Changing Horses in Mid-Stream Crossing a Blood River of No Return!
June 26, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Israel and the United States are now in the position of choosing to deal with a group of moderate terrorists who are lying thieves, or a group of fanatical Islamic lying terrorists who are not thieves, Quite a choice.
At best it is a choice of the lesser
of two evils.
It appears Fatah has made a clean break with Hamas, hopping off the extreme Hamas terrorist horse while crossing a wide river of Palestinian blood.
But I say that with tongue in cheek, because strange things are the rule rather than the exception among the many terrorist groups, who splinter off each other like church denominations, only to regroup later as the best of buddies.
Great Gobs of financial and humanitarian aid, as well as abundant military weapons and equipment are flowing into Fatah’s control from many sources.
The major questions in the minds of those supplying Fatah, now they have broken with Hamas are (1) Will they patch the blanket and reunite with Hamas, and (2) Will Fatah be able to keep Hamas from conquering the West Bank
? If either one of these eventualities should occur, the weapons the West is supplying would end up turned against the West and Israel. I rather doubt that Hamas will be able to take over the West Bank, because of the Israeli presence there.
Begin Haaretz Article
Shock, Awe and Dread in Gaza
Haaretz
Avi Issacharoff
Quiet returned to the streets of Gaza all at once this week. Gunmen (not members of Hamas) have disappeared from the streets, apparently due to a fear of
the Hamas Executive Force.
And now that Hamas has banned people from masking their faces, that phenomenon has also ceased. Hamas traffic cops dressed in civilian clothes now stand guard at intersections. At the same time, Iz a-Din al-Kassam, the Hamas military wing, is constantly searching the homes of suspects, collecting weapons of members of the Palestinian security services, and responding to the actions of the armed clans. The Durmush clan, which is holding BBC journalist Alan Johnston, is the last bastion of opposition to Hamas in Gaza.
The quiet can be attributed, at least in part, to the fear Hamas struck into residents’ hearts last week. Testimony collected from the days of fighting indicates that Hamas imposed a methodical system of terror and scare tactics intended to deter, shock
and frighten Fatah operatives and Gaza residents in general. Every Hamas patrol carried with it a laptop containing a list of Fatah operatives in Gaza, and an identity number and a star appeared next to each name. A red star meant the operative was to be executed and a blue one meant he was to be shot in the legs – a special, cruel tactic developed by Hamas, in which the shot is fired from the back of the knee so that the kneecap is shattered when the bullet exits the other side. A black star signaled arrest, and no star meant that the Fatah member was to be beaten and released.
Hamas also killed innocent Palestinians, with the intention of deterring the large clans. To overpower the Bakr clan from Shati, Hamas removed all the family members from their compound and lined them up against a wall. Militants selected a 14-year-old girl, two women aged 19 and 75, and two elderly men, and shot them to death in cold blood.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
PA intel chief: Hamas takeover was coordinated with Iran
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 24, 2007
The Palestinian Authority intelligence chief on Sunday accused Iran of close involvement in Hamas’ violent takeover of Gaza, saying Teheran funded the group and trained hundreds of their gunmen.
The intelligence chief, Tawfiq Tirawi, said the battle for Gaza earlier this month was carefully orchestrated.
“It was a joint program with Iran,” he said.
In implied criticism of Syria, he noted that Hamas’ leadership is based there. He said that a month before the battle for Gaza began, the Syrian-based leaders of Hamas met with the heads of the Hamas military wing in an undisclosed Arab capital. “In this meeting, they discussed all the details of the operation.” Tirawi told a news conference.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri dismissed the allegations of Hamas-Iran cooperation as “baseless fabrication,” and denied Hamas fighters had been trained in Iran.
On Saturday, Hamas hardliner Mahmoud Zahar was quoted as telling a German news magazine that he had personally carried $42 million in cash from Iran across the Gaza-Egypt border.
Tirawi warned that Hamas militants are hoarding weapons in the West Bank and might try to target Palestinian government installations there. The West Bank is a stronghold of the rival Fatah movement of moderate Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Meanwhile, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhari said Sunday that the group was hurt by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s statement made the previous day during which he denounced Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip.
Mubarak described Hamas’s takeover of Gaza as a “coup” and warned that group’s conflict with the moderate Fatah movement could lead to the creation of two Palestinian entities.
Abu Zuhari told BBC radio that the Egyptian president supports only one side on account of the other side.
“Hamas was elected by law and agreed to establish a unity government with Fatah, but the one responsible for dissolving it is Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazzen, and not Hamas.” He said.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc.
We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more detailed information go to:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml.
You may use material originated by this site.
However, if you wish to use any quoted copyrighted material from this site, which did not originate at this site, for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner from which we extracted it.