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Category: PalestineThe news items published under this category are as follows.Saturday, August 30, 2008 - 07:47 AM
Hamas spokesman says list of prisoners it demands Israel release as part of deal for Shalit final, but Egyptian, Palestinian officials say should Israel agree to free more prisoners 'with blood on their hands' Hamas may consider shortening listAli Waked A spokesman for Hamas' armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said Saturday that the list of Palestinian prisoners the Islamist group demands Israel release in exchange for captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was final, adding that it included over 1,000 prisoners. "We've decided not to discuss the Shalit issue and do not intend to consider any list formulated by the occupation regime (Israel)," Abu Obeida was quoted as saying by the London-based Arabic-language newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, "Israel must comply with the list we relayed to it." Abu Obeida is not associated with any Hamas officials involved in the Egyptian-mediated negotiations on a possible prisoner exchange deal. However, Palestinian and Egyptian officials told Ynet that Hamas would consider softening its stance should Israel relax the criteria for the release of Palestinian prisoners and agree to release prisoners "with blood on their hands" who were detained prior to the eruption of the second intifada in 2000 or those who were detained after 2000 but do not pose a threat due to their medical condition. Shalit was captured during in a cross border raid on an IDF base bear Gaza on June 25, 2006.
Posted by WorldAnalysis on Saturday, August 30, 2008
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Palestine: Islamic Jihad: internal dialogue in nascent stages, too soon to judge level of s 271 Reads
Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 01:00 AM
26.08.08 - 11:54Fadi Yacoub / exclusive / PNN - Among the Islamic Jihad delegation currently in Cairo is Dr. Mohammad Hind. He told PNN on Tuesday that it is premature to judge whether the Egyptian-sponsored internal dialogue will succeed. Delegations from Islamic Jihad, the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine are in meetings this week. The comprehensive national dialogue is taking slow steps with individual delegations meeting to ascertain specific positions. Dr. Hind said today that the “issues are complex and difficult, therefore it is premature to draw conclusions whether the dialogue will succeed or fail.” The purpose of the dialogue is to reach a national reconciliation. Dr. Hind says that talks will continue throughout the month of Ramadan, which begins this year at the beginning of September. The Islamic Jihad leader said that the delegation discussed two important issues with the Egyptian mediators. The first, reports Dr. Hind, is the restoration of national unity, while the second is pursuing an end to the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip. He stressed that the efforts need to be furthered to reach an understanding between parties. The rift is between the Hamas and Fateh parties, but all are negatively impacted. Dr. Hind said he hoped that the “consultative dialogues will help reach consensual formulas among all Palestinian factions.” The methods of facing the Israeli occupation vary from faction to faction leaving a non-united front which many say plays into the hands of the Israelis. “There are many complex issues that have delayed coming up with a quick solution. There is a need for more in-depth discussion and frankness between parties in order to bridge the gap.”
