Hamas: We’ll never recognize Israel

 

Speaking to al-Sharq al-Awsat Palestinian foreign minister says Hamas will never agree to UN resolutions calling for two-state solution.

Palestinian Foreign Minister and Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar told al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper on Sunday that his group will never “repeat Fatah’s mistake of recognizing Israel .”…

And if there is [a] solution that includes the establishment of a Palestinian within the 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital?
“We will declare a hudna but we will never recognize Israel…”
“… if the world asks Hamas, and if this is in the interest of the Palestinian people, we can give a hudna but not recognition.”

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Westerners generally translate “hudna” as “ceasefire”; a word that falls gently upon the ears of those who truly want a lasting peace in this decades old conflict. It would be wise for the would-be peacemakers to look at the actual definition of “hudna” to see what al-Sharq is agreeing to:

According to Umdat as-Salik, a medieval summary of Shafi’i jurisprudence, hudnas with a non-Muslim enemy should be limited to 10 years: “if Muslims are weak, a truce may be made for ten years if necessary, for
the Prophet made a truce with the Quraysh for that long, as is relatedby Abu Dawud” (’Umdat as-Salik, o9.16).

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57 Responses

  1. Hey Nuke..will link up to this..imagine Israel having these countries
    as neighbors..good Lord!

  2. Allegiance to the P.C. Machine

    LOS ANGELES..Student leaders at a California college have touched off a furor by banning the Pledge of Allegiance at their meetings, saying they see no reason to publicly swear loyalty to God and the U.S. government.

  3. Morning Angel!
    ty for the link.

  4. Who has a plan?

    We forget sometimes that no matter what we do here on earth, the Lord is still in control. I know sometimes it doesn’t look that way, but we don’t know the mind of God or the way of God. We

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  6. Hey, Nuke, how’d that eye lasering go?

  7. Oh, they sting a litle bit, like I’ve been standing too close to the campfire.
    Doc says they ought to be better in about a week.

  8. At least it wasn’t photon torpedoes.
    Beware of the crusty-eye syndrome!

  9. Hey Swampie!
    I’ll bet a two year old would love this thing…maybe even a fifty-five year old.
    http://www.stupid.com/stat/SLNG.html

  10. Check thy spam filter, please.

  11. Do those laser eyeball carvers give you some kind of analgesic eye drop for that?

  12. ROFL. Yeah, humorless people should not attempt joke telling. Instead, they should content themselves by looking all concerned about the plight of people that haven’t married money.

  13. #7 Or like you’ve been arc welding and striking an arc before getting the protective eyegear in place?

  14. But, do you think he has learned anything from his latest attempt to sabotage an election? We will see, over the next two years. I wonder what his position will be in the Senate leadership. Think he will chair any committees..subcommittees? He’s only sponsored three pieces of legislation that have become law, in 22 years in the Senate. It appears a sense of humor, isn’t the only sense he is lacking.

  15. Heh. You have a point. I think Retha had a song that he needs to take to heart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVImeWXWck0

    THINK, John Kerry!

  16. Well, they’ve got some drops they put in there, said it wouldn’t hurt. Liars, all of them

  17. A question for Francois Kerry.

  18. Swampie…go back and check #10.

    Nuke, you thought they would say something different? Just repeat their comment in between applications…it’s a talking point.

  19. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road?
    Kerry: To head into the army recruiting office so he could fight in Iraq. Oh, wait. I told that wrong. I forgot to say the chicken was retarded.

  20. N2L, what a GREAT idea on number 10! It would probably keep SwampMan occupied for HOURS.

  21. I can’t imagine why the spam filter didn’t like the flying monkey

  22. Damned ol’spam filter don’t seem to like me at all.

    Swampie, scroll down, and click around, some great gift ideas there.

  23. Heh. Me either, Nuke.

    I think Kerry is just pissed because he’s always wanted to be a cowboy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9ZxQh3vNIE

  24. It don’t mean nothing.

  25. Heh. Another one from Aretha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvJkJK5xrV8&mode=related&search= Chain of fools.

