TWINKLE, TWINKLE, CARTER STAR!
HOW IRONIC PROPHECY WOULD BE,
IF BY CARTER’S ACT WE MIGHT SEE
DECEIT BY HAMAS BRINGING TO BE
A FALSE PEACE HUDNA WE CAN SEE
WILL BRING THE END I WANT TO BE
April 20, 2008
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As I ranted and raved about how terrible it was that Jimmy Carter was going to play the role of a buffoon, I did not stop to think his act might be snapped up by Hamas to get more prepared to destroy Israel by the well known Islamic “hudna.” I have included an old article when Colin Powell was the U.S. Secretary of State in 2003, which fully defines how a hudna works, and its purpose as used by the followers of Islam. I now believe we have the best chance for a hudna than at any time in the past, but don’t hold your breath.
I have been hoping for a hudna between the Palestinians and Israelis for a very, very long time and, on occasions, have held my breath with great anticipation that “this is it.” But time and
time again I have been very disappointed. I am now once again holding my breath, because the well intentioned Jimmy Carter may have opened the big eyes of the Hamas wolf to see opportunity dropped in their laps to defeat Israel. It may well be that all this effort by Carter may result in Hamas securing the thing it needs most, namely, a time to build themselves up into a really formidable foe on Israel’s southwest flank. So Carter may become a hero once again to the world and, quite frankly, to me, because I am anxious to see my long hoped for hudna come it, so I can see the light at the end of the Gentile Age tunnel, when Israel is crying “peace and safety,” only to suddenly attacked and driven into the Negev Wilderness.
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.
Begin 2003 Article from HONEST REPORT.COM
Hudna with Hamas
June 23, 2003
Honest Report.Com
The media translate “hudna” as “truce,” misrepresenting the term’s religious, historical and modern meaning.
As U.S. Secretary of State Powell winds up his Mideast trip, Palestinian leaders appear on the verge of announcing a hudna.
The Associated Press declared that “the success of peacemaking may well hang on a legal concept dating to the birth of Islam: a hudna, or a truce of a fixed duration.”
The New York Times added Monday that a hudna would constitute “a major breakthrough… out of 33 months of violence.”
Would a hudna with Hamas really mark “the success of peacemaking,” a “major breakthrough” toward a nonviolent future?
The answer lies in the historical meaning of the Muslim expression, Hamas’ track record, and the terms of the road map itself.
Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, well-versed in their history: The prophet Mohammad struck a legendary, ten-year hudna with the Quraysh tribe that controlled Mecca in the seventh century.
Over the following two years, Mohammad rearmed and took advantage of a minor Quraysh infraction to break
the hudna and launch the full conquest of Mecca, the holiest city in Islam.
When Yassir Arafat infamously invoked Mohammad’s hudna in 1994 to describe his own Oslo commitments “on the road to Jerusalem,” the implication was clear.
As Mideast expert Daniel Pipes explained, Arafat was asserting to his Islamic brethren that he will, “when his circumstances change for the better, take advantage of some technicality to tear up existing accords and launch a military assault on Israel.” Indeed, this is precisely what occurred in Sept. 2000 when Arafat & Co. launched a terror assault upon Israeli citizens.
As for Hamas, they have proven time and again their commitment to a tactical hudna — replenishing their strength during the quiet periods, then returning with increased deadliness. As recently documented by The Washington Institute, Hamas agreed to no less than ten ceasefires in the past ten years, and after every single one returned freshly armed for terror. Hundreds of Israeli citizens have paid for these hudnas with their lives.
Israeli leadership is convinced, therefore, that yet another hudna would jeopardize three years of painstaking IDF anti-terror work that has left Hamas and Islamic Jihad reeling.
As IDF Major-General Amos Gilad said on Monday, “For us as a nation, it is forbidden to interest ourselves in this hudna, which is a threat to any kind of peace.” Echoing Gilad’s words is the road map itself, which calls for the PA to “arrest, disrupt, and restrain” terror leaders — not granting an opportunity for replenishing their strength.
Colin Powell reinforced this on Friday when labeling Hamas “an enemy of peace” and stating: “I am anxious to speak to Prime Minister Abbas about efforts they are making to bring violence under control, to end violence, not just through the means of having a cease-fire, but going beyond that … to end violence and the capacity for violence.”
Given the religious, historical and diplomatic facts regarding the actual meaning of hudna, it is disturbing to see the media nearly everywhere translate the term to English as “truce”:
Fox News: “Palestinians Say Hamas Discussing Truce”
Hartford Courant: “Hamas Considers a Pragmatic Truce”
Anchorage Daily News: “Palestinian Officials See Hamas Truce On Horizon”
To a Western audience, “truce” suggests a Hamas commitment to peaceful resolution. This is, as we’ve seen, simply not the meaning of hudna.
Yet on Monday’s major wires, Reuters casts Israel as the villain for rejecting a hudna: “Israel Pours Scorn on Truce With Militants.”
Associated Press falsely presents the hudna as a fulfillment of the road map’s demand to uproot terror:
“A truce is crucial for implementing a U.S.-backed peace plan, the ‘road map’ to Palestinian statehood by 2005. In the first stage, the Palestinians must dismantle militant groups, while Israel must gradually withdraw to positions held before the outbreak of fighting 33 months ago.”
The road map to peace — and the memory of scores of terror victims — demand much more than hudna.
HonestReporting encourages members to monitor their local media for accurate description of the term hudna, in its religious, historical and modern contexts.
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Hamas takes up Carter’s proposals
April 19, 2008
DAMASCUS, April 19: Hamas engaged in an internal debate on Saturday over proposals put forth by former US President Jimmy Carter for a unilateral ceasefire with Israel and more political flexibility, Palestinian politicians said.
Carter left the Syrian capital on Saturday for Riyadh after an early morning meeting with Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
Carter and Meshaal held more than four hours of talks on Friday night that discussed how the Islamist group could be drawn into a Middle East peace plan and drop its opposition to peace talks between Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the rival Fatah faction.
Carter demanded that Hamas stops firing rockets on Israel while he pursues efforts with Israel and the West to lift
the siege on the Gaza strip, which is ruled by Hamas, politicians familiar with the meetings said.
“Carter also asked Meshaal to adopt more flexible public statements and talked to him as a leader of a national liberation movement, not as the terrorist Israel and America try to depict him as being,” one of the sources said.
“Meshaal is a first among equals in Hamas. He has to secure agreement from the rest of the Hamas leadership,” he added.
Carter’s willingness to meet officials from Ham as h
as drawn criticism from Israel and the United States, which both regard as a terrorist group.
Hamas is led by Meshaal and other exiled politburo members, as well as members with presence on the ground in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Hamas also has links with the Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt.
Former Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar and former Interior Minister Saeed Seyam, two Hamas officials living in Gaza who met Carter in Cairo last week, were due in Damascus later on Saturday for consultations with the leadership in exile about Carter’s proposals.
Carter said the Hamas officials had told him in Cairo they would accept a peace agreement with Israel negotiated by Abbas if the Palestinians approved it in a referendum. Israel and the United States, its chief ally, have criticized Carter’s willingness to initiate contacts with Hamas.
But in a proposal passed to Carter this week, an Israeli cabinet minister offered to meet high-level Hamas officials to ask for the release of a soldier being held by Hamas, a move which would depart from official Israeli government policy.—Reuters
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