Confusion surrounds ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas as Ahmadinejad congratulates ‘victory’
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking in 2009 (Image credit: RNW/ANP/EPA)
While the violence in the wake of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has indeed continued, it is thankfully clear that we are no longer seeing the massive number of strikes occurring before the ceasefire, including entire families being killed in airstrikes.
Yet the ceasefire talks themselves are surrounded with a cloud of confusion as Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister, “announced progress regarding restrictions on the movements of fishermen and farmers in the border area, which the Israeli prime minister’s office denied,” The New York Times reports.
Haniya claimed that the Egyptian intelligence service, the entity responsible for getting the first ceasefire agreement in place, informed him that the fishermen’s limit had been extended to six nautical miles instead of the three nautical mile limit previously in place.
Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, said on Saturday that “nothing has changed on the ground or at sea until it is agreed to by Israel and Egypt.”
Regev declined to confirm or deny if there was another meeting slated for Monday, as Hamas claimed, while also refusing to discuss “the question of Palestinian movements in the so-called buffer zone, the 1,000-foot strip of land on Gaza’s northern and eastern borders where the shooting broke out on Friday,” according to the Times.
Instead, Regev simply claimed that there was an immediate halt to all hostile activities despite Israeli troops firing on Gazans on Friday.
While Western media claims that the action was not a breach of the ceasefire, likely because it wasn’t an airstrike, Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian Envoy to the UN indeed called it a violation of the ceasefire and an illegal action.
Masour added that Israel has used “excessive and lethal force” against Palestinian civilians in recent days, according to Iran’s Press TV.
“The arrangements negotiated with Egypt led to an immediate cessation of hostile activities,” said Regev. “All other factors will be negotiated in an expeditious manner directly with the Egyptians.”
This alleged cessation of hostile activities has not stopped Americans from demonstrating against the conflict. One such demonstration took place on Saturday in Florida, including groups ranging from Friends of Human Rights to St. Pete for Peace to the Islamic Community of Tampa.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated Haniya on a “great victory” over Israel during a telephone call, as confirmed by both sides and reported by Pakistan’s Daily Times.
Haniya “thanked Iran for its support” while Iranian news outlet ISNA reported that Ahmadinejad “congratulated the people of Gaza and the [Palestinian] resistance facing Zionist aggression … on their great victory,” according to AFP.
According to AFP, the office of Haniya stated that in their phone call late Friday Ahmadinejad praised Gaza’s “victory after eight days of Israeli aggression.”
“We stand beside the Palestinian people,” Ahmadinejad reportedly added.
On Wednesday, Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, said that Iran supplied Hamas with military aid, according to AFP.
“We are proud to defend the people of Palestine and Hamas … and that our assistance to them has been both financial and military,” Larijani reportedly stated.
However, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said that they indeed supplied the “technology” for the Fajr-5 missiles that hit Israel but Jafari denied that they actually supplied the weapons themselves.
Instead, he said that the Fajr-5 was being “rapidly produced” within Gaza.
Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal thanked Iran on Wednesday because, according to him, they “had a role in arming” Hamas.
Larijani, addressing a crowd in Istanbul, Turkey, said that Israel actually faced “defeat” in this latest operation, adding, “You should rest assured that the Zionist regime [of Israel] has harder days ahead,” according to Press TV.
Press TV also reports that Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, “congratulated all the Muslims on the Palestinian resistance fighters’ recent victory over Israel, saying that Tel Aviv failed to achieve its goals in its eight-day offensive in the Gaza Strip.”
The confusion surrounding the ceasefire agreement and what will become of it over the coming days remains to be seen but the veil of secrecy is hardly conducive to an unambiguous picture of the talks.
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The luciferians put the cease fire in action for now it is just warming up
End time servant recently posted: Confusion surrounds ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas as Ahmadinejad congratulates ‘victory’
Yeah it’s just biding time until they figure out the next big push
ahmadinejad is a piece of shit
What proof do you have beside the zionist American media vilifying Ahmadinejad WHICH OBVIOUSLY DID A GOOD JOB BRAINWASHING YOU….The pieces of SHIT are those who just believe the propaganda without checking the FACTS & SOURCES’…
FIRST : Ahmadinejad NEVER said Israel must be “wiped off the map” his words were mistranslated (in purpose) by our Zionist controlled press : Here the Original Text translated from farsi language (U can verify on Google under “the wiped off the map lie) : “Khomeni said this REGIME OCCUPYING Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time”
REGIME CHANGE MORON! is not wiping the country off the map otherwise those who want Obama out of the W.H would mean wiping America off the map….ISRAEL WIPE PALESTINIANS OFF THE MAP FOR THE PAST 65 YEARS YOU DON’T CALL NETENHAU a PIECE OF SHIT…because for American hypocrites exposing the truth about Zionist jews is considered “ANTI SEMITIC” but hating Arabs and making racist comments on Muslim is OK, hate is hate my friend, my uncle was a Dachau camp surviver and was against the treatment of Palestinian by Israel, and he was RIGHT.
