[Jpost] UN Relief Chief Martin Griffiths told a representative from Sky News on Wednesday that he did not consider Hamas to be a terrorist group.
Despite the fact it it takes hostages.
Asked about the feasibility of Israel’s military goal to eliminate Hamas and disallow the terrorist group from having any governing say in Gaza, Griffiths responded "Hamas is not a terrorist group for us, as you know, it is a political movement. But, I think it is very very difficult to dislodge these groups without a negotiated solution; which includes their aspirations.
"I cannot think of an example offhand of a place where a victory through warfare has succeeded against a well-entrenched group, terrorist or otherwise."
| It appears the British diplomatic service will let anyone in these days — clearly the education at the University of Sussex does not compare to Oxford and Cambridge of yore. Remember the Nazis? The Japanese empire? Argentina in the Falkland Islands? Saddam Hussein’s Ba’athists in Iraq, Moammar Khadaffy’s Arab Socialists in Libya? Going farther back we see the Mongols, expansionist Islam, expansionist Rome, the Babylonians, Egypt, the Medes and Persians, the Assyrians, the Hittites, China...and that’s not including sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas, or most of Asia. |
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