From Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2007, no link: With the seizure of the Gaza Strip by Hamas, a new Islamist state is being established and it doesn’t bode well for the West or regional stability. Since the peace process began in 1993 with the Oslo Accords, the Fatah leadership made hardly a single effort to move Palestinian society toward peace and moderation. Fatah did have an attractive...
Collaborators Face Death in Town Where They Hoped to Find Safety
Running from their own shadow. From Collaborators Face Death in Town Where They Hoped to Find Safety:
More than a dozen Palestinian collaborators with Israel who fled Gaza with their families have since settled in Sderot, where they are forced to dodge rockets fired at Sderot from Gaza. In some cases their relatives are tied to the very militant groups behind recent rocket attacks on the town.
The Consequences of the Civil War in Gaza
From The Consequences of the Civil War in Gaza: After Ariel Sharon pulled Israel out of Gaza two years ago, Israel didn’t get the security it wished for; the daily shelling of Israeli towns continued and even intensified. However, he did succeed in transforming Gaza from an Israeli headache into a Palestinian problem. “The American strategy has totally collapsed,” Israeli...
Hamas Takeover in Gaza Makes Defining Targets Easier for IDF
The silver lining in the Hamas cloud over Israel. From Hamas Takeover in Gaza Makes Defining Targets Easier for IDF: Some Israeli defense officials said there was reason to be thankful for Hamas’ takeover of Gaza. Prior to this, Israel had to distinguish between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in Gaza and make sure that Abbas loyalists were not targeted. Now, all gunmen are Hamas and therefore fair...
Fundamentalists Threaten Israel from All Sides
The Telgraph is too cowardly to use the term “Muslim”, so they choose the term “Fundamentalist”. Cowardly pukes. From Fundamentalists Threaten Israel from All Sides: Hamas makes no secret of the fact that it now receives most of its financial and military support from Iran. The Iranian government signed a memorandum of understanding with the Hamas leadership in June last...
As Gaza Unravels, Palestinians Flee
Run, you cowardly bastards, run. From As Gaza Unravels, Palestinians Flee: Figures collected by European monitors at Rafah, the crossing into Egypt, show that some 14,000 Palestinians have left Gaza in the past year. Palestinian officials had asked to close the Rafah crossing into Egypt when they saw they could not protect European monitors there. “The real people controlling Rafah are...
Explosive-Filled Tunnels Targeting Abbas Found in Gaza
From Explosive-Filled Tunnels Targeting Abbas Found in Gaza: Tunnels filled with explosive devices were discovered under Salahaddin Street in Gaza City, Palestinian security sources announced Wednesday. According to these sources, the explosives were targeting Mahmoud Abbas in anticipation of future visits to Gaza. After Palestinian television networks showed footage of the tunnels and...
Hamas Gunmen Hunt Down Fatah Rivals in Gaza
From Hamas Gunmen Hunt Down Fatah Rivals in Gaza: Security officers loyal to Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction were fleeing Gaza City as Islamist Hamas death squads roamed the streets. After the battles, Hamas men hunted down their foes, blowing up their houses, witnesses said. One Fatah member, who called himself Ahmed, said Hamas gunmen had killed eight of his friends: “I escaped by a...
Hamas Executes Fatah Men as Their Wives and Children Watch
From Hamas Executes Fatah Men as Their Wives and Children Watch: A witness named Amjad said men were killed as their wives and children watched. “They are executing them one by one,” Amjad said by telephone. “They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting.” Fatah officials said Hamas shot and killed seven of...
Palestinians may be crossing point of no return to national suicide
So what? Considering the “Palestinians” are from a manufactured entity and not from a real nation to begin with, what’s the loss? If they want to commit suicide, let’s not get in their way. From IMRA: May 15 is always a “black date” on the Palestinian calendar, representing the founding of Israel and the Nakba (or “catastrophe” in Arabic) of the...