The Hamas hudwinka

Brian of London

And why do we know a Hudna is a temporary truce and a simple tactic of war?

Because Mohammed said it was so. All serious Islamic sources explain quite clearly the context of the word hudna. And in context it's even more clear: hudna is not peace. It's a sign that the Muslims are too week to fight on and need a rest to recover strength.

It is the very model of almost every agreement signed with Arabs, even those who appear to be secular or Pan Arab nationalist.

Whenever a Islamic foe offers a hudna, that is the time to finish the job and destroy them.

London Calling

When Jihadism says it wants to temporarily be your friend, be
concerned indeed, I smell a rat and its tunnelling to divert our attention, are they clever or are we too dumb not to realize this? Isreal ceratinly isnt fooled.

Meanwhile back in Rat headquaters, Iran has been caught out good and proper by the U.S., lets see if Ahmadinejad can smile his way out of this one.
Wall Street Journal
April 25, 2008;
U.S. Says New Find Shows
Iran Still Sends Arms to Iraq
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120908648760443713.html?mod=todays_us_page_one

London Calling

When Jihadism says it wants to temporarily be your friend, be
concerned indeed, I smell a rat and its tunnelling to divert our attention, are they clever or are we too dumb not to realize this? Isreal ceratinly isnt fooled.

Meanwhile back in Rat headquaters, Iran has been caught out good and proper by the U.S., lets see if Ahmadinejad can smile his way out of this one.
Wall Street Journal
April 25, 2008;
U.S. Says New Find Shows
Iran Still Sends Arms to Iraq
By YOCHI J. DREAZEN
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120908648760443713.html?mod=todays_us_page_one

London Calling

And there’s more you should know that confirms the arrogance of Rat Headquarters and more reason not to trust the ceasefire offered by the head of Hamas,Khaled Mashaal ...

TEHRAN (Reuters)
Apr 27, 4:25 AM ET
Iran Says Iraq situation makes U.S. attack unlikely

"Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini dismissed the likelihood of any U.S. military strike "in view of the numerous problems the Americans are facing, along with the disastrous situation in Iraq and Afghanistan and (their) domestic problems."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080427/ts_nm/iran_usa_dc

Mladen Andrijasevic

Here is a good analysis of hudna by Hugh Fitzgerald:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/020798.php#more
Not one of the interviewers thinks to ask Carter if he understands what a "hudna" is. Not one asks him why he thinks the figure of ten years, rather than five, or fifteen, or twenty years, was chosen by the leaders of Hamas as the appropriate length of time for this "hudna" or truce...
Not one of them has asked him, or will ask, if he has any idea that the model for this offer is the Treaty made at Hudiabiyya in 628 A.D. between Muhammad and the Meccans. Not one of them will ask Carter if he has heard about that treaty, knows its terms, knows when, and why, Muhammad chose to break it…
He wasn't asked any of this because none of those who interviewed him, however briefly, and however skeptically, knew any of this themselves.

al'la'mode

These islamic fascists are so touchingly open about both their aims and methods. In response the west seems suicidally self deluding. I suppose this is how an unprecedentedly advanced and affluent technological society goes down to a bunch of medieval weird-beards. No civilisation lasts for ever but to fall to these scoundrels is just nauseating.

phil

Does truce /hudna mean peace? of course not -anyone with half a brain will understand what the reason for the offer is -to buy time to rearm ,gather strengh for a new attack ,build tunnels etc etc --peace is what we need and an acceptance of Israels right to exist -nothing less

Ann

Phil, Israel does not need its 'right to exist' to be 'accepted' by anyone. It's there, end of. Imo, a better phrase might be 'acceptance of Israel's existence'. It's certainly the case that the pathological mindset that seeks to destroy Israel has not accepted its existence, but I doubt that many Israelis are as worried about their 'right' to be there as about their continuing to BE there. That seems to me the crux. You may say that it's a semantic nicety, but I don't believe it is: imo, Israel does not need to - and should not - justify its 'right' to be there, but regard it as axiomatic and never bother to mention it. Mentioning it seems to me an admission of underlying weakness ('protests too much' etc). What needs to be impressed on the genocidal hordes is that Israel IS. It's not identical to the difference between de facto and de jure, but perhaps very similar to it: just accept that you won't defeat it and stop fighting, whether or not you send a delegation of diplomats and jurists with high-faluting titles.

BWilliamson

And the BBC are the hudwanka's? Go on print it!