Obama & Kerry should read “Palestinian” press
The following article is from the Ma’an News Agency that, according to its own (English language) “About” page is part of the Ma’an Network, the largest independent TV, radio and online media group in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It also broadcasts regionally via the Ma’an-Mix satellite channel. It publishes news around the clock in Arabic and English, and is among the most browsed websites in the Palestinian territories, with over 3 million visits per month. Considered the main source of independent news from Palestine, MNA has become the first choice for online information for many Palestinians, and is also attracting a growing international readership and interest from prominent international news organizations and agencies.” (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewContent.aspx?PAGE=AboutUs)
Ma’an also offers news in Hebrew. In English or Hebrew, it deserves an occasional visit; today I saw a photo of “Israel soldiers force Muslim to drink wine at gunpoint” (http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=604267) Ma’an’s main office is in Bet Lekhem (Bethlehem) with a “sub office” in Aza (Gaza) City.
Based on the fact that Ma’an, despite its claim of independence, is the mouthpiece of those who control “Palestine,” the reporting of Aza Prime Minister Haniyeh’s speeches can be trusted to be accurate, even in translation.
Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=603354
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday said that Israel has no future on Palestinian land, a Ma'an reporter said.
The Gaza premier made the comments while addressing a summer camp launched by Hamas to commemorate the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
"This key tells the story of a people who have been displaced from their land and subjected to the greatest international piracy at the hands of Zionist gangs," Haniyeh told spectators.
"This key narrates the story of Palestinian steadfastness, the determination to return back to their homes, and a heritage which will not go away."
Thousands of people gathered outside the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City to listen to the speech. Haniyeh said that some 100,000 school students will participate in the summer camps.
A 'Miles of Smiles' aid convoy, including solidarity activists from Jordan, Libya, Bahrain and Egypt, were present at the ceremony.
And the Jewish perspective from “The Israel Project” (http://tinyurl.com/8yedr2b)
Speaking Sunday at a youth summer camp in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed to the crowd that Israel would be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Arab media sources summed up his speech (see Ma’an article above) with the headline ‘Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine.’ It took place at a summer camp specifically dedicated to commemorating what Palestinians call their right of return, a diplomatic euphemism describing a scenario under which millions of Palestinian refugees – many of whom are radicalized and most of whom neighboring Arab countries have refused to settle for decades – would enter Israel. Hamas uses its summer camps to indoctrinate and train child soldiers (see http://tinyurl.com/ms4zdlm), which are then deployed against Israel in combat situations. The dynamic, under which Hamas conducts incitement in the context of providing children with paramilitary training, has confounded many human rights organizations that attempt to assess combat situations between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group. Such organization have been criticized for inflating Palestinian civilian deaths by calculating all teenage male combatants as civilian deaths, despite Hamas’s open training of teenagers for combat and the group’s boasts that it uses children as jihadists.
Even if the Arabists in the Beltway discount the “Jewish perspective” (ibid.) how can they ignore the words of Ismail Haniyeh quoted in his own media?
Anyone who thinks the Islamists want anything other than to destroy Israel is living in a world of make believe.
In Yesha (Judea and Samaria), the so-called “West Bank,” terrorist Abu Mazin, who presides as president of the “Palestinian Authority,” consistently says he is willing to talk to Israel on condition that. Every time Israel meets Mazin’s conditions, he adds another. Mazin, by the way, is considered by Obama as a “true partner” with Israel in negotiating away Israeli lands and security (http://tinyurl.com/lutnxoy).
Are Obama and Kerry really that blind to reality?
Sorry, rhetorical question.
