BACKING HAMAS INTO A PERIOD OF HUDNA “QUIET” PEACE!
April 11, 2006
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Before any attack by Islamic forces against Israel could be successful, there must be a period of mindset by the Israelis
believing a time of relative “peace and safety” is in place. The traditional teachings of Islam allow for a time of “hudna” with enemies in order to build up and consolidate your strength for a time when you will be able to overc
ome them. The ongoing action of cutting off sorely needed monies to the Palestinians now governed by Hamas, has placed Hamas between a rock and a hard place. The first two articles from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert zero in on the penniless plight Hamas finds itself caught in trying to run a government for the first time in its existence. The last article from the same source sends a message to Hamas from Israel – If you want “quiet” from us, then you must made the missile launches from within your government’s territory go “quiet.” I think Hamas is getting the only kind of message to which they will respond – NO MONEY, NO FUN, NO “QUIET,” YOU’RE DONE! Eventually, I look for a hudna (truce) between Hamas and the Israelis. If Hamas doesn’t get in the good graces of the U.S. and the E.U, the Palestinian population will turn on them for lack of money, and Fatah will once again take over.
The original sources of the following three articles and their writers are listed in their individual contexts.
EU Suspends Aid to Palestinian Authority
By David Gow and Conal Urquhart
The EU Monday increased the pressure on the Hamas-led PA to recognize Israel and renounce terrorist violence by suspending all direct aid to the new government.
Europe is the largest single donor to the Palestinian territories, providing 500m euros a year, of which just under half goes directly to the PA.
(Guardian-UK)
Palestinians Fear Aid Cut-Off
By Sarah El Deeb
Palestinian policeman Ibrahim Abu Hattab said that if Hamas cannot provide for the Palestinians, it has no business staying in power. “We want to live, with or without Hamas….If it gets worse, then we can just say farewell (to Hamas).” Amin Makhboul, a clerk with the Palestinian Interior Ministry in the West Bank city of Nablus, said he believes the Palestinian people will throw Hamas out of power if the situation deteriorates: “We will have a great mess without salaries….Hamas won’t be able to stay in power more than three or four months like this.” Until Hamas won parliament elections in January, the Palestinians used to receive nearly $1 billion in foreign aid.
(AP/Washington Post)
Palestinian Rocket Damages Sensitive Israeli Facility
By Amos Harel (Ha’aretz)
Israel was moved to act against rocket launching sites in Gaza after a
rocket that landed on a sensitive infrastructure facility caused damage totaling millions of shekels.
And it is only a matter of time before one lands on a kindergarten.
The Israeli bombardment of launch sites is intended to make it clear that Israel demands complete quiet from Gaza.
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.