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June 14, 2007

Abbas Dissolves Palestinian Authority Government in Wake of Hamas-Fatah War

Barbarism begets barbarism, and the barbarians now devour their own. From AP:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian Authority's government Thursday after fighting between rival parties Hamas and Fatah consumed the Gaza Strip, sources close to Abbas confirmed to FOX News.

Hamas fighters took control from two of the rival Fatah movement's most important security command centers in the Gaza Strip, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen into the street and shot them to death execution-style.

Hamas also seized control of Rafah in the south, Gaza's third-largest city, according to witnesses and security officials. It was the second main Gaza city to fall to the militants, who captured nearby Khan Younis on Wednesday.

Hamas captured the Preventive Security headquarters and the intelligence services building in Gaza City, major advances in the Islamic group's attempts to take over Gaza.

After the rout at the security headquarters, some of the Hamas fighters kneeled outside, touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer. Others led Fatah gunmen out of the building, some shirtless or in their underwear, holding their arms in the air. Several of the Fatah men flinched as the crack of gunfire split the air.

A witness, who identified himself only as Amjad, said men were killed as their wives and children watched.

"They are executing them one by one," said Amjad, who lives in a building that overlooks the Preventive Security complex. "They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting," he said by telephone.

The killers ignored appeals from residents to spare the men's lives, said Amjad, who declined to give his full name, fearing reprisal.

Posted by Robert at June 14, 2007 1:48 PM
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The implosion begins...allahu akbar! Next stop, a state visit from Monkey Boy.

Summary executions, people thrown off buildings...what a glorious future for Tomorrow's Pioneers!

Posted by: Un:dhimmi [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 2:07 PM

Yes, the good thing about this was this bit of news:

==
EU announces it is suspending $112 million in humanitarian aid

Amnesty said 130 Palestinians have been killed and several hundreds injured in the past month alone in clashes between the security forces and their proxy militias loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party or to Prime Minister Isma'il Haniyeh's Hamas party.
==

I guess the next thing will be Hamas fighting Fatah in the West Bank.

Posted by: UK Infidel Lover [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 2:14 PM

EU announces it is suspending $112 million in humanitarian aid

Good news indeed.. but one can't help wondering when the Jizya will start flowing again.

Posted by: Un:dhimmi [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 2:18 PM

There is no side to root for in this conflict.

The only thing to be thankful about is Israel can sit this one out and watch the adherants of the Religion of Peace kill each other for a while.

In the U.S. we ought to be seriously taking time to reflect on the implications of dealing with the "lesser" of two terrorists.

Posted by: GreatShaitan [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 2:19 PM

Meanwhile Rashid Khalidi, long-time propagandist for the Arabs and quasi-academic engaged for decades in the "construction-of-the-Palestinian-identity" project, on NPR blames America, blames Israel, and while for years he has been denouncing the horrible, monstrous, completely intolerable "Israeli occupation," now insists that the Israelis, as the "occupiers" (Israel gave up all of the Arab areas of Gaza in 1994, and it ever since has been under Arab, "Palestinian" control, and the Jewish villages that were voluntarily relinquished have not been part of that imaginary "Israeli occupation" for several years), should come back in and "assume their responsibilities."

In other words, Rashid Khalidi, like the Arabs ("Palestinians") in Gaza, wants Israel back, to establish security, and a modicum of decency --indeed, insists that Israel has a "duty" to do so, when for the past few decades the same Rashid Khalidi, and the same local Arabs ("Palestinians") wanted Israel out.

Please. Try to ignore logic. Try to ignore common sense. Try to forget all you know about this conflict, all you know about the history of the Middle East, all you know about the history of Islam, the tenets of Islam.

Stick with Rashid Khalidi, and try to believe -- he wants you to believe -- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast.

It's not much to ask, is it? And besides, he's the "Director" of the "Middle East Institute" at Columbia University. He wouldn't try to fool you, would he?

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 2:23 PM

Now that Hamas has declared Palestine to be a "Islamic State", all western aid should indeed stop. Back off and let them settle things in the only way they know how without: morality, civility, democracy, human rights, freedom, logic, an economy, rule of law and order.

Islam knows nothing of these principles and it truly shows.

Hey WORLD, you are seeing ISLAM, the true Islam and this is all it will ever be.


Posted by: sounder [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 2:34 PM

Next step is to dissolve the myth of there being an "indigenous 'Palestinian people.'" Who will have the guts to do that? Bush? Rice? UK? EU? None of the foregoing?

I'll bet on the last-mentioned. These "Palestinian people," shoved down our (And Bill Clinton's willing) craw by the stinking Arafat, are nothing more than Arab Moslems from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and other Islamic cesspools.

Time to call them what they are: Arab Moslems occupying land belonging to Israel.

Posted by: unicorns62000 [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 2:59 PM

You are ablosutely right about that. In fact, no theocratic sates should be allowed to exist. Period.

Unfortunatly Bush and others want to see still another Islamic state set up in Kosovo...to somehow prove they were right, that islam and Democracy are best buddies.

