Hamas: 'Resistance' against Israel is only option left for Palestinians
Hamas leader Khaled Meshal addresses Tehran conference 'in support of the Palestinian Intifada'; Iranian supreme leader tells conference that UN bid for statehood will fail.
By The Associated Press and Haaretz Tags: Iran Hamas Ali Khameini Gaza Palestinian stateHamas leader Khaled Meshal told an international conference in Iran on Saturday that "resistance" was the only option left for the Palestinians.
Meshal was addressing the "5th International Conference in Support of the Palestinian Intifada" in Iran’s capital Tehran.
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In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal Cairo, Egypt on May 4, 2011. |
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"Palestinians must resort to resistance no matter how costly it is, until Palestine is free and Israel is destroyed," Meshal said.
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Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who also spoke at the conference on Saturday, assailed a two state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, saying the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations is doomed to fail.
Khamenei told the conference, which was attended by other by senior Palestinian militant leaders as well as Mashaal, that the Palestinians should not limit themselves to seeking a country based on the pre-1967 borders because "all land belongs to Palestinians."
"Our claim is freedom of Palestine, not part of Palestine. Any plan that partitions Palestine is totally rejected," Khamenei told the conference.
"Palestine spans from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean), nothing less."
Khamenei claimed that a two state solution would mean "giving in to the demand of the Zionists" and that it would "trample the rights of the Palestinian people" to live on their land.
Khamenei also called Israel a "cancerous tumor" that should be removed.
Hamas has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the Palestinian bid for statehood in the UN, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Last week, Gaza’s Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh accused Abbas.of relinquishing Palestinian rights by seeking recognition for a state in the pre-1967 borders.
"The Palestinian people do not beg the world for a state, and the state can't be created through decisions and initiatives," Haniyeh said. "States liberate their land first and then the political body can be established."
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They would be labeled "racists", "genocidal maniacs", etc. The world gives the paleos a pass. Israel, stand tall and strong. You have built a lovely country and are in the right.
After all, the statehood bid was another excuse to renew the Intifada. It was quite predictable!
What a ludicrous statement. Resistance is the only option available for Palestinians. Hamas has, since it created its charter, been fomenting resistance and violence and war and a call for extermination. Hypocritical words from a hypocritical organization that willing sacrifices the lives of innocent Palestinian Arabs while its leadership remains in hiding.
Alright ... I don't speak of Norway which is pure antisemitic.
Israel must pursue a policy of total and complete victory. Once they have destroyed those who seek to destroy them then a peace process can begin. How can you have peace with those who see their entire purpose for existing is to kill, mame and destroy.
While Iranians, Syrians, Egyptians desperately try to get rid of their corrupted rotten leaders and change their horrible societies, Israel is a rock of stability.
The Palestinian state is the country of Jordan re: :the 1921 Balfour Declaration. The King tthrew out these fanatic bastards when they tried to assassinate him, he killed 40,000
Israel is the homeland of palestinian jews, not some foreign country colony. Can Hamas tell us what country is invading Palestine?? Palestine arabs should have their state next to Israel, the palestine jews state.
So the truth comes out
Of course Hamas considers the state of Israel as it's enemy, nothing new there! We already know that they want (the state of) Israel wiped from the map yet it surprises me that many of these posts a very consistent with their theme and they are all heavily recommended (even though other threads don't do so well!). This is very much a typical example of megaphone in action.
Obama's stupid actions weaken moderate Abbas and strengthens Hamas. If I were Abbas, if his bid fails, I would ask for a single state solution with equal rights for all. Then numbers will speak.
With Meshal's repeated desire to destroy Israel, how can Abbas represent Palestinians on behalf of a 2-state solutions! Israel can't - shouldn't - agree to 2-state solution until all Palestinians agree.
well i have to tell you Hamas are poor ,you have no life only hatred , well i just want to tell you and to the world we will never give up Our country the state of Israel and more this time if needed we will come back to fight for it and for our brothers and sisters .shame the world gone soft and the petrol dollars corrupted all the European institutions yes please what achivment you can show us no only cry , please hope this message will be seen by lots people in the middle east we won't give up Israel and funny i;m not even religious with due respect for thoses who are Shalom and shana tova to all regards reouven on the other side of this planet
this is a never ending fight, and a time will come when there will be land, but not enough people to clam it
The only real weapon of resistance they have is Israel's unwillingness to kill them en mass.
on the Islamic hegemony of the ME. However, in this case, the whole body is sick, and the tumor is the only healthy thing around.
Be Happy, your musslim brothers will help you with candies.
I love clarity, since it promotes understanding. Meshal's sweet words, while resonating with the mindless Jew-haters of the world, show normal, intelligent people what Israel is facing.
