Hamas is Digging its Own Grave without Compromise – How to Slit your Own Throat to Spite your Head!
April 23, 2006
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The two following articles list just two of the many internal and external problems Hamas is experiencing – The financial squeeze and internal infighting with Fatah, Islamic Jihad, al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, and the Fatah Prime Minister Abbas. Without some sort of compromise on its hard-as-flint positioning toward Israel, at least on its surface veneer, Hamas is in for a very rough ride, and may fall as a government. They do quite well as a terrorist mob, but have no idea how to operate any thing that even resembles a democratic government.
Begin AFP/Yahoo Article
A Failed Hamas State
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A massive fiscal squeeze on the Hamas-led government has led to warnings that the Palestinian people could become residents of a failed state even before they achieve independence.
The government can no longer pay salaries. Although the government has received pledges from other Muslim countries, the cash has yet to materialize and represents a fraction of the sums required.
Former finance minister Salam Fayad said the freeze in aid had scared banks off: “All of a sudden the banks have become nervous.
If you skip a payment, they are not going to ask for what they are due, they are just not going to give you any more.” (AFP/Yahoo)
End AFP/Yahoo Article
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Mashaal: A ‘Fifth Column’ is Trying to Undermine New Gov’t
JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
April 21, 2006
“We will not allow Israeli informants to reach power on the wings of the Israeli and American governments,” said Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashaal in Damascus Friday evening.
“Whoever wants to rule must do so through the ballot box,” he added.
Mashaal reiterated that his government and his organization would never recognize Israel, and claimed there was a “fifth column” in the region working against the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
“What is going on now in the Palestinian Authority is not opposition, rather a plot to undermine the new government,” he said.
Mashal’s comments came after a Hamas-appointed security chief said Friday that he would not halt his involvement in attacks against Israel.
Jamal Abu Samhadana, who is high on Israel’s wanted list, was appointed Thursday to lead a new security force made up of militants.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday vetoed the plan, but it was unclear whether Hamas would honor the veto.
Despite the reports, however, that Abbas ordered the veto, a statement released Friday evening by the PA Interior Ministry said that the ministry had not received orders from Abbas to veto the appointment.
In a telephone interview Friday, Abu Samhadana, 43, would not comment on Abbas’ veto, but hinted he would ignore it. He said he planned to meet with his direct boss, Interior Minister Said Siyam of Hamas, on Saturday to discuss his duties.
“My appointment is not going to contradict my role in the resistance,” he said, using the stock phrase for violence against Israel.
“I, in addition to my colleagues, will continue our work.
I am not going to give up resistance.
There is no contradiction between the appointment and resistance. I am a fighter protecting the homeland.”
Earlier on Friday, Israeli officials reacted harshly to the appointment of the man currently No. 2 on its wanted list, saying that his new position would not confer him immunity from Israeli security forces.
Interior Security Minister Ze’ev Boim said that Israel had a score to settle with Samhadana and that, sooner or later, security forces would lay their hands on the new official. He told Israel Radio that the appointment indicated
that Hamas was turning the Palestinian Authority into a terrorist entity.
Former Mossad chief MK Danny Yatom (Labor) told Army Radio that Samhadana remained a legitimate Israeli target, along with Hamas ministers in the Palestinian cabinet.
“I understand that our sights are also trained on Hamas ministers, not only on the police chief,” said Yatom. “Nobody who deals with terror can have immunity by any means, even if he holds a ministerial portfolio in the Hamas government.”
Yatom said that Hamas Cabinet ministers could be the targets of Israeli assassination efforts, including the newly appointed head of the Palestinian security force.
Abu Samhadana is one of the founders of the Popular Resistance Committees, a terrorist group that blew up several Israeli tanks in Gaza and killed three US security guards in a deadly bombing attack on a US diplomatic convoy.
The United States also condemned the appointment, saying it exposed Hamas’ true face and its mode of operation.
End Jerusalem Post Article
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