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Hamas Ahoy!
Forbes ^ | 05.28.10 | Claudia Rosett
Posted on May 28, 2010 2:02:48 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Hamas Ahoy! Claudia Rosett, 05.28.10, 11:15 AM ET
With a flotilla of “peace activists” steaming toward the blockaded Gaza strip, Israeli authorities have been worrying about a showdown turning into a public relations disaster. That’s a sorry reflection not on Israel but on the willingness of a world audience to swallow almost any amount of propaganda, if it comes with a Gaza label.
The basic narrative spun by the organizers of this “freedom flotilla” is that some 700 “activists” from dozens of countries have boarded eight or nine ships filled with tons of “humanitarian aid.” Their mission is to run the Israeli blockade, “break the siege of Gaza” and “establish a permanent sea lane between Gaza and the rest of the world.” The umbrella website for this venture is labeled “The Free Gaza Movement,” and on it the “Free Gaza Team” of the “Freedom Flotilla Coalition” professes a dedication to nonviolence and respect for universal human rights.
... if Gaza were a peaceful and democratic enclave, unreasonably walled up by its neighbors. But there’s some important information that the flotilla crew omits. Gaza is a terrorist enclave. Gaza is controlled by an Islamist terrorist group, Hamas. And Hamas is: backed by Iran; headquarters some of its leaders in terror-sponsoring Syria; has a busy and violent history of suicide bombings, shootings and rocket and mortar attacks; and is dedicated in its charter to the destruction of Israel.
That is what the blockade is all about. It didn’t happen because the neighbors decided to victimize Gaza. Rather, it is Hamas-run Gaza that threatens the neighbors, and for that matter, is hostile generally to liberal, western societies.
Recall that in 2002, trying to stop the violence of Yasser Arafat’s second intifada, ...Israel in pursuit of that peace withdrew in 2005 from Gaza—
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“U.S. trying to deport ‘Son of Hamas’
Feds see ‘terrorist’ in Christian convert who spied for Israel”
Posted: May 27, 2010
10:35 pm Eastern
By Art Moore
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
SNIPPET: “The Department of Homeland Security is trying to deport the son of a Hamas founder who told of his conversion to Christianity and decade of spying for Israel in a New York Times best-seller.
“Son of Hamas” author Mosab Hassan Yousef revealed on a blog hosted by his publisher he is scheduled to appear June 30 before Immigration Judge Rico J. Bartolomei at the DHS Immigration Court in San Diego.
Yousef said the DHS informed him Feb. 23, 2009, he was barred from asylum in the U.S. because there were reasonable grounds for believing he was “a danger to the security of the United States” and “engaged in terrorist activity.”
An incredulous Yousef said the U.S. government’s belief he is a terrorist is based on a complete misinterpretation of passages of his book in which he describes his work as a counterterrorism agent for the Israeli internal intelligence service Shin Bet.”