SECOND : Ahmadinejad NEVER denied the Holocaust, he just question the “SIX million” figure which is indeed a lie used for political gain and helped the creation of the racist apartheid state of Israel. The “six million” figure is based on 4.6 Million killed in Auschwitz, However if you visit the camp,like I did, the commemorative plate shows that the numbers were changed into 1.5 Million (it is most likely still inflated figures but the only way to verify is to open the Red Cross files, which is prohibited by law thanks to zionist organizations who pushed Europeans Governments to CRIMINALIZE any research on the Holocaust as
“Holocaust denying”)
SO INDEED a lot of people died in camps JEWS & NON JEWS
but the “SIX Million” is proven to be INFLATED FIGURE….Ahmadinejad like the Red Cross & other world organizations confirm this FACT but the Corporate media mostly owned and controlled by Zionists still mention SIX Million…
THIRD : IRAN has the second largest Jewish community in the Middle East (after Israel) Iranian Jews are REPRESENTED inside the Iranian parliament and are protected under the same rights than any other Iranian citizens, therefore IRANIAN JEWS ARE MUCH BETTER TREATED BY THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT THAN THE PALESTINIANS ARE TREATED BY THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT WHO PARK THEM IN A GHETTO LIKE ANIMALS and confiscate territories from them to expend illegal “Jewish Only” settlements in violation of International law.
FOURTH : IRAN HAS THE RIGHT TO BUILD NUCLEAR PLANS FOR ENERGY, THEY DID SIGN THE Non Proliferation Treaty (NTP) UNLIKE ISRAEL WHO REFUSED TO SIGN IT WHILE HAVING MORE THAN 200 NUCLEAR MISSILES IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Israel and their American poodles from US congress are accusing (with NO documents to back them up, except MOSSAD forgeries) Iran to make secretly Nuclear weapons hiding behind their peaceful nuclear program THE VERY THING THAT ISRAEL DID AT DIMONA which was built by the French in 1958 FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY ONLY …Iran under the NTP program is inspected ALL THE TIME by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) therefore it is impossible for them to purify the Uranium at 99% and weaponize it .ISRAEL AND OUR GOVERNMENT KNOWS IT, The same garbage about WMD’s in IRAQ was used to justify a war, now the same group of war mongers are preparing IDIOTS like YOU for another War….how much do you think it is going to cost us ?
NONE of today’s “Muslim Terrorist organization” existed before The Zionist Israeli army LEHI and IRGUN exterminated Palestinian villages like Deir Yassin in May 1948,IT IS A FACT THAT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE HAMAS ARE ISRAELI MOSSAD CREATIONS, Israeli intelligence infiltrates Muslim organizations for DECADES the Mossad Glossary of Term can be red this way :
OTER : An Arab paid to help make contact with other Arabs,often used in recruitment process, and sometime set up as terrorist (sacrificed lamb) usually paid $4000 to $6000 a month ,plus expenses…
WHEN YOU CHECK ALL THE FACTS YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING LEFT ON AHMADINEJAD BUT RIDICULOUS HATE BASED ON PARANOIA , FEAR and MISINFORMATION.
Now Bring your DOCUMENTATION to prove your case beside your Arab hating statement and what you read on Zionist controlled News Papers like NY times, NY Post, Washington Post ,Jerusalem Post, Foreward , Fox News etc… you are welcome any time
Good luck SAYAN.
dude what the fuck are you smoking?
and where can i get some
I DON’T SMOKE, I SWIM 100 Meters in less than 1mn
(58 seconds) …I AM IN GOOD HEALTH, UNLIKE THE IDIOTS, AHMADINEJAD HATERS WHO NEVER CHECK THE FACTS, AND BELIEVE THE GARBAGE THEY SEE ON TV…
EVERYTHING I WROTE IN MY PREVIOUS COMMENT IS VERY WELL DOCUMENTED AND VERY EASY TO VERIFY…. DON’T TAKE MY WORDS FOR IT, JUST CHECK…. OF COURSE YOU NEVER DID , THAT IS WHY WHEN SOMEBODY BRING YOU FACTS, YOU THINK HE IS CRAZY….SO TYPICAL OF THE AVERAGE AMERICAN SHEEPLE.
THE MAIN REASON WHY OUR NEWS MEDIA HAND TO HAND WITH OUR GOVERNMENT WANT THE IGNORANT MASSES TO HATE AHMADINEJAD IS BECAUSE THEY ARE PREPARING ANOTHER WAR, IRAN IS NOT PART OF THE ROTHSCHILD CENTRAL BANKING SYSTEM, IRAN CHALLENGE THE US / ZIONIST POWER BY ACCEPTING EURO OR OTHER CURRENCIES FOR THEIR OIL TRANSACTIONS INSTEAD OF PETRO DOLLAR.
