Implosion!

The last two days of Gaza infighting in have so far produced 16 dead ans a few dozen wounded, with both Fatah and Hamas breaking into each other’s leaders homes to kill, to burn the houses down and to kidnap so the that the kidnapped officials could be thrown down from Gaza towers to their death. Today, Tuesday, the fighting goes on without any signs of abatement:

Hamas TV: We have taken over the northern Gaza Strip

Hamas launched a full-scale attack Tuesday afternoon against Fatah security bases and positions in Gaza, and succeeded in taking over a number of them, Israel Radio reported.

Hamas-affiliated television said that the organization overtook the entire northern section of the Gaza Strip, the report stated.

Israel Radio also reported that a top Fatah military official sent a message to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stating that security forces were holding their ground, but calling on the Fatah leader to order an end to the current policy of restraint, allowing troops to return fire.

Less then an hour after the attack, Abbas called for an immediate cease-fire.

Also on Tuesday afternoon, Fatah announced that within several hours, the faction would decide whether to stay in the unity government with Hamas, or leave the Palestinian Authority government altogether, Israel Radio reported.

The announcement coincided with a Hamas attack on the National Security headquarters in Gaza, an incident which followed a recent threat of such action by the extremist Islamic faction. National Security is one of the armed forces affiliated with Fatah.

Hamas also announced that Fatah must evacuate all buildings used by Military Intelligence, the Revolutionary Guard, National Security and Preventive Security.

Hamas and Fatah signed a truce and agreed on setting up a unity government in Riyadh under the auspices of Saudi Arabia in March, but gunmen in Gaza took to the streets on numerous occasions since then and internecine bloodshed never ceased completely.

In recent days, internecine Palestinian violence reached new heights when rival factions took their fights into the hospitals, even causing treatment at one hospital to cease for several hours after a doctor was dragged to the street and shot six times in the legs. On Sunday, a Hamas member and a Fatah operative were killed by being cuffed and thrown off high-rises.

Early Tuesday morning, PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and his family were attacked when rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) were fired at his house.

Abbas, the leader of Fatah, blamed Hamas of attempting to effect a coup d’etat and destroying the rule of law, accusing Hamas’s political wing – led by Haniyeh – of backing the military wing in its attempt to topple Abbas.

Two more Palestinians were killed in the Deir el-Balah refugee camp since Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier Tuesday, Fatah spokesman Maher Miqdad, speaking on a Palestinian radio station, blamed Iran for the internecine violence in the Gaza Strip. Miqdad was quoted by Israel Radio.

Miqdad said Iran is sponsoring a Shi’ite war using Hamas.

Iran was using Hamas to “conduct ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian territories,” Miqdad was quoted as saying.

Palestinian women bewailing the reigning chaos
(photo from: The Jerusalem Post)

The situation in the PA has reached a point where according to standard practices death must be avenged, this is a point of no return, all the multiple truces were of no avail. The hatred and the violence unleashed against the Zionist Entity has resulted in internecine fighting that has seen a ferocity far above that shown to the Jews, a barbarism that shows the world the Palestinians do not want peace, they do not know the meaning of the word. When the whole educational system, when every show on TV preaches violence, destruction, the honor and rewards of becoming a shahid, it is no wonder that there is nothing but chaos prevailing in Gaza.

The head of the Egyptian mediation team, Lt. -Col. Burhan Hamad, said neither side responded to his call to hold truce talks Tuesday.

“…They have killed all hope. They have killed the future,” said Hamad, who brokered several previous short-lived cease-fires.

We are dealing here with leadership that does not truly wants to improve the conditions of their people, we are dealing with barbarians who want absolute power no matter how many of their own people must die, must be maimed. Yet, the West is blinded by their own short term interest…

Both sides have become more and more ruthless in recent days. Two men were thrown off high-rises earlier in the week, several people have been shot from close range in field executions, and hospitals have become firing zones.

On Tuesday morning, a gun battle erupted at the European Hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. Hamas gunmen controlling the rooftop traded fire with Fatah-allied security forces posted nearby. Fifteen children attending a kindergarten in the line of fire were rushed into the main building of the hospital, funded largely by European donations.

Elsewhere, a member of the Hamas military wing was kidnapped and executed by Fatah gunmen. The dead man was identified as a cousin of Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader Israel assassinated in 2004.

Separately, Hamas gunmen attacked the home of a senior Fatah security official with mortars and grenades, killing his 14-year-old son and three women in the house, security officials said. Other Fatah gunmen stormed the house of a Hamas lawmaker and burned it to the ground.

The fighting also spilled into the West Bank, with Palestinian security forces seizing two employees of the Hamas-linked Al Aksa TV station in the city of Ramallah and confiscating equipment. Fatah gunmen said Hamas leaders in the West Bank, a Fatah stronghold, would be targeted if Hamas doesn’t halt its attacks in Gaza.

The latest fighting disrupted final exams for university and high school students. The three Gaza universities called off final exams set for Tuesday. High schools were trying to move test centers to areas out of the range of fire, said Mohammed Abu Shkeir, the deputy minister of education.

Is that the way a civilized society resolves its problems, is that the way for any group to attain independence and lasting peace? The answer, gentle reader, is rather obvious but it points to a bigger more nefarious hand working behind the scenes. Earlier Tuesday, Fatah spokesman Maher Miqdad, speaking on a Palestinian radio station, blamed Iran for the internecine violence in the Gaza Strip. Miqdad was quoted by Israel Radio. Miqdad said Iran is sponsoring a Shi’ite war using Hamas.

Yes, the putrid little maggot and the Syrian murderer of Lebanese politicians and journalists are pulling the strings. Babby Assad, told the UN Secretary General, Ban ki Moon, that he would destabilize the whole Middle East if the International Tribunal would go ahead. Assad Jr. is certainly keeping his word, in cahoots with Ahmedinajad who is pulling all the string. A destabilized Middle East will provide the Iranian maggot with the excuse to flex muscle and cause more death, more devastation, and indulge his thirst for power. If he succeeds, he will then use the Middle East as a lauinching pad for his attack on the West. The West can continue talking and negotiating, or… it can pull itself together rise up from its self induced stupor and let that descendant of apes and pigs know that not only will his interference with other regimes not be tolerated, but the consequences will be hell!!!

If the West is firm for a change, if it can prove unequivocally that it means business for a change, the putrid little maggot will self destroy. The people of Iran are already, increasingly, loosing patience with the repressive Ayatollahs regime. Iran’s economy is sliding downwards at too fast a pace. With the unequivocal encouragement and support of the West Iranians will fiercelesly bring down the dictatorial regime and return to live in peace with their neighbors and trade partners while creating a prosperous, highly educated society. Will the West rise up to its duty or… will it continue talking… continue to be fooled?

Palestinian mourners shout as they carry the body of
Fatah leader Jamal Al-Jedyan, during his funeral in the
Jebaliya refugee camp, northern Gaza Strip,
Tuesday, June 12, 2007.
(photo from: The Jerusalem Post)

Chaim