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    Hamas: Fatah has launched insurgency against us in Gaza
    By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

    After failing to organize a popular uprising against Hamas in Gaza, Fatah has begun resorting to "insurgency" tactics in a bid to undermine the Islamist movement, Hamas officials said Thursday.

    The officials told The Jerusalem Post Fatah militiamen were behind a series of bombings that targeted Hamas members and institutions over the past few weeks.

    On Tuesday, three Fatah men were killed in a "work accident" as they were trying to place a bomb near a Hamas security installation west of Gaza City. The three, Hudaibi Khader, Yusef Hamadeh and Mu'taz al-Qami, belonged to Fatah's armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades.

    "They were killed when the bomb they were carrying was detonated prematurely," said a senior Hamas official. "We have evidence that Fatah is behind a series of explosions that occurred in Gaza recently."

    The official dismissed as "untrue" claims by Fatah that the three men were killed when Hamas militiamen fired a rocket at their vehicle.

    The Aksa Martyrs Brigades threatened to avenge the killing of its members. The group accused Hamas of eliminating the three "while they were on a jihad mission" - meaning an attack on Israeli targets.

    Early Thursday morning, three Hamas militiamen serving in the local police were wounded, one of them critically, when a bomb was detonated near their vehicle at the Askoulah junction in Gaza City. Again, Hamas accused Fatah of standing behind the attack.

    Hamas's security forces on Thursday arrested Maher Khwaiter, a Fatah activist from the city's Zeitun neighborhood, on suspicion of involvement in the bombing.

    Another Hamas official told the Post that Fatah was behind at least 14 attacks against Hamas figures and institutions in the Gaza Strip over the past month. He added that Fatah's decision to resort to an "armed struggle reflected Fatah's frustration after failing to ignite a popular uprising against Hamas."

    Over the past two months, Fatah has organized a series of peaceful protests against Hamas in the Gaza Strip; thousands of Fatah supporters participated in open-air prayers to protest against Hamas's June "coup."

    The protests, which have meanwhile been suspended, led to street clashes between the two parties, seriously embarrassing the Hamas government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

    Most of the alleged Fatah operations have targeted security vehicles used by Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip. Following the attacks, the Hamas Ministry of Interior, which is in charge of security in the Strip, instructed all its operatives to check their vehicles before using them and to be on alert for roadside bombs.

    "Apparently, Fatah is trying to copy the tactics of the anti-American insurgents in Iraq," said a Palestinian journalist in Gaza City. "It's ironic that Hamas is now describing the Fatah attacks as acts of terrorism."

    Khaled Abu Hilal, a Fatah dissident closely associated with Hamas, said the latest wave of bombings was designed to destabilize the situation in the Gaza Strip. Accusing Fatah leaders in Ramallah of instructing their men to attack Hamas, he said: "These crimes reflect the terrorist mentality of the murderers and of those who give them the instructions from Ramallah."
    Denying the allegations, Fatah officials in Ramallah said they were unaware of an "armed resistance" against Hamas.

    "Hamas is trying to cover up for its daily crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip," said one official. "Now they are trying to justify their crimes."

    The official accused Hamas of raiding the Fatah headquarters in Gaza City late Wednesday night. "Their forces stormed the building and kicked everyone out," he said. "They did not offer an explanation for the raid."

    Ihab al-Ghissin, spokesman for the Hamas Ministry of Interior, confirmed that his forces had "occupied" the headquarters. But he said it was a "temporary" measure taken for security reasons.

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    Oh the irony is so thick it hurts!
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    Damn I'm so glad I do not live over there. What the hell is wrong with the middle east?
    Originally posted by GVChamp
    College students are very, very, very dumb. But that's what you get when the government subsidizes children to sit in the middle of a corn field to drink alcohol and fuck.

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    • #3
      the whole aspect of terrorism has absolutely perverted the palestinians. not so much in the mentality of the people as a whole, but in its political elite: having used terrorist tactics (including suicide bombing) for years as a desperate tool, it seems that the temptation to use it whenever politically expedient is on the rise.

      what does this mean for the possibility of democracy in a palestinian state? instead of voting and accepting the will of the people, the other party would be quite likely to send a few suicide bombers out and quite literally eliminate the opposition!
      There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov

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      • #4
        Originally posted by astralis View Post
        the whole aspect of terrorism has absolutely perverted the palestinians. not so much in the mentality of the people as a whole, but in its political elite: having used terrorist tactics (including suicide bombing) for years as a desperate tool, it seems that the temptation to use it whenever politically expedient is on the rise.

        what does this mean for the possibility of democracy in a palestinian state? instead of voting and accepting the will of the people, the other party would be quite likely to send a few suicide bombers out and quite literally eliminate the opposition!
        It's funny right, because whenever these leaders complain about Israel doing this or that, it's not their personal problem with Israel, its "Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people". Yet the truth of it is that they're willing to be much more barbaric to their own people. How are they ever going to have their own nation-state? Their natural reaction to everything is to sh!t up. Of course Oslo didn't work. What's the only way they've ever influenced any party? Killing. It's been de facto institutionalized. It's not even that that's only how they deal with Westerners or Israelis or Jews. It's how they now deal with everyone, including each other.
        In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
        The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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        • #5
          It's all very ironic, and even funny, until it's you friend that dies.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Feanor View Post
            It's all very ironic, and even funny, until it's you friend that dies.
            Not funny in that sense. And I have had friends die in this conflict, and like will continue to know more people who have as time goes on.
            In Iran people belive pepsi stands for pay each penny save israel. -urmomma158
            The Russian Navy is still a threat, but only to those unlucky enough to be Russian sailors.-highsea

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