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June 14, 2006
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Iran, and other Islamic Governments, are desperately trying to smuggle much needed cash across the Gaza-Sinai border to keep the terrorist government Hamas in power. The way to a man’s will is through his stomach, and if Hamas is able to continue the same stomach satisfying welfare benefits that got the Palestinian people to vote them into power, they
will be able to stay in power. The money Hamas has always used came primarily from Iran and Syria, and it was the source of the public benefits they provided to the Palestinian public that got them into office, especially when they saw the utter corruption of Yassar Arafat’s Fatah Party, and the billions of dollars the free world poured into his coffers to help the Palestinian people, only to see it shoveled into his pockets and the crooked leaders of his inner circle.
I am hopeful the strife between Fatah and Hamas will continue.
It will weaken both terrorist groups, and they will have less will and ability to attack Israel, as well as being more likely to come to some sort of a false peace arrangement with Israel, until they can establish a unity in their own ranks.
Begin Excerpts from AP and Jerusalem Post Article
Zahar Stopped with Millions in Cash
JPost Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST
June 14, 2006
Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar, who has been seeking to raise money for the financially strapped government, returned to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday
with a suitcase full of cash, officials said.
Officials said Zahar was believed to be carrying up to $20 million (€15.92 million). The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Zahar was talking to border guards to document the money.
In Ramallah, dozens of Palestinian civil servants stormed the parliament on Wednesday to demand long-overdue salaries, pelting Hamas lawmakers
with water bottles and forcing the parliament speaker to flee the building.
This second attack on the parliament this week, along with
the shooting death of a Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip, cast doubt on renewed efforts by leaders of the rival Fatah and Hamas parties to halt their increasingly deadly infighting.
Tensions have been high since Hamas defeated Fatah in legislative elections in January. President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, who was elected separately last year, has been in a power struggle with the Islamic group, and 22 people have been killed in factional fighting in recent weeks.
Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail H
aniyeh of Hamas agreed late Tuesday to start a weeklong series of meetings to try to reach an agreement over a proposal that implicitly recognizes the Jewish state. The two men, joined by senior security commanders, continued their talks on Wednesday.
Abbas has endorsed the plan as a way to restart peace talks and lift crippling international economic sanctions that have rendered the government unable, since February, to pay salaries that support one-third of the Palestinian population. Hamas has rejected it.
In Ramallah, hundreds of government workers demonstrated outside the parliament building, chanting anti-government slogans and demanding their wages. As the chanting grew louder, several dozen protesters burst into the building and pelted Hamas lawmakers with water bottles, tissue boxes and other small items.
” We are hungry.
We are hungry,” the protesters screamed. “Haniyeh, go home!”
During the melee, some demonstrators climbed onto lawmakers’ desks. At one point, security guards broke up a scuffle between two female lawmakers.
No injuries were reported.
Earlier this week, hundreds of pro-Fatah security personnel went on a rampage in Ramallah, shooting and burning the parliament and Cabinet buildings in a rage against the Hamas-led government.
Abbas’ power struggle with Hamas, which has spilled over into factional fighting, has centered around control of the powerful, Fatah-dominated security forces.
In their meeting in Gaza City, Abbas, Haniyeh and senior security officials discussed ways to end the violence.
Participants said Wednesday’s talks focused on Hamas’ controversial private militia.
Hamas deployed the 3,000-member force last month, setting off weeks of bloodshed. Abbas has demanded the force be disbanded.
Haniyeh said Abbas had agreed to incorporate the militia into the regular police force in Gaza.
But he declined to say when this might take place.
Hamas has twice pledged to remove the militia out of public places, but it remains in position.
On Tuesday the bank accounts of Hamas ministers and legislators have been frozen by Palestinian banks in the West Bank and Gaza Strip at the request of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s office, Hamas officials disclosed.
End Excerpts from Associated Press and Jerusalem Post Article
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