Video - Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: The Quran Tells Us to Drive the Jews Out of Palestine in Its Entirety.

Video - Hamas Official Mahmoud Al-Zahhar: The Quran Tells Us to Drive the Jews Out of Palestine in Its Entirety. (MEMRI).

Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, one of Hamas's leaders in Gaza, said that "removing the Jews from the land they occupied in 1948 is an immutable principle" appearing in the Quran, and said:

"Our position is: Palestine in its entirety, and not a grain of soil less." Speaking on Al-Aqsa TV on March 8, Al-Zahhar advised Hamas and the Islamic Jihad never to mention the 1967 borders, as "this becomes like part of a joint plan."

'Hamas, LTTE should be dropped from terror list': European Court of Justice advocate general.

'Hamas, LTTE should be dropped from terror list': European Court of Justice advocate general. (DS).

The European Union's top court took a step toward confirming the removal of Hamas, as well as the Tamil Tigers, from an EU terrorism blacklist despite protestations from Israel and the Sri Lankan government.

An advocate general at the European Court of Justice, whose advice is usually followed by judges, recommended Thursday that they reject an appeal by the Council of EU member states against the lower EU court's decisions in late 2014 to remove both movements from the sanctions list due to flaw procedures.

The United States has urged the maintenance of sanctions on Hamas. The Sri Lankan government had said in 2014 that it would provide the evidence which the court found lacking to support sanctions against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

In both cases, judges of the EU's General Court ruled that EU leaders relied too heavily on media reports rather than their own investigations when they imposed asset freezes and travel bans dating back 15 years on members of Hamas and the LTTE.

Both organizations argued that they were engaged in legal wars against Israel and the Sri Lankan government respectively.

Her advice, which also said some elements of the appeal were justified, is not binding. But judges' rulings typically follow closely the recommendations of the advocates general.

The ECJ said its justices were beginning their deliberations on the case and there was no set date for a ruling. Read the full story here.

Iran, Italy sign up to $18.4bn contracts.

Iran, Italy sign up to $18.4bn contracts. (Taz).

Iran and Italy have signed multi-billion dollar contracts covering various sectors including health, transportation, agriculture and energy, Press TV reported.

The contracts, worth up to 17 billion euros (USD 18.4 billion), were signed in a ceremony attended by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella in Rome on Monday night.


The Iranian president arrived in Italy on Monday on the first leg of his trip to three European destinations following the implementation of a nuclear agreement between Tehran and the P5+1 group of countries.

Rouhani flew into Rome at the head of a delegation of more than 100 businessmen and ministers. He will meet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Pope Francis during his two-day stay before traveling to France on Wednesday.

Italy has traditionally had close economic ties with Tehran and no sooner had Rouhani's plane touched down in Rome, than a government source said Italian firms were poised to sign commercial accords worth between 15 billion to 17 billion euros.

These included a deal for Italian oil services group Saipem  for a 2,000 km (1,240 miles) pipeline worth between $4 billion and $5 billion, a source with knowledge of the matter said. Saipem was not immediately available for a comment.

Prior to the ceremony, Reuters reported that a pipeline contract worth between 3.6-4.6 billion euros (USD 4-5 billion) for Italian oil services group Saipem was among the deals.

Infrastructure firm Condotte d'Acqua was also scheduled to sign deals worth up to four billion euros (USD 4.3 billion).

In addition, Italian steel firm Danieli  will sign commercial agreements worth up to $5.7 billion with Iran, a company spokesman said. These accords will include a joint venture, to be called Persian Metallics, with other international investors, worth $2 billion.

Rouhani is due to address a conference of entrepreneurs and industrial leaders in Rome on Tuesday.
Iran demonstrated its hunger for Western goods at an aviation conference in Tehran on Sunday, announcing plans to buy more than 160 European planes, including eight superjumbos from Airbus , and holding up the prospect of a major order for U.S. company Boeing. Hmmm......what happened to 'Thirty pieces of Silver' ?

'Human rights? What Human rights violations? Turkey important player in region – EU Mogherinni.

'Human rights? What Human rights violations? Turkey important player in region – EU Mogherinni. (Taz).

Turkey is an important player in the region, said the head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini at a press conference in Ankara, the Turkish TRT Haber TV channel reported Jan. 25.

Mogherini said that the relations between Turkey and the EU are increasingly developing.
Ankara applied for the EU membership in 1987, and negotiations on Turkey’s accession started in 2005.

Since then, the parties have agreed on 14 out of 35 technical points that Ankara must fulfill to achieve the standards required for EU membership.

In January 2015, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that his country is no longer interested in the EU accession.


The same year only 20 percent of Turkish population wanted the country to join the EU compared to 75 percent previously. Hmmm.....I said it before and i'll say it again the EU politicians would sell any human right for a profit.

