Tag: Hamas

  • How Does Hamas Acquire Its Weapons? – YouTube

    How Does Hamas Acquire Its Weapons? – YouTube

    İsrail propagandası yapan video için Danışma Kurulu üyemiz Sn. Rafael Sadi’ye gönderilen enteresan bir yorum :

     

    Armagan YilmazRafael abi bunları neden paylaşıyorsun ki ne anlamı var. Hamas benim için bir teröristtir ama Filistin’de seçim kazanarak iktidara gelmiştir. dolayısıyla seçim yapan bir yerin yani bir ülkenin silahı olmasından daha doğal bir şey yoktur. Artık birşeye karar verin bence. Ya filistinin bir devlet olduğunu kabul edip iki devlet arasındaki savaştan bahsedin. Ya fa kabul etmiyorsanız size atılan roketlere kızmayın. Zira terör örgütlerinin amacı budur zaten. Nasıl PKK’yı Türkiye’nin derin devleti yarattıysa haması da İsrail’in derin devleti yaratmıştır. Düşmanın olacak ki halkını uyutabilesin.

    One of the main ways that Hamas acquires weapons is via an extensive network of tunnels under the Gaza-Egypt border. Since Hamas seized power in the Gaza Strip in 2007, the terrorist group’s smuggling efforts have increased. With funding from Iran, Hamas has improved its stockpile of weapons.

    via How Does Hamas Acquire Its Weapons? – YouTube.

  • Hamas: We’ll continue fighting Israel in political arena

    Hamas: We’ll continue fighting Israel in political arena

    During visit to Turkey, Mashaal calls on Palestinians to leave differences aside for sake of national unity, claims recent rocket fire was act of self defense

    Ynet

    Published: 03.18.12, 18:30 / Israel News

    Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal said Sunday during a visit to Turkey, “We will naturally continue our fight against Israel in political, diplomatic and media fields. We will try to get the greatest support possible from the world.”

    He said that the recent missile attacks on Israel were in self-defense, asserting that Palestinian missiles are fired only after Israeli attacks. He also accused Israel of using Gaza as a “guinea pig” when testing its missile capabilities as tensions between Israel and Iran increase.

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    Turkish newspaper Zaman Today reported that the Hamas leader dismissed claims that the new Arab regimes would be less willing to support the Palestinian cause.

    “We think the Arab Spring is a milestone in our community’s history, and in our opinion, this is the rebirth of a community,” he said.

    “The Arab Spring is the way nations voice their own wills and make their own decisions, and it will bring economic growth and development and political and cultural development,” he said.

    Mashaal’s meetings in Ankara revolved mainly around Palestinian reconciliation efforts. “We want to open a new page, and we think that we have created a domestic peace atmosphere. Peace is obligatory, and Palestinians should be unified. The Palestine issue is our cause, and our stance on occupation is the same,” he said.

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    תקיפה ברצועה. “ישראל ירתה קודם” (צילום: EPA)

    Israeli strike on Gaza (Photo: EPA)

    “I would like to send a message to all Palestinian people living in and out of Palestine: Let’s exert efforts seriously and sincerely to make an internal compromise agreement. … We should sacrifice our personal and political views for the sake of the Palestine cause.”

    As part of his visit to Turkey, Mashaal met with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and President Abdullah Gul. On Sunday, he thanked Turkey for its part in the reconciliation efforts conveying Hamas’ appreciation for Ankara.

    via Hamas: We’ll continue fighting Israel in political arena – Israel News, Ynetnews.

  • A decision for Turkey

    A decision for Turkey

    By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

    The turmoil that continues to roil the Middle East could eventually determine whether Turkey falls to extreme Islamist rule.

    The government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been described as moderate Islamist, but friends of Israel are not so sure. From the former era of cooperation, Turkey-Israel relations have sunk to ice-cold in the wake of Turkey’s support for the misbegotten Gaza aid flotilla of 2010 and Turkey’s current cooperation with the terrorist organization Hamas in building a hospital in Gaza. Turkey has admitted providing some funds to Hamas.

    Yet Erdogan reportedly has good telephone relations with President Barack Obama, and Turkey, a member of NATO, has lent important support to the anti-government rebels in Syria.

