Retired Israeli official Avner Cohen told the Wall Street Journal, “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation.” In an amazing story, the Wall Street Journal draws a direct line between Hamas and the State of Israel with complete history of the hows and whys of its creation. Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked [...]
Read more →In a disgusting display of arrogance, the Israeli Defense Forces have launched a YouTube channel showing the footage of the ongoing Gaza attacks. According the Telegraph, there are currently 2,000 subscribers to the 10 videos that are left on the channel. When some videos were removed from YouTube, an IDF spokesman told the Telegraph: “We [...]
Read more →After 115 days in captivity, BBC reporter Alan Johnston was released from Islamic extremists this morning by Hamas. We are all overjoyed that you are free and returning home to your family!!! May God bless you as you start your road back to normal life! And we thank Hamas for securing the release of this [...]
Read more →THE rise of Hamas as a political force in Palestine has not aroused in Pakistan the kind of interest it deserves. An offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and its sweeping electoral victory in January 2006 should not be viewed merely as a reaction to Fatah’s decline in the post-Oslo accord period; there are more [...]
Read more →I have tried for a long time not to bring Palestine into my blog posts because of the natural divisive emotion that is felt by everyone to either side, but there are times when I start to wonder how much is enough. After many years of border wars and fighting, the Palestinians agreed to hold [...]
Read more →I was sitting in the office this afternoon with the television tuned to CNN, when George Bush’s latest press conference started. I remember a time when the President of the United States was a position that was respected throughout the world and was considered to be the “defender of all nations against injustice.” But as [...]
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