HAMAS must stay cool and let this gambit by Abbas run its course. The US and Israel are running scared by this process just now because their international isolation is becoming plain for all to see. Israel would love for HAMAS to opt for violence so it can play the old 'TERROR' CARD', and use it as an excuse for why it can negotiate .
they know it will enrage Iran and they don't want Iran to do something crazy and destructive like closing the oil shipping lanes
when hamas realizes that they are sub humans and that killing is not religion and they become civilized then and only then will they be acknowledged and accept into the human race
Hamas should take a lesson from history. When the Jews confronted the Romans...they all killed themselves, and will be remembered for eternity. Instead of fighting a battle they can't win, I think that's what Hamas should choose to do.
Maybe other countries has to show the history of Israel, the UN might decide to kick Israel out of the UN.
Apartments in Gilo are not so important. Why is it that the "international community" has developed such a warped view on this conflict?
Once again Hamas demonstrates the Palestinian and Arab world view that only a one-state solution is possible in the resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict; i.e., a state in which Jews are expelled or killed. Period. When will the rest of the so-called peace loving world get this fundamental fact. It is easy for the leaders of Hamas and other groups to sit it Iran and call for never ending war. Their ideologies lack any concern about the lives and fate of the Palestinian Arabs. They can make their violent pronouncements at a safe distance from the battle lines while wasting the lives of those they claim to represent. Since a war with Israel is, in the eyes of Hamas and Iran, a war to the death in which Jews should and would be exterminated then a simple question needs to be asked. Why is not the leadership of Hamas, Iran and those others who support and disseminate such ideas not charged with genocide as called for by the UN's 1948 Declaration against Genocide in which those who foment genocide are equally guilty as those who commit genocide. Once again the world remains silent and the UN demonstrates its hypocrisy. The issue is not about any Jewish settlements on the West Bank since the Palestinian and Arab desire to eradicate Israel goes back to 1948 when Egypt illegally occupied Gaza and Jordan the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The core of the problem is simple: until the Palestinians and their Arab State and now Iranian supporters give up the idea of driving Israel into the sea there cannot and will not be peace. As is stands right now the idea of a two state solution from the Palestinian side is a charade designed to pave the way for a one state solution in which the land is judenrein.
Poke your enemy with a stick for long enough and then when he retaliates say 'resistance is the only option'. This kind of thing has gone on for years in schools. The terror groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Aqsa Brigade and the PA have got this down to a fine art. I do believe even the Arab nations are fed up with charade called 'Palestinian State'. The only reason Abbas got a loud applause is because the PA and the Arab nations have one thing in common - a hatred of Jews that transcends that of the 1930/40s Reich...
Maybe it is time for the UAV Drones to go on patrol for Meshaal, Ahmadinejad and Abbas.
"Palestinians must resort to resistance no matter how costly it is, until Palestine is free and Israel is destroyed," Meshal said. Any person, or group of people, who would see another Country destroyed to meet it's ends doesn't deserve to be heard. No wonder people are still dying the world over!
Why does Israel continue trying to negotiate with a group that says their number one goal is the destruction of Israel? I don't get it.
... does anyone expect them to?
Iran, Hamas and Israel are all together in opposing the Palestinian state. What better proof that the Palestinian state is the best option?
There is no comparison between the two, and the fact that you are trying to make this comparison just shows how demented the 'hate Israel' crowd is
Keep building and expanding the settlements and dont look back.
And unfortunately, I am starting to understand why
Israel cannot determine its future waiting on peace with the arabs. Israel is always on a war footing anyway since its inception.
These are your Partners in Peace. Anyone wonder why there's no peace?
Thanks to the US and Israel Abbas has to work together with the Hamas. The US showed clearely that they support Israel for 100%.
in 1948 they wanted to get rid of Israel and they still wants.
When I extend my hand in Peace and it is bitten over and over again why do people question my desire for peace when the animals that bite my hand are responsible for the lack of Peace.
Dangerous. I am seriously in doubt that Gaza people really voted for this guy. I wouldn't be surprised if they win the next election (or vote) with a landslide, if you know what I mean!
He will not stay in function very long with a country at over 15% unemployment.
Why do you think the Arab world is so backward?
Hamas and Iran know Israel better than any nation on earth. Israel spends much effort projecting a certain image to the world and especially to America. They corrupt and coerce and bribe American politicians to insure that they never go off script regarding Israel. If you ask any American congressman about Israel, you will receive a canned reply which is virtually the same one for all the members of congress. "Israel is America.s greatest ally. Israel is the mideast's only democracy. Israel is the front line on the fight against terrorism. yadda, yadda, yadda." If you try to get a more specific reply, you get the same canned message. This alone should be reason enough to alarm American citizens. There is no dialog in the American media or the American government about Palestinian statehood and Israel's role in suppressing it. Both Israel and the American government want to keep it this way.
