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“What Hamas Really Means By Cease Fire”
by Prophecy New Watch
August 5th, 2014

Cease-fire!

It’s a great idea…if it is a mutually defined term.

In its simplest form, ceasefire merely means, “a cessation of hostilities; truce,” and it is usually implemented to achieve progress in a conflict. For example, ceasefire provides an opportunity to render humanitarian aid and or to give pause for diplomatic efforts intended to bring about conflict resolution.

However, regarding the current conflict between Hamas and Israel in what is known as Operation Defensive Edge, it appears that Hamas’ version of ceasefire has a bit of a different meaning and though the world does not seem to understand the difference, the nation of Israel is intimately familiar with the tactic of “hudna,” the Islamic version of so-called “ceasefire.”

Walid Shoebat, an ex-Palestinian terrorist, understands the underlying premise of hudna and is quoted as saying that this type of ceasefire is called for for one of two reasons: “to gain concessions and/or to deceive the enemy and destroy them.”

Denis MacEoin expounds this concept specific to Israel’s current conflict with Hamas, “The international pressure from all sides for a cease-fire is widening and intensifying. Of course, what a ceasefire amounts to, as it has before, is to give Hamas a second chance. And a third and a fourth –whatever is needed for them to achieve their clearly stated goals of wiping Israel from the map, and then Jews.”

“Hamas has broken or refused to extend ceasefires before this conflict. On this occasion, Israel worked with Egypt to bring about a truce, but Hamas rejected all Egypt’s’ demands and began firing rockets again within hours of the agreement. As a result, Israel was forced to resume air strikes on Gaza.”

Further, MacEoin notes, “Israel has accepted ceasefire agreements many times in the past. And every time, its enemies have used the interval that followed to regroup and rearm their military…”

Shoebat and MacEoin are correct in their assessment. What they have describes is exactly what has transpired over the span of three very recent ceasefires which began on Saturday July 26, 2014 and ended on Friday, August 1, 2014.

On August 1, 2014, CNN reported, “The announced 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire between Israel and Hamas didn’t even last two hours, by some accounts. The pause appears to have eroded after about 90 minutes in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza, with the attack on Israeli soldiers. The soldiers were working to destroy a tunnel built by militants to breach Israel’s border when a militant emerged from it and detonated a suicide bomb, Israeli military Lt. Col. Peter Lerner told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.”

In other words, Hamas used hudna to call for a reprieve from military action-against them, to seize an opportunity to kill or kidnap more Jews!

Ynet news’ headline: “IDF: Hamas used ceasefire to kidnap soldier, Ceasefire Over,” sums it up. According to the article, there were “two killed in the incident in which Second Lieutenant Hadar Goldin was kidnapped; IDF source: suicide bomber attacks forces working to clear tunnels; Hamas: attack took place before ceasefire…” Lieutenant Hadar was later to have been declared dead in the attack.

Arlene Kushner reflects on the point generally missed on hudna: “Hudna is routinely translated as “truce…”

But, “historically, “hudna” is associated with the Truce of al-Hudaybiyya in the seventh century. Mohammad and his followers had abandoned Mecca to non-Muslims because they did not have sufficient strength to hold it. At Hudaybiyya, a truce was negotiated that was to permit the Muslims to return unarmed to Mecca annually for the next ten years for purposes of religious pilgrimage. Two years later, however, using an infraction of the agreement as a pretext, Muhammad and his followers, who then had sufficient strength, moved in and took Mecca; its residents, believing they had a truce with Muhammad, were unprepared to do battle.

“This is the model: When weak, strike a temporary truce, utilize the time to regroup and garner additional strength, and then move in.”

Considering the history of hudna, Hamas’ Charter of 1988 citing the goal of Jewish elimination and the methods which have been in employed, to date, in order to achieve that goal, it is evident that Hamas’ repeated calls for “ceasefire” are really not meant for serious negotiations with Israel:

So, if Hamas is not, indeed, seeking peace with calls for ceasefire, what might they be intending to do with that time-out?

Israel’s experience with Hamas’ has proven they have been busy preparing for their “windows of opportunity” provided by hudna moments.

Ben Barrack recently posted Pajamas Media’s “The Grid, which details 14 ways Hamas Weaponized Women, Children, and Animals, against Israel:

14 Ways Hamas Weaponize

1. Weaponize women as Suicide Bombers and Terrorists

2. Weaponize children: Use children’s TV to brainwash young Palestinians to commit atrocities against Jews

3. Weaponize children: Glorify suicide bombers/martyrdom and terrorism

4. Weaponize children: Use Palestinian youth in stone attacks…

5. Weaponize young children to perform suicide missions

6. Weaponize animals

7. Weaponize ambulances with terrorists, explosives; use Arab children as shields

8. Weaponize Palestinian Mosques

9. Weaponoize Palestinian homes

10. Use women and children as human shields

11. Weaponize Palestinian schools

12. Weaponize Palestinian hospitals

13. Weaponize traditional news media with fake stories leveraging Palestinian deaths and suffering

14. Weaponize social media against Israel

The Hamas Charter of 1988—Defines the Hamas Mission against Israel and Jews

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it.

Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitable should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah’s victory is realized.

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said:

“The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.” (Related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).

In conclusion, it must be understood that Israel’s current conflagration in Gaza, and by extension, ongoing peace talks with Hamas (including their Palestinian counterpart) are not exercises in negotiation, by rule of law, but rather futile attempts at achieving real peace.

MacEoin extracts the essence of the bigger picture for Israel’s present plight for peace: “A future Palestinian state will thrive when the Palestinians enter a world where international law holds sway, where treaties are made and adhered to, where disarmament is not followed by re-armament, where men and women sit at long tables and thrash other terms of a peace, and where force is only used in self-defense or in defense of another. “

Looking for His glorious appearing! Titus 2:13