Gaza Offensive herded up the wild Jackasses!
Wild Hamas Jackasses Now Braying From Gaza,
Are the Sons of their Wild Jackass Father Ishmael,
The Son of Abraham by the Egyptian Woman Hagar!
Haniyeh Brays: “Our victory Over The Zionists Is Near”
Hamas cabinet: “All Invading forces soon to be Repelled”
Hamas leaders in Strip tell public, “Victory Closer Than Ever”
Having watched and enjoyed movie “The Silence of the Lambs”
I Wonder if Iran and Syria Might Make “The Braying Of The Asses”
During a mating season of Wild Asses when Males War for Females,
Some always lose but they don’t bray to each other claiming they Won,
This Does Tend to Show They’re more Truthful than the Hamas Bad Asses!
A truce conflict now rages between Damascus and Gaza two head Jackasses!
January 13, 2009
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The fast moving situation in Gaza has now seen a lot of fur flying between Syria, Iran, the Damascus based head of Hamas in Syria, and the hiding head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, while the Egyptian President and Israel are trying to decide what to do next in ceasefire manipulations. The four excerpts which follow from Haaretz, the Jerusalem Post, DEBKAfile, and the Australian describe the events of the last 24 hours.
Begin Excerpt 1 from Haaretz
Haniyeh: Hamas is willing to negotiate on Gaza cease-fire
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters
January 12, 2009
For the second time since Israel launched its offensive in the Gaza Strip, Hamas television aired a taped message delivered by group leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday. In the message, Haniyeh declared that Hamas was determined to continue fighting despite Israel’s military offensive in the Strip, but added that the group would be willing to cooperate in efforts to negotiate a cease-fire agreement with Israel.
“Gaza will not break – our victory over the Zionists is near,” Haniyeh said in a fiery speech.
“Our fate is in the hands of Allah, so what power could the sons of Zion against him? Allah will take his revenge on them.”
“When we watch over you, residents of Gaza, we draw patience and will power from you,” Haniyeh went on to say, adding however that Hamas does not have the physical might to withstand Israel’s “war machine.”
The Hamas leader ended his address with a prayer.
Haniyeh first appeared on Hamas television some two weeks ago, saying that Israel’s operation in Gaza was paramount to genocide of the Palestinian people. Haniyeh and other senior Hamas officials have gone into hiding since Israel launched its operation on December 27.
Meanwhile Monday, other Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip declared victory to be “closer than ever.”
In a statement distributed to news organizations, the Hamas cabinet said it continued to function as a government and condemned Israel for its “reoccupation” of Gaza, saying the invading forces would soon be repelled.
“We confirm to our people that victory is closer than ever,” the statement read.
“We confirm our intention to continue to work to stop the terrorists’ war against our people, end the siege completely and bring about a reopening of the crossings.”
Israel launched its offensive on Dec.
27 saying it intended to put a stop to Hamas’ firing of rockets across the border into southern Israeli towns and cities.
Following several days of aerial bombardment, Israeli troops and tanks launched a ground offensive, moving in on the major population centres, including the city of Gaza.
Some 900 Palestinians, including some top Hamas commanders, have been killed in the assault, according to Palestinian medics and the Islamist movement.
Hamas, which came to power in Gaza after elections in 2006 and subsequently seized control of the territory of 1.5 million people, said it would remain steadfast.
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
Haniyeh: We’ll deal positively with any cease-fire initiative
January 12, 2009
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST
For the first time since the beginning of the IDF military operation in the Gaza Strip, Hamas on Monday openly signaled its willingness to accept a cease-fire with Israel.
The message from Hamas was issued by its prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, who has been in hiding since the beginning of the offensive.
Haniyeh’s remarks contradict fiery statements made by Hamas leaders in Syria and Lebanon.
Haniyeh said in a televised speech that Hamas would cooperate with any initiative to stop the offensive and reopen the border crossings into the Gaza Strip.
