Connecting the Dots: Hamas, ISIS, and the Assault on Human Rights in the Middle East

[King_David]

Fifty days of fighting between Israel and Hamas came to an end late last month. The mortars, rockets and missiles into Israel and Israel's operations in Gaza have stopped. For now.

Prior to the current ceasefire agreement, Hamas leaders violated numerous other ceasefire promises. There is no reason to believe they will not do so again when they feel the time is right. There have been reports that Hamas is preparing to resume missile fire on Israel later this month if their maximal demands are not met. Indeed, Hamas cannot be loyal to a long-term truce with Israel and, at the same time, remain loyal to its own mission, which specifically forbids peaceful coexistence with the Jewish State.

Hamas' mission is unambiguously expressed in the group's founding "constitutional" document, written in 1988 and repeatedly re-affirmed since then. In the preamble we read: "Israel will exist until Islam will obliterate it..." In Article 6: "The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine" (i.e. including the entire State of Israel). In Article 13: "[Peace] initiatives...are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement... There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad."

Lest anyone believe that the language of obliteration and jihad are merely for show, Hamas leaders constantly refer to it. The very day after the current ceasefire took effect, Mahmoud al-Zahar, a prominent Hamas figure, emerged from his bunker after fifty days of hiding and urged Palestinians to copy the Gaza experience in the West Bank and Jerusalem as the prelude to the "project of liberation."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sheila-copps/hamas-isis_b_5838470.html

[Israeli]

1. have you seen this King_David ?

Drek – one of Tel Aviv’s most popular gay party organizers – has inspired a massive wave of criticism and anger online after using imagery inspired by the Islamic State group’s executions on a number of posters promoting the club’s parties.





Source: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4573594,00.html

Anything that gets attention goes

[King_David]

2. Not very deep thinkers ,

These gay dudes pushing the envelope.

Gay people being just like anyone else and deserving of all the criticism they get... But it has nothing at all to do with them being gay .

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3. Three canadian ex politicians

All sit on the shiny almost new Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (restructured in 2011)

Not a single one of them ever had a foreign affairs portfolio -
Not a single one was ever considered to be very coherent in foreign affairs analysis - Copps was known for her sharp tongue, and quick wit -

Stockwell Day.....

Lorne Nystrom....