EU[Rabia] Decides to Label Golan, Judea and Samaria Products.

EU[Rabia] Decides to Label Golan, Judea and Samaria Products. (INN).

The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution Thursday calling on the European Union to differentiate "between Israel and its activities in the occupied Palestinian Territory" and to ensure “that all agreements between the EU and Israel must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.”

The resolution, which passed by 525 votes to 70, with 31 abstentions, calls on EU foreign policy chief Federica Mussolini Mogherini “to take the lead within the Commission with a view to completing the work on EU-wide guidelines on the labeling of Israeli settlement produce.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry lashed out against the move, saying, “The State of Israel views the parliament’s decision with severity, in particular the call for labeling products. The process of labeling is discriminatory, and reeks of a boycott."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said that the EU motion was "discriminatory with a sharp smell of boycott," adding that "under the guise of a technical procedure, this is an attempt to force a diplomatic solution instead of encouraging the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table."

He added: "Europe treats Israel with sanctimonious hypocrisy, while it doesn’t raise the issue of similar solutions in Northern Cyprus and Western Sahara."

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely responded to the decision by saying: “We need to call a spade a spade: marking products is a boycott.

"The state of Israel will not allow any body to discriminate between products that are produced by citizens of Israel and within Israel's territory,” she added. “The attempts to advance some kind of arrangement through unilateral moves, especially when this involves labeling products, will end up achieving nothing and leading nowhere.”

Hotovely said that immediately after Rosh Hashana, she intends to hold an urgent session on the matter with the Europe Section of the ministry, and launch a diplomatic campaign against the EU initiative to label products. Hmmm.....The 1930's are back. 

Video - Hamas Friday Sermon in Gaza: Our People Hate UNRWA the Most, It Is Corrupt

Hmmmm......I guess they're still upset about their rocket storage :)

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Abbas says Palestinian govt to resign within 24 hours - reports.

Abbas says Palestinian govt to resign within 24 hours - reports. (RT).

The Palestinian government is to be dissolved within 24 hours, AFP reports, quoting a statement made by President Mahmoud Abbas. The government's spokesman, however, denies any such discussion of dissolution.


"Within 24 hours the Palestinian government will resign," Abbas told members of the Revolutionary Council of his Fatah movement in Ramallah, AFP reports, citing several officials present at the meeting.

The reason for the resignation is the government's inability to act in the Gaza strip, AFP reported earlier in the day citing senior officials with the Palestinian Authority.

“This one [government] is weak and there is no chance that Hamas will allow it to work in Gaza,” said Amin Maqbul, secretary general of the ruling Fatah movement's Revolutionary Council, according to AFP.

While Maqbul is quoted as saying that a new government will be formed within 24 hours, another source, an unnamed attendee of the 15th Revolutionary Council conference quoted by the Maan news agency claims it could take several days.

However, the issue was not discussed at the latest meeting of the collective Hamas-Fatah government, according to government spokesman Ihab Bseiso, AFP reports.

The current government was forged by the rival Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah in June 2014, after a unity pact ended a violent split that began in 2007.

Update :  More on this developing story here.

Hamas threatens "escalating events" against UNRWA over cuts.

Hamas threatens "escalating events" against UNRWA over cuts. HT: IMRA.


DRAH: Unfair UNRWA Decisions Pour Oil on the Fire. -  Hamas newspaper 12 June 2015 http://english.alresalah.ps/en/post.php?id=4710

Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)— Division Refugee Affairs-Hamas stated that UNRWA tends to reduce the services provided to Palestinian refugees without a resolution from the United Nations, and before getting the Palestinian refugees back to their homes in occupied Palestine in accordance with the UN resolution 302 in 1949, according to which UNRWA was established.

In a press release on Thursday, 11 June 2015, DRAH said that the cuts and decisions UNRWA tends to make including halt of employment in the five areas UNRWA operates in are unprecedented resolutions and exceed the powers UNRWA has been assumed by the United Nations.

"Through such unfair decisions, UNRWA pours oil on the fire". DRAH added in the statement.

DRAH demanded UNRWA to retreat such resolutions that have been issued in May and June, 2015.

DRAH called on the United Nations to continually compensate every lack in UNRWA budget that is caused by failure of donors to meet their pledges, inviting the United Nations to search for alternatives financial resources to overcome the crisis.

DRAH called on the national forces, civil society organizations and Refugees to get around these demands and coordinat efforts to get them achieved.

"We will carry out escalating events that will continue till getting these demands achieved whereas the refugees will not the only losers because of the UNRWA unfair resolutions." DRAH added in the statement.

New Gaza Flotilla Threat on the Horizon for end of the Month.