    Syria, listed by the U.S. State Department as a supporter of terrorism since 1979, has housed the headquarters of Hamas for years.

    But Hamas leader Khaled Meshaai now has decided to move himself out of Damascus.

    Hamas has even stopped denying that it’s looking for a new headquarters. Meshaai recently visited King Abdullah of Jordan; both said a move to Jordan was not contemplated.

    The question came up in Turkey. Turkish President Abdulla Gul issued one of those “neither confirm nor deny” statements, which means the question is open.

    If Hamas gave up terrorism, the headquarters location wouldn’t matter. Otherwise, a move to Turkey — which over the years has lost nearly 40,000 citizens to terrorism — would, according to Yusuf Tayyip, a writer for the Hurriyet Daily News, put Turkey “in far deeper difficulties than we could ever imagine.”

    Exactly right.

    It would be hard for Turkey to stay in NATO.

    At a minimum, it would mean the end of all anti-terrorism assistance from the United States and other countries. And it would confirm Turkey’s course toward extremism.

    via A decision for Turkey – BostonHerald.com.

  • Report: Turkey refuses to host Hamas HQ

    Report: Turkey refuses to host Hamas HQ

    Ankara dismisses reports suggesting Hamas Politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal will set up movement’s new headquarters in Turkey; further denies pledging $300M in aid funds to Hamas

    Elior Levy

    Published: 01.30.12, 22:43 / Israel News

    Ankara will not allow Khaled Mashaal to relocate Hamas’ Politburo to Turkey, the Turkish website Today’s Zaman reported on Monday.

    According to the report, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arınc said that Meshaal’s stay in Turkey was “out of question.”

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    He also denied reports suggesting that Ankara had pledged $300 million in aid funds to Gaza Strip’s rulers.

    The Damascus-based Hamas Politburo has decided to relocate following the growing unrest in Syria. It has been looking for another Arab country to host its headquarters, but has so far failed to find one.

    Mashaal had recently visited Turkey which, unlike its fellow NATO members, recognizes Hamas as a legal political party. The West considers Hamas a terror organization.

    Still, Arınc insisted that the relocation was out of question.

    Arınc stressed that Turkey’s ultimate goal was “to realize peace process between Israel and united Palestinian political factions,” adding that Turkey believes that “strengthening the Palestinians unity will benefit the Palestinian people and the peace process.”

    Meanwhile, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh left Gaza for a regional tour Monday.

    Haniyeh’s tour is expected to include stops in Iran, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain.

    Haniyeh is travelling with his political adviser Yussef Rizq, his minister of housing and public works Yussef al-Mansi and two key Hamas members – Yehia Sinwar and Rawhi Mushtaha. The latter were released from Israeli prison in 2011 as part of the Shalit deal.

    The trip is Haniyeh’s second since his appointment to Hamas PM.

    AFP contributed to this report

    via Report: Turkey refuses to host Hamas HQ – Israel News, Ynetnews.

  • Is Turkey the new home for Hamas? – Think Tanked – The Washington Post

    Is Turkey the new home for Hamas? – Think Tanked – The Washington Post

    By Allen McDuffee

    Hamas is developing new relations with Turkey, according to new reports coming from the region. The arrangement includes opening an official Hamas office in Turkey in a matter of weeks and a reported Turkish pledge of $300 million to help re-build Hamas-controlled Gaza.

    The new relationship isn’t good for Israeli-Palestinian peace, but it does say some things about regional dynamics, according to Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Elliott Abrams.

    If Hamas is turning to Turkey, Abrams argues, it means that Syria (and Assad) is no longer a host for the organization’s leadership and Iran’s influence is severely weakened.

    It’s not clear, however, what Turkey’s requests are. Abrams isn’t convinced that Turkey will put much pressure on Hamas to offer concessions on renouncing terror or curbing anti-Semitism, but if Hamas were to launch another series of attacks against Israel, “the Turks could find that their new alliance is an embarrassment, complicating relations not only with Israel but with the United States and the EU.”

