Gaza Civil War - Hamas on Fatah
Hamas Takeover Creates another Iranian-Backed State
Will This War Become a Wider Regional Conflict?
Thursday, June 14, 2007
* IsraelNationalNews.com is reporting today, in part, this... While Fatah was "busy stealing public monies," Amidror feels, [Former IDF Intelligence Deputy Chief Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror], Hamas was getting stronger militarily. Hamas is now set to take over Gaza, "turning Gaza into Hamastan like Hizbullah in Lebanon, with Iranian and Al-Qaeda elements. We will have a full-fledged terrorist state on our borders. This will affect not only Sderot, but soon Kiryat Gat and Ashdod as well, and in the long run, rockets will even be directed at Haifa." Like Yaalon, Amidror too blames the Disengagement: "Israel's irresponsible departure from Gaza enabled Hamas to get stronger with tremendous quantities of explosives, weapons, training, money and more."...
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Hamas Takeover Creates another Iranian-Backed State
Will This War Become a Wider Regional Conflict?
Thursday, June 14, 2007
* IsraelNationalNews.com is reporting today, in part, this... While Fatah was "busy stealing public monies," Amidror feels, [Former IDF Intelligence Deputy Chief Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror], Hamas was getting stronger militarily. Hamas is now set to take over Gaza, "turning Gaza into Hamastan like Hizbullah in Lebanon, with Iranian and Al-Qaeda elements. We will have a full-fledged terrorist state on our borders. This will affect not only Sderot, but soon Kiryat Gat and Ashdod as well, and in the long run, rockets will even be directed at Haifa." Like Yaalon, Amidror too blames the Disengagement: "Israel's irresponsible departure from Gaza enabled Hamas to get stronger with tremendous quantities of explosives, weapons, training, money and more."...
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* Middle-East-Online.com has this report today that starts off like this... Hamas fighters opened fire on the overall Palestinian security headquarters for the Gaza Strip on Thursday and demanded its surrender, the Islamist movement's television broadcast...
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Hamas Captures Gaza Strip Security HQ
* YNETnews.com has this take on the story and it goes in part like this... Hamas members held a prayer in the compound, which they referred to as the "heresy compound." Hamas also changed the name of the neighborhood where the building is located from "Tel al-Hawa" to "Tel al-Islam."... Hamas' media outlets threatened to reach Fatah and the PA's official radio and television stations, and provided the names of senior Fatah officials they planned to execute. "We will reach you," Hamas members told the Fatah leaders...
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Hamas TV: We'll execute Fatah leaders
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* Middle-East-Online.com has this report today that starts off like this... Hamas fighters opened fire on the overall Palestinian security headquarters for the Gaza Strip on Thursday and demanded its surrender, the Islamist movement's television broadcast...
Read the rest of the story at link below...
Hamas Captures Gaza Strip Security HQ
* YNETnews.com has this take on the story and it goes in part like this... Hamas members held a prayer in the compound, which they referred to as the "heresy compound." Hamas also changed the name of the neighborhood where the building is located from "Tel al-Hawa" to "Tel al-Islam."... Hamas' media outlets threatened to reach Fatah and the PA's official radio and television stations, and provided the names of senior Fatah officials they planned to execute. "We will reach you," Hamas members told the Fatah leaders...
Read the rest below...
Hamas TV: We'll execute Fatah leaders
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* TheAustralian.News.com.au website has a good news article on all this Gaza mess today and it goes in part like this... "MAA fii fitna, maa fii fitna," as Palestinians used to say - no civil war, no civil war - confident that internal rivalries would not explode into full-blown internecine strife. It is a cry now uttered with increasing desperation and decreasing credibility... The sandbags are up in Gaza, even on Unity Street, protecting Palestinian gunman against Palestinian gunman. There isn't an Israeli in sight... Whether this round of bloodletting amounts to a civil war is for historians to argue over... But it is certainly a sign of how fragmented and dysfunctional this society has become...
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Fight rages in Strip without Israeli in sight
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Fight rages in Strip without Israeli in sight
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UPDATE: 1:30pm CDT
* FoxNews.com is reporting... President Mahmoud Abbas will dissolve the Palestinian Authority's government Thursday after fighting between rival parties Hamas and Fatah consumed the Gaza Strip and was expected to call for a state of emergency, sources close to Abbas confirmed to FOX News...
