Will Hamas Blink? A Test of Wills! It is Crunch Time for Both the PA and Israel!
June 26, 2006
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians the Sun, Moon, and Stars for peace between them in 1999-2000, and Yassar Arafat turned Israel down, because he knew he could not control the many splinter and independent terror groups for more than a few days, until they deliberately broke the agreement after it was signed.
Even since Yassar Arafat turned down the best terms the Palestinians could ever after received from Israel, much to the amazement of Bill Clinton and most of the free world, I have repeatedly stated that no one would ever be able to control all the terrorist groups in Israel for a long enough period of time for anything other than a false peace to come in. The only personage who will ever be able to bring these wild asses into a unified stance will be the antichrist, and then only by the will of God.
Revelation 17:12,13,17 – And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. [13] These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. [17] For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
If the leaders of the f action
of the Hamas rulers setting in Damascus do not “blink,” in fear of the Gaza Strip invasion threat by Israel, by the return of the soldier wounded and kidnapped on Sunday, then Israel will invade the Gaza Strip. It will be interesting to see if Hamas does “blink” and return him, bec
ause it would be a definite sign of weakness on their part. Israel has given them until Wednesday to return him.
His kidnapping has stirred up a lot of political intrigue in Europe and the Middle East. Since the kidnapped soldier holds French citizenship, the French government is making diplomatic appeals to Arab countries to obtain his release. And the United States is also putting pressure on Syria to put pressure on Hamas headquarters in Damascus to secure the young man’s relaease.
Regardless of the outcome of this test of wills scenario, if it has not been apparent before, it should now be crystal clear that the only way to deal with Palestinians, and their many affiliated terrorist groups of thugs, is to fence them in behind a security barrier, whether they like it or not. And, having done so, every time a rocket comes over the wall on Israel’s side of it, launch IAF air strikes at will against terrorist groups inside it, regardless of which group of thugs launched it. Eventually, it will cause the Palestinian population as a whole to police their own terrorists, and the rocket attacks
will cease.
This is no time for bleeding hearts in Israel. If, by some chance, Israel is the party that “blinks,” and does not invade the Gaza Strip, should the Palestinians fail to return the wounded soldier, then it will be a sad day for Israel, and will give great encouragement to the rising spirit of Jihad sweeping through the worldwide Muslim community.
The following two articles from DEBKAfile Reports give an assessment of the current status on the Gaza Strip Border and the flow of threats between Israel and the terrorist thug government of the Palestinians.
Begin Article 1 from DEBKAfile
Israel masses armored strength on its Gaza border Monday as Egypt seeks to broker recovery of Israeli soldier kidnapped by Hamas
June 26, 2006, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday night, Israel decided to hold off immediate military action in Gaza for fear of harm to kidnapped Israeli soldier since promoted to Sgt.
Gideon Shalit, 19, from Mitzpe Hilo, is safe. The decision was reached at a special security cabinet consultation called by prime minister Ehud Olmert to deal with the IDF response to the Hamas-led pre-dawn raid from Gaza inside Israel, in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, a third was kidnapped and 6 were injured.
DEBKAfile’s military sources say the cabinet’s options were narrowed by the slow reactions of the generals on the spot – Maj.-Gen Yoav Galant (Ariel Sharon’s former military secretary) and Brig. Aviv Cochavi – plus the chief of staff’s reluctance to act independently without deferring to his political masters. Had the IDF gone roaring after the terrorists and kidnappers – or even launched a blind pursuit without waiting for a decision from the policy-makers – Israel might have gained the initiative and been in a position to force the kidnapped soldier’s release by pinning the Palestinian terrorists to the wall.
Instead, an Israeli helicopter was lofted to shoot at empty ground and the defense minister Amir Peretz, upon learning that an Israeli naval Dabur missile-ship had opened fire, ordered the vessel to stand down in case of repercussions to the abducted soldier.
These responses were seen by the Palestinian terrorist groups which carried out the concerted attack early Sunday as a sign of weakness and lack of resolve. Israel has left itself with two chancy options – an unpredictable bargaining process and hope that the missing soldier can be first located through its intelligence and electronic surveillance branches.
Israel’s military tardiness reduced the deterrent effect of the threat defense minister Amir Peretz issued earlier to Palestinian terrorists that they and their leaders would pay a painful price if harm came to Corp. Shalit. This affair recalls the October 2000 kidnap by Hizballah of three Israeli soldiers, Adi Avitan, Benny Avraham and Omar Sawad, on Israel’s northern border. Then, too, prime minister Ehud Barak held back from expeditious action.
Four years later, in the absence of any sign
of life from the captured men, Israel was forced to pay dearly for their remains.
Both Israeli premiers were loath to send troops back into evacuated territory – South Lebanon then, the Gaza Strip now.
Begin Article 2 from DEBKAfile
The release of all Palestinian women security prisoners and men under 18 in Israeli jails is first demand set for information on the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit
June 26, 2006, 6:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
The demand was contained in a leaflet signed by the “Islamic Army of Palestine,” one of the groups which took part in the Hamas-led attack on an Israeli army post and abduction of the Israeli soldier Sunday, June 26. The demand applies only to information about Corp.
Gilead Shalit – not his release.
The leaflet was circulated in the Gaza Strip and al Qaeda Web sites. The text and format are similar to similar leaflets released by al Qaeda in Iraq
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