Whether true or not, there isn't a thing you can do about it. So start getting used to it
... they will all answer "East". You call it "yadda yadda", others call it truth. Your point is ...?
or a misguided "humanist" like you except a "canned reply" about Israel?
So that justifies Hamas and Iran's wish to annihilate Israel and murder millions of Jews? I see.
Its interesting that you think that 2 states with now democracy but just a simple theocracy knows Israel best. United states which is a great democracy with a population that can have their saying without being tortured, they no nothing? Durson you are on a page where many intelligent people discuss, so stop dancing Limbo!
All the more reason for Israel not to give the Palestinians one inch of land. Eventually the Supreme Liar, his illegal brutal regime and Hamas will eventually have to be put down like the rabid dogs they are.
this article is not all telling. Abbas needs to be seen as the stronger partner in Palestine. That is why he pushes for UN bid. Hamas and Iran would love to show he isn't to continue the divide. All that know Abbas knows he wants peace - but he has to do this for his people. To believe this article fully, means you are not looking at the subject objectively enough.
and take your 500000 Jewish fanatics and land thieves back to Israel.
The West Bank is disputed territory, both Israel and the Arabs have their legitimate claims, the world cannot and will not turn the clock back to 1967. The Arabs had 20 years (1949-1967) to create a new Pal Arab state on the WB, Gaza and east Jerusalem and did not. If the Arabs are serious about accepting Israel, then let them get back to the negotiating table and be prepared to compromise in order to get their own state - just like the Jews did in 1947 (which was another opportunity blown by the Arab leadership).
Israel is already busy with that. Do you realy think Israel will help the Palestinians? If it is up to Israel they will jail all the Palestinians and take their ground. Thats no justice.
This same attitude are on the other side of radical. You sound like the real radicals that want to do the same to Israel. Neither side is winning. They will all blow each other up and everyone else right with them. But Abbas has to appear as strong leader - and you would believe only what this article presents?
Hamas continues to undermine efforts at peace on the Palestinian side, just as America and Israel work against real peace on the other side. Hamas gives those who share the fundamentalist Jewish settler mentality an excuse to militate against peace, and they are a godsend to Israel, who isn't interested in a two-state solution OR peace in the first place.
Netanyahu has rejected any building freeze. Obama has sworn to block any UN action. Violence is the only option the Palestinians have left.
Israel has blocked off every possible Palestinian option to violence. Sun Tzu said never to trap your opponents in a corner with no other way out. It only makes them fight more desperately.
Violence is what has actually made this mess in the first place. It continues to do so on both sides, not just Israel or not just Palestine. There never has been any peace, nor has then been any less violence in one way or the other.
Do you really believe the nonsense you post?
Don't complain when Israel fights back, you self righteous moron
Hamas's violence is the reason Netanyahu has not frozen settlement building and why Obama will use it's veto in the UN. Netanyahu doesn't believe extremists will stop violence even if they have a state, so why give up land? Especially when extremists call for complete destruction of Israel, not just a 2 state.
This is just a continuation of that violence. When will you learn?
Your words would make seem that lobbing RPGs and missiles,sending gunmen to kill civilians well within "Israel's pre-1967 borders",killing families including infants in cold blood and other peaceful methods of "resistance" were not violent enough. Palestinians will only opt for violence, because that is their only stock in trade.
So you are also calling for the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of 6,000,000 Israeli Jews. You stand squarely in the corner of the Iranian dictator who stole the last election from his own people and the Hamas Jew hating leaders. Good going, Mark. Israel's intransigence and misbehavior does not justify a call for Genocide.
u r right
Kind of what Israel did during all those wars the arabs started. Except the Arabs and hamas really dont like teh jews to do what hamas wants to do. hamas = serious losers, irrelevant in todays society
Now we are again given the real thinking of the Palestinians. Why are we in the West so convinced that ceding land is the only answer when half of the 'palestinian' state wants to resort to combat to destroy Israel with the obvious help by Iran. Let the Palestinians stew in their own mess and don't give them an inch. The land was won fair and square several times and no one in modern history has been forced to give back land won in war.
Have you had any kind of education at all?
"no one in modern history has been forced to give back land won in war" Saddam Hussein and Kuwait? In fact, you are trying to justify disobeying international law. What sort of wannabe criminal does that make you?
You have not learned from history that the Jews will always live to stand at the graveside of their enemies, and that also means your proud, overzealous converts to Imperial Islam!