“We will deal positively with any initiative aimed at ending the offensive,” he said.
However, Haniyeh said that Hamas would also continue to fight against the “occupation forces” of Israel.
“We are confident that eventually we would achieve victory and crush the aggression,” he said. “The intifada must continue because the occupation is continuing to kill.”
Haniyeh claimed that at least half of the Palestinians killed in the IDF operation were women and children. “Victory comes to those who believe in Allah and carry out his commandments,” he added, citing several versus from the Koran.
“We have confidence in Allah because He’s on our side. We are nearing victory over the Zionist war machine. After 17 days of fighting, I can say that the Gaza Strip and faith will prevail. With Allah’s help, the Palestinian people will prevail over the infidels.”
Haniyeh’s speech, which ended with a prayer, was seen by some Palestinians as an admission of defeat. A Fatah official in Ramallah said the speech reflected Hamas’s growing predicament.
“This speech shows that Hamas has been defeated,” he said. “Haniyeh has actually raised the white flag.”
The official pointed out that the speech was also an indication
of the growing rift between the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip and the one in Damascus and Beirut.
“The Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip are desperate for a cease-fire,” he said. “After more than two weeks of fighting, they are tired and frustrated.”
Begin Excerpt 3 from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Egypt summons Arab summit to appoint Inter-Arab monitors for Philadelphi
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
January 12, 2009, 11:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
When Hamas-Damascus clamped a veto on his Gaza ceasefire ultimatum Monday, Jan. 12, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak acted fast: He summoned an Arab summit for setting in motion a plan
for an inter-Arab force to monitor the Philadelphi Corridor. Arab foreign ministers meet in Kuwait Friday, Jan. 16, to prepare the summit for next week.
This step shrinks to a few days the time left for Israel’s military progress to set the pace of events in the Gaza conflict. At the moment, Israel can still present the Arab rulers with a military fait accompli in the Gaza Strip, after flattening hundreds of Palestinian buildings separating the town of Rafah from the Philadelphi corridor. Those buildings, though tenanted, were false fronts for the openings to the Hamas arms smuggling tunnels running under the Gazan-Egyptian border.
Cairo quietly tipped Jerusalem that it was not against broadening its military operations in the Gaza Strip. Razing the populated area dividing Rafah from the Philadelphi border assures Israeli tanks of firing control of this key segment of the smuggling labyrinth and smoothes the way for it capture. No inter-Arab or other international monitoring force could have controlled the sector had the buildings remained in place.
Egypt plans to match the Israeli project by flattening the buildings and tunnel openings on its side of the border. The two projects will enable Mubarak to put before the Arab summit a draft resolution for appointing a workable multi-Arab or international body to monitor cross-border traffic in this sector. Both Hamas and Israel will find it hard to oppose this plan, particularly if the US and Germany pitch in with high-tech monitoring equipment.
Mubarak’s pan-Arab initiative presents Israel with two difficulties: For one, it faces losing the prospect of a clear-cut victory over a terrorist organization.
Furthermore, Egypt will be required to make concessions at Jerusalem’s expense to buy the support of Syria, Libya, Yemen and Qatar for its plan.
Hamas’ rejection of the Egyptian proposal was there a cold blast that dispelled the early hopes in Jerusalem and Cairo that Hamas had been punished enough to drop its conditions for a ceasefire.
The ball reverts now to Jerusalem, which must determine whether the army goes forward into Gaza City and Philadelphi or stands still on present battle lines.
As the Palestinian death toll rose past 900, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya delivered a taped speech from his hiding-place Monday pledging support for any effort to end the bloodshed, ousting the enemy and opening the crossings, while on the other hand declaring that the fight must go on.
Haniya kept the door open to the Egyptian initiative without defying Khaled Meshaal, his hardline boss in Damascus.
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources report that Mubarak feels the ground is burning under his feet too, but he would rather not grasp the nettle of a Gaza solution on his own. He is therefore seeking broad Arab backing for a resolution, starting with a trip to Riyadh Tuesday, Jan. 13, to ask for Saudi cooperation and a pledge of funding for the Arab force he is promoting.