Posted by WorldAnalysis on Thursday, August 28, 2008
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Palestine: Urgent God and the largest army of Mohammed Ibaya struggling Sheikh Osama bin and then kill the Zionists kill Read 339 Reads
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 07:13 PM
Urgent God and the largest army of Mohammed Ibaya struggling Sheikh Osama bin and then kill the Zionists kill Read -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:...om/up9/KSA.jpg Name of God the Merciful Statement by the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Mohammad's Army "and blessings of Allah and peace be upon him" (Fight them with their hands and God will punish them and insist on Ikhozhm and cured the people believing in, and go resentment and turn their hearts to God, whom God knows the Wise). Praise be to Allah who make war between us and the infidels undecided, singled out as well Fatah faithful and the sake of it, and promised to endure steadfast foe good and affordable, peace and blessings of the killer on the Criterion fighting, and the machine owners who have the highest God officially stable and remove jihad, and their subordinates Bahsan The Day of Judgement Akram and Afdal. The following: Ga'far of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine To the struggling Sheikh "Osama bin there," the father of Abdullah "may God protect him and sponsors. We in the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the land of Mohammad's Army "and blessings of Allah and peace be upon him" as Nbaya brother struggling Sheikh "Osama bin there," Abdallah's father, Emir Sheikh Al-Islam and the mujahidin, and send him our message that we divide by God Almighty to protect Al-Aqsa mosque, and that Free Islamic land of Palestine from the hands of the Zionists and Asalbeyen and to make the land of an Islamic blessing, to go and judge God in his book "The Holy Koran" and to follow the year of our Prophet Muhammad "peace be upon him" and as we Nbaya brother, a father struggling Sheikh Qassem, to be A leader for us in the Islamic land of Palestine, how our fellow Muslims in the Islamic land of Palestine is our message you send your brothers compassionate Mujahedeen grandsons Messenger of God "Muhammad and peace be upon him," Here you say you might have come across the border carrying the banner of "No God but God and Jihad weapon in the name of Allah , To strive together with our brother mujahideen Muslim land of Palestine for the Liberation of Islamic and even give our lives to pieces and our money in the name of Allah. As His praise God and to reconcile your brothers the Mujahedeen of the sons of the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Mohammad's Army "and blessings of Allah and peace be upon him" who you harvest Jihad in the blessed land of Palestine. * Praise be to Allah Nasir, who insisted on a uniform enemies of religion, we have your brothers in the Mujahedeen Army of Mohammed "blessings of God and peace be upon him" from launching rockets from the type of "registration" on raped by the Zionist presence in Palestine Islamic town of Rafah to Beit Hanoun town, has May God Almighty and the firing of rockets on the Zionist raped successfully and thus there was a variety of sniper operations for the Zionists and soldiers fired mortar and jihadist operations clashes with the Zionists, which led to a piece of dead and wounded from the Zionists. * God's help and strength and to reconcile, announces Army of Mohammed "blessings of God and peace be upon him" formally claimed responsibility for launching a missile from a "union" on the city of Ashkelon territories, and to inform you, you piece of Mujahideen and which the Palestinian people recognized that the Army stationed Sabir Muhammad "blessings of God and peace be upon him "Declare formally that they were able with God's help and duration of the bombing of a commercial center located in a Zionist-occupied city of Ashkelon, and saluting the Zionist television broadcasts in the fall of a direct rocket-type" bond "over the medical centre Zionist trading market in Ashkelon, medical sources said that the Zionist missile Hit the upper floor in the trade center, which exists