Hamas threatens Israel with revenge if hunger strikers die

May 05, 2012 11:19

Hamas threatens Israel with "unexpected" consequences if any of around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners who went on hunger strike in Israeli prisons were to die. Two of them held without charge or trial have been starving themselves for 67 days.

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greg (unregistered) 13.05.2012 08:59

Not sure it will have the same result in the middle east, but standing firm on IRA hunger strikers helped to bring about the IRA surrender in Northern Ireland.

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John (unregistered) 11.05.2012 20:32

It is the right of every person to starve themselves to death. It is their human right to die if they chose. Do you want Israel to force feed them? If they chose to die nobody can be held responsible other than the person who has chosen to end their life. It cannot be that a criminal can dictate to to the state. No country would accept that. Do not hold Israel to a higher standard than any other country in the world. The terrorists are the lowest form of human life and their demise would be a good thing.

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meee 07.05.2012 17:57

"Democracy and voting and joining political parties is for fools" ............ .........That quote is the most ISANE thing ive EVER heard. ............ ............The 10 people that post on this site must be dicatators who dont like it when there people are free and steel all there money.

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Get -A-Life 06.05.2012 16:10

Insanity run amok at the mention of Israel!
 When will people leave sentiment and irrationality to think with open mind?
If all over the world Islam or rather Muslims are the only religious group that wants wipe off their neighbours especially 'Non Muslims'.
Why then is it still difficult to accept for once that that religion is not fit for this world, if we are to dream of  true 'Peace'. NOT the one Muslims proclaim of 'Islam'. If Palestinians are to control the military strenght of Israelis, we all know that they will not only wipe Israelis off but others around them, even all those stupid Westerners that are supporting their terrorist ways! Dream and hate them all you like Israelis are still a million times better those Islamic terrorists around the world! 

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Realist 06.05.2012 04:20

The reason western civilisation is collapsing and being replaced by Asia is that democracy does not work, and it`s ineffectiveness leaves a power vacuum, which global organised crime has filled with its own corrupt institutions.
Eit her we face that societal reality in a measured informed enlightened practical way, or the danger is that we panic and adopt the IRA and Zionist approach of starting back on the course followed by the National Socialists who used events and processes like Kristellnacht and the Holocaust to by-pass the democratic institutions, which the Zionist media had already got under their control in Britain and the USA by the end of the 1930`s,and have controlled ever since then.
It would be a real leap forward for mankind if Enlightenment values of truth and reconciliation and humanity and democracy, were the tools we adopted this time round.

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IRA and Zionists 06.05.2012 04:02

Democracy and voting and joining political parties is for fools who don`t have the sense to realise that the IRA and Zionists got where they are today by murdering and maiming and being friends with the world superpower.
The world superpower is really global organised financial crime.  It is mainly run from America and Israel but it`s master stroke was in being located in financial markets that are in NO particular nation at all.
Soros and the CIA and JP Morgan and Rothschild owe their power to being  partners of GLOBAL ORGANISED CRIME. 
They buy and sell "our" politicians and nations and football clubs and the media and our foreign policy and military forces, by being ABOVE DEMOCRATIC POLITICS.
Why can Britain never leave the EU or control her borders? Because GLOBALIST FASCISTS like George Soros and the BBC and the Vatican make sure we cannot do it!  
They don`t answer to British public opinion,in fact they arrogantly IGNORE such "populism"!

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IRA and Loyalists 06.05.2012 03:47

And that`s why all this talk about countries losing the confidence of investors and being in debt to Israel`s IMF loan sharking agency is more HUMBUG!
How does Israel and Iceland stay out of financial trouble  while Ireland and Greece are bankrupt?  
If we saw the real accounts we would soon find that Israel walks on financial water at the expense of taxpayers in the USA and Europe,and their crooked friends on Wall Street.  
 But the Zionists in your nation`s politics and media will ensure you never hear the truth about Israel`s finances!  
America has been bankrupted long ago by the cost of Israel,but again, the "books"will not be open for scrutiny in "your democracy". 

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IRA and Loyalists 06.05.2012 03:33

So how did we get peace in Ulster and find ourselves running a province together after decades of not even daring talk to each other in case we were fingered as traitors?
Well for a start we ignored the puppet Westminster politicians and went to the White House and the BBC. 
You have to deal only with those who are really in charge of the territory you are arguing over, and the crooks in Westminster are in charge of nothing but their own expense account lifestyles and will sell themselves and their constituents down the river to whoever bribes them the most money or status.
(Westmins ter and the BBC HAVE to back Israel slavishly while pretending to care about Palestinians,or they soon find themselves out of a job!) 
Which is why peace between Israel and her neighbours will probably never happen until the Zionists and Rothschild have finally managed to bankrupt the West and cut off the trillions of dollars of "aid" into the Middle East.

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IRA and Loyalists 06.05.2012 03:14

ran wrote in #13
If you do Hamas do something that is going to count not more of these stupid rocket attracts th at do nothing but land on empty ground or hurt civilians.Go after the Israeli leadership. That is what the Syrian opposition  needs to be doing: going after Assad and that leadership. Killing innocent civilians is not good for any one. Go after those who are causing all the problems: the leadership especially those that don't listen to their own people. The hunger strike is classic fascism of the sort backed by the USA in Ireland for decades.The hunger strikers are almost obliged to die "for the cause",but the cause is one that spends fifty million pounds "investigating" Bloody Sunday and then conveniently ignores the thousands of deaths we IRA were responsible for ,because we are America`s favourites. like the Zionists are.
I fear that no one in Palestine dare really think of peace because the Israeli fascists and Palestinian fascists dare not ever think of their enemies as human beings in case they as individuals suffer the fate of Helen Thomas or Vanunu or Assange or Bradley Manning and other "traitors" to "the cause".But we know all this at an unconscious level.  
We know very well intuitively that individuals in  Likud and Hamas cannot risk their lives and reputations and the welfare of their families being "soft on terrorism" and "being traitors". It would be like asking CIA/Mossad to stop murdering and torturing their "enemies" and seeing them as fellow human beings. It would be personal suicide.
That`s why the Zionists Tony Blair and Lord Levy were so hypocritical when they were "peace envoys". Everyone knew they were just going through the motions, andthat their nonsense about Palestinian intransigence was pure unadulterated cynical HUMBUG!

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ran 06.05.2012 00:33

If you do Hamas do something that is going to count not more of these stupid rocket attracts th at do nothing but land on empty ground or hurt civilians.Go after the Israeli leadership. That is what the Syrian opposition  needs to be doing: going after Assad and that leadership. Killing innocent civilians is not good for any one. Go after those who are causing all the problems: the leadership especially those that don't listen to their own people.

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Doubting Thomas 05.05.2012 23:18

Shlomo wrote in #11
It is sad that these prisoners need to starve themselves in order to get attention.

True,but maybe you will be getting some attention yourselves in Israel when the Zionist Empire follows the British and Spanish empires into the history books and someone in the west realises who has been financing your first world lifestyle while we are headed for Skid Row?Look up the word "hubris" and then think just how Jewish people`s behaviour has made them the most unpopular race in humanity?How many people would really care if you were swept from the face of the Earth?How many would cheer to be rid of all the problems you give the rest of us?

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Shlomo 05.05.2012 22:45

It is sad that these prisoners need to starve themselves in order to get attention.

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