From Haaretz:Hamas will not accept Israel's conditions for a cease-fire in Gaza and will continue armed resistance until the offensive ends, Khaled Meshal, the leader of the Palestinian Islamist group, said on Friday.
Speaking at the opening of an emergency meeting on Gaza in Doha, Meshal called on the leaders present to cut all ties with Israel.
Meshal joined Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a surprise appearance at the summit, aimed to show their weight in diplomatic efforts surrounding the Gaza crisis.
Hamas was to send a delegation to Cairo on Friday to discuss Egyptian efforts to mediate a cease-fire in Gaza, a Hamas official told Al-Jazeera television.
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Hamas should not accept a ceasefire that does not force Israeli troops back into Israel. And that does not guarentee the supply of food and medicine to come through open borders.
Anything less than that is not a cease fire, it's just a perpetuation of the massacre and Israel's long history of illegal actions.
Actions that begin with IT breaking the ceasefire.
"It turns out that Hamas did not break the cease-fire that started in June with rocket attacks on Israel.
It was Israel that attacked Gaza on Nov. 4.
Between the June 18 cease-fire agreement and Nov. 4, there were 15rocket attacks from Gaza, which an Israeli spokesman agreed were not fired by Hamas. "
It's important to note that NONE of Israel's claims or supporters bothers to give details about the number of rockets per year or the groups that claimed responsibility.
It's the art of disinformation and Israel like Nazi Germany is a master at it.
Israel violated INTERNATIONAL LAW with the ILLEGAL blockade of Gaza and still Hamas did not fire its rockets.
Rockets were fired by Hamas ONLY AFTER Israel's latest breach of the truce on Nov. 4 in which Israel violated Gaza's border and murdered four Gazans.
Rockets that were fired came from other groups and Hamas repeatedly asked for investigations and peacekeepers to stop those weapons.
ISRAEL REFUSED to permit ANY EXTENRAL investigations and ANY EXTERNAL peacekeepers from being deployed in Gaza.
Just as it refuses to permit any external press from reporting on Israeli actions in the West Bank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VNa1kV4O9A
The sad fact is that Israel will never live side-by-side with anyone in peace as long as they cling to a race based state policy.
Peace requires respect for others. Racism is the antithesis of respect for others.
Israeli racism leads to the daily occurrence of children being stoned on their way to school, of the elderly being used as target practice by IDF soldiers, of crops, orchards, and other non-Israel dependent sources of food being destroyed without compensation, of houses being destroyed.
And these acts have occurred non-stop for the last 60 years.
The saddest part about the events in Gaza is that we are seeing a race-based response from Western nations to Israel's atrocities.
In the Sudan, where blacks are attacking blacks then sanctions are imposed, troops must be placed, etc.
When Russia entered Georgia last October, it was IMMEDIATELY censured by the West, and aid INCLUDING MILTARY supplies was sent to Georgia. Threats were made against Russia to shut off funding, and impose sanctions even though Russia CAUSED LESS LOSS OF LIFE in Georgia than Israel has caused in Gaza.
However when Israel causes death, fires on international targets, kills medical personnel, shoots ambulances, uses banned weapons, attacks the freedom of the press by preventing journalists from seeing the Israeli actions for themselves, and rams relief vessels trying to bring food and medical aid, the West gives Israel a few harsh words, and EVEN MORE MONEY and weapons.
The message is clear.
If non-whites are attacking each other, then something should be done to stop it.
If white are attacking whites then something MUST be done to stop it.
However if whites are attacking non-whites, then the murder and violation of international laws are apparently all justifiable because those non-whites are just so horrible.
I don't believe that this message is one that most Westerners would agree with, but it is DEFINIATELY the one that they are letting their governments send to the world.
Now the US networks bring us news of Israel and a defunct Bush led government LITERALLY hugging and patting each other on the back because they signed an agreement to "prevent arms from reaching terrorists" even though they invited NO ONE from Palestine and not even one Arab.
Of course, the illegal Israeli blockade that prevents food and medicine from being delivered was not addressed.
Responsibility for providing shelter for the TENS OF THOUSANDS without shelter was not addressed.
The deliberate RAMMING and attempted destruction by Israel of aid vessels from OTHER COUNTRIES was not addressed.
When Georgia was attacked by Russia after Georgia had killed HUNDREDS OF RUSSIANS the previous night, the U.S. and other white countries rushed to give GEORGIA aid including weapons.
What other message can honest people get from these events except that the lives of people of color do not matter as much as the lives of white people? Even to the extent that they are not invited to participate in affairs that concern them.
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