They, too, escaped after al-Mabhouh’s murder but have been extradited to Dubai from Jordan.
So was this a joint Mossad-Fatah operation to decapitate Hamas?In the Middle East anything is possible.
(Thanks Angry Arab)
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abunoor
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johnpi
The next Palestinian Authority president could be a Hamas Legislator.
If Abbas decides to forgo the chairmanship before the elections take place, his successor by default is speaker of the Parliament – Hamas lawmaker Aziz Dweik.
Dweik, 59, is not slated to run in the elections as a Hamas candidate. The likely candidate would be Isma’il Haniyya, the current prime minister of the de facto Hamas government in the Gaza Strip. But the very notion of a Hamas leader heading the Palestinian Authority is in itself a symbolic victory for the Islamist movement, and a hair-raising option for Israel and Fatah.
The Palestinian Central Elections Commission announced on Thursday that it did not have the capacity to hold elections on January 24, as originally planned, effectively postponing the elections indefinitely.
How would Fatah respond:
A Hamas figure in power is certainly not something that Fatah would take lightly.
“You’re talking about a rival from a party which carried out a coup in Gaza, a party that is refusing to sign the Egyptian reconciliation paper that Fatah signed,” Dr Milhem said. “So you’re talking about conceding to Hamas. For Fatah this is not acceptable at all.”
Actually, I think it was Fatah that held the coup, not Hamas.
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thabet
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thabet
Maybe someone should tell Brenden Brogan that the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades is not ‘Islamist’ and are one of the armed factions maintained by Fatah. Then again, since Fatah is (loosely) on the political left, this is probably more evidence of The Left-Islamist Conspiracy Against Western Civilisation to right-wingers like Brogan.
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thabet
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Kawthar
A Fatah official is claiming that Hezbollah has infiltrated the party
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abunoor
Angry Arab points to this nugget from Mort Zuckerman: imagining a Shi’a — Sunni divide amongst Palestinians.
No wonder the Palestinian Reconciliation Conference in Cairo ended in failure. Even the lure of billions of dollars in aid has not brought Fatah Sunnis in Judea and Samaria, i.e., the West Bank, any closer to Shiite supporters of Hamas in Gaza. These are two parallel lines that cannot meet, and this division will persist.
Oh, so there are Sunnis in the West Bank and Shi’a in Gaza…and Hamas’ supporters are Shi’a. Thank you for that, Mr. Zuckerman.
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johnpi
Bad news from the Gaza reconstruction conference:
Clinton prefers to double-down on the shopworn “West Bank first, Fatah only” policy which has been conspiciously failing for the last two years. The concrete manifestation: two-thirds of the U.S. contribution to the reconstruction of Gaza will go not to Gaza but to the West Bank.
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abunoor
Andrew Sullivan points to a post which compares another Palestinian poll with somewhat different results to the one I linked to earlier.
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abunoor
For the first time, an opinion poll shows that Hamas is more popular than Fatah among Palestinians.
In Gaza, the poll put Hamas at 28 percent against 33.6 percent for Abbas’ Fatah. In the West Bank, the poll gave Hamas 29 percent support against 24.5 percent for its rival.
The balance was shared by a myriad of smaller parties.
Some 27.7 percent of those questioned said they trusted Hamas, compared with 26 percent for Fatah.
The poll found that Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, who Abbas dismissed after the Islamist takeover of Gaza, is the most trusted Palestinian politician with 21.1 percent support, far ahead of the incumbent president with 13.4 percent.
Of course, Puppet Usurpers and Collaborationist Gangs do not need popular support, they rely on support and funding from the enemies of the Palestinian people.
The swing in favor of Hamas was more prominent in the West Bank than Gaza, not sure if this is because those in Gaza had to suffer from the Israeli offensive or if it is because those in West Bank have to deal with Fatah gangs.
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thabet
“Why do they hate us?”
“An inside story of how the US magnified Palestinian suffering”.