    But for Hamas:

    This is a smart move for Hamas, of course, at least so long as Turkey’s star is rising and Erdogan is in charge. Far better a Sunni sponsor with growing influence than a Shia paymaster that is an international pariah under growing sanctions. One has to wonder how the Turkish role affects the internal dynamics in Hamas, where the Gaza hierarchy appears to be pushing aside the formerly dominant outsiders, led by Khaled Meshal from Damascus. Is Turkey supporting, indeed financing, this development? Will it push Hamas into elections, now scheduled for May 4th? Will it urge Hamas to join the PLO (well, little urging is needed for that one) and agree to negotiations with Israel?

    By Allen McDuffee | 11:52 AM ET, 01/27/2012

    via Is Turkey the new home for Hamas? – Think Tanked – The Washington Post.

  • Hamas and the Qatar-Turkey Agency of a Palestinian Spring ?

    Hamas and the Qatar-Turkey Agency of a Palestinian Spring ?

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    UN – 2011. The response to the Palestinian bid for recognition of it´s status as a State within the context of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly was, “that a Palestinian Solution only would be possible within a comprehensive solution for the problems in the Middle East “. Since then, the world has witnessed a series of unprecedented NATO aggressions that have brought the world to the brink of a global conflict. The cynical abuse of UNSC Resolution 1973-2011 on Libya to oust the Libyan government, murder the de facto Head of State Muammar Ghadafi, and the installation of several absolutely dependent proxy militia based governments, that have thrown the nation into state of self destruction, facilitated by a NATO that needs the oil, and the territory as possible staging area for a Syrian or Iranian campaign. The relentless covert war on Syria, and the war on Iran which may very well be imminent.(ibid.)

    With a Fatah controlled Palestinian Authority that is rightfully accused for selling out on Palestine, and recent negotiations in Amman which were called unforgivable by the PFLP, and strongly criticized by the DFLP and other member organizations of the PLO, Palestinians could ask them selves, how much worse things actually could become.

    Keeping in mind, that the sole beneficiaries of what is euphemistically called “The Arab Spring”, which has almost become a Franchise Commodity in style with “The Holocaust” – capital letters – Palestinians are well advised to be on their guards and hold their political leaderships responsible for guaranties, that non, including Fatah and Hamas should develop ambitions to letting Obama´s comprehensive solution be implemented by a NATO / Zionist Arab Spring in Palestine. The signs are strongly indicating that this may be the case.

    The recent, more than friendly relations between Hamas and Turkey ought to be carefully scrutinized, and for a number of reasons. One being, that Turkey´s and R. Tayyip Erdogan´s political grand standing with respect to the Israeli act of piracy against a Turkish registered Gaza Flotilla vessel and the Erdogan governments cessation of Turkish Israeli trade, diplomatic and military co-operation only lasted a few weeks. By now, Turkey is back to business as usual, which includes military and intelligence co-operation with Israel. A second would be the strong Turkish – Qatari co-operation in the covert war against Syria. A Syria, which – and I feel sad that I should remind many Palestinians about it – is the sole Arab nation that consequently has been and is supporting Palestine.

    When Hamas, short after entering the PLO is blasted by members of the PLO executive committee, for stating it´s solidarity with Syria, while shortly after declaring that Hamas will be sending a delegation to Amman, Jordan, for meetings with the Jordanian government and representatives from Qatar, there arises one simple question, which Hamas ought to answer to the People of Palestine.

    Is Hamas planning to play a role in a ” Zionist / NATO organized Arab Spring ? ” It is a question that Palestinians ought to ask Hamas, and one Hamas ought to answer before it is sending a delegation to Amman on Sunday.

    The problem is, that it may very well be that Hamas has been duped into an entrapment in glory; just like the PLO and Fatah were before the Oslo Accords. It may very well be that Hamas truly believes that it´s new found friends from Turkey, Jordan, and Qatar have the best of the People of Palestine in mind – but then, can anyone in a leading position at Hamas really be so naive to believe that Obama´s comprehensive solution for the Middle East, which includes the selling out on Syria would mean anything but the possibility that it would be Hamas rather than Fatah that would administrate the Zionist genocide on the People of Palestine ?

    The People ought to ask the question, and Hamas ought to answer it before Sunday.

    Dr. Christof Lehmann

    via Hamas and the Qatar-Turkey Agency of a Palestinian Spring ? | nsnbc.