New Gaza Flotilla Threat on the Horizon for end of the Month. (INN).

Showdown to take place final week of June and include senior international figures - will it end in violence and global condemnation again?

"Freedom Flotilla 3," a maritime challenge to Israel's legal naval blockade on the coastal enclave of Gaza which is controlled by the Hamas terrorist organization, is preparing to embark in the final week of June and threatens to potentially cause a flare-up like the infamous 2010 Mavi Marmara.

Mazen Kahil, head of the European Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza, told the Hamas journal Palestine on Saturday that the flotilla ships are currently in the Mediterranean Sea.

The ships are waiting to join the Swedish ship Marianne, which recently anchored in Italy, on the open sea and from there continue as a unified group towards Gaza, where they intend to confront the Israeli Navy - potentially with lethal force as was seen in the Marmara.

Kahil detailed that senior public figures, including former Tunisian President Muncef Marzouki, members of the European Parliament, journalists, athletes, artists, as well as radical leftist Israelis will be on board.

He claimed that symbolic humanitarian materials will be loaded on board the ships to demand Gaza's naval entry be opened - despite the fact that Israel is allowing hundreds of truckloads of humanitarian and construction materials to enter Gaza border crossings every day, even as Hamas rebuilds its terror tunnels for the next round of fighting.

The equipment to be loaded on the ships include solar receptors, children's medicines and medical equipment.

Leaders of the flotilla estimate that Israel will once again block the naval breach and defend its maritime blockade, but they expressed optimism that they would be able to eventually reach Gaza and open a water route for Hamas that Israel has warned would serve as a port for Iran on the Mediterranean. Read the full story here.

Pot blames Kettle - Pro-IS Group In Gaza Complains Hamas 'Worse Than Israel'.

#IS core accounts attacking #Hamas describing Haniya as "dog asking 4 Iran's support" saying #IS "will be in #Gaza" + pic.twitter.com/O7hdYFiY6q

— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) May 6, 2015

Pro-IS Group In Gaza Complains Hamas 'Worse Than Israel'.(rferl).

Tensions are rising in Gaza between the Palestinian group Hamas and Jamaat Ansar al-Dawla al-Islamiya Fi Bayt al-Maqdis (The Supporters Of Islamic State In Jerusalem), a Salafist faction that considers itself loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group.

The flare-up was sparked on May 3 when Hamas destroyed a mosque belonging to the Supporters Of Islamic State In Jerusalem (SISJ) in the coastal enclave's Deir al-Balah city.

SISJ responded to the demolition of the mosque by issuing a statement threatening to carry out actions against Hamas targets if the Palestinian group did not release several SISJ militants who were detained in Gaza last month.

A Twitter account linked to the SISJ tweeted on May 3 that they would give Hamas 72 hours to release the Salafist prisoners or face the consequences.

One of the individuals whose release SISJ is demanding is Sheikh Adnan Khader Mayyat, a radical Salafist whom Hamas says has ties to IS. After Mayyat's arrest, sources close to the Salafist group in Gaza accused Hamas of fighting "mujahedin [jihadist fighters] who belong to the Salafist movement."

According to Egyptian daily Al-Masry al-Youm, the Supporters Of Islamic State In Jerusalem statement said that three bulldozers had demolished the mosque, "in a manner that even the Jewish and American Occupation has not done."

The SISJ added that, "in the light of Hamas' new behavior, we renew our loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and call on him to strengthen his influence and to launch a campaign in Palestine and to unite in the fight against the Jews and their accomplices." Hmmm......Pop corn time. Read the full story here

Hamas Wins Significant Victory At West Bank 'Islamist' University.

Hamas Wins Significant Victory At West Bank 'Islamist' University. (GMBR).

Israeli media is reporting that Hamas has won a significant victory in student council elections at Birzeit University, a non-governmental public university located in Birzeit, Palestine near the West Bank city of Ramallah. According to the Haaretz report, the election results reflect the mood on the “Palestinian street”:

April 26, 2015 Hamas has scored a convincing victory in the elections for the student council of Birzeit University, which is considered the most liberal of all West Bank Palestinian universities and a reliable indicator of the mood on the Palestinian street. 

The April 22 elections were a focus of interest over the weekend in the Palestinian political arena, with some observers terming Hamas’ triumph as a political earthquake and a sea change in the mood in the West Bank, while others saw it as a localized failure that harked back to the trend that characterized the campus for many years, particularly in the years immediately following the 1993 Oslo Accords. 

