Describing Hamas as a grandchild of Sharon and Israel’s policies, Khouri reminded the audience that Hamas nevertheless has kept a year-long truce with Israel.An American editorialist at Al-Jazeerah.info goes one better:
Israel has violated the truce that the so-called terrorist organization Hamas has upheld for 15 months..."Even the mainstream media has picked up on this, led by the resident Palestinian apologist at Reuters, Nidal al-Mughrabi:
While it has largely abided by a year-old truce, the government defended a suicide bombing carried out by the Islamic Jihad militant group in Tel Aviv on April 17 that killed nine people...So, has Hamas really been staying away from terror since February 2005?
It turns out that the US National Counterterrorism Center keeps a database of worldwide terror attacks over the past couple of years. And while Hamas seems to have "officially" kept relatively quiet since the elections, the database shows quite a few attacks that came way after the supposed "truce" (stats through the end of 2005):
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Comprehensive and quite excellent listing of anti-truce activities - more than I have seen anywhere else, and with useful commentary - at http://www.kerenmalki.org/Ongoing_War.htm
ReplyDeleteHard to believe that so much of the mainstream media can be so bloody ignorant of all the hostile, warlike behavior that masquerades as a truce. What we do without the blogosphere?
Keren Malki is great, and he is now aware of the US State Dept. list. I was showing only verifiable Hamas attacks, not all - of which there are over 450 from February 8 to December 31, 1005.
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