  26. Maybe Francois should be Tied To The Whippin’Post.

  27. I gotta turn in early tonite, eyes stinging…
    nite y’all

  28. Get well El Nuko.

  29. G’night, Nuke!

    Hope you have one of those chilled mask thingamajigs you can strap over your eyes tonight.

  30. Here’s a classic, from one of my all time favorite vocalist. This video shocked a lot of people, including the parents of the little girl, after they saw the finished product.
    /henh

  31. Well, he’d probably like that: http://kittenwithawhip.com/

  32. More info:
    Dhimmicrats have to expose themselves. It must be genetic.
    http://armsandthelaw.com/archives/2006/11/election_and_ne.php

  33. I don’t think he could handle that…not without a little help.
    http://img132.imageshack.us/my.php?image=viagararz2.jpg

  34. Here’s Francois and Teresa with their band, singing the sound track to their life.

  35. #33 I watched a biography on Rumsfeld tonight, and the man is incredible. He was a gutsy naval flier, a dedicated civil servant, and a brilliant businessman. He was called out of a (well-deserved) retirement in New Mexico to do a job that only he could do, and he did it very well indeed. I wasn’t aware, for example, that he was the youngest ever secretary of defense, and some doubted his fitness for the post again because of his advanced age. Heh.

  36. Grin, I actually liked Soungarden and the B52s.

  37. Not to mention that he turned a couple of companies around when he was in the private sector and made millions doing it.

  38. Aaack, I wanted to find another one of my favorites from the 90s and now I can’t remember the name OR the lyrics.

    /CRS disease, I guess.

  39. You ever watch the BMW film series?
    Good actors and directors in movie shorts.
    Here’s one with James Brown.

  40. Nuh unh. Never saw it. Will enjoy watching it.

  41. One thought I’ve had about Rumsfeld, and all this background noise since he resigned/left.
    One thing about it, nothing is going to get done for two years, and all the dhimms have on their minds is retribution, and he has been a thorn in the leftards saddle for four years. I think either he has, or the President has, just saved him from spending all of his time in front of posturing Senators and Congressmen, answering questions about his actions while in the Pentagon. His leaving says something different to a lot of people, to me, it just means he won’t have to listen to their soundbite oriented BS for the next two years.
    He’s a great man, and deserving of praise for all he has accomplished, in a very tough job.

  42. They are all really well done. Well, I didn’t care for the one with Madonna, but that’s only because she was in it.
    Here’s one of my most favorite from the series…The Chosen. Great ending.

  43. Well, if I were him and had that place back in New Mexico calling my name (I love New Mexico), I would be back home at the ranch for Thanksgiving dinner among sane people and not a bunch of prima donna posturing pimps.

    /He was a congressman, too, and a very successful one. He resigned to head up an organization at Nixon’s request.

  44. You have to admit that Madonna has been an extraordinarily successful woman who has packaged and marketed herself superbly for many years now.

    /She has the Swampy seal of approval for marketing excellence.

  45. I will admit she is the poster for white trash.

  46. OOH…forgot about this one. Lot’s of empty brass flying in this one.
    Ticker!

  47. Nah, white trash is generally reserved for the rednecks, and she ain’t one of us.

  48. I recognize trash when I see it, and she’s the poster child for it.

  49. ROFL, yeah, buddy, there’s a reason I ain’t had one o’ them thangs in about a year.

    /I’m about due.

  50. Henh!
    Go ahead!
    Have another donut.
    /henh

    See ya’.

  51. Oh…enjoy those shorts, they are very entertaining.

  52. I will, soon as I knock off for the evening!

    /And I have an interview tomorrow as well, so I don’t want my eyelids dragging on the floor as I walk in.

  53. ER, knock off for the morning. Yeah, you tempt me with donuts, but poor SwampMan has to live with the consequences.

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