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Daled Amos (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This story about The New York Times accepting a piece by Obama, but not McCain is not all that surprising. After all, on June 20, 2007 The New York Times--along with The Washington Post--featured op-eds by Ahmed Yousef of Hamas. But to read the reason for the rejection: “It would be terrific to have an article from Senator McCain that mirrors Senator Obama’s piece. To that end, the article...
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Augean Stables (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... defines victory in Iraq. With such specific demands, one wonders why Shipley accepted a piece from Ahmed Yousef , a political advisor to Ismail Haniya of Hamas. One can think of a dozen reasons to reject such an obvious piece of dishonest propaganda . So why no? Is Shipley afraid of “giving McCain a platform” to criticize Obama? Is he arrogant enough to think he can dictate to a presidential...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Gaza - Hamas officials in the Gaza Strip Monday said former British prime minister Tony Blair would visit the enclave the following day but would not meet with members of the Islamic movement. Ismail Radwan and Ahmed Yousef, two senior members of Ham...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
... given too much publicity to it, creating a security risk. Senior Hamas officials Ismail Radwan and Ahmed Yousef had announced the visit late Monday, saying Blair, who is currently the Middle East representative of the Mideast Quartet - made up of the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nation - would be provided security by the police forces of their movement. Hamas...
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The Amboy Times (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Cross posted from Nice Deb. Hamas: Cameron’s Corner, Fox News reports: During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision. “We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama....
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Palestine Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Pause for Peace Anthony Russo By AHMED YOUSEF Gaza HERE in Gaza, few dream of peace. For now, most dare only to dream of a lack of war. It is for this reason that Hamas proposes a long-term...
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Free Frank Warner (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
... let him go. Yasin may still be in Iraq. The courts certainly did not incapacitate him. Ramzi Ahmed Yousef did get life in prison for his role in the 1993 bombing. Yousef is a nephew of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, of al Qaida infamy. In any case, isn’t the phrase “ first attack against the World Trade Center” evidence itself that our wholly legalistic approach to those attackers...
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Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Every moment of the latest Indiana Jones film or the lasting-ness Israeli-Hamas peace treaty, brokered by Egypt? The really telling quote comes from Hamas official Ahmed Yousef: I am confident that everybody will abide by what we’ve agreed. All the groups which went to Cairo gave their okay to the ceasefire. If anybody does anything, they will [...]
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English Webster (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Our media is quiet so far, but Egyptians are already out with it: A senior Egyptian official said a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will start on Thursday morning, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Tuesday. BBC ads another angle of the so called truce: Hamas official Ahmed Yousef told the BBC he hoped that the ceasefire would lead...
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Yourish.com (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Israeli media is quiet so far, but Egyptians are already out with it: A senior Egyptian official said a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip will start on Thursday morning, the state-run Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported on Tuesday. BBC adds another angle of the so called truce: Hamas official Ahmed Yousef told [...]
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Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
... soldier Gilad Shalit and on a deal to reopen the main Rafah crossing into Egypt. Hamas official Ahmed Yousef told the BBC he hoped that the ceasefire would lead to a further opening of the crossing points from Israel into Gaza, and an increase in the number of supplies. “I am confident that everybody will abide by what we’ve agreed. All the groups which went to Cairo gave their okay...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Hamas official Ahmed Yousef told the BBC he hoped that the ceasefire would lead to a further opening of the crossing points from Israel into Gaza, and an increase in the number of supplies.
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Israelated - English Israel blogs (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
... particular nondelegate count. “We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election,” is what Ahmed Yousef, a ranking official of the Islamic terrorist organization Hamas, declared in April. Gleb Pavlovsky, a key adviser to both Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, has called John McCain the worst choice and Sen. Obama the best—“less tied” to the Cold War.Hugo Chávez, the radical...
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American Pundit (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
How is this possible? I thought Hamas had never endorsed Obama, and that it was simply a right-wing smear. What happened to the narrative? The Illinois senator was ridiculed, criticized and generally harassed back in April when a top Hamas adviser, Ahmed Yousef, told a radio interviewer that the Palestinian militant group — considered a terrorist [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
... time as part of his election campaign," he said. In April, senior Hamas political official Ahmed Yousef told WABC radio in New York that the Islamist organization "liked" Obama and hoped he won the election. Obama's statement was also criticized by senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, who, in remarks aimed at the Illinois senator, told a news conference that "if you speak about...