You are probably one of these idiots who believed in the WMD’s in Iraq, and called people like me, CRAZY DOPE HEAD , when we were saying that it was a big lie to justify another war in the Middle East..which costed $4 Trillion…GUESS WHO IS PAYING FOR IT ? Who’s going to have to pay more taxes ? KEEP HATING….That is what the ruling elite want you to do WHO IS SMOKING NOW ?
which explains your twisted sense of eloquence, and the terrorists asshole “Jews” are your bestest allies…
THAT IS ALL YOU CAN COME UP WITH ? (IQ 84 ?) I PROVIDED DOCUMENTED FACTS ( REFERENCES & SOURCES) WHICH BACK UP EVERYTHING I WROTE ON IRAN & AHMADINEJAD IN MY PREVIOUS COMMENT I ONLY STATED FACTS you can easily find if you do your homework ….WHAT DO YOU HAVE BESIDE YOUR IRRATIONAL HATE FOR AHMADINEJAD ? based on misinformation and media propaganda
DOCUMENTED FACT : THE LAST TIME IRAN INVADED ANOTHER COUNTRY WAS TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
don’t take my word for it verify Middle Eastern history archives (George Washington University)
CAN WE SAY THAT FROM THE UNITED STATES OR ISRAEL……SO WHO IS THE AGGRESSOR… WHO IS ON THE WRONG SIDE ? WHO HAS 6000 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WAS NEVER INSPECTED BY THE IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) AMERICA…Yes indeed. FACT !
WHO HAS 200 + NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WAS NEVER INSPECTED WHILE REFUSING TO SIGN THE NTP (non Proliferation Treaty) ISRAEL…
AGAIN WHO ARE DANGEROUS FOR WORLD PEACE ?
IRAN WHO MIGHT GET ONE NUKE IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS ?
OR ISRAEL WHO HAS 200 ILLEGAL NUKES IN THEIR SECRET UNDERGROUND PLANT IN DIMONA FOR DECADES, IN VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
OR AMERICA WHO HAS 6000 NUKES and IS THE ONLY COUNTRY WHO EVER USED THEM (2) ON CIVILIAN POPULATION….TO “SPARE LIVES” (Pathetic justification, recent declassified military secret documents shows that Japan was about to surrender, nuking 200.000 CIVILIANS, according to General Eisenhower & Marshall papers, was completely unnecessary the war was won, all documents on the subject are AVAILABLE ON LINE)
AGAIN, WHO ARE THE AGGRESSORS ?
Show me the documented proof that Ahmadinejad is ready to nuke Israel with a bomb he does not have YET.
We all know that HATE is based on FEAR, I can tell that the Ahmadinejad haters have their underwear becoming brown in the back and yellow on the front when they think of Muslims. Iran or Ahmadinejad.
The best slave is the slave who thinks he is free, Homeland security and our military industrial complex love people like you….The perfect obedient slave manipulated by fear….FEAR OF THE OUTSIDE ENEMY, the best way to govern the ignorant masses….That is how Hitler manipulated the German people…FORTUNATELY not for too long. THE ZIONISTS TOOK OVER…
we have another cancer to neutralize. (the enemy inside the gate ,their way : BY WAY OF DECEPTION”)
PEACE !
Very well said REYKOOL.
THANK YOU,
There are way too many ignorant Zionist brainwashed “humanoids” & Ahmadinejad haters making comments on this Website.
TRUTH DOES NOT CHANGE BECAUSE IT IS ,OR IS NOT BELIEVED BY THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE.
Zionists are miserable war mongers, WAR seems the ONLY way they know to maintain their pathetic power grab. WAR sucks!
Peace and prosperity is far better, ISRAEL and their American poodles are ALWAYS at war….Coincidence ?
The Irony about this Ahmadinejad Hate business is that NONE of these sub human HATERS would go fight the war themselves they are counting on others to do their dirty work while watching FOX NEWS and other Zionist & Jewish lobby controlled mainstream press , waving their “Made in China” American flag they bought at Walmart….
The fact is Israel is not worth one drop of American blood, unfortunately our corrupted Congress is owned (bribed) by AIPAC (and other American Jewish & Israeli Lobby) to make sure that the United States maintain a perpetual war in the Middle East to serve the Zionist Agenda.
Yes, lets prove your point by insulting the person on the other side, like a small, immature, child! For the love of God man, stop using capital letters, you look like a three year old having a tantrum, and as for your “facts”, prove them. Give us some reliable sources on the information you have given us. Then maybe, yes, i said maybe, we will listen to you! Peace!
I for one have to admit that I look forward to the destruction of Khazaristan as a Zionist criminal state. Gog and Magog can return to Khazar or wherever they think they are from and the entire world can be free of the absurd lie that God chooses one race over another. The only way is for Zionist Khazars and their stupid western supporters to be defeated. They should be defeated because they are wrong – and for that reason along. “Beware the leaven of the Pharisees” That is what Yeshua taught. They have infected the entire world with their sick leaven of hatred, greed and crime and war. “But you are rich” That is not enough for the synagogue of Satan. Americans are just dumbed down goyim for their Zionist Jew masters.