Tag: Hamas

The Islamist group Hamas is masterminding efforts to have senior Israeli leaders arrested for alleged war crimes when they visit European countries including Britain, a top Hamas official involved in the effort has told The Times. The claim comes amid continuing diplomatic fallout after a British arrest warrant was issued last week against Tzipi Livni, who served as Foreign Minister during Israel’s Gaza offensive last winter.

Abdel-Latif Moussa, the leader of a radical Islamist group in the Gaza Strip, has been killed during a gun battle with security forces that killed 22 people. The fighting erupted on Friday night when Hamas security men surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on the Egypt border where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were hiding out.

In his inaugural address on January 20, President Barack Obama said, to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward based on mutual interest and mutual respect. But, without further defining mutual respect, how can the President’s remark be anything but words or a vague and indefinite platitude?