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Hamas springs to Iran's defence
AlJazeera ^ | December 15, 2005 | straff

Posted on 12/15/2005 9:05:40 AM PST by liberallarry

The Palestinian group Hamas will step up attacks against Israel if it takes military action against Iran.

Khaled Meshaal also praised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, for his "courage" in having dismissed the Holocaust as a myth and calling for Israel to be moved out of the Middle East to Europe or North America.

 

"Just as Islamic Iran defends the rights of the Palestinians, we defend the rights of Islamic Iran," Meshaal told reporters in Tehran on Thursday. "We are part of a united front against the enemies of Islam.

 

'United front'

 

"Each member of this front defends itself with its own means in its region. We carry the battle in Palestine. If Israel launches an attack against Iran, we will expand the battlefield.

 

"We are part of a united front, and if one member of this front is attacked it is our duty to support them."

 

Israel and the US accuse Iran of using an atomic energy drive as a cover for weapons development, which the Islamic republic denies.

 

Ahmadinejad has increased alarm in the West after calling for Israel

to be "wiped off the map". On Wednesday he drew fresh condemnation after denying the massacre of Jews during World War II took place.

 

'Courageous declarations'

 

Meshaal said: "We congratulate Iran for its position in the Islamic world and in particular the statements of the supreme leader [Ayat Allah Ali Khamenei) and President Ahmadinejad.

 

"What Iranian officials say may not please some people, but these are just courageous declarations.

 

"The Muslim people will defend Iran because it voices what they have in their hearts, in particular the Palestinian people."

 

On Iran's nuclear programme, he said: "Even if Iran's programme is military, what is the problem? Why do other countries like Israel have the right to have a nuclear weapon?"


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: holocaust; iran; israel
Does any reasonable person doubt that this is the majority position throughout the Muslim world?
1 posted on 12/15/2005 9:05:41 AM PST by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry

As far as the leaders go, yeah. But I'm not entirely sure about the average joe on the street. Especially not in Iran.


2 posted on 12/15/2005 9:16:32 AM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: liberallarry
First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.

Time to send em allah back to he11 where their "religion" came from!


Aap aap ahh dap dap!!!!!
It's a religion of peace
It's a religion of peace



It aint Slim W, but this'll gitr done!
Kill A Commie For Mommie

Seven Dead Monkeys Page O Tunes

3 posted on 12/15/2005 9:16:57 AM PST by rawcatslyentist (Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous---Hobbes the Tiger)
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To: liberallarry

Ahhh..Hamas Springs.

Strap on a g-string(size c-4, please) and bask in the dessert sun to the waggling frequencies and the crack, crack, crack of small arms.

Hey, can you rub a bit of that nut oil on my back?....


4 posted on 12/15/2005 9:23:46 AM PST by LearsKent
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To: Gordongekko909

They elected the guy in elections that are about as free as they get in the Muslim world.


5 posted on 12/15/2005 9:28:17 AM PST by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry

I'm sorry, are you referring to Iran?


6 posted on 12/15/2005 9:32:12 AM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Gordongekko909

That's ok. Let them team up with Hamas.

My money is still on the US, Great Britain, Israel, India team.


7 posted on 12/15/2005 9:33:36 AM PST by manglor
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To: manglor
Understood, but I'm talking about this.
8 posted on 12/15/2005 9:38:00 AM PST by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: liberallarry
The Palestinian group Hamas will step up attacks against Israel if it takes military action against Iran.

hmm.. sorry guys, i do not think israel is even the least bit frightened by those remarks... let iran have a nuke, or some piddly terrorist suicide bombing women and children... ya, hate those conflicting priorities.
9 posted on 12/15/2005 10:43:30 AM PST by Element187
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To: Gordongekko909

Yep.


10 posted on 12/15/2005 11:11:18 AM PST by liberallarry
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