The Hamas-affiliated Islamic Wafaa’ Bloc won 26 out of the council’s 51 seats, compared to 19 seats for Fatah’s student party, five for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and one seat for a coalition of other parties. Hamas won most of the student council elections between 2003 and 2007, when Fatah took the lead. Hamas did not contest the elections in 2009 and 2010, when it accused the Palestinian Authority of persecuting it. In 2012 the results were a mirror image of this year, with 26 council seats for Fatah and 19 for Hamas. In 2013 and 2014 Fatah’s lead over Hamas narrowed, to 23 versus 20. 

Hamas and its supporters consider the student faction’s seven-seat lead over Fatah in this year’s election an overwhelming victory, so much so that in his congratulatory message to the students, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal heralded it as ‘the first step in the national Palestinian process of completing the establishment of the Palestinian institutions in the Palestinian Authority and in the PLO and in acting to end the occupation.’

Read the rest here.

The Hamas charter says that it is “one of the wings of the Muslim Brothers in Palestine.”

Hamas: Israel agrees in principle to build seaport and airport in Gaza

Hamas: Israel agrees in principle to build seaport and airport in Gaza. (IMRA).

Regional changes to force Abbas act positively towards Gaza Strip Hamas newspaper 25 April 2015 http://english.alresalah.ps/en/post.php?id=4640

GAZA CITY (Alresalah.ps) -- A year after the Beach Agreement had been signed by both Hamas and Fatah, the Consensus Government returned to the Gaza Strip for the third time, seeking to count the PA staff  a move that aims to complete the integration process of all ministries in the Gaza Strip. Decisions taken by the Consensus Government sparked a political debate over the outcome of this situation.

Seemingly, good intentions and promises made by the government were not enough for Hamas to rest assured. The countless numbers of attempts, which failed to reach a real agreement, made the Islamic Resistance Movement cautious over any promises pledged by the government.

But the question is "what is the secret behind the sudden moves of the PA and political changes towards Gaza?"

The PA is concerned that it might be given the axe due to the regional and national changes, since it is the less effective side.

The PA alleges that indirect secret negotiations are taking place between Hamas and Israel, brokered by European sides. Observers believe that these negotiations will alleviate the impacts of Israel's siege on the Gaza Strip, in case it happened.

Sources confirm that there is a European and international desire to end the crises in the coastal enclave, mainly the reconstruction issue, and to bring about a long-term truce.

Anonymous sources told Alresalah.ps that there is a principal Israeli agreement to build a seaport and an airport in the Gaza Strip, "since Israel is capable of destroying them completely in any coming war." What is most important for the Israelis is to reach a state of security and political stability.

The Saudi rapprochement with Hamas was reflected on the Egyptian relations. The Egyptian intelligence demanded to call Chairman of Hamas Political Bureau Khalid Mishaal, according to a Hamas senior leader.

Abbas is well-aware that he will not be an active part in any solutions to the current situation in the Gaza Strip as long as the Consensus Government ignores the strip. The PA realizes that changes in realtions with Saudi Arabia strengthened Hamas' positions.

Thus, Abbas may change his stances towards the people of the Gaza Strip.

Turkey 'Celebrating' the sinking of the Struma.

Turkey 'Celebrating' the sinking of the Struma. (JPost).

The excesses of chutzpah never cease to amaze. A galling example was provided by Turkey’s purportedly big-hearted recent memorial for the 768 Jewish refugees (including 103 babies and children) who drowned off its coast on February 24, 1942, when WWII raged.

Turkey’s official line nowadays is that the Struma was only anchored in its waters “for a few days.” In fact, it was a 75-day (from December 12 to February 24) spectacle of apathy and inhumanity in which the Turkish role was most prominent.

Ankara adamantly refused to let anyone off the crippled vessel except for the handful who had British entry visas to Eretz Yisrael. Turkey’s premier argued that “Turkey cannot be expected to serve as a refuge or surrogate homeland for people unwanted anywhere else.”

The Turkish government, nonetheless, pitilessly ordered the condemned Struma tugged out to the Black Sea. Hundreds of truncheon-wielding Turkish policemen were dispatched to the ship on February 23. They viciously clubbed passengers below deck. Despite resistance from the refugees, the anchor was cut, the Struma was dragged out and was left paralyzed, to drift without supplies or a drop of fuel.

On February 24, an explosion ripped it apart. A Soviet submarine, Shchuka-213, patrolled northeast of the Bosporus. Stalking Axis craft, it torpedoed the wobbly Struma, which sank in minutes. It is estimated that as many as 500 were killed outright by the blast. The rest flapped feebly in the waves, till they expired of wounds, fatigue and hypothermia

The Jerusalem Post scorns the first ever Turkish commemoration of the sinking of the Struma, and wonders what is behind this “pageant of ostensible solidarity.”

