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Hamas Offers to End Rule if Aid Resumes
New York Times ^ | 11/10/06 | IAN FISHER

Posted on 11/10/2006 6:14:19 PM PST by CAWats

GAZA, Nov. 10 — Hamas committed today to folding its eight-month government if that would restore the international assistance that was cut off after it won national elections earlier this year.

In a shrewd and dramatic speech, the Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyah, said he would likely resign in the next “two or three weeks” to make way for a national unity government more acceptable to international donors than Hamas, the organization responsible for the deadliest attacks against Israel.

“When they put the siege on one hand, and having me the prime minister on the other, I said ‘no: Let us end the siege and let us end the suffering of the Palestinian people,’ ” Mr. Haniyah, 43, a former teacher and union official, told worshippers at Friday prayers here

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aid; hamas

1 posted on 11/10/2006 6:14:20 PM PST by CAWats
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To: CAWats

Sorry if already posted


2 posted on 11/10/2006 6:15:50 PM PST by CAWats
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To: CAWats

Gee, you mean the Bush policy was right again? First, N. Korea, now Hamas. Is there no end? /sarc


3 posted on 11/10/2006 6:23:06 PM PST by SueRae
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To: CAWats

phuque hamA$$

A terrorist organization


4 posted on 11/10/2006 6:32:43 PM PST by Dov in Houston
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To: CAWats

They are so full of crap.


5 posted on 11/10/2006 6:34:03 PM PST by visualops (artlife.us)
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To: CAWats

Running out of bullets, and money to buy fuel for the Katyusha's?


6 posted on 11/10/2006 6:37:35 PM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: CAWats
So what union is this guy an official of?

Terrorists local 385?

Poor People Without a Country local 72?

Muslim Snakeoil Representatives #1001?

7 posted on 11/10/2006 6:38:00 PM PST by IrishRainy (The only way BJ Clinton would have nailed bin Laden is if Ossama had been a White House intern.)
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To: visualops

They are so full of crap.
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The Pals have been milking the stupid pols in this country for decades. Why should they stop now...especially with more libs coming into power???


8 posted on 11/10/2006 6:43:09 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: CAWats
People that have to make a living from rocks and sand don't have much time left over for murder and mayhem.
9 posted on 11/10/2006 7:05:58 PM PST by Nuc1 (NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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To: CAWats

To hell with them... let them continue their stupid intifada, and if Israel doesn't like it, have them send letters to the American Jewish community.

Enough with this death of a thousand cuts with these people... let them PUT UP or SHUT UP. If they want war, let them wage it, lets not sponsor a low lvl war for another decade.


10 posted on 11/10/2006 7:11:33 PM PST by FreedomNeocon
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To: CAWats

Answer = "Nuts"


11 posted on 11/10/2006 7:13:16 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Democracy: The worst form of government, except for all the others.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

Perfect!!!


12 posted on 11/10/2006 8:08:35 PM PST by dcrider182 (Col. Dean R. Hiatt.. WWII Hero. LC.Cpl. Brad Shuder. 9-11 Hero.. you are both loved and missed)
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To: CAWats

Looks like Hamas was good at tearing down, but not at building up.


13 posted on 11/10/2006 8:44:28 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: CAWats

Why is Haniyah still alive?


14 posted on 11/11/2006 12:14:06 AM PST by AliVeritas (God Bless Our Veterans!)
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