when the patients visiting the medical centre (Kupat Holim) and the sources stressed that the Zionist number of casualties rose machines and Platt wounding five medium and four serious injuries and the piece on the evening of Wednesday 8/5/1429 e - approved 14 / 5 / 2008 m * God's help and strength and to reconcile, announces Army of Mohammed "blessings of God and peace be upon him" claimed responsibility for the destruction of a Zionist enclave, the piece informing him Mujahideen and which the Palestinian people recognized that the Army stationed Sabir Muhammad "blessings of God and peace be upon him" and formally declare that they were able with God's help and extended The bombing of a Zionist enclave located east of Absan Khan Younis, so promptly at 08:20 am on Patten approved 21 / 4 / 2008 m Therefore we declare that the operation was supposed to be martyrdom. These forces and we affirm that such operations come in the context of jihad and resistance by the Mujahideen brothers from the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the land of Mohammad's Army "and blessings of Allah and peace be upon him" crusade against the Zionists, and therefore the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, God bless breakthrough in Tvek blessing to the land of the enemies of God and their allies, warned that, but we stress that we These forces are not a new organisation or an emergency on the territory of Palestine, Islamic, but the spirit is insured paid mujahideen in the land of Rabat to deduct their choices and join their ranks behind the leadership ensured message does not know bargain or compromise, the spirit of taking The hands of the mujahideen make them shoulder to shoulder Beni wall to walk in the path of a fork so that all religion God, the spirit that fortifies and strengthens the mujahidin that follow down the traffickers caught some politicians in blood or researchers on the location of secular here or there under the banner of the traitors and corrupt, and atheists. Saluting We affirm that peace with the Zionists is not due to us and the Islamic land of Palestine to meet not only complete victory by resisting the Zionists in order to liberate the occupied Palestinian territories and declared an Islamic state, God Almighty, is here to confirm that we are able to continue to resist, as well as the right person Stop the jihad for God, and also warn of mercenaries by the Government of Karzai Abbas and their clients will not stop the resistance and jihad, It has been sent a message to the mujahideen sons of the Palestinian and Islamic factions to continue the resistance and to address the sons of employment regulations and tyranny and corruption, we will not allow anyone whatsoever to stop jihad in the land of Rabat, also warn Abbas Karzai's government campaign of arrests in the ranks of fighters and not make car bombs To come to a depth of traitors, and God willing we are involved in jihad and fighting the enemies of God even sweep occupation from our holy land each, either to victory over the creatures and either to God in Khalid. (Books you fighting a ball and you hope that the idea of something which is best for you and hope to love is something evil you and God knows and you do not know) The Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar .. Glory be to God, His Prophet and the mujahideen Note: Link process http://www.fileflyer.com/view/Hz484Ao Basord compressed file PALDF Another link without Basord http://www.fileflyer.com/view/mxhcWBN We pray to God for your brothers victorious mujahideen and empowerment, and Nasr, including the Queen, and human oppressors to the demise of the night and blew the right to come .. Oh God, you Jews and Christians and apostates clients .. Oh God Victory mujahideen everywhere and supported the duration of your .. Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Glory be to Allah and His Messenger, and the volunteers Orkut struggling Abu Hamza Conclave Islamic Front for the Liberation of Palestine Mohammad's Army "and blessings of Allah and peace be upon him" Today \ _ Wednesday, 21 _ 5 _ in 2008 عاجل الله و أكبر جيش محمد يبايع الشيخ المجاهد أسامة بن لاذن و يحصد بقتل الصهاينة أقرأ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:...om/up9/KSA.jpg بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم بيان صادر عن الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير أرض فلسطين جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " (قَاتِلُوهُمْ يُعَذِّبْهُمُ اللهُ بِأَيْدِيكُمْ وَيُخْزِهِمْ وَيَنْصُرْكُمْ عَلَيْهِمْ وَيَشْفِ صُدُورَ قَوْمٍ مُؤْمِنِينَ , وَيُذْهِبْ غَيْظَ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَيَتُوبُ اللهُ عَلَى مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَاللهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ) . الحمد لله الذي جعل الحرب بيننا وبين الكافرين سجالاً، وخصَّ المؤمنين بالفتح فضلاً منه وإكراماً ، و وعد الصابرين على مكابدة الأعداء خيراً ومنالاً ، والصلاة والسلام على من قاتل يوم الفرقان قتالاً ، وعلى آله وصحابته الذين أعلى الله قدرهم بالجهاد ثباتاً ونزالاً، وعلى التابعين لهم بإحسانٍ إلى يوم الدين تكرمةٍ وإفضالأ . أما بعد : مبايعة من الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير أرض فلسطين إلى الشيخ المجاهد " أسامة بن لأذن " أبا عبد الله "حفظة الله ورعاة . إننا في الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير أرض فلسطين جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " إذ نبايع الأخ الشيخ المجاهد " أسامة بن لأذن " أبا عبدالله , شيخ الإسلام و أمير المجاهدين ، ونوجه له رسالتنا بأننا نقسم بالله عز وجل أن نحمي المسجد الأقصي المبارك ، و أن نحرر أرض فلسطين الإسلامية من أيدى الصهاينة والصلبيين وعلى أن نجعلها أرض إسلامية مباركة ، وأن نحكم بما أنزل الله تعالى في كتابة " القرأن الكريم " و أن نتبع سنة نبينا محمد " صلى الله عليه وسلم " و كما إننا نبايع الأخ الشيخ المجاهد أبا القاسم ، ليكون قائدأ لنا في أرض فلسطين الإسلامية ، فيا إخواننا المسلمين في أرض فلسطين الإسلامية نوجه لكم رسالتنا نحنوا إخوانكم المجاهدين أحفاد رسول الله " محمد صلى الله وعليه وسلم " نقول لكم ها قد جئنا إليكم عبر الحدود حاملين راية لا إله إلا الله و سلاح الجهاد في سبيل الله ، لكي نجاهد إلى جانب إخواننا المجاهدين المسلمين لتحرير أرض فلسطين الإسلامية حتى نقدم أرواحنا وأشلائنا وأموالنا في سبيل الله. وكما بحمدة الله تعالى وتوفيقة فإن إخوانكم المجاهدين من أبناء الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير أرض فلسطين جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " يقدمون لكم حصاد الجهاد في أرض فلسطين المباركة . * الحمد لله ناصر الموحدين الذي ناصرنا على أعداء الدين ، فلقد تمكنا إخوانكم المجاهدين في جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " من إطلاق صواريخ من نوع " سجيل " على المغتصبات الصهيونية الذي تتواجد على أرض فلسطين الإسلامية من مدينة رفح حتى مدينة بيت حانون ، فلقد وفقنا الله عز وجل من إطلاق الصواريخ على المغتصبات الصهيونية بنجاح ومما كانت هناك عمليات متنوعة من قنص لجنود صهاينة و إطلاق قذائف الهاون وعمليات الإشتباكات الجهادية مع الصهاينة ، ومما أدي ذالك إلى وقوع قتلى وجرحي من الصهاينة . * بعون الله تعالى وقوته وتوفيقه، تعلن جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " مسئوليتها بشكل رسمي عن إطلاق صاروخ من نوع " رباط " على مدينة عسقلان المحتلة ، ولذالك نعلمكم أيها المجاهدون وأيها الشعب الفلسطيني المسلم الصابر المرابط بأن جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " تعلن وبشكل رسمي بأنها تمكنت بعون الله ومدده من قصف مركز تجاري صهيوني يقع في مدينة عسقلان المحتلة ، و حيت أعلن التلفزيون الصهيوني في بث مباشر سقوط صاروخ من نوع " رباط " فوق مركز طبي بسوق تجاري صهيوني في عسقلان، وقالت مصادر طبية صهيونية أن الصاروخ أصاب الطابق العلوي في المركز التجاري والذي يتواجد فيه مرضى يزورون مركز طبي ( كوبات حوليم ) وأكدت المصادر الصهيونية أن عدد الإصابات ارتفع إلى تلاتة و تلاتون إصابة منها خمسة متوسطة و أربعة إصابات خطيرة وذالك مساء يوم لأربعاء 8/5/1429 هـ - الموافق 14 /5/2008 م * بعون الله تعالى وقوته وتوفيقه، تعلن جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " مسئوليتها عن عملية تدمير جيب صهيوني ، ولذالك نعلمكم أيها المجاهدون وأيها الشعب الفلسطيني المسلم الصابر المرابط بأن جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " تعلن وبشكل رسمي بأنها تمكنت وبعون الله ومدده من تفجير جيب صهيوني يقع شرق عبسان بخانيونس ، وذلك في تمام الساعة 08:20 من صباح يوم الإتنين الموافق 21 / 4 / 2008 م وعليه فإننا نعلن بأن العملية كانت من المفترض بأن تكون استشهادية . ولذالك فإننا نؤكد بأن هذه العمليات تأتي في سياق الجهاد و المقاومة الذي يقوم به إخواننا المجاهدون من أبناء الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير أرض فلسطين جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " ضد