The editor suspects that “rather than voicing genuine remorse, Turkey’s memorial was a cynical ploy designed to disguise other sentiments,” and concludes: “For Israelis, more than anything, the Struma powerfully illustrates what happens when Jews rely on others’ goodwill.” Hmmmm.......Bibi should never had apologized to this 'person'. Read the full story here.

Thousands line the streets of Gaza for funeral of terrorist group Hamas' co-founder.

Thousands line the streets of Gaza for funeral of terrorist group Hamas' co-founder.(DM).

Thousands took to the streets of Gaza this week to mourn the death of the co-founder of Hamas, who was buried with an assault rifle across his chest.

Hammad Al-Hasanat co-founded the terrorist group on December 14, 1987, with its spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin. He was 80 years old when he died on Monday from health complications.

Hamas' Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in a statement that Hassanat 'was a brilliant leader of the Islamic movement, and one of the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Hamas movement in Palestine'. 

The UK, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan and the United States consider Hamas to be a terrorist organisation, while Iran, Russia, Turkey, China and Qatar consider it to be a legitimate political organisation.  Hmmmm.....Come to think of it, guess Hamas is still no longer a terror group in Eurabia? Read the full story here.

'CIA' attempted to contact terrorist group Hamas despite official US ban, spy cables reveal.

'CIA' attempted to contact Hamas despite official US ban, spy cables reveal.(Guardian).

The CIA tried to gain access to Hamas through backchannels despite a US government ban on contact with the Palestinian Islamist movement, the spy cables show.

They suggest US intelligence has been anxious to make inroads with Hamas, or recruit agents, inside the Gaza Strip. The US designated Hamas, which won the last Palestinian election in 2006 and now runs Gaza, as a terrorist group in 1997. When Barack Obama became president in 2008, there was speculation that he might seek to establish contact, but this proved short-lived.

Despite an official ban on contact, a CIA officer discussed with a South African intelligence agent the possibility of gaining access to Hamas in 2012, the leaked documents disclose. (Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has had strong relations with both Fatah and Hamas, though the Palestinian Authority has voiced its disapproval at the Hamas links.)

The US and South African agents met in East Jerusalem amid violent clashes between Hamas and Israeli forces. According to a cable sent to Pretoria on 29 June 2012, the CIA agent “seems to be desperate to make inroads into Hamas in Gaza and possibly would like SSA [the South African State Security Agency] to assist them in gaining access”. Hmmmm.....What a coincidence....The 2012 Democratic platform 'advocated' to talk to Hamas, until the press got wind of it, so please don't blame the CIA! Read the full 'story' here.

From the Republican Jewish Coalition's Twitter feed via Yid With Lid, we discover some missing language about Israel in the 2012 (compared with 2008) Democratic party platform.

Comparing the language of the 2008 Democratic Party Platform and the 2012 Democratic Party Platform a key section was removed.

Below is the section missing from the 2012 document. Pay special attention to the areas in bold:

The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel's right to exist, and abides by past agreements. Sustained American leadership for peace and security will require patient efforts and the personal commitment of the President of the United States. The creation of a Palestinian state through final status negotiations, together with an international compensation mechanism, should resolve the issue of Palestinian refugees by allowing them to settle there, rather than in Israel. All understand that it is unrealistic to expect the outcome of final status negotiations to be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949. Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel.The parties have agreed that Jerusalem is a matter for final status negotiations. It should remain an undivided city accessible to people of all faiths.

Each of these items are crucial to Israel and each have been key areas of contention for those who believe this President has not been friendly to the Jewish State.

The United States should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism.  By removing this sentence, is Obama preparing to give this group legitimacy? He has already done it with Hamas' parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood which took over Egypt. Hamas' partner in the U.S., CAIR continues to be accepted by, and promoted by liberal members of Congress despite an FBI warning.

Even Alan Dershowitz an Obama apologist is concerned about the omission, he told the Daily Caller:

““I think one shouldn’t give too much weight to platform pronouncements, but in this case, I think the omissions are troubling — particularly the omission about the Palestinian refugee issue and Hamas are, I think, deeply troubling,”

 Dem platform and Obama still recognize Hamas.HT: InfidelBloggers.

Also left out of the Dem platform, and NOT ADDRESSES OR RESTORED:

 "The United States and its Quartet partners should continue to isolate Hamas until it renounces terrorism, recognizes Israel’s right to exist, and abides by past agreements"

Afghan Taliban’s Doha office revived, Emir of Qatar visiting White House next week.

Afghan Taliban’s Muslim Brotherhood Doha office revived, initial talks begin, Emir of Qatar visiting WH next week. (pakistantoday).


The Afghan Taliban’s office in Doha has been revived and the Taliban are now holding initial talks with the Afghan government with Pakistan acting as facilitator, as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday welcomed Pakistan’s initiative to help in the reconciliation process.

