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Hamas-Fatah Clashes…"Risky Power Struggle"
GAZA, July20 , 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – At least seven Palestinians were injured Wednesday, July20 , in fresh clashes between Palestinian security forces and Hamas members despite an agreement between the two sides to end their escalating in-fighting.
Palestinian experts and political analysts, on their part, believe the clashes are "trial balloons" for both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority to test their ability to impose control in Gaza Strip, following the planned Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territory.
Hours after a deal to end fighting between Hamas and the Palestinian security forces, Hamas members reportedly opened fire at the home of the Palestinian preventive security chief Rashid Abu Shbak, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
Hamas members also opened fire at the home of Abdallah Franji, head of the mainstream Fatah in Gaza.
With the eruption of new clashes, Palestinian security forces and Hamas traded accusations as regards who initiated the fire exchange.
Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesman, said Palestinian security members had opened fire on a car containing members of Hamas as they drove past Abu Shbak's house and that one of Franji's bodyguards also shot at a Hamas vehicle.
He maintained that four members of Hamas were wounded in the fire exchange.
Agreement
The new clashes erupted few hours after an agreement reached between the two sides to end their week-long fighting.
Speaking at a late-night Gaza City news conference early Wednesday, Sofian Abu Zayda for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and Nizar Rayan for Hamas said they would meet again Wednesday to consolidate their agreement, Reuters reported.
"The movements have agreed to stop all clashes and violence and end all armed presence and all issues that may lead to tension between the two sides," Abu Zaida said.
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed and scores others wounded in clashes between Palestinian security forces and Hamas members in Gaza last week.
The clashes erupted Thursday night and resumed Friday after Palestinian interior minister Nasr Yussef put security forces and police on high alert to "prevent by force if necessary all firing of rockets and mortars" against Israeli targets.
Retaliating to Israeli aggressions, Palestinian resistance men fired rockets into southern Israel last week, killing an Israeli woman, and Palestinian police then confronted them in an effort to prevent further barrages.
Palestinian resistance groups said the rocket attack was in retaliation of the killing of a Palestinian man in an Israeli raid in the West Bank Thursday, part of an Israeli offensive against Islamic Jihad's attack at a shopping mall in the Israeli city of Netanya, which left five Israelis killed.
"Trial Balloons"
Palestinian experts and political analysts said the recent clashes between the two sides are only "trial balloons" that aim to assess Hamas' reaction to attempts of the Palestinian Authority to halt the resistance attacks against Israeli targets in compliance with foreign pressures.
"The US and Israeli pressures on the Palestinian Authority to halt resistance attacks against Israeli targets and secure the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza were the main reason behind opening fire by the security forces at Hamas members," Iyad Al-Barghouthi, professor of political sciences, told IslamOnline.net Wednesday.
By responding to attempts of the security forces to arrest its members, Hamas sends a message that it is a key player in the Palestinian territories that should play an active political role in the future, he added.
Pro. Atef Odwan, head of the Gaza-based Al-Mustaqbal (Future) research center, agreed.
"Hamas believes that taking no reaction toward attempts of the security forces to arrest its members would allow the Palestinian Authority to repeat such attempts against the resistance men," he said.
PA Message
Mostafa El-Sawwaf, Palestinian expert in the Islamic movements' affairs, said the Palestinian Authority's crackdown on Hamas members is a message to the western countries that it is moving to halt resistance attacks against Israeli targets.
"The stance of the Palestinian Authority is in line with its policy on warning the resistance factions against violating the shaky truce with Israel under claims that rocket attacks against Israeli settlements bring back harms to the Palestinian people and their properties," he said.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, struggling to preserve the shaky ceasefire with Israel, managed to convince resistance factions in March to observe a "period of calm" conditional on Israel ending its aggressions against them.
Since then, the calm has been put to the test several times in view of continued Israeli violations.
Over the past three months, many Palestinians were killed and wounded by Israeli gunfire, drawing retaliatory mortar and rocket attacks from Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters on Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
Other political observers believe Israel is actively fueling inter-Palestinian fighting for internal reasons, mostly related to its planned withdrawal from Gaza.
