The Hamas Requested Truce is Incorporated
In to
the Larger Long Term Dream of Muhammad
That One Day all Other Religions would be Conquered
And Islamic Faith by all Men would be considered Superior
So hudna can never be considered valid if signed with Inferiors
In the practice of Islam all who don’t think Allah is God are Infidels
June 27, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Hamas is quite serious about maintaining the current truce. It is to the advantage of the terrorist groups to ease the inconveniences they have brought on their own people in the Gaza Strip. The first of the three articles in this blog shows how much Hamas wants it for their leader to appeal to Islamic Jihad, Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, and all the other terrorist groups, to stop their rocket launches on Israel. They need to regain some of the public support they lost before future elections are again held with Fatah as their opponent.
It is quite interesting that the Arabic word “kafir” litrerally means “one who covers,” (as in the sense of hiding), and is the Muslim term for an infidel. The word akin to “kafir” in the Hebrew language is “kafar” or “kaphar,” which also means “to cover” as in the blood sacrifice that “covers” our sins, as a lamb sacrifice would do for the Jew and as the sacrifice of Jesus for the Christian. The sacrifice of the Seed described in Genesis 3:15 to end the power of sin Satan held over man after Adam fell, was pictorially forecast in the blood shed by innocent animals to provide their animal skin covering until the Seed came and shed his own blood for sin.
Genesis 3:15 – And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Genesis 3:21 – Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Begin Excerpt 1 – Jerusalem Post
Haniyeh urges all Palestinian factions to honor cease-fire
June 27, 2008
Jpost.com staff and AP , THE JERUSALEM POST
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called on all Palestinian factions to honor the cease-fire with Israel.
Speaking at the conclusion of Friday prayers, Haniyeh said that “The [Palestinian] factions and people accepted the cease-fire in order to stop the Palestinian people’s suffering, stop the siege [on Gaza] and bring an end to the Israeli occupation.
Therefore, we hope that everyone will respect the national agreement, since its in our mutual interest,” Haniyeh urged.
Haniyeh’s call to honor the cease-fire came after it had been broken yet earlier Friday by terrorists firing two mortar shells at southern Israel.
One of the shells landed near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in the Sha’ar Hanegev region, while the other landed in an open area. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.
On Thursday afternoon, a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza hit the Sderot industrial zone, exploding near a gas station. No casualties or damage to property were reported in the attack, for which Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.
Thursday’s attack prompted Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to issue an uncharacteristically sharp demand for an immediate military response and Deputy Premier Haim Ramon urged the cabinet to convene once more to discuss the truce agreement.
On Tuesday, three rockets were fired at Sderot, sending two women into shock and severely damaging a house. Those attacks led to the closing of the Gaza cargo crossings.
IDF spokesman Peter Lerner said industrial fuel was transferred Friday into Gaza to run power stations, but that most crossings remained closed.
Lerner said Israel last let food into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
Herb Keinon, Yaakov Lappin and Khaled Abu Toameh contributed to this report
Begin Excerpt 2 – Ynet News
The Gaza Lull
Alex Fishman
Hamas is no longer smuggling huge amounts of weapons into Gaza. It simply doesn’t need to.
Since the Gaza pullout in 2005, more than 120 tons of explosives have made their way in; more than 1,000 machine guns, 32,000 Kalashnikovs, 4,000 RPG launchers, hundreds of rockets, dozens of anti-aircraft missiles, and several hundred mortar shells.
These are astronomical quantities for a military organization which has only 11,000 people who can operate weapons.
Today, weapon smuggling in Gaza is a professional, state-run business, sponsored largely by Iran.
Tehran sees Hamas as a long-term investment – much like Hizbullah. The smuggling operation is a huge, well-oiled machine which cannot be stopped by a verbal agreement with Egypt. (Ynet News)
Excerpt 3 – Middle East Quarterly
Tactical Hudna and Islamist Intolerance
Denis MacEoin
Hudna is the first word used in Muslim history to mean cease-fire, specifically in the context of the seventh century Truce of al-Hudaybiyya. Named after a village outside Mecca, the truce came six years after Muhammad and his followers abandoned Mecca for Yathrib, today’s Medina. This move set a pattern of retreat followed by regrouping and rearming, which permits an attack on the territory previously left behind.
Muhammad and the rulers of Mecca negotiated a truce, the essence of which was to permit the Muslims to return unarmed on pilgrimage each year for the next decade. It came to an end two years later, however, when Muhammad entered Mecca with a small, armed force and took the city peacefully. Hudna, in other words, amounted to a temporary truce.
For Muslims, the challenge is to move from a worldview that sees all other religions and all non-Muslim people as inferior, Satanic, ignorant, and subject to Muslim conquest to one that coheres more closely with modern thinking, where religious hatred is increasingly relegated to the history books.
The extent of Islamic terrorism, and the gulf between Islamic thinking on human rights and the norms of the original Declaration of Human Rights, justify concentration on Islamic intolerance as a special problem.
The writer holds a Ph.D. in Persian studies from the University of Cambridge, is currently the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University, and is author of The Hijacking of British Islam (2007). (Middle East Quarterly)
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