Posted on 06/12/2007 8:05:12 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Hamas launched a full-scale attack Tuesday afternoon against Fatah security bases and positions in Gaza, and succeeded in taking over a number of them, Israel Radio reported. Hamas-affiliated television said that the organization overtook the entire northern section of the Gaza Strip. After airing the report, the station was attacked by PA security forces and forced to play pro-Fatah songs. Israel Radio also reported that a top Fatah military official sent a message to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stating that security forces were holding their ground, but calling on the Fatah leader to order an end to the current policy of restraint, allowing troops to return fire.
Less then an hour after the attack, Abbas called for an immediate cease-fire. In response to the Hamas assault, Fatah gunmen kidnapped a deputy Cabinet minister from Hamas on Tuesday. The fate of Deputy Transportation Minister Faidi Shabaneh, 46, was not known. Members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a violent Fatah offshoot, said Shabaneh was not harmed, denying claims on Hamas Web sites that he had been killed by his captors. Hamas said Shabaneh was seized by gunmen after he emerged from his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Also on Tuesday afternoon, Fatah announced that within several hours, the faction would decide whether to stay in the unity government with Hamas, or leave the Palestinian Authority government altogether, Israel Radio reported. The announcement coincided with a Hamas attack on the National Security headquarters in Gaza, an incident which followed a recent threat of such action by the extremist Islamic faction. National Security is one of the armed forces affiliated with Fatah. Hamas also announced that Fatah must evacuate all buildings used by Military Intelligence, the Revolutionary Guard, National Security and Preventive Security. ...
In recent days, internecine Palestinian violence reached new heights when rival factions took their fights into the hospitals, even causing treatment at one hospital to cease for several hours after a doctor was dragged to the street and shot six times in the legs. On Sunday, a Hamas member and a Fatah operative were killed by being cuffed and thrown off high-rises. ...
So they got more of hell?
Will this be on page 1 of the NYT?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Maybe if the Isrealis would just give up a bit more land, it would make all this nastiness go away. /sarcasm tag (for the humor impaired)
I heard one of those a long time ago.
I'm pretty sure it went like this: "Hello Matah, Hello Fatah. Here I am at...Camp Granatah."
Arm both sides—encourage them to commit the most grievious crimes against humanity—chronicle same and fan the flames of Civil War to steel furnace levels, get some popcorn, kick back and enjoy the show.
Every civil war fatality is one less bullet the IDF will expend to eliminate these sub-humans.
Got my popcorn, and am going for my Junior Mints. I’m sure popcorn futures are booming in Isreal, too.
...but I thought they were a harmless people guided by a philosophy of peace...
Maybe we should let them have the West Bank too. Then they could provide another example of how benevolent TROP is when running a state.
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