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Now the Palestinian Government Shoe is on the Other Foot!

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y 27, 2006

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Genesis 16:12 – And he will be a WILD man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he sh all dwell in the presence of

all his brethren.

As has been mentioned in previous Prophecy Updates and Blogs, the Islamic faith reveres Ishmael as the promised seed of Abraham by the teachings

of the Koran, and a large percentage of Arabs are descended from Ishmael. And, as we have exposited before, the Hebrew word in Genesis 16:12, translated as “WILD,” literally means “a wild ass.”

How would you like to govern more than a million wild asses? That is the task now facing Hamas! Flag waving, emotional outpourings of hatred for Israel, shooting AK-47’s in the air, dancing in the streets, and all the other associated phenomena, will not create a government. Now the shoe is on the other foot – Fatah is out – Hamas is now wearing the shoe of government, and responsible for governing a stampeding herd of wild asses.

Fatah, a defeated branch of wild asses, trotted their hoofs up and down the West Bank streets today, screaming for the resignation of Abbas.

Wild asses are known for their snoring, braying, and kicking during the mating season, but they usually settle down after it is over, which is what I suspect Fatah will do after it mates with Hamas, which is what it says it will not do today in the heat of the moment.

Now, for the first time, Hamas is faced with changing the governmental mess created by Yassar Arafat’s corrupt government, and creating a degree of order in its maze of internal conflict between emotional street thugs, other organized terror groups,

and a disenfranchised Fatah.

There are two distinct possibilities that have surfaced out of the wake of the surprise victory of Hamas over Fatah in this week’s elections.

Hamas will likely form a government with the Fatah party and temper its position by stopping the terrorist attacks against Israel temporarily.

It could happen because, for the first time in its existence, Hamas is faced with the everyday tasks of providing the Palestinian population with all the facilitations of a regular government. Internal jealously between Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades was intense in the early stages of terror attacks, each group seeing who could bring

off the most vicious attack. However, they did finally come together, being guided by their separate headquarters in Damascus, and worked in a united spirit of Jihad.

The jealousy will again flare up now that Hamas is the controlling party among them, which is another factor that could keep Hamas so tied up trying to keep peace among the many internal terrorist groups that it would cause them to back off from

terrorist attacks against Israel. If Hamas should choose to take this route, long enough to develop internal control within the new government, it will have a difficult time controlling the Islamic Jihad, who would want to continue the terrorist attacks.

The second distinct possibility is that Hamas will continue the status quo attempts to keep up terrorist attacks to placate

the wildest asses among them, while attempting to satisfy the food, clothing, and shelter needs of its millions of subjects. Whatever path Hamas takes it has its hands full of numerous internal problems, which will not allow it to devote its FULL attention to terrorizing Israel.

In any case, the Israelis long ago dropped the pipe dream they could ever trust any Palestinian government to keep its word and maintain any sort of lasting peace with them. So, the bottom line continues to be, simply stated, Israel will finish its security barrier/wall/fence, separate themselves from the terrorists, and control a relative peace by their own expertise and military power.

Any terror attacks by terrorist suicide bombers or missiles launched over the barrier, will be met by retaliation much more brutal than was performed while the wall

was being built.

One way or another, a period of relative false peace is on the immediate horizon for Israel, such that Israel will develop a mindset of “peace and security.”

National Interest – The True Motivator of Every Nation!

January 27, 2006

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There seems to be somewhat of an illusion I keep hearing repeated over and over in many different articles by many different journalists from a wide variety of international news sources. Simply this, that Hamas will not be financially supported by the United States or Europe – as if it really mattered to Hamas. They have been getting plenty of financial support from Iran for some time, and now will receive even more. The Western powers

pay Iran inflated prices for their oil and they pass it on to all the terrorist groups.

It was obvious to me more that 30 years ago, when I wrote my first book, that oil would one day become the vehicle that moved money, rather than money moving the oil. The oil revenues of Iran have bought the support of Russia and China in the United Nations Security Council, in that they will veto anything that would hamper Iran’s source of income.

