Posted on 08/26/2007 2:42:31 PM PDT by Alouette
Deputy Shin Bet chief tells cabinet Palestinian organization instructed by headquarters abroad to carry out mass attack; says arms smuggling, shootings and rocket attacks have increased
Ronny Sofer Published: 08.26.07, 18:05 / Israel News
Hamas may carry out a mega-terror attack, the Deputy Shin Bet Chief, known only as Y, told cabinet members Sunday. "There were clear orders from the Hamas headquarters abroad to Hamas here to carry out a mass casualty attack in Israel," he said.
According to Y, the Hamas leadership in Gaza is experiencing "deep strategic complications." The organization is frustrated by its lack of success in gaining legitimacy in the international arena, particularly in Europe.
They are also having trouble running the government, particularly in controlling internal checkpoints and, in general, in positively impacting daily life.
This situation increases the likelihood that the organization's policy regarding terror attacks with change, in Gaza, the West Bank and possibly even outside of Israel, the deputy Shin Bet chief said.
Increased smuggling and use of weapons
Arms smuggling has not only continued, it has increased, Y reported. In the few months since Hamas' took over Gaza in June of this year, 40 tons of weapons have been smuggled into the Strip – approximately one half of the total amount of armaments smuggled into the area since Israel's July 2005 disengagement.
Since August, the defense establishment recorded five major incidents of arms smuggling through Egypt, during which 13 tons of explosives and 150 RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) carriers were brought in. Simultaneously, there has been an observable decrease in Egypt's measures to combat the trend.
Not surprisingly, the deputy chief stated that armed attacks against Israeli communities and forces had increased. There were 20 Qassam attacks last week, a high number relative to the average of 70 rockets per month.
The number of shooting attacks from Gaza (gun or mortar fire towards the border fence or into Israel) also increased in the past week – up to 56, in comparison to 43 attacks the week before. The heightened mortar fire, specifically, was a response to the IDF's operations within Gaza, Y explained.
Hamas also intends to intensify activities against Egypt in order to exert pressure on them to open the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border, he said.
While Y's briefing focused mainly on the situation in Gaza, he said the Shin Bet is also following Hamas operations in Nablus, in preparation of a possible terror attack being planned in that West Bank city.
Local population blames Hamas
The atmosphere in Gaza indicates that the local population blames Hamas for the current crisis there, Y said. While significant harm has not been caused to mechanisms for distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza, the Shin Bet has noted that the local private sector has sustained severe damages since the Hamas takeover.
In contrast to the situation in the Strip, the financial situation of the West Bank's private sector has improved in recent months, highlighting the economic separation between the two regions and particularly the negative consequences of the takeover for Gaza businessmen.
Additionally, the municipality workers' strike continues, leaving Gaza streets overflowing with trash.
Despite these troubles, the Hamas leadership does not appear to be facing any significant internal threat to its control of Gaza.
Efforts towards conciliation between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have not yielded tangible results. Y noted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' recent cancellation of government appointments for members of the Islamist group. West Bank Hamas members also continue to be arrested.
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Maybe this could be Israel’s excuse to finally wipe “Palestine” off the map and turn the West bank and Gaza Strip into a cratered wasteland.
And quit giving stuff away and trying to reconcile with these bastards. They want you DEAD! Stand up and kill ‘em. 'cause if you don't kill them they will surely kill you.
“Additionally, the municipality workers’ strike continues, leaving Gaza streets overflowing with trash.”
Good. Its a perfect metaphore for what Islam has brought them. They don’t mind living in trash and urine filled streets anyways. Hamas will attack Israel to divert attention from its massive civic failure and the psychotic society that lives in Gaza will buy right into it.
With any luck at all they’ll attack Israel and Israel will respond by carpet bombing Gaza into oblivion.
>>>I sincerely hope the Israelis respond with overwhelming, blinding force.
Step 1) Replace Olmert.
Step 2) Get the US State Department out of Israel
Otherwise, what you hope for ain't gonna happen!
This is terrible to read about, but I hate the way it reported breathlessly as information that is new and informative. Of course Hamas is planning a mega-attack in Isreal. They’ve been planning such an attack ever since their anti-semetic little brains founded the organization. There’s a fabulous quote from Benjamin Netenyahu about this. He was asked (by Glenn Beck, I believe) about the lesson of the Holocaust. “When someone tells you they’re going to kill you, believe them,” Netenyahu said.
Someday someone somewhere is going to try and recreate the Holocaust. The Jews will not respond with the same passivity the second time around.
>>They’ve been planning such an attack ever since their anti-semetic little brains founded the organization.
If the first statement is true this is well beyond simply planning an attack, like a contingency or a concept. It is like the difference between thinking about getting pregnant and actually getting pregnant.
True enough, Steve. I’m just annoyed at our media. I agree with you to a point; however, I’d say that the idea precedes the actions, like your example about thinking about getting pregnant. Once you’ve made up your mind about it, the actions easily follow.
So what Gaza odds of Israel lay whole smackdown on Hamas
” They are also having trouble running the government, particularly in controlling internal checkpoints and, in general, in positively impacting daily life. “
No S**t, Sherlock. It’s a hell of a lot easier to blow stuff up than to create it. That’s what all this Islamist crap is about.
Hamas thinks Egypt is stupid?
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Step 2) Get the US State Department out of Israel
Step 3) Get the US State Department out of the US. Its done about as much good for us as it has for Israel.
And, terrorist "logic" being what it is, they think that killing a few hundred innocent Israeli civilians will enhance their "legitimacy."
"Logic" like that continually pushes me toward the belief that most of these people belong in rubber-lined rooms.
“Someday someone somewhere is going to try and recreate the Holocaust. The Jews will not respond with the same passivity the second time around.”
Here’s the antidote to Jewish passivity: http://www.jpfo.org/about.htm
“So what Gaza odds of Israel lay whole smackdown on Hamas”
Virtually zip as long as Olmert is the head of Israel. He’s got to go, soon, if Israel is to survive.
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