On the one hand, Israeli occupation forces continue targeting resistance activists, provoking retaliatory measures that include rocket firing. On the other hand, Israel steps up pressures on the Palestinian Authority to crack down on resistance factions, chiefly Hamas.
Some Israeli circles, opposed to the planned Gaza withdrawal, accuse hawkish Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, of boosting Hamas image as Israel did to Hezbollah when it withdrew from South Lebanon over 5 years ago.
By stirring inter-Palestinian fighting, Sharon will be diverting the spotlight – internally and internationally – to the Palestinians, according to observers.
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2005-07/20/article04.shtml
Hours after a deal to end fighting between Hamas and the Palestinian security forces, Hamas members reportedly opened fire at the home of the Palestinian preventive security chief Rashid Abu Shbak, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.
Hamas members also opened fire at the home of Abdallah Franji, head of the mainstream Fatah in Gaza.
With the eruption of new clashes, Palestinian security forces and Hamas traded accusations as regards who initiated the fire exchange.
Sami Abu Zuhri, Hamas spokesman, said Palestinian security members had opened fire on a car containing members of Hamas as they drove past Abu Shbak's house and that one of Franji's bodyguards also shot at a Hamas vehicle.
He maintained that four members of Hamas were wounded in the fire exchange.
Agreement
The new clashes erupted few hours after an agreement reached between the two sides to end their week-long fighting.
Speaking at a late-night Gaza City news conference early Wednesday, Sofian Abu Zayda for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement and Nizar Rayan for Hamas said they would meet again Wednesday to consolidate their agreement, Reuters reported.
"The movements have agreed to stop all clashes and violence and end all armed presence and all issues that may lead to tension between the two sides," Abu Zaida said.
Two Palestinian teenagers were killed and scores others wounded in clashes between Palestinian security forces and Hamas members in Gaza last week.
The clashes erupted Thursday night and resumed Friday after Palestinian interior minister Nasr Yussef put security forces and police on high alert to "prevent by force if necessary all firing of rockets and mortars" against Israeli targets.
Retaliating to Israeli aggressions, Palestinian resistance men fired rockets into southern Israel last week, killing an Israeli woman, and Palestinian police then confronted them in an effort to prevent further barrages.
Palestinian resistance groups said the rocket attack was in retaliation of the killing of a Palestinian man in an Israeli raid in the West Bank Thursday, part of an Israeli offensive against Islamic Jihad's attack at a shopping mall in the Israeli city of Netanya, which left five Israelis killed.
"Trial Balloons"
Palestinian experts and political analysts said the recent clashes between the two sides are only "trial balloons" that aim to assess Hamas' reaction to attempts of the Palestinian Authority to halt the resistance attacks against Israeli targets in compliance with foreign pressures.
"The US and Israeli pressures on the Palestinian Authority to halt resistance attacks against Israeli targets and secure the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza were the main reason behind opening fire by the security forces at Hamas members," Iyad Al-Barghouthi, professor of political sciences, told IslamOnline.net Wednesday.
By responding to attempts of the security forces to arrest its members, Hamas sends a message that it is a key player in the Palestinian territories that should play an active political role in the future, he added.
Pro. Atef Odwan, head of the Gaza-based Al-Mustaqbal (Future) research center, agreed.
"Hamas believes that taking no reaction toward attempts of the security forces to arrest its members would allow the Palestinian Authority to repeat such attempts against the resistance men," he said.
PA Message
Mostafa El-Sawwaf, Palestinian expert in the Islamic movements' affairs, said the Palestinian Authority's crackdown on Hamas members is a message to the western countries that it is moving to halt resistance attacks against Israeli targets.
"The stance of the Palestinian Authority is in line with its policy on warning the resistance factions against violating the shaky truce with Israel under claims that rocket attacks against Israeli settlements bring back harms to the Palestinian people and their properties," he said.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, struggling to preserve the shaky ceasefire with Israel, managed to convince resistance factions in March to observe a "period of calm" conditional on Israel ending its aggressions against them.
Since then, the calm has been put to the test several times in view of continued Israeli violations.
