to Obama gathering 17 Jan. 2009
at 13:42 on January 23rd, 2009
You are good at accusing and not reading.
Zahar, Hamas foreign minister 2 weeks ago,,,Jewish children worldwide are legitimate targets. They killed our children, it is legitimate for us to kill their children.
THAT defines a terrorist.
at 13:12 on January 23rd, 2009
And I don't like Hamas, but then they aren't running on my ticket, and it is only the democratic right of the Palestinians to vote them out. Israel is their best promoter, and that is clearly the policy of the Israeli government. Israeli power struggling political leaders are not only evil war criminals, but cynical, a bit like Smokey the Bear and his little known bar room motto: Light forest fires, or I'll lose my job.
at 13:16 on January 23rd, 2009
If it's the "Democratic right" of the Palestinians to vote in a terrorist group that indiscriminately shoots thousands of missiles at a population of about 1,000,000 Israelis to terrify them and have them live their daily lives in fear--then they are a people that deserved both the regime they voted for and the war that they wanted--its results are the direct result of the fact that the Palestinians hate the Jews more than they love themselves.
at 13:45 on January 23rd, 2009
Don't forget,
Attack a bear's cubs and the bear will bite your head off.
Hamas leaders were idiots and Gaza people paid the price.
at 12:19 on January 25th, 2009
those in Gaza who dare openly oppose Hamas risk death.
at 13:40 on January 25th, 2009
That is true. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hamas has killed far more Gaza civilians than has Israel.
at 13:28 on January 23rd, 2009
Every soldier armed with anything more deadlier than a shovel to dig irrigation canals on foreign territory - and Israel is no exception - is by definition a terrorist.
Your rocket science argument would then have us all living without freedom in colonies, or under invading tyrannical powers. There would be no French Revolution, freedom for Canada, Ireland or India, a host of African nations, South East Asia, and all would be considered 'terrorists' in your concocted logic, for acheiving their liberty from oprression. The Cold War and the Stalinist style regimes would be flourishing with your logic as well.
If an Isreali soldier was occupying your land, and harming the family structure, education, welfare, nutrition, medical care and freedom of movement in your community, perhaps you might consider some shocking way to cry for help and awaken international indignation for the gulag that Israel has constructed and brutally enforces, murderously so, for the Palestinians.
It was actually Israel who tipped the power balance from Fatah to Hamas with their war crimes and constant brutalizing of Palestinian rights to land, life and liberty. You might consider fighting to remove the Israeli subtle and extreme terror to see if there is any peace to be had. That makes good sense if you think about it. And as far as the war crimes committed by Israel, they ought to be brought to explain and defend their murder of hundreds of Gazan children, and the maiming of thousands of Gazan kids.
at 14:05 on January 23rd, 2009
Unfortunately, the Palestinians have been unable and unwilling to build their own nation because their hatred of Jews is greater than their own needs.
at 15:37 on January 23rd, 2009
The problem is most Palestinian leaders are extremists. They had several chances to have a free state in most of Palestine but refused and choose to demand all of it. That caused 3 generations of misery for them.
at 15:38 on January 23rd, 2009
Con 10t
How do you define foreign?
In 1948 Arab armies invaded and took this land from Israel in defiance of a UN resolution.
Gazans have every right to attack Israel if they feel justified, I do not dispute that, but Israel has every right to kill any who fire rockets at their children.
As I have said until you admit Hamas targeting Jewish children is a war crime you have no credibility on this.
at 22:03 on January 23rd, 2009
The problem appears to me to be Islam itself, the Qu'ran and what Mohammed says is ok to do.
at 22:06 on January 23rd, 2009
Roy C did you ever actually read the Koran or the Bible in depth? If the Koran is a problem then the Bible is as well as the T.
at 13:57 on January 25th, 2009
I've read both, Pashen. Have you?
at 11:40 on January 24th, 2009
Yes, the Bible has two parts. In the second part, the New Testament, Jesus says that "he who is without sin should cast the first stone" when confronting a crowd about to stone an adulteress/prostitute to death. Jesus rejected the eye for an eye and the tooth for a tooth of the Old Testament.
When Mohammed was in Medina, I believe, he challenged the Jews to a debate about what the penalty for adultery should be according to the Torah. The Jews, according to Mohammed's version, covered with their hand the part that said that adulterers should be stoned to death.
He chose or was directed to choose by the voice of the angel Gabriel to return to the original Abrahamaic directives.
The story of Aisha, his wife at nine years and her subsequent false accusation of infidelity has been turned into a Muslim Law of Sharia that stipulates that unless a raped woman can produce witnesses to the rape, she cannot prove it, and therefore she is guilty of adultery.
About 75% of the women in prison in Muslim countries are women who have been raped and were subsequently accused of adultery for failing to produce the number of witnesses (four, I believe) that could verify her testimony as the apparently inferior creature she is.
Two women are needed as witnesses to value the testimonry of one man.
In any case, the popes who once upon a time said stuff such as "freedom of religion in Protestant countries and no freedom of religion in Catholic countries" have changed postition.
Here is a link to one of the main reformers of Islam, a man by the name of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
His Wikipedia page is frequently disfigured with horrible insults by Muslims who don't like that this man chose to challenge Islamic orthodoxy from within the tradition, renouncing violence and intolerance.