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http://terrorwonk.blogspot.com/2008/12/managing-gaza.html
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2008
“Managing Gaza”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Israel’s operation in Gaza is reaching a critical point. While talking heads will debate grand strategy, the options are limited. Behind the headlines is the crucial issue of how Israel’s national security process works (or doesn’t – in light of the weaknesses revealed in the 2006 Lebanon war). The next moves will demonstrate whether or not Israel has successfully incorporated the lessons from the failures of the 2006 Lebanon War. This is crucial to re-establishing Israeli deterrence.
Strategic Limitations
A true peace agreement with Hamas is not realistic. A quick scan of clips from Hamas’ al-Aqsa network or of statements by Hamas leaders from the Middle East Media Research Institute - particularly horrible are these scenes from Hamas produced children’s television - should disabuse all but the most useful idiots of any notions of a moderate Hamas.”
http://www.memri.org/palestinian.html
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=palestinian&ID=SP216608
Special Dispatch - No. 2166
December 30, 2008 No. 2166
“UAE Columnist: Hamas’s Claim to Palestine Must Be Questioned”
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=palestinian&ID=SP216508
Special Dispatch - No. 2165
December 30, 2008 No. 2165
“As Gaza Fighting Continues, Egyptian Clerics Intensify Antisemitic Statements; Columbus, Ohio Muslim Scholar/Leader Dr. Salah Sultan: Muhammad Said That Judgment Day Will Not Come Until Muslims Fight the Jews and Kill Them; America Will Suffer Destruction”
SNIPPET: “Following are excerpts from interviews with several Egyptian clerics, which aired on Al-Nas TV and Al-Rahma TV on December 28 and 29, 2008.
One of the clerics, Dr. Salah Sultan, is president of the AmericanCenter for Islamic Research (ACIR), a nonprofit organization registered in Ohio and located in Columbus. On his website, he states that the main purpose of the ACIR is to “serve Allah (God) in the best way possible through the principles laid out in the Quran and Sunnah,” to address misconceptions and extremism, to build bridges with non-Muslims, and to issue fatwas. He also states on his website that his own mission is “to achieve Allah’s consent and Paradise through the reformation of the soul, the family, the society and the nation according to the methodology of the Quran and the Sunnah,” and that his vision is “To live happily. To die as a martyr.” [1]
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