In our Archive Blog of January 23, 2006, “Still Riding a Dead European Beast with 25 Horns,” I gave two direct quotes out of two books I wrote some 30 years ago, that predicted precisely what is happening with oil in the Middle East today.

The first thing I learned in the National Security Agency was that you could hang your hat on national interest as the prime motivator behind most world events. And the second thing I learned was that national interest, in most cases, consisted of whatever actions would keep the present government in power.

In true democracies the actions usually are centered on maintaining or producing a good economy.

Hamas convinced a large segment of the Palestinians that it was

largely responsible for Israel leaving the Gaza Strip. They actually had them believing they had the military expertise to drive Israel out. The Hamas leaders may be fanatical, but they are not insane.

They know they will not be able to match the military might of Israel.

We are heading for a c ontinuati

on of disengagement, which at times will be bloody, but in the end the Palestinian groups will find themselves on the opposite side of a security barrier from Israel, and anything lobbed over it, or any terror act on the Israeli side of it, will be met with massive IAF retaliation.

Ruling a people with a governmental structure is a new assignment for Hamas, and I am hoping it might cause them to be so tied up initially in the process, that we might see a lull in the terrorist activity for a period of time sufficient for them to put a workable government in place. But make no mistake about it – The goal of Hamas to eliminate Israel from the Holy Land will not change.

Behind all the fanatical outpouring of Islamic emotionalism lies a cunning mindset of Arab treachery.

Hamas Victory – No Choice Now Except Disengagement & Barrier

January 26, 2006

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By early Thursday morning it had become clear that Hamas

had pulled off a stunning victory, shocking the prognosticators by sweeping the majority of seats in the Palestinian elections.

Israel is now living in the same country with a terrorist government directly linked to Syria and Iran.

Khaled Mashal, the senior Hamas leader, who is based in Syria, called Palestinian

leader Mahmoud and said Hamas is ready for a political partnership with the defeated Fatah Party.

The shocking Hamas victory in Israel over the Palestinian Authority has left the Israelis no choice. Now they will be dealing with a government that has repeatedly stated it won’t be satisfied until Israel is completely driven out of the land – a government th

at does not recognize Israel as a nation.

The following article from the Jerusalem Post gives the Hamas Charter. This Hamas victory is another example of how the spirit of Islamic Jihad is sweeping through the Arab world.

It will be interesting to see if the terrorist groups call off their attacks for a brief period while

they are getting their act together in forming a new government. The unrest among the individual factions within the Palestinian population will keep Hamas fully occupied for a while.

BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

Hamas’s Charter: The Martyrs’ Oath

THE JERUSALEM POST

January 26, 2006

“Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious…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 Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.

The Muslim Brotherhood Movement is a universal organization which constitutes the largest Islamic movement in modern times…

It strives to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine, for under the wing of Islam followers of all religions can coexist in security and safety where their lives, possessions and rights are concerned…

The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the Zionist invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kassam and his brethren the fighters, members of Muslim Brotherhood.

It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Muslim Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Muslim Brotherhood in 1968 and after…

The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: ‘The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslims fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees.

The stones and trees will say O Muslims, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him…’

Resisting and quelling the enemy become the individual duty of every Muslim, male or female. A woman can go out to fight the enemy without her husband’s permission, and so does the slave: without his master’s permission…

There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad.

Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people

know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with…

The day The Palestinian Liberation Organization adopts Islam as its way of life, we will become its soldiers, and fuel for its fire that will burn the enemies…

The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion… It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary

and Lions clubs, and other sabotage groups. All these organizations, whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions…

We should not forget to remind every Muslim that when the Jews conquered the Holy City in 1967, they stood on the threshold of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and proclaimed that ‘Mohammed is dead, and his descendants are all women.’

Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam

and the Muslim people. ‘May the cowards never sleep.'”

BEGIN JERUSALEM POST ARTICLE

High Palestinian Vote Turnout and Finish the Fence!

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