HOPEFULLY HUNTING HAMAS HUDNA HARBINGER HAPPENING!
STILL WAITING TO SEE IF A GAZA HUDNA (TRUCE) WITH HAMAS WILL DEVELOP!
December 21, 2007
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Begin Preamble
Biblically, the question has never been whether or not a ‘relative’ false peace will ever come to Israel – It has always been WHEN and HOW! I am hoping for an agreement between Hamas and Israel for a long term Hudna, in which Hamas has all the terrorist groups on board with it. It will be interesting to see if one develops.
The Preamble continues after the following Haaretz article.
Begin Haaretz Article
Gaza strikes to continue as Israel sets terms for Hamas truce talks
By Amos Harel, Avi Issacharoff, and Yuval Azoulay,
Haaretz Correspondents
Haaretz Service and News Agencies
December 21, 2007
A Hamas militant was killed Friday morning in by Israel Defense Forces fire in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis on Friday, the Palestinian Islamist group and medical workers said.
The IDF Spokesman’s Office, however, said it was not aware of any exchange of fire in the area.
The IDF has said it would continue its attacks against militants in the Gaza Strip despite calls by the Hamas leadership for a possible temporary calm.
Defense officials say the heavy pressure on the militants is making progress, and there will be room to consider a change to the offensive only if Hamas imposes on other militant factions a moratorium on Qassam rocket attacks.
Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Friday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may consider talks with Hamas on a long-term cease-fire. But, as part of such a deal, Hamas must not only stop the rocket fire, but also cease smuggling arms into the Gaza Strip and open talks for the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Hamas-affiliated militants last year, Ben-Eliezer said.
“The prime minister I know doesn’t totally rule anything out,” Ben-Eliezer told Israel Radio. “If a serious, realistic proposal is put on the table and Hamas is willing to discuss a long-term cease-fire and is willing to stop the terror, to stop the smugglings and is willing to open talks on the release of Gilad Shalit, I would go to negotiations.”
In an IDF operation Thursday in the central Gaza Strip, one soldier was seriously injured and seven Palestinian gunmen were killed.
A number of Qassam rockets and mortar shells were fired on the western Negev, with one rocket land ing near a school
in Sderot. There were no injuries.
Security sources: IDF pressure led to Hamas truce calls
Security sources said analyses by the IDF and Shin Bet security service concluded that Israel’s military pressure on the Gaza militants led to the recent announcement by former Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh on the need for a cease-fire.
The Israeli side, including the office of Prime Minister Olmert, has deep suspicions about the Hamas offer for a cease-fire, and there is no support for any form of negotiations. However, if Haniyeh manages to rein in the militants and offers a tahadiyeh (calm) in a few months, Israel may respond positively.
The military pressure on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip is only aggravating an already difficult economic situation, made harder by the s
anctions limiting the flow of goods and fuel to Gaza.
There are also restrictions on Gazans from leaving the area through the Rafah crossing on the border with the Sinai Peninsula.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak congratulated the security forces Thursday for their recent operations in which more than 20 militants were killed.
The political leadership is also pleased that the IDF attacks have been precise and have not harmed civilians.
However, they acknowledge that the efforts to stem the rocket attacks are not effective, and there is renewed support for reinforcing Sderot and the nearby towns with an inflow of NIS 320 million for fortifying secure areas.
During the operation in central Gaza Thursday, one IDF soldier was seriously injured, three others were lightly hurt, and seven Palestinian gunmen were killed.
The fighting took place Thursday morning in al-Ma’azi, an area near the center of the enclave, about 2.5 kilometers from the border fence.
An infantry force, supported by armor and combat engineers, was carrying out what the IDF described as a “routine mission” when it came under fire. Fighting continued throughout the day, and in one case an RPG rocket was fired against a squad of IDF soldiers, seriously injuring one.
End Haaretz Article
Resume Preamble
The “Hudna” Talks and the False Peace
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
(See Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 3, 21, 59, 60, 66A, 67A, and 70)
According to Umdat as-Salik, a medieval summary of Shafi’I jurisprudence, a “hudna” with a non-Muslim enemy should be limited to 10 years: “if Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for 10 years if necessary, for the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) made a hudna with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud” (‘Umdat as-Salik, 09.16). What happened during that hudna is burned into the minds of Islamic terrorists as a historical pattern to follow. The Prophet Mohammad did strike a 10 year hudna with the Quraysh tribe that controlled Mecca in the seventh century. But he used the first two years of hudna to rearm and refurbish his army, and then used a minor infraction to break the hudna and launch the attack that made a full conquest of Mecca, the holiest city of Islam.
When Yassar Arafat infamously invoked Mohammad’s “hudna” in 1994 to describe his own Oslo program of deceit “on the road to Jerusalem,” the implication was clear to his Islamic brethren. Middle East expert Daniel Pipes explained it this way: “when his circumstances change for the better, he will take advantage of some technicality to tear up the existing accords and launch a military assault on Israel.” And, indeed, this is what he did when Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount.
He used it as an excuse to launch the current intifada on Jewish citizens in September 2000.
As for Hamas, they have proven time and time again their commitment to a “tactical hudna,” which allows them time to replenish their strength during the hudna period. Incidentally, the root meaning of the Arabic word “hudna” simply means “quiet” or “calm.” Hamas and the other terrorist groups will take advantage of the “calm’ period to rebuild their infrastructures and to recruit and place their men and women in advantageous positions for future attacks.
We are headed for some sort of false peace between the Palestinians and Israel. But, according to the general character and practices of Islam, regardless of how it eventually arrives, it will be broken as soon as the Palestinians and their friends think they can defeat the Israeli military. And it is certainly important to know that, according to the Scripture, it must be a false peace of relatively short duration, which will be followed by a most vicious attack against Israel. The attack will internally come from inside Israel out of Gaza and the West Bank, and externally from outside Israel’s borders by nine other Islamic nations.
Regardless of the factors involved, and the terms used by both sides in this long struggle between Israel and her Islamic enemies within and without, such as hudna, intifada, unilateral, two things are certain – one, Israel will finally believe it has achieved a ‘relative’ time of “Peace and safety,” and two, the Islamic nations will have made the peace with
an evil thought, knowing they will proceed against the Israeli population that has enclosed the Palestinians by a wall, but left their own cities outside this wall in a condition of having no walls facing the rest of the world of Islam.
Ezekiel 38:10-12 – Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think AN EVIL THOUGHT: [11] And thou shalt say, I will go up to the LAND OF UNWALLED villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that DWELL SAFELY, all of them dwelling WITHOUT WALLS, and having neither bars nor gates, [12] To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and UPON THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GATHERED OUT OF THE NATIONS, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
(See Archive Prophecy Update Number 31)
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but THE THIRD shall be left therein. (See Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 28, 33, 40, 46, 71, 78, 88A, 112, 129B, and 130)
Revelation 12:6 – And THE WOMAN fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. (See Archive Birth Pang Number 36 and Archive Prophecy Update Numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10)
Zechariah 14:2 – For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
(See Archive Prophecy Update Number 132 and 133B)
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