Word: palestinians
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...peace] conferences capable of realizing the demands, restoring the rights or doing justice to the oppressed. These conferences are only ways of setting the infidels in the land of the Moslems as arbitrators.” Later, the covenant states: “there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors...
...responsible for the Beit Hanoun massacre. Therefore, the people and the nation all over the globe are required to teach the American enemy tough lessons,” a 2006 Hamas spokesman said. In a speech on April 11, a Hamas cleric who is a minister of the Palestinian parliament preached that Islam would soon conquer Rome, “the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam, and which has planted the brothers of apes and pigs in Palestine in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam.” Interlacing...
...Carter met this past weekend with Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal in Syria, it would be wise to recall that it is not Israel who refuses to speak with Hamas, but Hamas who refuses to speak with Israel. Engaging with Hamas simply because it is a major Palestinian actor belies Hamas’ own goals. Hamas does not seek power in order to negotiate with Israel, but in order to destroy Israel. In the past, Israel has made peace with Egypt and Jordan and recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people as soon as each had renounced...
Things weren't always so bleak. Last November, Bush brought Palestinians and Israelis together in pursuit of a paper-only deal with minimal on-the-ground concessions in the hope of creating political momentum for peace. A good idea, until resurgent attacks by the militant Palestinian group Hamas made a paper-only deal seem like just that. Now even White House spokeswoman Dana Perino admits, "We have a hell of a lot of work...
...about.“Literary Men” is a novel obsessed with ideas. Each character lives in the world of his thoughts, fanatically obsessed with a particular subject—for Keith, it is modern American politics, for Mark, the 1917 Russian Revolution, and for Sam, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They do not just ponder these subjects abstractly, but live through them; their entire world is framed by them. For the characters, the whole world can be understood as analogous to these ideas. When Mark tries to convince Celeste, the woman he desires, to leave her boyfriend...