Over the past three months, many Palestinians were killed and wounded by Israeli gunfire, drawing retaliatory mortar and rocket attacks from Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters on Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
Other political observers believe Israel is actively fueling inter-Palestinian fighting for internal reasons, mostly related to its planned withdrawal from Gaza.
On the one hand, Israeli occupation forces continue targeting resistance activists, provoking retaliatory measures that include rocket firing. On the other hand, Israel steps up pressures on the Palestinian Authority to crack down on resistance factions, chiefly Hamas.
Some Israeli circles, opposed to the planned Gaza withdrawal, accuse hawkish Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, of boosting Hamas image as Israel did to Hezbollah when it withdrew from South Lebanon over 5 years ago.
By stirring inter-Palestinian fighting, Sharon will be diverting the spotlight – internally and internationally – to the Palestinians, according to observers.
http://islamonline.net/English/News/2005-07/20/article04.shtml
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Earlier, the ruling Fatah movement and Hamas declared an agreement to end several days of clashes in northern Gaza that took the lives of two bystanders wounded scores and led to gun battles and arson.
Leaders of the two movements announced the accord at a news conference after midnight in Gaza City. "We agreed to withdraw all armed forces from the streets of northern Gaza," said local Hamas leader Mizar Rayyan.
"The movements agreed to stop all clashes and violence and end all armed presence and all issues that may lead to tension between the two sides," senior Fatah leader and Palestinian cabinet minister Sufian Abu Zaida said in Gaza.
"Nothing is better than our unity against our enemy," said Rayyan.
On Tuesday, at least 13 people, including nine members of the security forces and two Hamas fighters, were wounded in the clashes.
The clashes started after Palestinian security forces tried to prevent Hamas members from attacking Israel.
http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/186548
The Arab Nazis had much in common with the new Nazi doctrines. They hated Jews; they hated democracy; and they hated the Western culture. It became the official policy of the Third Reich to secretly develop the Muslim Brotherhood as the fifth Parliament, an army inside Egypt.
When war broke out, the Muslim Brotherhood promised in writing that they would rise up and help General Rommell and make sure that no English or American soldier was left alive in Cairo or Alexandria.
The Muslim Brotherhood began to expand in scope and influence during World War II. They even had a Palestinian section headed by the grand Mufti of Jerusalem, one of the great bigots of all time. Here, too, was a man - - The grand Mufti of Jerusalem was the Muslim Brotherhood representative for Palestine. These were undoubtedly Arab Nazis. The Grand Mufti, for example, went to Germany during the war and helped recruit an international SS division of Arab Nazis. They based it in Croatia and called it the “Handjar” Muslim Division, but it was to become the core of Hitler's new army of Arab fascists that would conquer the Arab peninsula from then on to Africa -- grand dreams.
At the end of World War II, the Muslim Brotherhood was wanted for war crimes. Their German intelligence handlers were captured in Cairo. The whole net was rolled up by the British Secret Service. Then a horrible thing happened.
Instead of prosecuting the Nazis - - the Muslim Brotherhood - - the British government hired them. They brought all the fugitive Nazi war criminals of Arab and Muslim descent into Egypt, and for three years they were trained on a special mission. The British Secret Service wanted to use the fascists of the Muslim Brotherhood to strike down the infant state of Israel in 1948. Only a few people in the Mossad know this, but many of the members of the Arab Armies and terrorist groups that tried to strangle the infant State of Israel were the Arab Nazis of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Britain was not alone. The French Intelligence service cooperated by releasing the Grand Mufti and smuggling him to Egypt, so all of the Arab Nazis came together. So, from 1945 to 1948, the British Secret Service protected every Arab Nazi they could, but they failed to quash the State of Israel.
Actually HAMAS was supported and nurtured by Israel in its early stages - Israel gave the group a substantial amount of funds to build hospitals, etc.
The intention was to neutralize the power of Arafat - divide and conquer.
Similar to the British seeding the Muslim Brotherhood - weaken and fragment the power of the Egyptian president - prevent another nationalization of the Suez.
It gets messy tho......