Ghani’s office, however, warned that opponents to the peace efforts could mislead people through disinformation.

“The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan respects Pakistan’s recent efforts to pave the way for peace and reconciliation,” the Afghan Presidential Palace said in a statement.

The statement released by the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad also welcomed COAS Raheel Sharif’s remarks that Pakistan considers “Afghanistan’s enemy as its own enemy” during his recent meeting with President Ghani and Chief Executive Dr Abdullah Abdullah.

“Pakistani and Afghanistan leaders have reached a conclusion to begin joint efforts in view of threats and difficulties. The shocking attacks on the army school in Peshawar and Paktika’s Yahya Khel area have strengthened determination and commitment in both countries to jointly fight against terrorism and extremism.”

The statement added that Afghanistan, Pakistan, and international allies are committed to sincerely cooperate with each other to achieve peace

Meanwhile, a top Pakistani official privy to the developments confirmed the resumption of initial contacts between the two parties for devising the rules and agenda of formal talks expected to begin in March.

“Yes I can confirm Taliban’s Doha office has been revived and now with the facilitation of Pakistan, Afghan Taliban are holding initial talks with senior Afghan government officials to chalk out the strategy and set rules for formal talks,” the official said on condition of anonymity.

Details reveal that in the initial level talks, the Afghan Taliban are being represented by Qari Din Mohammad from the Taliban political office in Doha who also went to China in late November, 2014 to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. Qari Din Muhammad also held a meeting with senior US diplomats in Doha this week.

Islamabad, Beijing, Doha and Dubai are the possible venue for talks, and a final destination would be decided by the end of this month.

President Obama will host the Amir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani, at the White House on Tuesday, February 24. 

 The President looks forward to discussing with Sheikh Tamim political, economic, and security issues of mutual concern to our two countries, to further that relationship along with our shared interest in supporting stability and prosperity in the Middle East. Hmmm.....Seems the Obama White House is the place to be for the Who's who in the Muslim Brotherhood club. Just NO JEWS? Read the full story here.

Related:

Jan 11 -2012: Report: U.S. to Release Three Taliban Leaders from Guantanamo Bay, as in Muslim Brotherhood Sheikh Youssef Qaradawi plan. http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2012/01/report-us-to-release-three-taliban.html

March 11 -2012: "Commander in chief' Obama agrees to transfer the Taliban Guantanamo detainees to Qatar. http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2012/03/commander-in-chief-obama-agrees-to.html

June 30 - 2012: Obama administration still considering turning Taliban detainees over to Afghanistan and Qatar http://www.mfs-theothernews.com/2012/06/obama-administration-still-considering.html


Report: Radical Sheikh a Key Mediator in U.S.-Taliban Talks http://www.investigativeproject.org/3359/report-radical-sheikh-a-key-mediator-in-us

http://counterjihadreport.com/2012/01/15/u-s-set-to-release-key-taliban-figure-in-911-attacks/


Video - Chuck Hagel Admits He Felt Pressure from the White House to release Gitmo Detainees.

U.S. Set to Release Key Taliban Figure in 9/11 Attacks  

'Islamist' Turkey Denies Muslim Brotherhood TV Channels Being Broadcast From Turkey.

'Islamist' Turkey Denies Muslim Brotherhood TV Channels Being Broadcast From Turkey.(GMBR).

February 12, 2015 Turkey’s foreign ministry has said that Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated channels are not being broadcast from Turkey, according to Egypt’s charge d’affairs in Istanbul. Turkish officials told Hussein El-Saharty that they did not issue permits to any channels that incite violence, Reuter`s Aswat Masriya reported. 

Earlier this month the Egyptian foreign ministry issued an official complaint against ‘terrorist channels supporting the Muslim Brotherhood broadcasting from inside Turkish territories.’

El-Saharty told Aswat Masriya in an interview that the Turkish foreign ministry requested to meet him and denied ‘the charges regarding Turkey’s sponsorship of these channels.’

However, El-Saharty said he stressed that ‘the crew working on the Brotherhood channels such as Al-Sharq, Egypt Now, and other channels, are currently in Istanbul and Ankara.’

The Muslim Brotherhood was declared a terrorist organisation by the Egyptian government in 2013.

El-Saharty said he told Turkish diplomats that ‘it is not hard for the Turkish security forces to find out where those channels are being broadcasted from.’

In September Turkish media quoted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying that his country welcomes senior figures from Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood after they were asked to leave Qatar under pressure from other Gulf states.

El-Saharty renewed calls for immediate deportation of those members of the Brotherhood against whom Interpol has issued a red notice.

Relations between Egypt and Turkey have deteriorated since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.

