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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh discusses important matters with senior Islamic Jihad leader Nafez Azzam in Gaza.

Haniyeh: “That’s impressive. No matter for how long I stop shaving, I can never get it to grow longer than this.”

The kid in the front seems to have (perhaps unintentionally) worked out what will help the palestinians.

Ha’aretz is reporting that Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh “recognized Israel in 2006 letter to President Bush.”

At the end of the meeting, Haniyeh dictated a short message he asked Segal to transmit to President Bush. Haniyeh spoke Arabic and Youssuf translated his words into English. Segal took down the letter in his notebook and Haniyeh and Youssuf both signed it.

Haniyeh wrote in the missive, “We are an elected government which came through a democratic process.”

In the second paragraph, Haniyeh laid out the political platform he maintains to this day. “We are so concerned about stability and security in the area that we don’t mind having a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders and offering a truce for many years,” he wrote.

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In his own letter, Segal emphasized that a state within the 1967 borders and a truce for many years could be considered Hamas’ de facto recognition of Israel.

Actually, this is very similar to what Haniyeh told his Free Gaza supporters a few days ago.

The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Saturday his government was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.

The Hamas leader spoke at a meeting with 11 European parliamentarians who sailed from Cyprus to the Gaza Strip to protest Israel’s naval blockade of the territory. Haniyeh told his guests Israel rejected his initiative.

Clare Short, who served in the cabinet of former British prime minister Tony Blair, asked Haniyeh to repeat his offer. He said the Hamas government had agreed to accept a Palestinian state that followed the 1967 borders and to offer Israel a long-term hudna, or truce, if Israel recognized the Palestinians’ national rights.

Now if you look closely at Haniyeh’s words, you might notice that he is referring to a palestinian state within the 67 borders, not a Jewish state. There is no recognition of Israel, implicit or otherwise. And even if there was, the offering of a hudna instead of peace is indicative of Hamas’ intention to destroy the Jewish state, with the hudna providing them with time to replenish their fighters, weapons and munitions.

So really what we have here is the same ol’ same ol’.

Note: I am trying to get this message to the Israeli government, as an important way to counter the Free Gaza movement’s war against Israel. If any of you have contacts with the Israeli government, please pass this on.

And if you are a blogger, feel free to help publicize this.

Irish Nobel Peace Prize winner Mairead McGuire, who arrived in Gaza on the “Free Gaza” boat, left, holds a gift from Gaza’s Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, right, at his office in Gaza City, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. The boat carrying international protesters sailed into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to bring attention to Israel’s blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory. The 27 passengers include McGuire, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in Northern Ireland.

If this doesn’t already speak volumes, allow me to make things clearer for you.

Hamas Charter:

Preamble

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

Article Six

The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine..

Article Seven

…”The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

Article Eleven

The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up…..

Article Thirteen

Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement…There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.

Free Gaza mission statement:

May 2008 marks the 60-year anniversary of the Nakba, “the catastrophe”, when the overwhelming majority of Palestinians were forcibly evicted from their ancestral homeland to create the state of Israel. In contravention of International law, human rights, and basic principles of morality, Israel continues to deny these refugees and their descendants their right to return home. Israel has neither acknowledged nor attempted to amend this historic injustice that gave birth to the Jewish state. Instead, more than 5 million Palestinian refugees languish in refugee camps, while their homes, farms, and properties are inhabited by Jewish immigrants who arrived in Palestine from around the globe.

The historic illegal appropriation of Palestinian land, home and heritage is at the heart of the Middle East conflict. It has given rise to the largest ongoing refugee population in the world. It paved the way for subsequent land theft in 1967, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing that has squeezed Palestinians in the West Bank into ghettos and bantustans surrounded by 27-foot walls, sniper towers, and military guards. It has created the open-air prison of Gaza with an impoverished and overcrowded population of 1.4 million inhabitants.

McGuire and her fellow Free Gaza tools are not peace activists. They are supporters of Hamas and their goals. They do not want a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict, but rather a one state solution - a palestinian state.

Update: Here’s a similar photo from two months ago.

A British activist gestures as she receives a Palestinian passport from senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (2nd R) in Gaza August 28, 2008. Two boats carrying foreign peace activists who had defied an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip left the Hamas-ruled territory on Thursday for Cyprus, taking with them seven Palestinians.

The gesture is a “V for Victory” sign, something arch terrorist Yasser Arafat was particularly prone to flashing.

In other words, not quite a symbol of peace.

As Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh embraced the strange, pink-shirted foreign supporter, he instinctively reached down and confirmed his worst fears.

“Please tell me you carry a weapon.”

“We felt we were on a mission… and by the response – we hit a nerve.”

- Israeli terror-enabler Prof. Jeff Halper, who was on board one of the boats that sailed to Gaza yesterday

They sure did.

Update: This PR stunt was not just a waste of time. It was also a waste of money.

According to their website, the terror enablers are still $300,000 out of pocket.

Update: And here’s a picture of one of these terror-enablers hugging arch terrorist, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Pro-peace or anti-Israel? I think the answer is obvious.

Quartet Middle East envoy Tony Blair has had to call off his visit to Gaza, and Hamas would like you to know it’s Israel’s fault (naturally).

The deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya said on Tuesday that Quartet Middle East envoy, Tony Blair cancelled his visit to the Gaza strip as requested by Israel ”so that he won’t see the catastrophic siege”.

Yeah, that and the fact someone threatened to kill him.

International quartet envoy Tony Blair’s planned trip to the Gaza was cancelled on Tuesday following what was described as “specific security threats” that made the visit impossible.

Blair told Ma’an that he first knew of the threats on his life yesterday evening but was still keen to go ahead with the visit. He said it was when the threats became “more specific and more credible” that he decided to cancel the trip.

No doubt, these threats were nothing more than the brainchild of Zionist operatives, designed to prevent Blair from seeing the diabolical siege in Gaza, replete with blackouts, flour shortages, and starvation.

Because as we all know, palestinians don’t kill those who they see as a threat.

Would you give this man flowers?