Jay already posted about this article here, but I thought it merited highlighting as yet more evidence of the utter insanity of the course that Bush, Rice, and Olmert are following.
By Ali Waked for Ynet News:
"Dozens of officers in the (Fatah-affiliated) security forces are suspected of cooperating with Hamas during the Islamist group’s takeover of the Gaza Strip,” a senior Palestinian security official said Sunday.According to the official, some senior officers have been suspected of cooperating with Hamas even prior to the decisive round of clashes with Fatah. He said the officers received money from Hamas in exchange for transferring information on the deployment of Palestinian Authority forces in the Strip.
The official added that suspicions grew when the positions of forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fell to Hamas gunmen one after the other without much resistance.
“These suspicions were in the air, but during the fighting the extent of Hamas’ infiltration into the Palestinian security forces became abundantly clear,” the official said.
I know they speak of "honour among theives", but what is it that westerners don't get about the political cesspool that is the middle east?
...Muslims are too lazy to work for pay...it is much easier to sell out your brothers....Muslims learned this long ago when old Mo paid informants to get the secrets and capabilities of his enemies...
...Islam is for losers...they prove it every day....
"He said the officers received money from Hamas in exchange for transferring information on the deployment of Palestinian Authority forces in the Strip."
I suspect that's why we're releasing money to the Palestinian authority, so they can buy back their officers. Its becomming a bidding war.
"According to the official, some senior officers[of Fatah] have been suspected of cooperating with Hamas even prior to the decisive round of clashes with Fatah. He said the officers received money from Hamas in exchange for transferring information on the deployment of Palestinian Authority forces in the Strip."
-- from the article above
Hardly surprising. Fatah is hardly distinguishable from Hamas, except in the perfervid imaginations of Western leaders, and some dismal Israeli ones, determined to make a soap opera with "good" Fatah and "bad" Hamas playing their assigned roles. They differ only in that the people who sign up to get their checks from Fatah are a little more worldy and cynical, and since they have a better sense of the current balance of forces, just a little more willingness to utter a phony phrase or two in order to keep the Jizyah flowing, but have no intention of ever making real peace with Israel. Rather, as Slow Jidadists they differ from Hamas only in tactics and timing -- and are quite willing, whenever the occasion presents itself, to be as murderous, or more murderous (everything in their history and in their statements for fellow Muslims proves it; not a single thing disproves it), than Hamas.
The inability of Western leaders is of course not helped by the terminal confusion and fear of Olmert and a few others in Israel, who simply do not wish to understand Israel's plight, because they cannot begin to figure out ways to manage what is, in fact, at this point still a most manageable situation.
And the same is true of leaders -- of those "taking a leadership role" -- in larger Infidel lands outside the Middle East, less obviously imperiled than Israel, but definitely in the same boat, or to change the metaphor slightly, in an identical boat, headed at a slightly different rate over the same falls, if the course of the particular national narrenschiff is not to become the national naufragium.
Dumbing down, when it is also dumbing up -- so that those whose duty it is to properly and thoroughly inform themselves, so as to both instruct, and protect, those they claim to lead --is a big problem. One cannot be raised up in a society so inattentive to history, and to language (by which thoughts are formulated, and given shape, and also the means by which an enemy can manipulate by "capturing" the language that is to be employed), and to literature which helps to strengthen the muscle of the imagination.
For what is gonig on in the Western world is a failure of historical understanding, and a simultaneous failure of imagination -- to imagine a "war" that is not a war by the means which we, and assorted generals in and out of the Pentagon, have come to think of as "war" and, furthermore, to imnagine -- before it happens -- the consequences of the islamization of the countries of Western Europe, and what would mean for art, science, human freedom, and the physical safety of Infidels everywhere.
A failure of knowledge. A failure of imagination. The effects of mass education, that has turned out, by degrees, to be so often no education at all. Everything connects.
Abbas needs to behead any potential Fatah traitors in the West Bank, to make them an example to the rest of the palestinians (in case Fatah in the West Bank is also being bought off) - Barbariac behaviour is all they seem to respect. Hamas in the West Bank needs to be locked up or perhaps they can be bought off by Fatah?