الصهاينة و الصليبين ، ولذا فإن الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير أرض فلسطين إن شاء الله انطلاقة مباركة في ارض مباركة لتذيق أعداء الله وحلفائهم ما كانوا يحذرون ، ولذالك فإننا نؤكد بأننا لسنا تنظيما جديدا أو طارئا على أرض فلسطين الإسلامية ، بل هي روح مؤمنة تدفع بالمجاهدين في ارض الرباط أن يحسموا خياراتهم ويوحدوا صفوفهم خلف قيادة رسالية مؤمنة لا تعرف المساومة أو التفريط ، روح تأخذ بأيدي المجاهدين لتجعلهم صفا واحدا كالبنيان المرصوص يشد بعضه بعضا في السير في طريق ذات الشوكة حتى يكون الدين كله لله , روح تقوي المجاهدين وتحصنهم من أن ينزلقوا في حبائل بعض السياسيين المتاجرين بالدماء أو الباحثين عن موقع دنيوي هنا أو هناك تحت راية الخونة و الفاسدين والملحدين . حيت إننا نؤكد أن السلام مع الصهاينة لا يرجع لنا أرض فلسطين الإسلامية و لايكفي ولا يكتمل النصر إلا بمقاومة الصهاينة من أجل تحرير أرض فلسطين كلها و إعلانها دولة إسلامية بأذن الله تعالى ، ومن هنا نؤكد أننا قادرون على أن نستمر في المقاومة ، وكذلك لايحق لشخص أن يوقف الجهاد في سبيل الله، وكما نحذر المرتزقة من حكومة كرزاي عباس وأعوانهم العملاء لن يوقفوا المقاومة و الجهاد ، ومن تم نوجة رسالتنا إلى المجاهدين من أبناء الفصائل الفلسطينية والإسلامية أن يستمروا في المقاومة وأن يتصدوا لأبناء أنظمة العمالة والجور والفساد ،ولن نسمح لأحد مهما كان أن يوقف الجهاد في ارض الرباط ، وكما نحذر حكومة كرزاي عباس من حملة إعتقالات في صفوف المجاهدين وإلا سنجعل السيارات المفخخة أن تاتي إلى عمق الخونة ، وإننا بإذن الله تعالي ماضون في جهادنا وقتالنا لأعداء الله تعالى حتى كنس الاحتلال عن أرضنا كل أرضنا المباركة ، فإما إلى النصر فوق الأنام وإما إلى الله في الخالدين . (كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِتَالُ وَهُوَ كُرْهٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَنْ تَكْرَهُوا شَيْئاً وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ وَعَسَى أَنْ تُحِبُّوا شَيْئاً وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَكُمْ وَاللهُ يَعْلَمُ وَأَنْتُمْ لا تَعْلَمُونَ) والله أكبر الله أكبر .. ولله العزة ولرسوله وللمجاهدين ملاحظة : رابط العملية http://www.fileflyer.com/view/Hz484Ao باسورد الملف المضغوط PALDF رابط اخر بدون باسورد http://www.fileflyer.com/view/mxhcWBN ادعوا الله لإخوانكم المجاهدين بالنصر و التمكين ، وانصروهم بما تملكون،و أبشروا فإن ليل الظالمين إلى أفول و فجر الحق قادم .. اللهمّ عليك باليهود و النصارى و عملائهم المرتدّين.. اللهمّ أنصر المجاهدين في كلّ مكان و أيّدهم بمدد من عندك.. و الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبر و لله العزّة و لرسوله و للمجاهدين أخوكم المجاهد أبو حمزة المقدسي الجبهة الإسلامية لتحرير أرض فلسطين جيش محمد " صلى الله وعليه وسلم " اليوم \ الأربعاء _ الموافق 21 _ 5 _ 2008 م Friday, March 07, 2008 - 05:50 PM
Source: Agencies, 7-3-08 The Zionist entity is witnessing one of its worst moments after it got an overwhelming strike in its heart, the center of Zionism. 'Israeli' occupation police were placed on a state of alert and upped security measures in Al Quds(Jerusalem) on Friday after the heroic operation in the Jewish religious school. "We brought in a large number of forces for the security of residents," the city's police chief Aharon Franco told military radio the morning after a Palestinian gunman opened fire inside the school. Police was in a "general state of alert" throughout the country, he said. At least eight 'Israeli' settlers are dead and 35 wounded after an armed man opened fire at Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, a Jewish seminary in the western part of Al Quds. The attacker entered a library where about 80 religious settlers were gathered at the yeshiva, or religious school, and killed eight on Thursday. He was reportedly shot dead by a student and a soldier. The fact that the school is at the heart of the settler movement in the occupied West Bank may have been the reason why it was targeted. Many of its students are on special courses that combine religious study with service in combat units in the 'Israeli' army. No group has officially claimed responsibility for the attack - the first in Al Quds in more than four years when a martyrdom bomber killed eight people and himself aboard a bus - but Hamas praised the attack as "heroic" and said it would not be the last. In Beirut, Al-Manar TV Channel announced that those responsible were members of a previously unknown group