Is Hamas planning for a Third Intifada followed by a Hudna (Truce) and then a Jihad?
February 16, 2007
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The Mecca Conference left Hamas unchanged in its determination to eliminate Israel from the earth, as it held on to the three positions that make it impossible to negotiate for even a false peace with Israel, and Fatah signed on to a joint PA government with an impossible partner for meaningful negotiations with anyone.
This leads me to wonder if the goal of the new government will be a drive to obtain a Hudna (long term truce) with Israel, which could induce a period of false peace while they became strong enough to destroy Israel.
I have been mentioning for some time, the very real possibility of a long term hudna as being the brief false period of peace that most believe will precede a vicious attack against Israel, followed by some three and one half years of great tribulation. Events of the last three years make me believe it is the most likely scenario to fulfill the following prophecies.
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.
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.
The following information was extracted from Wikipedia, The Free Encylopedia.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hudna (هدنة) is an Arabic term meaning “truce” or “armistice” as well as “calm” or “quiet”, coming from a verbal root meaning “calm”. It is sometimes translated as “cease-fire”. In the Lisan al-Arab (Ibn al-Manzur’s definitive dictionary of classical Arabic, dating to the 14th century) it is defined as follows:
“hadana: he grew quiet. hadina: he quieted (transitive or intransitive). haadana: he made peace with.
The noun from each of these is hudna.”
A particularly famous early hudna was the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah between Muhammad and the Quraysh tribe.
According to Umdat as-Salik, a medieval summary of Shafi’i jurisprudence, hudnas with a non-Muslim enemy should be limited to 10 years: “if Muslims are weak,
a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for the Prophet made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is related by Abu Dawud” (‘Umdat as-Salik, o9.16).
Hudna in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In English, the term is most frequently used in reference to a cease-fire agreement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly one that would involve organizations such as Hamas. The concept of hudna was introduced to the conflict by the Israeli businessman Eyal Erlich in 2001, after seeing a hudna being declared in order to calm a feud in Jordan (cf. Haaretz, January 2, 2002); he and some others proposed, unsuccessfully, that Israel should suggest a mutual hudna as a prelude to a more lasting peace.
Despite the Israeli government’s rejection of the idea, in summer 2003 — following pressure from Abu Mazen and Egypt — Hamas and Islamic Jihad unilaterally declared a 45-day ceasefire, or hudna. Its proponents commonly argued that such a cease-fire would allow hostility to die down and make a full reconciliation possible; its opponents commonly argued that it would be a mere tactical maneuver enabling Palestinian groups to re-group and muster their strength in preparation for further attacks on Israelis, or Israel to continue
expanding settlements, blockading Palestinian towns, and arresting members of such groups[1]. The hudna started in late June 2003.
Israel — which had not made any agreement — continued to hunt down militant opponents, while Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade continued a series of attacks on Israeli citizens throughout the month of July. Hamas, claiming to have no involvement in the attacks, officially observed the hudna until, on August 8, an IDF operation to arrest Hamas bombmakers resulted in an gunfight in which an Israeli soldier and two Hamas militants were killed.
Hamas responded with a suicide bombing on August 12, killing one Israeli civilian.
Fatah claimed responsibility for a second suicide bombing on August 12 killing another Israeli citizen. Despite this de facto violation of the hudna, Hamas stated that the cease-fire would continue. Hostilities then escalated: the Israeli army killed Islamic Jihad’s Muhammad Seeder on August 14; the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on August 19, killed 23 and wounded 136 people ; and Israeli forces killed Hamas’s Isma’il Abu-Shanab on August 21. After the killing of the two high-ranking leaders, Hamas eventually called off the hudna[2].
In January 2004, senior Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi offered a 10-year hudna in return for complete withdrawal from all territories captured in the Six Day War, and the establishment of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Rantissi said the hudna was limited to ten years and represented a decision by the movement because it was “difficult to liberate all our land at this stage; the hudna would however not signal a recognition of the state of Israel.” Hamas’ former spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin made similar statements at this time, including a one hundred year Hudna. Israel characterised the offer as ridiculous and a “smoke screen for military preparations”. Both Israel and the United States insist that Hamas is “an enemy of peace” that must be disarmed and dismantled
End Hudna Definition
If a hudna does eventually develop out of the current series of events in Israel, then it could well be the calm of false peace before the storm of an Islamic Jihad against Israel by 10 Arab nations.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Muslims clash with police after Salah speech in east J’lem
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
February 16, 2007
Dozens of masked Muslim youths and children clashed with security forces and reporters in east Jerusalem’s Wadi Joz on Friday afternoon, throwing rocks, blocking streets and burning garbage bins.
Police dispersed the rioters with stun grenades, tear gas and water hoses.
At least one of the rioters was wounded and three were arrested, Israel Radio reported.
The protesters had been listen ing to a sermon delivered by Islamic Movement head Sheikh Raed Salah at a massive protest rally
in the neighborhood, which is north of the Old City.
During the sermon, Salah urged supporters to start a third intifada in order to “save al-Aksa Mosque, free Jerusalem and end the occupation.”
He went on to say that Israel’s history was tainted with blood. “They w ant to build their temple
at a time when our blood is on their clothes, on their doorsteps, in their food and in their drinks. Our blood has passed from one ‘General Terrorist’ to another ‘General Terrorist,'” exclaimed the Islamic Movement chief.
Salah called on the Jewish people “not to gamble with its destiny” and promised the crowd that the “statue of power and the statue of occupation” would both be shattered.
Salah also quoted assassinated Hamas-leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin saying: “The powerful won’t remain powerful for ever and the weak won’t remain weak.
Salah exclaimed that the prophets of Israel would have forsaken the Israeli institution.
Following a violent protest 10 days ago, one of the most vocal opponents of the Mughrabi Gate project, Salah was barred by a court from coming within 60 meters of the Old City walls.
On Monday, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court agreed to a police request that he be barred from coming within 150 meters of the walls for 60 days.
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