Posted by: GreatShaitan [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 3:02 PM

Yet he blamed Israel for this...go figure.
I just wonder what Israels fault was?
Existence?
(sarc)

The good thing here is, however, nobody cam possibly expect Israel to deal with this bunch of terrorists that are left...nobody, that is, except for maybe the political correctness brownshirts.

It's just last minute maneuver of the terrorist forces before their impending big hit, which isn't exactly a state secret based on their loud mouths.

Posted by: jcom972 [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 3:11 PM

unicorns62000:
I'll bet on the last-mentioned. These "Palestinian people," shoved down our (And Bill Clinton's willing) craw by the stinking Arafat, are nothing more than Arab Moslems from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and other Islamic cesspools.

100% right on that.

Time to call them what they are: Arab Moslems occupying land belonging to Israel.

100% right on that as well.
Ever since 637AD they have been occupying Israel

I want to see all Arab Muslims confined to the Arabian penisula and no where else. That means getting out of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria as well as Israel.

Posted by: UK Infidel Lover [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 3:36 PM

Spot on about the so called "Palestinian people". Though the evil beeb have been bemoaning Israels alleged occupation as well. As if it somehow excuses the Palestinians behavour.
Im not rooting for either side, just enjoying it while it lasts ;)

Posted by: ANonnyMouse [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 4:22 PM

Don't worry. Rashid Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Fawaz Gerges -- it is so hard to tell their voices and propaganda lines apart -- will be on NPR any minute now, explaining not only why the whole mess in Gaza is "America's" and "especially Israel's fault" but will also helpfully provide the specific causes.

Now you may hoose one or more of those Causes they will adduce:

1) tjhe withholding of "Palestinian" tax revenues by Israel
2) the "boycotting" of the "Palestinians" by the temporary halt in the disguised Jizyah of foreign aid by America and other Infidel countries
3) the failure to supply Fatah with every conceivable kind of advanced weaponry, including tanks and helicopters and a state-of-the-art air force would, come to think of it, come in handy as well
4) the failure to remain completely convinced that the "Palestinian" struggle really is, as such propagandists as Kouri and Khalidi and Gerges like to repeat, COMPLETELY "nationalist" and has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with Islam or Al Qaeda, which is a far-away group, somewhere in Afghanistan, of radical extremist hijcking-a-great-religion extremist radical Islamist extremists, who also happen to be radicals

And now choose one or more of the proffered "solutions":

1) Now, more than ever, the Americans must seek a new policy and direction in the Middle East, one which puts much more pressure on Israel for if Israel is not pressured, than Al Qaeda will manage to take over everything even though it only represents a tiny handful of extremist radical hijackers-of-a-great-religion

2) Now, more than ever, the Americans and Israel -- for its own good -- must create a "Palestinian" state on the West Bank, and load it up with so much advanced weaponry that nice Fatah, good Fatah, well-meaning Fatah, "moderate" Fatah, will never have to worry about Hamas, or bad old Al Qaeda, again -- and once again the "Palestinians" will return to being, like all the other Arabs and Muslims, those innately friendly and trustworthy friends of the United States, those allies and even staunch allies, that they always were, and would be still, just as soon as the pesky problem of Israel -- which means nothing to the West, does it? Who cares who controls the Holy Land? After all, haven't the Arabs and Musliims always scrupulously observed the rights, protected the rights, of Christians all over the lands where Muslim Arabs dominate? -- is gotten rid of.

So that's the lesson to be drawn from the fight between the Slow Jihadists and the Fast Jihadists. Pile up the money and weaponry on the Slow Jihadists. You can work with them. As for Israel, it now has an even greater moral duty than ever before to help create that "Palestinian" state that is, as we all know, for otherwise it would not be referred to as such, the "solution."

Posted by: Hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 5:36 PM

This is a classic example of "Arab unity", kinda like rats in a barrel.

Posted by: songdongnigh [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 6:06 PM

I stopped listening to NPR (National Palestine Radio) ages ago. That's a really pretentious station. I got tired over hearing Islamic culture being taken so seriously and discussed in such a respectful manner, in a way it doesn't deserve. How can anyone read the latest Gaza news and not see what a bunch of fanatical savages those Islamo-morons are.

Posted by: jewdog [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2007 9:09 PM

Hamas controls Gaza, Fatah the West Bank. This, I think, gives a whole new meaning to the "Two State Solution." !!!

Posted by: ThinkForYourself [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2007 1:26 AM

"President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian Authority's government Thursday".

In effect, this was already done by Hamas, for about a week now.

The new two faction solution.

Posted by: Islofob IS-1 [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2007 2:05 AM

That was fast! Did it before they all got captured! Like you can't fire me! I quit!

Posted by: MZ [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2007 4:33 AM

More like don't kill me we are not the government!

Posted by: MZ [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2007 4:35 AM

These "Palestinian people," shoved down our (And Bill Clinton's willing) craw by the stinking Arafat, are nothing more than Arab Moslems from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and other Islamic cesspools.

Right. Because none of the Christians or Jews who lived there in 637 or any of their descendents ever converted to Islam. And if they did, they forfeited their right to the land, which was promised by God to the Jews and no one else.

Posted by: Seamus [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2007 3:03 PM

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