Hamas rules out permanent truce with Israel
February 2, 2009 by SAF Desk
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TEHRAN (AFP) – The political supremo of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, on Sunday ruled out any “permanent ceasefire” until Israel ends its crippling blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, meanwhile, in talks with Meshaal urged him to be prepared for new hostilities with archfoe Israel.
“The resistance is against a permanent ceasefire,” Meshaal said at a news conference in Tehran, Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported.
“While the occupation continues, a permanent ceasefire has no meaning,” Meshaal said at the conference, jointly held with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
Netanyahu says Iran will not get hands on nukes
February 1, 2009 by SAF Desk
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ARON HELLER,Associated Press Writer
JERUSALEM – Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s leading candidate for prime minister, said Saturday that Iran “will not be armed with a nuclear weapon.”
In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 TV, Netanyahu said if elected prime minister his first mission will be to thwart the Iranian nuclear threat. Netanyahu, the current opposition leader and head of the hardline Likud party, called Iran the greatest danger to Israel and to all humanity.