The Turkish leader Erdogan has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of Morsi’s ouster, repeatedly describing the transition as a ‘coup’ and criticising the world’s ‘inaction’ towards the Egyptian government’s crackdown on Islamists, which has seen hundreds killed and thousands jailed.

However, according to a report by the Israeli MEMRI:

On February 2, 2015, non-Islamist Turkish media outlets reported that calls for killing Egyptian security officials and threats against Egypt were being issued by Muslim Brotherhood (MB) operatives in Turkey. The independent Turkish daily Cumhuriyet wrote that three Istanbul-based television channels – Rabia TV, Al-Sharq, and Misir Al-A’an – belonging to MB operatives have been broadcasting threats and warnings against a major conference on investment to be held in Cairo in mid-March 2015. The next day, February 3, Hurriyet Daily News published a report titled “Turkish Foreign Ministry Backs Egyptian Broadcasters In Turkey.”

Read the full report here.

The GMBDW reported in December 2014 on the launch of multiple new Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated TV stations, mostly located in Turkey and said to be financially supported by Qatar.

A 2011 report report authored by the GMBDW editor concluded that since 2006, Turkey has become a new center for the Global Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. 

Related:

Turkish website R4BIA.com - "R4BIA is the end of Zionists." 

A New Muslim Brotherhood Symbol: R4BIAHT: MiddleEastWritings.by DawnPerlmutter

FrontPageMagazine.com. September 9, 2013 Turkish website R4BIA.com - "R4BIA is the end of Zionists." 

A section of the website that reveals the true significance of the R4BIA symbol and the fledgling movement posits the question: "What is R4BIA?" The anonymous web master claims the responses were compiled from a selection of interpretations provided by Muslims around the world. They read:

R4BIA is a symbol of freedom
R4BIA is the birth of a new movement for freedom and justice
R4BIA is the birth of a new world
R4BIA is the return of Muslims to world stage
R4BIA means justice, freedom and conscience
R4BIA is the place where the so-called values of the West collapsed
R4BIA means the Egyptian heroes who became free by dying
R4BIA is Egypt, Syria, Palestine and the whole geography of Islam
R4BIA is the name of those who wake all the Islamic world with their death
R4BIA is the place of people who show the death is a revival
R4BIA is our daughter Asma
R4BIA is the grandchildren of Hasan Al Banna
R4BIA is the new name of our children who will change the world
R4BIA is a new breath to humanity
R4BIA is justice for everyone against rotten Western values
R4BIA is the soul of a free man and a free woman
R4BIA is the tear, the sadness, the sobbing
R4BIA is the joy, the happiness, the good news
R4BIA is the child, the woman, the young, the old
R4BIA is a man like a man
R4BIA is straight as an Aleef, humble as Waw
R4BIA is a pure martyrdom
R4BIA is a new world
R4BIA is Ummah
R4BIA is solidarity, togetherness, brotherhood
R4BIA is unification of Islamic World
R4BIA is the shame of the accomplice of the massacres
R4BIA is the end of munafiqeen who support the massacres
R4BIA is the end of oil sheikhs
R4BIA is the end of capitalists
R4BIA is the end of Zionists
R4BIA is the end of immoral press
RABIA is the arena of martyrdom
R4BIA is the mother of martyrs
R4BIA is a smiling martyrdom

Many activists on social media have confirmed that the sign originated in Turkey, which officially opposed the military coup in Egypt. Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan was one of the first to promote the R4BIA hand sign during a speech on August 17 when he saluted crowds several times with the four-finger sign. 

Turkish footballers also began to use the hand sign after scoring goals, soon after the symbol became popular on Turkish social media. It used to take years, sometimes decades, for a symbol to achieve global recognition, however, in the age of technology, with Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Internet, this new Islamist sign went viral in days. 

Although the R4BIA symbol may have originally signified solidarity with massacred protesters, the meaning and the imagery has rapidly been radicalized to embody the primary concepts of Islamist propaganda: honor, heroism and martyrdom in the goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate. Images of the R4BIA symbol now include the fingers being depicted as rifles, the hand holding the black flag of jihad and writing on the hand calling for an Islamic Caliphate.

2. Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Satellite Channel Launches From Turkey; Qaradawi Opens Program.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s new satellite channel, ‘Rabaa,’ launched Friday and is being aired from Turkey, reported Al-Ahram Arabic website. The channel is named after Cairo’s Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square, where hundreds were killed when security forces forcibly dispersed 14 August a sit-in held by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

The channel’s sign is the four-finger Rabaa sign that Brotherhood and Morsi loyalists use in regular ongoing protests against what they describe as a ‘coup against the legtitimate president’ in Egypt.

