This is the Forward’s coverage of Hamas, a Palestinian Islamic political party that includes a military wing. It is the de facto governing authority of the Gaza Strip, and is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and
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Life Hamas Hypocrisy
We’re less than a week into the supposedly six-month-long Gaza “truce” that Israel negotiated with Hamas, and already Palestinian militants are making a mockery of it. Palestinians in Gaza fired a mortar shell into an empty area just before midnight last night. And then earlier today four rockets were fired into southern Israel, lightly wounding…
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Life ‘Mugged by Reality,’ Jewish Week’s Resident Right-Winger Says ‘Let’s Talk to Hamas’
The idea of direct Israeli negotiations with Hamas — once the province of doves — has gained an unlikely advocate in The Jewish Week’s decidedly right-leaning associate editor, Jonathan Mark. In his column this week, Mark writes: I understand the right. I don’t flinch when Palestinians, even civilians, catch an IDF bullet. When Arabs say…
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Life Ha’aretz to Hamas: We’re Not Gonna Take It
The dovish Israeli daily Ha’aretz takes a tough line on the ongoing Qassam fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza in an editorial titled “Restraint is not possible”: If the limited military actions Israel is undertaking in an effort to bring an end to the Qassam rockets will not bring an end to the shooting; if the moderate…
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Life Hamas Bunny on Jews: ‘I Will Eat Them Up’
First there was Farfur, the pro-terror Mickey Mouse knock-off. After an international outcry, Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV made the mouse a martyr, showing him being beaten to death on his children’s program by an Israeli character. Now, the Daily News reports, Al-Aqsa is using a bunny to promote hatred of Jews: Hamas has reached a new…
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Life Where Is the International Solidarity Movement Now?
Yesterday’s lengthy New York Times article on the plight of Gaza merchants — including an arms-smuggler named Muhammad — featured the following gem: Hamas is working with the Egyptians to destroy unauthorized tunnels, Muhammad said, while the Egyptians, under pressure from the United States and Israel, have recently changed all the security officers along the…
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Life He Who Rules Gaza…
…will quickly become unpopular.
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Life Good News on the Palestinian Front
This seems encouraging: Ha’aretz reports that Palestinian proponents of liberal democracy are mobilizing to provide an alternative to the gunman kleptocracy of Fatah on the one hand and the Islamist theocracy of Hamas on the other. An earlier attempt in this vein, in which now prime minister Salam Fayyad took a leading role, yielded paltry…
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Life Hamas Chief: Oy! Such Tsoris We Have — And Now This?
Okay, so I took some liberties with that title. Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal doesn’t really pepper his speech with Yiddishisms. I do think, however, that the title is a fair summation of the sentiment behind this funny phrasing (reported by the AP): In an interview broadcast Wednesday on Hamas TV in Gaza, Khaled Mashaal, the…
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