HOLY LAND ARM PIT – HOME OF THE VILEST!
The Gaza Strip – Holy Land Arm Pit – Deodorant can’t change It!
April 21, 2007
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The Gaza Strip has always been the ‘Arm Pit,’ the open sewer of Israeli territory since the 1967 War and, quite frankly, no matter how hard they have tried to divorce themselves from it, they have not been able to get rid of the little monster. The Palestinians made it into a welfare state supported by foreign countries and organizations, and have never really made a serious effort to develop it economically. They have been able to turn it into an underground tunnel maze and a fortress against any large scale offensive by the IDF. It is a haven for every possible type of terror organization from the “Allah Baba Kill Them All Now Ali Doodlebug Martyrs Brigades and Tunnel Rodents”(ABKTANDMBTR) to the “Kill Some Now, and the Rest As Soon As Possible Sons of the Caliph’s Army of the Holy Kidnappers and Head Lopper’s” (KSNRAS-APSOCAHKHL).
Geographically, the Strip forms
the westernmost porti on of the Palestinian territories in Southwest Asia, having land borders with Egypt
on the south-west and Israel on the north and east.
On the west, it is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea. Historically, the residents of the Gaza Strip have been Muslims, other than an estimated 2,000 Christians. Israeli settlers have attempted to settle this land previously, however, on several occasions (most recently in 2005 by Israel) they have been expelled.
The Strip’s borders were originally defined by the armistice lines between Egypt and Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, which followed the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine. It was occupied by Egypt (except for four months of Israeli occupation during the Suez Crisis) until it was captured by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1993, after the Palestinian-Israeli agreements known as the Oslo Accords, much of the Strip came under limited Palestinian Authority control. In February 2005, the Israeli government voted to implement Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip beginning on August 15, 2005. The plan required the dismantling of all Israeli settlements there, transferring the lucrative hothouse industry to Palestinian control to spur economic development, and the removal of all Israeli settlers and military bases from the Strip, a process that was completed on September 12, 2005 as the Israeli cabinet formally declared an end to military rule in the Gaza Strip after 38 years of control. The withdrawal was highly contested by the nationalist right in Israel, particularly the religious nationalist tendency, and some supporters of these tendencies now consider the Gaza Strip to be an occupied part of Israel.
Following withdrawal, Israel retains offshore maritime control and control of airspace over the Strip.
Israel withdrew from the “Philadelphi Route” that is adjacent to the Strip’s border with Egypt after an agreement with the latter to secure its side of the border. The future political status of the Gaza Strip remains undecided, and is claimed as part of any prospective Palestinian state.
Around 1.37 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip.
The majority of the Palestinians are direct descendants
of refugees who fled or were expelled from their homes when Israel was created during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The Strip’s population has continued to increase since that time.
Israel, the United States, and the European Union have frozen all funds to the Palestinian government since Hamas’s victory in the 2006 elections. They view the group as a terrorist organization and have pressured them to recognize Israel and renounce violence. Since Israel’s withdrawal, the gross domestic product of the Gaza Strip has been crippled. The enterprise and industry of the former Jewish villages has been impaired, and the previously established work relationships between Israel and the Gaza Strip have
been disrupted.
Job opportunities in Israel for Gaza Palestinians (who constitute about one-tenth of the total population) have been largely lost, giving rise to unemployment.
The following DEBKAfile Exclusive gives the latest foul smells coming from the combination arm pit and sewer.
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Al Qaeda-Palestine hits first major American target in Gaza Strip
April 21, 2007, 1:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
A large band of masked men broke into the American International School in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya at dawn Saturday, April 21. After overpowering and tying up the Palestinian guards, they detonated three powerful bombs in two empty buildings, first pouring
This was the Islamist group’s first major attack on a US target since kidnapping two Fox News journalists last August and forcing them to publicly convert to Islam for their freedom. Earlier this week, al Qaeda-Palestine blew up a Christian Library and two Internet cafes in Gaza. Together with Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committees, al Qaeda-Palestinian holds the BBC correspondent Alan Johnston hostage, along with the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit.
The American International School was founded in 1995.
The foreign staff left in March 2006, after the Dutch principal and an Australian teacher were briefly kidnapped. Its student body numbers 240 although the school can accommodate 600.
DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources add: Washington, London and Israel consistently close their eyes to al Qaeda’s operations in the Gaza Strip – even as it gains ground. They never name Al Qaeda as co-abductors of Johnston; neither do they admit he was seized as a ploy to delay the Israeli soldier’s release and raise the price demanded of Israel, without promising anything in return. Our intelligence sources maintain that this policy plays into the hands of the kidnappers and puts their hostages’ lives at risk rather than expediting their return.
Al Qaeda’s spreading activity in the Gaza Strip is symptomatic of the territory’s continuing slide out of control of the five players involved there – the US, Britain, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and Israel – thanks to their fruitless efforts to fabricate an artificial political structure that fails to address the real forces in play there.
Washington, London, Riyadh and Cairo have joined in talks, partly covert, with prime minister Ismail Haniyeh’s Hamas faction in a bid to build a moderate element capable of converting the dominant Hamas from a terrorist organization into a political party. Haniyeh cannot deliver the goods; he has no say in Hamas’ powerful military arm, which is dominated by Iranian agents and ever tugged towards militant extremism.
The moderate Mahmoud Abbas and his “national security adviser” Mohammad Dahlan, upon whom the US and UK are building their Palestinian strategy, are both slipping fast – not only in the Gaza Strip at large, but among their own Fatah following. Palestinian General Ahmed Hilas, known as “Abu Maher,” has declared a mutiny against their authority and is followed by more than half of the Fatah and Al Aqsa Brigades.
The Israeli government has systematically ignored Palestinian reality in the Gaza Strip since the 2005 unilateral evacuation led by the Sharon government and followed by its successor under Ehud Olmert. Both are responsible for Israel being the only country in the world to open the door to al Qaeda’s presence on its southern border with open eyes.
Al Qaeda-Palestine is building up its Gaza infrastructure with reinforcements pouring into Gaza as freely and unhindered as the stream of incoming Hamas and Jihad Islami weapons, missiles, arms and explosives. Continual Israeli intelligence warnings to the government go unheeded.
Just as Hamas and Jihad Islami are allowed to complete their war preparations against Israel undisturbed under guiding hands from Tehran, so too is al Qaeda building up its strength and recruiting men for expanding terrorist activity.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror experts define the deteriorating security situation in Gaza as a microcosm of al Qaeda’s early operation in Iraq in the second half of 2003.
They say it is still not too late to stamp out by firm military action. But if Israel fails to put a stop to the unfolding menace in the first part of 2007, al Qaeda will use the time to spread its wings out of Gaza and into Israel by the end of the year.
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