Excerpt 4 in “The Australian” from AFP via World News
Israel threatens Hamas with iron fist
January 13, 2009
Article from: Agence France-Presse
THE defiant leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip has vowed the Islamists will emerge victorious from the war in the Palestinian territory.
After 17 days of conflict which have so far killed more than 900 Palestinians, Ismail Haniya made a rare televised address only hours after his Israeli counterpart threatened to hit Hamas with an “iron fist” if it did not end the rocket attacks which the war itself is designed to halt.
But while Prime Minister Ehud Olmert insisted Operation Cast Lead was achieving its objectives, more rockets rained down on Israel, albeit without causing casualties.
Palestinian medics, meanwhile, said that at least another 26 people had been killed during the latest clashes, bringing the overall toll to 918, including 277 children. Another 4,100 have been wounded.
Ten Israeli soldiers and three civilians have been killed in combat or by rocket attacks since the operation began on December 27.
“We are approaching victory,” Haniya, the prime minister of
the Hamas government in Gaza, said in his broadcast from an undisclosed location. “The blood which has flowed will not have flowed in vain as it will bring us victory, thanks be to God.
“I tell you that after 17 days of this foolish war, Gaza has not been broken and Gaza will not fall.”
Haniya also said the “blood of children” who have been killed in the conflict would serve as a “curse which will come back to haunt” US President George W Bush.
Bush has consistently blamed Hamas for the conflict, telling reporters yesterday that while he wanted to see a “sustainable ceasefire”, it was up to Hamas to choose to end its rocket fire on Israel.
“I am for a sustainable ceasefire.
And a definition of a sustainable ceasefire is that Hamas stops firing rockets into Israel,” he said.
After Israel and Hamas both ignored a UN resolution last week calling for a truce, the focus of peace efforts turned to an Egyptian plan which calls for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, talks on opening Gaza’s border crossings and taking steps to prevent arms smuggling.
Olmert said he was grateful for Cairo’s efforts but said Israel’s key demands were non-negotiable.
“We want to end the operation when the two conditions we have demanded are met: ending the rocket fire and stopping Hamas’s rearmament. If these two conditions are met, we will end our operation in Gaza,” he said in the southern town of Ashkelon which has been the target of dozens of Hamas missiles.
“Anything else will meet the iron fist of the Israeli people, who are no longer ready to tolerate the Qassams (rockets).”
An army spokesman said that close to 30 missiles had been launched from Gaza, although there were no reports of casualties.
Residents said Israeli tanks managed to punch their way to the southern rim of Gaza City, advancing several hundred metres in the neighbourhoods of Eijline, Tuffah and Zeitun where the crump of gunfire echoed constantly.
A military spokesman said warplanes had hit more than 25 targets, including four rocket launch sites and two cars carrying Hamas fighters.
Troops also seized anti-aircraft missiles, mortar rounds and machine guns, the spokesman added.
Israeli officials on Sunday suggested that what is now Israel’s deadliest onslaught against Gaza could be approaching its end.
Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, whose remit is limited to the West Bank, said the Egyptian initiative offered the best hope of peace, putting pressure on both Israel and Hamas to respond positively.
“He who refuses, voices reservations or moves slowly on this initiative bears the responsibility of explaining themselves, especially to the people of Gaza,” he said.
Amr Mussa, head of the Arab League, said a meeting of the bloc’s foreign ministers would be held in Kuwait later this week to discuss the conflict.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon, who is to head to the Middle East later this week, called on Israel and Hamas to immediately stop the fighting, saying “too many people have died”.
“We have a Security Council resolution demanding an immediate and enduring ceasefire. This resolution must be observed.”
Meanwhile Israel suffered another humiliating reverse at the hands of the UN, when the world body’s Human Rights Council adopted a resolution accusing it of “grave” human rights violations against Palestinians.
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