Hamas Takes Over Gaza
The violence between Hamas and Fatah has not decreased: in fact, the two ‘parties’ are fighting each other more aggressively than ever before. Hamas is now trying to take control of Gaza. The terrorist organization has already attacked and captured the headquarters of the other terrorist organization (albeit less evil) in northern Gaza. 200 Hamas terrorists surrounded the building, “where some 500 Fatah fighters were holed up. Hamas fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at the building.”
Abbas has already called it a “coup” and ordered forces that are loyal to him “to defend their positions in the Gaza Strip.” The command of Abbas’ National Security Forces said in a statement issued in Gaza: “Advance, our forces! Confront the seekers of the coup. Defend your dignity and your military honour. Defend the security of your people.”
Meanwhile, Fatah gunmen surrounded the Al-Aqsa TV station. Al-Aqsa TV is, of course, the Hamas propaganda network. One of their all-time hits: Mickey the Killer Mouse. Fatah seemingly attacked and “shortly after the attack, the station started playing pro-Fatah songs, a sign that the security forces had taken control of the broadcast.” Sadly, however, “later, the television station broadcast pictures of what it said was a thwarted attack, along with pictures Hamas gunmen standing around captured security vehicles.”
The BBC has more:
Fatah leaders are meeting to decide whether to leave the three-month-old unity government they formed with Hamas in an effort to end factional fighting.
Some 18 people have been killed on the streets of Gaza in the past two days.
Furthermore, the residences of both Abbas and Haniyeh “have been targeted with gun and shell fire.”
More:
Frustrated Egyptian mediators said the rival factions appeared uninterested in talks.
The head of the mediation team, Lt Col Burhan Hamad, said: “It seems they don’t want to come. We must make them ashamed of themselves. They have killed all hope. They have killed the future.”
When, I ask, is the world going to learn? Hamas is not interested in peace, Hamas is interested in power. Once completely in power, it will force all Palestinians to live according to Sharia and it will, even more so than now, raise and educate children with just one purpose in mind: to turn them into terrorists. Once these children grow up, they can launch terrorist attacks against Israel.
Simple.
Recently, people have been calling for the West to talk with Hamas, to give Hamas money, etc. This – it seems to me – is definite proof that doing so would be a major mistake.
Of course, there are always those who think Israel is to blame for whatever it is the Palestinians do, but, hopefully these people will, for a long time to come, form the minority in the West and, hopefully, these people will never be in a position of power.
Israel, with its powerful military, powerful economy and powerful friend (the US), continues to hold most if not all of the cards with regard to the Palestinian situation.
As a one-time supporter of Palestinian rights, I am now convinced that Hamas is deliberately trying to destroy all opposition through armed force. The idea of having Hamas participate in democratic elections as a means to “tame” them was advocated by Condi Rice. Who is now going to put the toothpaste back in the tube. So much for trusting terrorists.
Even western journalists are beginning to become disillusioned, as per using a fake “TV” vehicle in a terror-attack recently.
The journalists complain that such actions “hurt their livelihood.” Hmmm. That sure demonstrates the autistic self-referential solipsistic narcissism of these drunks and layabouts pretending to be “journalists.”
Isn’t there a BBC “journalist” still being held hostage by some group in Gaza?
And yet back in the UK, there are groups in Oxbridge trying to boycott companies who invest in Israel, comparing it to South Africa under apartheid. Like the sad citizens of Zimbabwe, South Africa might soon pine for the halcyon days of yore under Botha, as the people of Harare pine for Ian Smith.
And don’t forget that Nancy’s friend Stick-Insect Assad is supporting Hamas’s terror HQ in Damascus. Khaled Meshaal operates his terror central apparatus there with the help and comfort of Boy-Bashar.
lmao – quite right.
Exactly Dave. Sickening hypocritical it is.
I’d like to reiterate that Khaled Meshaal is in Damascus masterminding the Hamas terror campaign. Hezbollah also has much assistance from Damascus. And of course, Lebanese politicians are being systematically assassinated by Syrian agents if they oppose Assad’s takeover of Lebanon.
Oh, by the way, one of my assignments learning Arabic in Beirut was to translate the Syrian Baathist Party Constitution from Arabic to English.
I learned there something no western news agency knows nor probably would care about if they did. Syria claims all of Lebanon, Palestine, including Israel of course, and Jordan. And the island of Cyprus as well, just to round out the Baath program.
And we mustn’t forget much of southern Turkey that was annexed by the Turks in the late 1930s, including Alexandretta and Antioch.