Demand of Hamas – Return Occupied Lands of 1948
April 7, 2007
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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.
To those who believe there will be a false peace prior to the attack of the Antichrist against Israel from the north, it is becoming obvious that as long as Hamas controls the Palestinian Authority government, the only way it can occur is by a Hudna, a long term truce of seven to ten years, which Hamas has stated several times it is willing to offer Israel.
There have been three ways a false peace could come in between Islam and Israel, either by negotiations, force, or Hudna. Once Hamas took over the PA government, because of their uncompromising position, I chose the Hudna route as the most likely, as the year old article, which follows, attests.
Begin Archive Blogs
Hudna (Indefinite Truce) May be the Only Way to a False Peace!
April 18, 2006
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The following two articles, one from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, and the other from the Times, UK, were both extracted from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert.
The Scriptures indicate that a false peace will come to Israel before it is attacked from the north. It is appearing more and more likely that it may be in the form of a Hudna issued by the terror groups in Israel for the production of a “quiet for quiet” indefinite period of time, which is allowable under the traditional teachings of Islam for the purpose of building up strength and coordination of future conquests.
These two articles, which follow, show little hope for what Western Powers would identify as a negotiated peace, and an indefinite truce agreement may be the best one can hope to achieve as a false peace.
Poll: Palestinians Support Hamas’ Refusal to Recognize Israel
(Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
A Palestinian poll conducted March 16-18, 2006, asked: Do you expect Hamas to succeed or fail in managing the PA? Succeed – 70%, Fail – 22%
Should Hamas recognize the State of Israel? Yes – 36%, No – 61%
Can the PA do without Western assistance? Yes – 31%, No – 68%
Will Hamas find alternative resources from Arab and Muslim countries
? Yes – 78%, No – 19%
Concerning armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel,
I Support – 52%, Oppose – 45%
Have armed confrontations helped achieve Palestinian rights in ways that negotiations could not achieve? Yes – 67%, No – 31%
Islamic Jihad: “Our Struggle Will Only End with the End of the State of Israel”
By Stephen Farrell
“Our ideology, through the way we understand Islam, is that our struggle will only end with the end of the State of Israel. For us it is an existential struggle, it is either us or them,” said Abu Ahmad, an Islamic Jihad leader. Stark, uncompromising, and with the utter clarity of the fundamentalist, this was the Islamic Jihad worldview spelled out to The Times in Gaza just days before Monday’s bombing. Islamic Jihad claims that by continuing attacks it has recruited dozens of disillusioned hardliners from Hamas’ military wing. Times-UK
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The two articles which follow are simply stating the identical position Hamas has held since it was formed. They have not shown the slightest inclination to change that position.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Mashaal: No change in Hamas’s policies
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
April 7, 2007
Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal denied on Saturday that there had been any change in his organization’s policies, and declared that Hamas would neither abandon “armed resistance” nor agree to give up an “inch of Palestinian land.”
Mashaal made his statements by phone to Hamas supporters who had gathered in Ramallah to mark Israel’s assassination three years ago of Hamas leaders Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and Abdul Aziz Rantisi, Israel Radio reported.
Earlier, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s senior political advisor, Muhammad Dahlan, had told the newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadida that there had recently been a strategic change in Hamas’s political views.
Dahlan said that it was obvious that Hamas would “need time” to bring its platform into line with the political needs of the region.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
Hamas Warns Israel Against Possible Anti-Terror Offensive
17 Nisan 5767, 05 April 07 11:52
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz and Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) In separate statements this week, Hamas spokesmen threatened disaster for the Israeli military and praised the steadfastness of Arabs under the “occupation of 1948.”
A Hamas terrorist spokesman threatened to “bring hell upon the heads of the enemy” in the event of an Israeli military campaign in the Palestinian Authority-controlled Gaza Strip or an IDF assassination of a PA terrorist leader. Hamas, which currently controls the PA government, is holding Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captive. Intelligence sources assume that Shalit is located somewhere in southern Gaza.
Many Israeli military experts have long called for a large-scale offensive against the increasingly threatening Palestinian terror capabilities in
the Gaza Strip.
Of late, however, such calls have not been widely heard.
Kassam rockets have been fired at Israel at a reduced pace of late; an average of nearly one a day has been fired over the past few days.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz, touring northern Gaza on Passover Eve (Monday), said the IDF is permitted to hit Kassam launching cells and those who manufacture arms and weapons.
“Israel will not allow terror organizations in Gaza to continue arming,” Peretz said.
A spokesman for the Hamas terrorist organization identified as “Abu Obeida” said Tuesday, “The Zionist threats are not new. They express the extent of the failure and helplessness the Zionist enemy’s leadership has reached in its confrontation with Palestinian national unity.” He claimed that all the PA terrorist organizations are unified, prepared and able to prevent any Israeli military campaign in the Gaza region, adding, “The land of Gaza will become a graveyard for the invaders, who will face new resistance methods that they never knew of be
fore. They will regret the moment they thought of the foolish act of invading the Gaza Strip.”
The Hamas spokesman also threatened “a fire that will consume everything” if Israel targets the leadership of the PA Arabs. “It will be a disaster for the Zionist enemy,” Abu Obeida boasted.
Hamas Praise for Arabs in “Occupied Lands of 1948”
Meanwhile, a senior Hamas leader outside of PA-controlled Gaza expressed the organization’s view of the rest of Israel, including inside the pre-1967 borders.
In a speech delivered during a political gathering south of Damascus, Hamas political leader Musa Abu Marzouk praised the Israeli-Arabs as steadfast sons of the “Palestinian people in the occupied lands of 1948.”
“The uprising following the events of Land Day [expropriation of lands in late March 1976, which have motivated violent anti-State riots by Israeli-Arabs every year since then – ed.] proved the attachment of the Palestinian people in the occupied lands of 1948 to their national identity and their resistance to the occupation,” Abu Marzouk said.
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