called "Phalange of Free Men of Galilee - Groups of the Martyr Imad Moghniyeh and Martyrs of Gaza." The claim was made in a tag line running across the bottom of the screen, and no further details were immediately given. "The responsibility for the massacre lies with the governments of 'Israel', which for years have displayed weakness and exhaustion and have seen to the armament of the enemy," the Yesha Rabbinical Council wrote in a stinging rebuke of the 'Israeli' leadership following the Thursday's deadly attack. The seminary, located in the Kyriat Moshe neighbourhood, is a well-known centre for Jewish studies linked to those leading the Jewish settler movement in the occupied West Bank. Micky Rosenfeld, an 'Israeli' police spokesman, said the attacker walked through the seminary's main gate and entered the library. He carried an assault rifle and pistol, and used both weapons in the attack, spraying dozens of bullets. At least six empty bullet clips were found on the floor, he said. 'Israeli' war officials said the attacker came from east Al Quds, the predominantly Arab section of the city which 'Israel' captured and occupied in the 1967 war. In contrast to Palestinians in the West Bank, those in Al Quds have 'Israeli' identification cards, allowing them relatively free movement inside 'Israel'. Al Jazeera's Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from the scene of the attack, said that questions would be raised as to how the assailant passed through the many security checks situated in the area. Witnesses said students jumped out the windows of the building to escape during the shooting. The seminary serves some 400 high school students and young 'Israeli' soldiers, many of whom carry arms. After the shooting, hundreds of seminary students demonstrated outside the building chanting against Ehud Olmert, 'Israel's' prime minister and many were seen crying. Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland said the shooting was a psychological blow to many 'Israelis' as the area is a cultural and ideological centre of Al Quds and people will definitely feel vulnerable that an attack took place in a deeply religious area. In the streets of Gaza, thousands of Palestinians celebrated, with people firing into the air and sounding their horns. An 'Israeli' military onslaught in Gaza martyred more than 120 Palestinians in the past week, mostly women and children. Mark Regev, 'Israel's' government spokesman, told The Associated Press what he called tonight's massacre in Al Quds "a defining moment." The attack came a day after Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, persuaded Abbas to return to negotiations with 'Israel'. Abbas had briefly suspended talks to protest against the 'Israeli' military offensive in Gaza. While not claiming responsibility for the attack, Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, said "this heroic attack in Al Quds is a normal response to the crimes of the occupier and its murder of civilians". Taher al-Nunu, another spokesman, blamed the attack on Ehud Olmert, the 'Israeli' prime minister, and Ehud Barak, the war minister. "We have warned before about the responsibility of the escalation in Gaza and warned of Palestinian anger," he said. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general condemned the attack but the UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement at a contentious emergency meeting. The US and 'Israel' blamed Libya for the failure, saying it wanted to link any condemnation of the shooting to its own resolution pressing for censure of 'Israel' over its deadly land and air assault on the Gaza Strip last week. Al Jazeera's John Terrett, reporting from the UN, said up to four countries wanted to link the Gaza and Al Quds violence and the meeting broke down when the American delegation left over that. Dan Gillerman, 'Israel's' ambassador to the UN, then told reporters outside that Libya should not be on the council. Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's envoy, hit back, saying his country did not need a certificate of good conduct from what he said was the 'Israeli' terrorist regime. Sunday, January 27, 2008 - 01:38 PM