You would have been personally responsible for aiding and abetting a second Palestinian civil war with Hamas crushing Fatah and taking power, this time in the West Bank, if the US didn't exercise its veto power at the UNSC.
Yesterdays terrorists are often referred to as today's freedom fighters (IRA, Irgun, Stern Gang, Haganah, etc.). Certain factions of Hamas may be viewed in the same light in a decade or so...
that the Irgun, Stern Gang and Haganah produced results, but the islamo-facists weren't able to dump the Jews into the sea, and I guess that they never will.
Sorry, there's no equality there. Likewise the Stern gang was less than 50 men and the Haganah(The Defense) never attacked arabs back in reprisal for their continued attempted massacre, it's historical revisionism to mention them under your list. The reason Stern and Irgun broke from the Hagana and formed their own small parties is because the Hagana refused to leave their city borders and strike back. Hamas is not a resistance movement, it is a terrorist religious organization with genocidal and colonization agendas. The IRA never threatened to take over all of the UK and kill every last Brit.
attacked the British Military not civilians
Are the free world seriously suggesting that we need to negotiate and hand over valuable strategic land to these Islamist fanatics?
Im not sure..... But the free World seems fine with the confiscation of valuable Palestinian land by Zionist fanatics.
They are asking you, and should be forcing you, to negotiate with Abu Mazen. He wasn't in Iran and is not an Islamist fanatic.
The world is demanding that the indigenous people of Palestine and Israel be given freedom and justice either in one state with equal rights for all or in two states where borders are negotiated, finally, for Israel and Palestine. The world is also asking that Jewish and Islamic fanatics are controlled.
It is the same logic. Each religion has fanatics
In other countries, you cannot justify theft by saying that you don't like your victim's friends.
How can belief anything this article has to say? Is it partially true, sort of true - or twisted? Both sides do it, including Israel. The more this happens, the more war and both sides will end up blowing each other up taking innocents with them. The world is tired of it.
The American Christian fanatics and the American and Israeli Jewish fanatics are no less fanatical and frankly, just as mad. But they are far more dangerous than the people you seem to fear so much, because they are far more powerful.
Gaza is almost the size of the west bank, Hamas was voted in by the people of Gaza, their charter destroy Israel....until the palistinian people are prepared to accept Israel, as Israel is prepared to accept Palistine, there can never peace, and fanatics will prevail, the time has come for the Arab world to accept Israel, and support unconditional negotiations to accomplish a two state solution
The "free world" is increasingly dominated by those who believe in the doctrine of political correctness in which the victim of aggression becomes transformed into the perpetrator of aggression. How many times do those on the Left label israel as a fascist, racist and apartheid state? I am sure that if asked, those who spew such epithets have no idea of what these terms actually mean let alone the history of region. These words are used for their emotional value. Israel has to be vilified because such demonization supports the rhetoric and tenets of anti-Semitism. The "free world" wants to be liberated from its collective guilt of inaction in the years leading up to and during the Holocaust. Such "blood guilt" can only be expunged if Israel is portrayed as a genocidal nation against the "innocent" Palestinian Arabs who were cruelly and methodically expelled from their ancestral lands by an illegitimate land-grabbing Jewish State. Forget the historical facts regarding the UN Partition of Palestine into two states--one Jewish and one Arab. Forget about the five Arab States that invaded Palestine in an attempt to destroy the nascent Jewish State and its Jews but lost the war. Forget about how the Palestinian Arab refugees were kept in refugee camps from 1948 onwards while Egypt and Jordan illegally occupied those lands. Forget about the corruption of the Palestinian leadership who embezzled international funds or use their own people as human shields or preach a doctrine of hate that will contaminate generations to come. Yes, many in the world expect Israel to "hand over valuable strategic land to these Islamic fanatics" because their own anti-Semitim and the delusion that trading "land for peace" at Israel's expense will buy peace in our time. They mistakenly believe that if the Palestinians and followers of Radical Islam can be appeased by sacrificing Israel then the Western Christian world will be loved by Muslims around the world. What they fail to admit or completely ignore is that there is a now a fundamental clash of religious ideologies in which the Rights of Man will be replaced by strictly enforced Sharia Law. It is time for the so-called international community to wake up before it is too late.
How do you propose to accomplish these goals? It is very hard to negotiate with individuals who call for the complete removal and destruction of the Jews from the land. Security comes first then negotiations can resume.
How can you define who owns a set area? Should the US abandon the Americas because the land actually belongs to the Native Americans? Should Australians leave their home because they are actually from Britain? The Jewish people have returned to the land taken from their ancestors and will not abandon it again.
I concur 1000%. When both sides acknowledge each others right to exist there may be peace. Not before then!