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Absolutely unbelievable:

“How long did it take the Government to hold a discussion of the release of 200 terrorists, including two who caused the murder of Israelis? No more than three minutes All this without having an depth discussion and without hearing the positions of the security arms.

The discussion took place at the start of the Government meeting, and those who arrived late. did not participate in the vote. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who intended to explain at the meeting why she agreed to the move, was not given the floor on the matter and her statement on the matter was delivered by her spokesperson to the press. Moreover, the Shabbak and IDF confirm that they were not even approached on the matter and instead were advised of the matter as a finalized fact.” (Israel Hayom)

From Albawaba.com:

A senior Hamas official warned Tuesday the movement that took over Gaza Strip over a year ago could also overrun the West Bank if it is provoked by Fatah. The Hamas official, Dr. Sami Abu Zuhri, told The Associated Press that Fatah leaders should expect “an uprising” against them if they continued a crackdown against Hamas there.

A West Bank Fatah official responded that Hamas was issuing empty threats:

“If they can do anything, let them do it. We are not afraid,” said Fahmi Zaarir, a spokesman for Fatah in the West Bank.

Looks like we are going to have an interesting summer!

Haaretz reports:

A Hamas official on Sunday said a group of Fatah men returned by Israel to the Gaza Strip were immediately detained by the Palestinian militant group’s security forces.

Further it is reported that Abbas gave the order to send them back:

Israel sent the group back on Sunday after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad withdrew an earlier request for Defense Minister Ehud Barak to allow the Gazans entry to Israel and then to transfer them to the West Bank.

Can anyone out there explain to me why the PA refused to allow these guys into the West Bank? They must realize that Hamas is going to eliminate them.

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Hamas has resumed its policy of shaving mustaches of political opponents to humiliate them, Fatah officials said Wednesday.

Hamas resorted to this form of punishment in the past after arresting senior Fatah representatives in the Gaza Strip, the officials said.

Hamas, for its part, accused the Palestinian Authority security forces of shaving the beards of detained Hamas officials in the West Bank.

Gunfire and explosions shook Gaza City on Saturday as Hamas forces battled fighters in a tribal stronghold where suspects in a deadly bombing were allegedly hiding. (Maan News)

Why do Hamas and Fatah kill each other? Why do Iraqis commit mass murder upon their fellow citizens? Why do the Lebanese shoot and blow each other up (Sunnis, Shiites, Alawaits — you name it). Why have they all repeatedly tried to exterminate Israel? Its not because of ideology. It`s because they have the weapons, that`s why.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered Thursday night the immediate release of all those arrested in response to the Gaza bombing on 25 July. (Maan News)

Meanwhile:

Fatah officials say their Hamas rivals have arrested senior Fatah leaders in the Gaza Strip, continuing a weeklong crackdown. (JPost)

Sounds to me that Abbas is under big pressure by Hamas. Is he going to be able to stay in power or will Hamas finally take over the West Bank?

Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners (YnetNews).

This is no way to build a civil society. Hamas is producing an evil generation of hate and war.

Keep in mind that summer camps run by Fatah back in 2000 were also about military training and hate education; important to remind leaders that bad as Hamas and Islamic Jihad are, Fatah is not a good alternative. The fruits of Oslo; bringing terrorist groups which controlled and incited the Palestinian population.

Following a child on a mission to kill Jews:

I this last Video it is interesting to see the viewer comments on YouTube.

But maybe something is happening in the World, at least the Norway wants to freeze the aid to the PA after they learned that the budget was used to glorify terrorism and terrorists, and to promote hatred and violence (Arutz 7).

And last not least the following Video from the PA TV that was board casted on a daily basis…

The following is the text of the hate video:

“My enemy. Oh, my enemy.
Stop your crimes.
Treaty breaker! Treacherous!…
If you pull out my eyes,
My heart will see. (x2)
If you cut off my hands,
My chest is knives and swords.
My enemy! Oh imperialism!
This homeland is ours. (x2)
This land will be tilled
only by our hoes. (x2)
Whenever the tension rises,
Whenever this land weeps, (x2)
the flower will return
to grow in our house.
My enemy. Oh, my enemy.
Stop your crimes.
Treaty breaker! Treacherous!…
My enemy! Oh snake!
Around the land, you are coiled. (x2)
We, noble, courageous,
on the day of ruin [battle], shall stand.
You have no choice, Oh enemy,
but to leave my country.
And my children will return.

“the current situation in the West Bank is similar to that in the Gaza Strip before Hamas took control. Security forces are committing crimes in their interrogation and torture centers.
We remind them [Fatah],that they planted thorns and they will harvest regret. Abu Zuhri” (Maannews)

Israel must do everything to stop any takeover by Hamas. It would transform the West Bank into a big 2nd Gaza with rockets on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem!

Hamas militias in the Gaza Strip has banned three major Palestinian dailies.

The Palestinian Journalists Union in the West Bank said Hamas militias in Gaza prevented the three newspapers, al-Quds, al-Ayyam and al-Hayat
al-Jadida, from being distributed after they arrived in the besieged Strip.

Hamas gangs stormed on Saturday the offices of WAFA news Agency in Gaza, stole computers and files and destroyed all of its equipment and furniture. (WAFA)

Palestinian Authority’s security services on Monday morning arrested more than 54 Hamas’ affiliates in Nablus in the northern West Bank, in what is believed to be the biggest apprehension campaign since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip. (Maan News)

Looks like the Fatah is retaliating…

Hamas arrests 120 Fatah men after 6 die in Gaza blast (Haaretz).

