Posted on 06/04/2006 12:06:35 PM PDT by mojito
Hamas and Fatah appeared to be on the verge of a major confrontation on Sunday as representatives of the two sides stepped up their war of words over a controversial document drafted by some Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.
Hamas officials on Sunday accused Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party of planning a "bloodless coup" to topple the Hamas government and said his proposed referendum was "illegal."
The tensions come as Abbas's 10-day ultimatum to Hamas to accept the document or else he would call a referendum is due to expire on Monday night.
At least six people were injured in clashes that erupted in Rafah early Sunday morning between Hamas and Fatah gunmen. In a move that has been strongly condemned by Hamas, Fatah announced on Sunday that it would deploy 1,250 gunmen in the Gaza Strip. The move follows the deployment of some 2,500 Fatah gunmen in the Jenin area over the weekend.
Fatah leaders, meanwhile, stressed that Abbas was determined to hold the referendum "at any price" and suggested that the countdown for the collapse of the Hamas government had begun.
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OK, hold it a minute, does this mean that
Radical Islamist terrorists are possibly going
to wage a war on Radical Islamist terrorists??
I'm confused here, could it be the bad guys are
going to be killing the bad guys for us??
Im just sayin'
Let Allah sort them out.
One thing we can be pretty certain about; it is not going to be a bloodless fight.
Popcorn, anyone?
Like Germany/USSR and Iraq/Iran,this will be a war where you hope that *both* sides lose.
red on red. Works for me.
People's Front of Judea vs The Judean People's Front.
Because what have the Israelis ever done for us? I mean aside from jobs, funding, electricity, sewage, roads, hospitals...?
Hope it will be violent... I mean what better thing than to see our enemies killing each other?
It won't be particularly bloody. Neither side will do more than a few assassinations.
and besides greenhouses...
Popcorn, anyone?
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Ah yes, let the power struggle war begin. Hopefully when it is over, the battlefied will contain only expended terrorists and maybe the meek of Palestine will inherit the country...(I know, wishful thinking). The Arabs will always need their shills to keep harassment of Israel alive.
Good. Maybe they start to blow each other up.
Naw, but please pass the pork rinds and beer.
...and olive trees...
It is written.
Can I be the peace negotiator?
"Members of Fatah, you must seek peace. I know things aren't perfect, but we can mend them. Sure, the members of Hamas regularly unveil your daughters and give them hickeys while claiming you all are a bunch of sniveling cowards who don't have the guts to stop them. But that's no reason to resort to violence."
"People of Hamas, just because the people of Fatah sit around chewing on pork rinds while reading aloud favorite passages of "The Satanic Verses" is no reason to get angry. Can't we all just get along?"
Hamas. the terrorist gang, won over the pretend government of Arafat's terrorists gang. The battle is over who will continue to get the money sent to the pretend PLO state by the U. S. and Europe.
Many Americans, I among them, wonder why American taxpayers must give part of their paychecks to Muslim terrorist gangs.
Doesn't our government know that Muslims are out to kill us all?
Grinning widely...
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