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| Hamas Vows Revenge For IDF West Bank Operation |
| 2014-06-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] A senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, official vowed Saturday that the terror group would respond to Israel's military operation in the West Bank — Operation Brother's Keeper — which aims to locate three kidnapped Israeli teenagers while simultaneously harming Hamas's terror infrastructure in the West Bank. Since the disappearance Thursday, June 12, of Naftali Frankel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, thousands of Israeli troops have searched hundreds of locations in the West Bank and jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! more than 300 Paleostinians, many from Hamas, including some who were freed in a 2011 prisoner exchange for Hamas-kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. "This [operation] will not break Hamas. Hamas is too strong a movement for this [operation] to break it. Our popularity will only increase," said Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... , according to Channel 10. The Hamas official's remarks came a day after Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) on Friday listed one of Israel's goals in the IDF operation as seeking to "break Hamas." "We will have our Dire Revenge™. Hamas has proven that it has the capabilities to respond [to Israel's military operation]," Abu Zuhri promised. The Israeli government has pointed the finger for the abduction at the terror group and said it holds the Paleostinian Authority responsible for the fate of the teenagers. Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... on Wednesday criticized the kidnapping, said the youths must be returned, and confirmed ongoing security cooperation with Israel to try to locate them. On Thursday, an Israeli official named a deported Hamas terror chief, Saleh al-Arouri, as a suspect in orchestrating the kidnapping. Hamas has praised the kidnapping without claiming responsibility, and slammed Abbas for siding with Israel. Abu Zuhri also dismissed a statement by Paleostinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki Friday which threatened Hamas with "drastic decisions" should it be found that the terror group was behind the kidnapping. Maliki said it would be a "blow to the reconciliation process." "Maliki does not reflect the opinions of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah or of Hamas and Fatah. His remarks pander to Israel and the Europeans," Abu Zuheiri said. A top Hamas official on Saturday also dismissed threats to end the unity government between Fatah and Hamas. "The unity of the Paleostinian people and the end of the division are top priorities and there's no going back [on the unity agreement]," said Moussa Abu Marzouk. The two Paleostinian factions swore in a unity government on June 2 — 10 days before the abduction of the teenagers from a hitchhiking post in the Gush Ezion area in the West Bank. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Israel to show proof 'Hamas behind teens kidnapping' |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-06-22 12:47 |
| #1 To my untrained ears they are sounding a bit peckish. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-22 03:47 |