Palestinians? Who are you? Are you from this planet or aliens?

what is wrong with you? You are doomed, doomed. you will never ever manage to have your own state, just look at you. You are the laughing stock of the entire world. We here are shaking our heads and even those that are anti Israel are sick and tired of your stupidity and antics.

So, if you can’t kill israelis, you end up killing yourselves. Amazing. Do you know how to do anything except hate, kill, fight, terrorise, build bombs, pray, do nothing with your lives, etc…?

Five days after a Palestinian Authority court in Jenin sentenced two Palestinians to death for collaboration with Israel, a Hamas court on Sunday sentenced another Palestinian to death for the same offense.

Iyad Hamed Sukkar, 35, of Gaza City, was sentenced to death by a “military” court controlled by the Hamas government.

He was found guilty of tipping off Israeli security forces on the whereabouts of Palestinians who were later killed by the IDF. The judges wrote in the verdict that Sukkar had been recruited as a spy five years ago.

The court was told that Sukkar’s actions resulted in the killing of at least two Palestinians: Muhammad al-Wadiyeh and Munir Sukkar. The two were members of Hamas’s armed wing, Izzadin al-Kassam.

This was the first time a court had sentenced a Palestinian to death since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.

Death sentences must be approved by the president of the PA.

However, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, unlike his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, has thus far refused to endorse any death sentences.

Ihab al-Ghissin, spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, said his government would act in line with the law and seek Abbas’s approval for the death sentence against Sukkar.

“Despite the political differences [between Hamas and Fatah], we will seek the president’s approval,” Ghissin said. “But if Abbas refuses to approve the court’s verdict for political reasons, we will seek other alternatives.
We can’t afford a situation where court rulings are ignored, as was the case when Abbas’s men were in control of the Gaza Strip.”

The two men sentenced to death last week were identified as Wael Saed, 27, and Muhammad Saed, 22. They are from the town of Yatta near Hebron.

The latter was sentenced in absentia after the court was told that he had fled to Israel.

The three-judge court ruled that the two men would be executed by a firing squad for passing on information to Israeli security forces.

In April a PA security court in Hebron sentenced Imad Saad, an officer in Abbas’s National Security Force, to death by firing squad after convicting him of having provided Israel with information that led to the killing of four Palestinians involved in terrorism.

At least 65 Palestinians have been sentenced to death by PA courts since 1995. Most of them were accused of collaboration with Israel.

However, only 13 have been executed by hanging or firing squad. Many others were killed while they were in detention, hospital, on their way to court or even while they were in court. (JPost)

Jul. 20, 2008 Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST

President Shimon Peres believes there is no chance of an agreement between

Israel and the Palestinians. Peres, the one-time proponent of a “new Middle East” made this statement last Saturday at a dinner with the Jordanian and French ambassadors in

Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s Tel Aviv apartment. At the end of the meal an argument erupted between the Jordanian envoy, Ali Ayed, and a well-known “dovish” attorney, who said Israel had no chance of  reaching an agreement with the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas’

leadership. Barak supported his guest’s hawkish stance. At a certain point, Peres intervened, surprising the participants by joining the attorney’s prediction. “It would be very hard to reach an agreement,” Peres said, due to the Hamas-Fatah split. He said Abbas had no support among his people, no power to carry out security agreements and that any agreement Israel and the PA made crumbled a day later due to the PA’s weakness. Therefore there is no chance of agreement, he summed (Haaretz).

96% of those detained had been beaten, and 94% of them were subjected to sleep deprivation, and 89% were subjected to the spectre of sleep deprivation and food and drink together, and 70% were subjected to extreme cold or heat. (Aljazeera.net)

This happens in Palestinian Prisons in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank. Human rights organizations confirmed that Palestinian prisons are turned into centres of torture (hrw.org). I wonder if the UN and all those Human Right organizations  are going to take action…

It is universally reported that Hamas and Fatah have been engaged in violence and have been massing arms in preparation for battle with each other. This is expected by most analysts to flare into a civil war.

Of course it is possible that this is true, but there is little truth reported about the Palestinians, so it is prudent to be skeptical. Abbas has been following his long-time mentor (Arafat) in a Fatah good cop / Hamas bad cop ruse, which has succeeded in frightening the US, Europe and even Israel to fund, arm and train Fatah’s terrorist forces, lest Hamas gain the upper hand. It has been reported about Arafat that he okayed the murder of Palestinians purely for propaganda benefits (for the source, see this absolute must-read on Arafat).

Some of the alleged Hamas-Fatah skirmishes have been reminiscent of the obviously fraud of Moussa Arafat’s bodyguards in pretending to protect him. Ten of his bodyguards fired guns for forty minutes against his assassins and did not hit a single person. Although Moussa Arafat was shot dead when his bodyguards ran out of ammunition, none of them were subsequently harmed. Of course all this had occurred a stone’s throw from Abbas’ office, but none of the ubiquitous Palestinian security forces seemed aware of the battle.

The attack on Haniyeh’s convoy similarly smells fishy. His convoy came under attack, one of his cars was torched, gunfire was exchanged, yet no one was injured.

It is completely possible that this is all a ruse. Certainly it has been very successful for Abbas, gaining him enormous quantities of money and arms from those he demonizes with the media he controls.

Of course the upshot of Abbas’ recent threats to fire the entire Hamas-led cabinet has been to form a unity government in the end. Abbas has promised to ban Hamas numerous times. Most ludicrously, he promised to ban Hamas’ participation in the elections in which Hamas won a landslide. Later when pressed by the US to implement his commitment, he promised to ban Hamas just after the election.