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Shin Bet warns Hamas may be plotting West Bank takeover — report
Times of Israel ^ | 24 December 2017, 10:25 pm | Judah Ari Gross

Posted on 12/26/2017 7:13:10 AM PST by Olog-hai

The head of the Shin Bet security service on Sunday warned that the Hamas terrorist group is poised to take over the West Bank from the “very weak” Mahmoud Abbas, who controls the ruling Palestinian Authority, according to a television report.

Nadav Argaman was quoted by Hadashot news as saying the ongoing reconciliation between the two groups was “not going to succeed, even if it takes a little more time.” […]

According to a statement put out by the Knesset committee, Argaman also told the committee members that the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group does not appear to be interested in renewed military conflict with Israel, but is looking instead to carry out terror attacks in the West Bank.

“This year, we broke up 148 local Hamas cells in the West Bank. This high number of cells shows the increase in efforts by the Hamas high command in the Gaza Strip and abroad,” he said.

“Hamas sees the West Bank as being the main front for terror, with the intent of upsetting the security stability there, but it is having trouble doing that, mostly because of Israel’s efforts to stop it,” he said.

The Shin Bet chief said the terrorist group appears to be deepening its ties with Iran, as the Middle East generally divides between the Shiite faction led by Islamic Republic and the Sunni one led by Saudi Arabia. …

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; rop; shinbet; westbank

1 posted on 12/26/2017 7:13:11 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

They’ve been plotting for decades.


2 posted on 12/26/2017 7:17:27 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Olog-hai

how many individuals are necessary to makeup a terrorist cell?


3 posted on 12/26/2017 7:18:30 AM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh that’ll be a real clam bake.


4 posted on 12/26/2017 7:19:49 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: Thibodeaux

Three


5 posted on 12/26/2017 7:21:38 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Olog-hai

That would be a danger to Mideast Peace.

That would destabilize the region.

That would be a setback to peace negotiations.

Any other trite aphorisms?...............


6 posted on 12/26/2017 7:23:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Olog-hai

Let it be, then
Show the world apologists who will control Jerusalem and Palestine
Let them choose sides


7 posted on 12/26/2017 7:29:21 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Red Badger

If there were no Arabs in the west bank, there could be no terror cells.

How long before the idea of ethnic cleansing seems logical?

(The Turks threw out the Greeks in the 1920s; the Soviets threw out Poles and Germans in 1945; the Arabs threw out Jews from North Africa and Egypt and Iraq; so it’s nothing new...)


8 posted on 12/26/2017 7:31:57 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: bgill

Cut off the money


9 posted on 12/26/2017 7:33:19 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Olog-hai

Look up Muslim in the dictionary and it says “blood- thirsty Satanic terrorist murder gangs”........ this is what abbas plo pa Fatah Isis alQaida Muslim Brotherhood Iran and Hamas -and Hezballah and dozens more Muslim murder gangs have done — with the continuing help of USA and European nations. This Help must end. Now!


10 posted on 12/26/2017 7:38:10 AM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

Abbas has been rejected by DJT, KSA, and Qatar. He has no access to any finances except perhaps the UN.

Hamas on the other hand is firmly in the Iranian camp. Any pending take over of the ‘west bank’ goes hand in glove with the Iranian troops now 5 km from the Israeli border on the Golan - in fact in the same spot that Syria launched its attack in 1967. Despite pledges to the contrary, the IDF and the politicians are doing nothing as Iran and its surrogates build up their forces in towns and areas Bebe and others pledged they would never permit.


11 posted on 12/26/2017 7:44:13 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: ptsal

KSA and Qatar have cut him off


12 posted on 12/26/2017 7:44:45 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Olog-hai

It would be an interesting twist as Israel, with our blessings, was unleashed on them......


13 posted on 12/26/2017 7:48:42 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
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To: CondorFlight
How long before the idea of ethnic cleansing seems logical? (The Turks threw out the Greeks in the 1920s; the Soviets threw out Poles and Germans in 1945; the Arabs threw out Jews from North Africa and Egypt and Iraq; so it’s nothing new...)

There has been a mass expulsion of over 600,000 Bengali Muslims from Burma this year, with nothing more than noise from the "world community". The Burmans finally got fed up with their Muslims.

14 posted on 12/26/2017 7:55:17 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PIF
“2 “I am going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the surrounding peoples reeling. Judah will be besieged as well as Jerusalem. 3 On that day, when all the nations of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all the nations. All who try to move it will injure themselves. 4 On that day I will strike every horse with panic and its rider with madness,” declares the LORD. “I will keep a watchful eye over Judah, but I will blind all the horses of the nations.

I am against you, Gog, chief prince of[a] Meshek and Tubal. 2 I will turn you around and drag you along. I will bring you from the far north and send you against the mountains of Israel. 3 Then I will strike your bow from your left hand and make your arrows drop from your right hand. 4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals. 5 You will fall in the open field, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. 6 I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in safety in the coast lands, and they will know that I am the LORD.”

15 posted on 12/26/2017 8:00:53 AM PST by Yulee
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To: Yulee

Uh, sure ... OK ... whatever ...


16 posted on 12/26/2017 8:02:26 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Olog-hai
Shin Bet warns Hamas may be plotting West Bank takeover

When is it Not??

17 posted on 12/26/2017 8:55:29 AM PST by CptnObvious (uestion her now.)
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