Edmund Andrews and John Kifner in New York January 28, 2008 Advertisement DR GEORGE HABASH, the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a hard-line Marxist group that shocked the world with airline hijackings and bombings in the late 1960s and early 1970s, has died in Amman of a heart attack. Habash, a longtime rival of the late Yasser Arafat, was believed to be 82. "He had a severe heart attack and he died instantly," Leila Khaled, a Front associate and herself a prominent aircraft hijacker in 1969, told Al-Jazeera television on Saturday from the Jordan Hospital, where Habash had been a patient. He also had cancer. The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, ordered three days of mourning and flags lowered to half-staff in the Palestinian territories. Habash, whose nom de guerre was Al Hakim (the wise one) was best known as the Palestinian leader who adapted modern terrorist tactics as a weapon in the conflict with Israel. From the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969 to the simultaneous hijacking of three Western airliners to Amman, Jordan, in September 1970, the Front stayed in the news with high-profile attacks that other Palestinian groups never seemed able to match. "When we hijack a plane it has more effect than if we kill a hundred Israelis in battle," he told the German magazine Stern in 1970. "For decades world public opinion has been neither for nor against the Palestinians. It simply ignored us. At least the world is talking about us now." His list of enemies did not stop at Israel. He was sharply critical of existing Arab governments, most of which he said should be overthrown, of a long series of attempts at peace negotiations, and of Arafat. A stubborn opponent of the Oslo accords, Habash refused to set foot in the areas under the nominal control of the Palestinian Authority. In turn he earned the enmity of King Hussein of Jordan, who in 1970 expelled all the Palestinian guerilla factions who had been threatening his rule - most notably that of Habash - in a brief but fierce civil war remembered by Palestinians as Black September. Although his tactics softened somewhat in the 1980s, and his organisation receded from the headlines, Habash remained a determined Marxist who continued to denounce Arab governments he felt were too closely aligned with the West and Palestinian leaders he suspected were ready to make concessions to Israel. In an interview in 1970 he remarked that he would not accept money from Arab countries that "stink of American oil", and he frequently argued that victory over Israel would only come when the traditional Arab governments had been replaced with revolutionary regimes. A greek Orthodox medical practitioner, Habash founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in December 1967 after Israel's stunning defeat of the combined forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. Beginning with the hijacking of an Israeli El Al airliner in June 1968, the Front embarked on a series of bombings and hijackings of civilian targets. In 1969 it planted a bomb in a Jerusalem supermarket that killed two youths and wounded 20 others. Establishing Jordan as his base in the late 1960s, Habash's guerillas became embroiled in bloody battles with the Jordanian Army. In June 1970 the Front seized 60 foreigners in two hotels and held them hostage, threatening to kill them if Jordan's army kept fighting. In September that year, the Front hijacked three Western jets to a disused dirt airstrip outside Amman and held the several hundred passengers and crew hostage aboard the planes in the desert. They were eventually released but the planes were blown up. Angered by the appearance that he no longer controlled events in his country, King Hussein declared martial law and unleashed his army and Bedouin loyalists against the Palestinians in Jordan, driving the guerrillas into Lebanon and Syria. In June 1976 the Front hijacked an Air France airliner to Entebbe, Uganda, leading to a dramatic rescue mission by Israeli troops in which four civilians were killed. The New York Times This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/01/27/1201368944620.html |
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