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Abbas to Dissolve Palestinian Authority Government in Wake of Hamas-Fatah War
* FoxNews.com is reporting... President Mahmoud Abbas will dissolve the Palestinian Authority's government Thursday after fighting between rival parties Hamas and Fatah consumed the Gaza Strip and was expected to call for a state of emergency, sources close to Abbas confirmed to FOX News...
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Abbas to Dissolve Palestinian Authority Government in Wake of Hamas-Fatah War
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UPDATE: 3:15pm CDT
* YNETnews.com has another report this afternoon that goes in part like this... After overtaking the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday afternoon, Hamas fighters report they have seized tens of thousands of highly valuable intelligence documents, including correspondence between the PA and others, including the CIA, regarding security issues.
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Hamas seizes PA intelligence materials, says Israeli tactics exposed
* YNETnews.com has another report this afternoon that goes in part like this... After overtaking the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday afternoon, Hamas fighters report they have seized tens of thousands of highly valuable intelligence documents, including correspondence between the PA and others, including the CIA, regarding security issues.
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Hamas seizes PA intelligence materials, says Israeli tactics exposed
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UPDATE: Friday, June 15, 2007
11:30am CDT
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* YNETnews.com has this report this morning on the new Palestinian PM and it starts off like this... Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Salam Fayyad, a Western-backed independent deputy, on Friday to serve as prime minister of an emergency government in what Hamas said amounted to a coup... Hamas declared that Fayyad’s appointment “contradicts all Palestinian laws” and represents a “revolt against the constitution”... Abbas’ office said Friday that the new Palestinian government would be sworn in later in the day, but followed it minutes later with an announcement that the event had been postponed. There was no immediate explanation for the confusion.
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* IsraelInsider.com has this report that starts off like this... Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, dismissed from his position by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, rejected the decision Thursday to dissolve the PA coalition government and declared that his government would continue in power. At a late-night press conference, he said, "The Hamas' presence in the government is the decision of the Palestinian people. Unilateral decisions, made without cooperation or coordination, do not suit the current situation. Therefore, the present government will continue operating and will not give up its position and responsibility towards the Palestinian people," he said.
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Haniyeh: Abbas has no authority to dissolve government
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* JPOST.com is reporting... A proposed multinational force deployed along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt must be willing to fight Hamas to stop weapons smuggling in the area, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Friday... Livni said Israel was not interested in any proposal involving a monitoring force for the Philadelphi corridor where, she said, Hamas used tunnels to bring in weapons...
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'Multinational force must fight Hamas'
UPDATE: Friday, June 15, 2007
11:30am CDT
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* YNETnews.com has this report this morning on the new Palestinian PM and it starts off like this... Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed Salam Fayyad, a Western-backed independent deputy, on Friday to serve as prime minister of an emergency government in what Hamas said amounted to a coup... Hamas declared that Fayyad’s appointment “contradicts all Palestinian laws” and represents a “revolt against the constitution”... Abbas’ office said Friday that the new Palestinian government would be sworn in later in the day, but followed it minutes later with an announcement that the event had been postponed. There was no immediate explanation for the confusion.
Read the rest HERE
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* IsraelInsider.com has this report that starts off like this... Deposed Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, dismissed from his position by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, rejected the decision Thursday to dissolve the PA coalition government and declared that his government would continue in power. At a late-night press conference, he said, "The Hamas' presence in the government is the decision of the Palestinian people. Unilateral decisions, made without cooperation or coordination, do not suit the current situation. Therefore, the present government will continue operating and will not give up its position and responsibility towards the Palestinian people," he said.
Read the story at link below...
Haniyeh: Abbas has no authority to dissolve government
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* JPOST.com is reporting... A proposed multinational force deployed along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt must be willing to fight Hamas to stop weapons smuggling in the area, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Friday... Livni said Israel was not interested in any proposal involving a monitoring force for the Philadelphi corridor where, she said, Hamas used tunnels to bring in weapons...
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'Multinational force must fight Hamas'
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