Recent Posts Tagged With 'hamas'

• And If This Happened to Gilad Shalit?

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 08:50 in Israel, palestine, egypt, torture, Gaza, hamas

  Yousef Abu Zuhri, a Hamas member and brother of the movement’s spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri, died in an Egyptian jail. Hamas is outraged, claiming he was tortured to death. (full article…) ...

• If the NYT Were Honest…

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 11:24 in Israel, palestine, protest, war crimes, Gaza, hamas, abbas, palestinian authority

  In Gaza, posters appeared on walls on Wednesday calling Mr. Abbas a traitor and saying he should be consigned to “the trash heap of history.” Gaza is controlled by Hamas, the militant Islamic group that is the Palestinian Authority’...

• Hamas Thugs

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 11:24 in Gaza, hamas, authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism

  The Hamas government has banned motorcycle riders from carrying women on the back seat – the latest in the militants’ virtue campaign in Gaza. The ban was posted on Hamas Interior Ministry Web site on Tuesday. It says the ban seeks “...

• Israel’s Proxy Regime

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 18:31 in Israel, palestine, hamas, fatah

  The Palestinian Authority on Saturday dissolved the Hamas-controlled municipal council in Kalkliya, in a move that has drawn strong condemnation from the Islamist movement. (more…)...

• Oh Really, Just Like the Election of Hamas Was Recognized?

  Posted on Tuesday September 8th, 2009 at 14:15 in palestine, democracy, blair, hamas, fayyad

  And yet if [Salam Fayyad] is to retain his legitimacy for any length of time, he will eventually need some sort of mandate from ordinary Palestinians. “In the end,” Tony Blair told me, “it all has to be endorsed in an election. Ulti...