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Hamas PM: We have achieved victory over Israel
Jerusalem Post ^

Posted on 01/19/2009 1:35:38 AM PST by Yehuda123

In a speech broadcast on Hamas television on Sunday night, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said the Palestinians had achieved a historical and strategic victory over Israel, and claimed that Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip had failed.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; haniyeh
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1 posted on 01/19/2009 1:35:38 AM PST by Yehuda123
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Wow, didn’t see that coming.


2 posted on 01/19/2009 1:42:25 AM PST by warpsmith (Three greatest pleasures: a martini before and a cigarette after.)
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3 posted on 01/19/2009 1:42:49 AM PST by Cindy
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Those @ss clowns at Hamas will never see it coming...

4 posted on 01/19/2009 1:49:18 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Yehuda123

Hoorah! Mission Accomplished! :sarcasm


5 posted on 01/19/2009 1:50:29 AM PST by RC one
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Donovan McNabb I believe was quoted as saying the same thing about the Arizona Cardinals, less the anti-semitism, after last night’s Eagles victory.


6 posted on 01/19/2009 1:56:50 AM PST by steveyp
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To: Yehuda123

I believe that Israel should not have ended operations until there was no one left capable of making such a braodcast, nor the equipment to make it possible. In that sense, at least, Hamas is right.

And as of tomorrow, Hamas will have a champion in the White House.


7 posted on 01/19/2009 1:58:43 AM PST by John Valentine
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Here is Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh at his last job:


8 posted on 01/19/2009 2:00:21 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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“Tora Tora Tora!”....no wait...


9 posted on 01/19/2009 2:07:16 AM PST by mitch5501 (Yeah,but is it shatterproof?)
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To: warpsmith

I walked into his fist. He didn’t hit me.

Folks, we have all heard this before. Mostly on the school yard and before fifth grade. That said, it still disgusts me to see this behavior going on and on.


10 posted on 01/19/2009 2:40:09 AM PST by billhilly
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Just cowards being cowards.

Wonder how hiding out in elementary schools with children surrounding them makes them victorious?

Bush gave Abbas Government almost a billion dollars over the last couple of years. I’m sure savior O will give a lot more. For what? Buy more bombs.


11 posted on 01/19/2009 2:55:09 AM PST by VicVega (Muslims are cowards)
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"Donovan McNabb I believe was quoted as saying the same thing about the Arizona Cardinals, less the anti-semitism, after last night’s Eagles victory."

Well, to be perfectly fair, had the game been horseshoes instead of football, perhaps the Eagles would be going to the SB.

12 posted on 01/19/2009 3:24:59 AM PST by 101voodoo
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To: Yehuda123

In a speech broadcast on Hamas television on Sunday night, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said the Palestinians had achieved a historical and strategic victory over Israel, and claimed that Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip had failed.

Hey, they may be murdering, scumbucket, lowlife, bottom feeding terrorist, But at least they have a sense of humor....


13 posted on 01/19/2009 3:26:23 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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Fine. Israel should just resume operations.


14 posted on 01/19/2009 3:38:11 AM PST by RPTMS
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and claimed that Israel's military operation in the Gaza Strip had failed.

At this time, I have to agree.

15 posted on 01/19/2009 4:04:00 AM PST by bill1952 (McCain and the GOP were worthless)
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Fine. Israel should just resume operations.

Israel needs to occupy a two or three mile wide corridor from Israel to the Mediterranean on the Gaza side of the Gaza-Egypt border and stay there.

The IDF will then have control of every bag of cous cous that comes into Gaza and Hamas will then be living like goldfish in an Israeli aquarium.


16 posted on 01/19/2009 4:05:04 AM PST by Polybius
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I am disgusted, but find it hard not to suspect he speaks the truth.

1) Hamas is still in power in Gaza.

2) Gilad Shalit is still prisoner, and still held incommunicado.

3) The only thing the Israelis might have accomplished is the end of the rocket attacks. Once Hamas fires more rockets into Israel that accomplishment will prove to be illusory.

In Clauswitzian terms, the object of war is to force your will upon the enemy. We will see shortly if Israel has forced its will on Hamas to any extant: if the rocket attacks do not recur.

17 posted on 01/19/2009 5:04:46 AM PST by Cheburashka (Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
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To: Yehuda123

There are no Jews in Gaza?


18 posted on 01/19/2009 5:11:32 AM PST by dangus
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You must understand their doctrine. It does not matter one iota what you and I think about what they say and do.

EVERYTHING they do and say is guided by Sharia.

Sharia is more and more being recognized as the enemy threat doctrine.

According to Sharia, if you are winning on the battlefield you are FORBIDDEN from entering into a truce or cease-fire with the enemy.

If you are losing on the battlefield, you are permitted to enter into a truce or cease-fire with the enemy for up to 10 years, as Mohammed himself did. But you can only enter into such a truce with the intent of building up your strength to re-enter hostilities with the enemy when you have gained sufficient strength to defeat him (but never more than 10 years).

So, Olmert made a serious error in judgement when he decided to enter into a unilateral cease fire with HAMAS. The Jihadis will NEVER believe that HAMAS was losing. They will see this as a victory, just as it was seen as a victory for them when we called off the dogs in Desert Storm in 1991.


19 posted on 01/19/2009 5:45:29 AM PST by LSUfan
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Wow, didn’t see that coming.

lol...reminds me of the guy in the Monty Python flick who got his arms and legs chopped off in the forest and was still calling the attacker a coward. I guess he thought he won too.

20 posted on 01/19/2009 5:49:39 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The tree of liberty is getting mighty dry)
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