3. Muslim Brotherhood's new TV channel unlikely to influence viewers

The Rabaa TV channel is in its early days, but already stirring widespread debate — even sarcasm — among some Egyptians. An overtly anti-regime channel broadcasting from Istanbul in support of the Muslim Brotherhood seems an intriguing concept for young Egyptians, but to the surprise of many, it is not new. Egypt has witnessed similar projects in the past, and the outcome of this one will probably be the same: loud noise that will fade with time.

Egyptian media outlets close to the Egyptian authorities accuse the channels of Egypt Now, Rabaa, Mekameleen, and Sharq – all of which are based in Turkey and broadcast via French satellites – of being affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and of inciting hatred and violence. These channels dismiss such accusations. Hmmmm.....YES WE LIE !!

Israel's 'Staunchest Ally' the Obama 'admin' Excludes Jewish people In War Bill.

Israel's 'Staunchest Ally' the Obama 'admin' Excludes Jewish people In War Bill.(IB).

U.S. President Barack Obama asked Congress to give formal authority to use military force in the war against Islamic State. However, the Wednesday bill did not include the world “Jews.”

Freshman Lee Zeldin, the only Republican Jewish member of Congress, says that Obama’s proposed resolution mentions multiple ethnic groups as the target of Islamic State. It mentions Turkmens, Yezidis and Iraqi Christians. However, the resolution does not mention about Jewish people.

"I see an understanding, a recognition in the resolution with regards to ISIS attacks on Muslims, on Christians and others, and I didn't see a reference to Jews," CNN quotes the New York Republican, "And one of the efforts I've been involved in is trying to raise awareness for the rising tide of anti-Semitism."

Zeldin wondered if the White House made it a deliberate attempt to omit “Jews” from the list of ethnic groups as IS targets from the bill.

He has said that every single word, every phrase in there has to be done deliberately when the White House drafts a resolution for the authorisation of force. He insists that Jews should have been included in the resolution proposed by the White House.

Obama and the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest were earlier criticized after their comment that the terrorist attack at a kosher supermarket in Paris had not been specifically aimed at Jews. Earnest said that there had been “people other than Jews.”

Obama said in an interview published on Monday that it was “entirely legitimate” for the American people to be “deeply concerned” by the “bunch of violent, vicious zealots.” Earnest later clarified the president’s comment.

“The adverb that the president chose was used to indicate that the individuals who were killed in that terrible, tragic incident were killed, not because of who they were, but because of where they randomly happened to be,” Politico quotes the White House press secretary. He said that the individuals had not been targeted by name. “There were people other than Jews who were in that deli,” he said.

A GOP leadership aide was quick to criticise Earnest. He said that the comment was one of the reasons why many people did not trust the Obama administration about defending Israel. Hmmmm.......A deep rooted anti Israeli policy from this 'admin' is becoming more and more obvious......Just admit it's not 'randomly'

Muslim Brotherhood claims that there is ‘no evidence’ of links between it and terrorism.....Not True.

Muslim Brotherhood claims that there is ‘no evidence’ of links between it and terrorism.....Not True.(TMBR).

The UK Daily Telegraph has published a report detailing what it calls the “overlaps” between the Muslim Brotherhood in the UK and Hamas. The report begins:

The Government is preparing a major clampdown on organisations linked to the terror group Hamas after the long-awaited publication of its review into the Muslim Brotherhood. 

The review, by the former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sir John Jenkins, has been delayed for months amid disputes about how strongly it should say the Brotherhood is linked to terrorism. 

It is expected to say that the Brotherhood, a multifaceted organisation, is not itself a terrorist group and should not be banned, a verdict most analysts agree with. 

However, the report will dismiss claims by the Brotherhood that there is ‘no evidence’ of links between it and terrorism. ‘There are clear links and Jenkins will trigger further action against some Brotherhood and Hamas-linked groups,’ said one official source. Many of the groups have already been squeezed by removing their bank accounts. 

Only a summary of the Jenkins report will be published. However, a separate investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found a number of clear overlaps between the Brotherhood’s UK operations and those of organisations linked to Hamas, which is banned as a terrorist organisation throughout the Western world. In particular, it is striking how often they appear to share premises. 

One person involved in counter-extremism said: ‘When you start forensically going through the names and locations, there’s no way the Brotherhood can keep up the denials.’ 

The Sunday Telegraph has established that the main hubs for the Brotherhood’s operations in Europe are Westgate House, a serviced office block at the Hangar Lane roundabout in Ealing, west London, and Crown House, about half a mile north of it on the North Circular Road. Read the rest here.

 The GMBDW has long been documenting the ties between the UK Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and all of the organizations identified in the above report have been featured by the GMBDW for many years.

For our coverage of the UK investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood, go here.

Hmmm..........Every one knows and still the Obama 'admin' LOVES them