Gaza Goes Goo Goo for Allah.

Let me see if I got this straight. We release lots of money to Fatah to help Abbas survive and this will encourage the rest of the suffering and hopeless Palestinians to be more careful who they vote for in the next election. These are the same people who are driven into a state of euphoria when someone with a green rag around his head allahakbars himself and others into great big gobs of Islamic mince meat.

Sorry sports fans, democracy will not fix the flawed disease of Islam. Islam is the problem. It is the mad cow's disease of humanity. It decomposes the brain into humus .
Cull the herd.


Weep for Gaza
The new 'Hamastan' is an unmitigated disaster, and a 'West Bank first' peace is unlikely.
June 18, 2007
LA Times

THE EMERGENCE of "Hamastan" between Israel and Egypt is an unqualified disaster for the world. It's especially cruel for the 51% of the Palestinians in Gaza who did not vote for Hamas in 2006 but now find themselves living under an illegal, self-declared Islamic republic. This outcome is further evidence that President Bush has spent six years allowing a terrible foreign policy problem to grow unimaginably worse. The Hamas takeover is a victory for its key patron, Iran. The only consolation for the U.S. is that relations between Hamas and Al Qaeda, which does have some presence in Gaza, are poor.

In response to the rout of Fatah, the U.S. and Israel are weighing a "West Bank first" strategy. It would aim for a peace deal with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas only on the West Bank, where Fatah remains in control in part thanks to the Israeli Defense Forces. A West Bank peace deal is worth a try, simply because there appears to be no alternative. But the likelihood of success is low.

Can any Palestinian leader, let alone the weakened Abbas, strike a separate peace in the West Bank and survive, while 1.4 million fellow Palestinians are quite literally imprisoned in Gaza, suffering and hopeless? Can any Israeli leader, let alone the weakened Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, force through the compromises necessary to craft a West Bank-only peace, ousting armed Jewish settlers from hilltops even while Hamas continues to fire missiles into Israel from its mini-state in Gaza, as it surely will? The U.S. must hope, and should bolster its hopes with pressure, money and real diplomatic engagement. Only if the downtrodden in the hellhole of Gaza can look up and see a bright and shining Palestinian state rising on the West Bank can hope begin to be justified.

Meanwhile, what can be done about Gaza? Very little. Israel (and Egypt, should it choose) has every right to close its borders against the terrorist state of Hamastan. But the international community will have to supply food and medicine to the Palestinians trapped inside. Because the Europeans have cut off aid, this will probably have to be done by the Arab states. We nominate the Egyptians, who did little to prevent arms shipments to Hamas from Tehran and Damascus.

As a matter of principle, Washington should assert that Hamas' military victory over its coalition partner Fatah is the legal equivalent of a coup d'etat — though no one will listen. Bush should also publicly oppose calls from the Israeli right for a reinvasion and reoccupation of Gaza. New elections, of course, would be desirable, but Hamas refuses them. And elections, as the world has painfully learned, are no guarantee of stability, peace or the rule of law. Weep for Gaza.

It Gets Worse.

Remember the elections and the wonders and promises of democracy?

Hamas threatens to bring fight to West Bank
16 Jun 2007 15:10:28 GMT
Source: Reuters

GAZA, June 16 (Reuters) - Hamas threatened on Saturday to retaliate in the occupied West Bank against President Mahmoud Abbas's forces if they did not stop Fatah "terrorism" there against members of the Islamist group.

Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said 150 Hamas supporters have been "abducted" in the occupied West Bank following Hamas's bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip.

"What is happening in the West Bank is a real coup and real terrorism," Abu Zuhri said. "We will not stand handcuffed against these crimes in the West Bank. We will take all steps to secure an end to these crimes."

Tutu, the Sanctimonius, Explains Gaza Violence.

Archbishop Tutu Calls Events in Gaza Natural Consequence of Occupation

Por VOA Red Bolivia
Junio 14, 2007, 13:10 EDT

Geneva --
Archbishop Desmond Tutu agrees the fighting between Hamas and Fatah increasingly looks like civil war. He says he is in despair over these events, but understands why these rival factions are fighting each other.

"When you are oppressed, it is so very easy to turn on yourselves," he said. "At home, we had horrendous instances of internecine conflict. And you would say, for goodness sake, do we not realize that it is, in fact, playing into the hands of those who are abusing us, who are oppressing us."

Archbishop Tutu says it is very difficult for those who have not been un-free to know what oppression and injustice do to people.

Late last year, the U.N. Human Rights Council asked Tutu to head a mission to investigate the killings of 19 civilians in Beit Hanoun, following Israeli military operations on November 8. The Israeli government refused to grant the visas for the Mission to enter Israel.

The report submitted to the Council is based on information gathered from sources outside the territory. It finds the Israeli attacks resulted in grave human rights violations, including loss of life, the destruction of homes, electricity and water.

It calls on Israeli and Palestinian authorities to prosecute people on both sides who attacked civilians in Beit Hanoun and in nearby Israeli towns.

Law professor and member of the mission, Christine Chinkin, says what happened in Beit Hanoun six months ago, feeds into the violence that is occurring now.

"It is important as well that the current focus on the internal violence in Gaza, in particular, does not distract attention from the ongoing human rights violations, such as those relating to health, to the movement of people outside the territories, the ongoing destruction of shelter, the access to social and cultural rights and an adequate standard of living," she said. "I think it is very easy for attention to get deflected away from those extremely important ongoing human rights."

Israel dismisses the report of the high level mission as one-sided and biased. The Israeli position is supported by a Canadian parliament member, Irwin Cotler, who says he turned down an invitation to join the mission, because the mandate violated fundamental principles of justice.

This is real bad news.

This is a Hamas kindergarten graduation ceremony. We may have to kill them all and start over.

Hamas Overruns Fatah Security Command

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas fighters overran one of the rival Fatah movement's most important security installations in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, and witnesses said the victors dragged vanquished gunmen from the building and killed them in the street.
The capture of the Preventive Security headquarters was a major step forward in Hamas' attempts to complete its takeover of all of Gaza. Hamas later called on Fatah fighters to surrender the National Security compound within the hour.

The moderate President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, for the first time in five days of fierce fighting, ordered his elite presidential guard to strike back. But his forces were crumbling fast under the onslaught by the better-armed and better-disciplined Islamic fighters.

Fatah officials said seven of their fighters were shot to death in the street outside Preventive Security. A witness, Jihad Abu Ayad, said the men were being killed in front of their wives and children.

"They are executing them one by one," Abu Ayad said. "They are carrying one of them on their shoulders, putting him on a sand dune, turning him around and shooting."

Some of the Hamas fighters kneeled down outside the building, touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer. Others led Fatah fighters out of the building, some of them 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.

"We are telling our people that the past era has ended and will not return, " Islam Shahawan, a spokesman for Hamas' militia, told Hamas radio. "The era of justice and Islamic rule have arrived."

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, heralded what he called "Gaza's second liberation," after Israel's 2005 evacuation of the coastal strip.

The two factions have warred sporadically since Hamas took power from Fatah last year, but never with such intensity. Hamas reluctantly brought Fatah into the coalition in March to quell an earlier round of violence, but the uneasy partnership began crumbling last month over control of the powerful security forces.

Some 80 people, most of them militants, have been killed since a spike in violence Sunday sent Gaza into civil war. At least 15 people died on Thursday.

Hospitals were operating without water, electricity and blood. Even holed up inside their homes, Gazans weren't able to escape fighting that turned apartment buildings into battlefields.

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