British government urged by MPs to talk with Hamas’ “moderates”

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At long last British MPs have come to realize that Hamas is here to stay and that there can be no peace in the region without the involvement of the Islamist group. In a report created by the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, Gordon [...]

Facebook curbs freedom of expression for Hamas sympathizers

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Facebook’s administrators have decided to remove the fan page for Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, delivering a severe blow to freedom of expression in the process.
 
Haniyeh’s fan page, titled “Commander Ismail Haniyeh,” had around 10,000 members at the [...]

Dahlan: Hamas responsible for wedding blast

Ma’an News Agency reported on Wednesday that Muhammed Dahlan believes that Hamas was responsible for a bomb blast at his nephew’s wedding in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday evening.
 
Witnesses at the event said an explosion occurred under a stage in a street in the city, injuring the groom and many [...]

Arafat murdered by Abbas and Dahlan

Astonishingly, Fatah’s well-respected Secretary-General and PLO leader Farouk Kaddoumi claimed on 12 July 2009 that PA President Mahmoud Abbas conspired with Gaza “strong man” Muhammed Dahlan, Israel, and the CIA no-less, to murder former PA President Yasser Arafat in 2004.
 
At a press conference in Amman, Jordan, Kaddoumi revealed that Arafat had provided him [...]

Israeli Soldiers Reveal Gaza War Crimes

Thanks to the Israeli human rights group “Breaking the Silence,” the abuses documented by Amnesty International and residents of the Gaza Strip are now backed-up by Israeli soldiers that took part in Operation Cast Lead. “Breaking the Silence” has interviewed many Israeli soldiers that took part in the December to January incursion, concluding that the [...]

Cellcom’s Israeli Commercial Sidelines Palestinian Suffering

A furor has erupted over a Cellcom Ad broadcast to Israelis from the start of this week, and as one commentator at the Jerusalem Post, also director of the Israeli group Peace Now, aptly noted, “it does not leave anyone feeling indifferent.” The commercial features the oft-maligned “Separation Wall” front-and-center. The one-sided nature of the advertisement is a powerful reminder of the unilateral approach to peace that Israel has now adopted.