The Palestinians and the international media do their best to convince the world that Israel is treating the Gaza Strip in a brutal and oppressive manner. The truth is that Israel’s leadership is very stubbornly refusing to take off its kid gloves in dealing with the mounting threat from Hamas-controlled Gaza, to the continued detriment of both Israel and the Arabs of Gaza. Continue reading »

An Israeli news site last week quoted a Hamas leader telling a Lebanese newspaper that his group plans to declare independence in the Gaza Strip*. The Israeli site posted a follow-up analysis that noted with a certain degree of fascination that if the declaration takes place, it would mark the first time a full-fledge terrorist organization had become a government in charge of a territorial entity. Continue reading »

In a very disturbing report published this week we learn that a female Palestinian Christian professor from the Gaza Strip has been forced to convert to Islam by her Muslim university colleagues. Continue reading »

Naturally, the Palestinian Authority and Gaza’s Hamas rulers want to discredit the notion that Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist network has set up shop in the territories under their control, but their claims simply are not compatible with the available evidence. Continue reading »

Italy’s foreign minister on Tuesday insisted that Hamas represents an integral part of the Palestinian Arabs, and must therefore be engaged rather than shunned. Continue reading »

The new “Palestinian” unity government is only a few days old, but Hamas on Monday wasted no time in implementing the power-sharing regime’s deceptively malicious platform.

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Nimr Hamad, a spokesman for PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas, stated Thursday that the new Hamas-Fatah unity government and its newly-released platform accurately represent all Palestinian Arabs, and if Israel refuses to make peace with that government then it refuses to make peace with the “Palestinians” in general.

He is absolutely right.

The new government and its platform do in fact accurately represent the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs.

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Yesterday’s meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PLO terror boss Mahmoud Abbas and its immediate aftermath makes it painfully obvious why peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority need to be called off.

Every clear-thinking observer has been noting for months how ridiculous it is for Israel to negotiate with Abbas, while a Hamas still unswervingly dedicated to Israel’s destruction is the one that decides whether or not any deals he makes are actually implemented.

Abbas’ promise to Olmert on Sunday to release abducted IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, and Hamas’ reaction to that commitment is just a preview of how the entire “peace” process will play out under these circumstances.

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Meryl Yourish already noted the diabolical cleverness of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal when on Monday he turned the tables on Israel by insisting that Jerusalem “recognize the Palestinian state’s right to exist.”

Mashaal remained on game today when he very vaguely hinted that maybe, just maybe, Hamas might think about making peace with Israel at some undefined point in the unforeseeable future.

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The United States has a well-known policy (in theory) of not negotiating with terrorists. Unfortunately, that policy often takes a back seat to the politically-correct leanings of liberal politicians seeking to leave a legacy of “peace.”

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