Struggling to maintain the banner of ‘resistance’, the Gazan terror group is firing at Israel in the hope Ramallah and Cairo will hear its plea for help.
(Expect to see a lot rehashed photos and videos from old wars and from the current Syrian conflict which Palis are already using to claim are the result of Israel’s latest bombing of military targets in Gaza)
Times of Israel (h/t Susan K) Hamas’s decision to end a 20-month-long ceasefire with Israel last week was a result of the movement’s gradual decline over the past year, accelerated by the unity deal with Fatah which has left it teetering on the verge of collapse.
Isolated by Israel, shunned by Egypt and battered by Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, Hamas has decided to go for broke. True, it had used its massive missile arsenal with relative restraint as of Tuesday afternoon, but it nevertheless hopes that a new round of violence can reshuffle the deck and leave it with a better hand.
The Islamic movement’s distress calls — directed mostly at Ramallah — have intensified over the past week. With 44,000 Hamas civil servants out of work and without salaries as Ramadan began, Hamas foreign ministry official Ghazi Hamad convened a press conference on July 3 to warn that “the Gaza Strip is in grave danger and the unity government doesn’t care what’s happening here.”
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah never called to ask about the situation in Gaza as it faced Israeli air strikes, Hamad charged, nor did the PA government allocate any budgets for the four ministries run from Gaza.
Politicians, Hamad was quoted by London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi as saying, must find urgent solutions for a situation which is growing increasingly untenable. “The reconciliation is in danger,” he said.
But Hamas’s call was not heeded. On Tuesday afternoon, as Israel’s Operation Protective Edge was in full force, Hamas deputy political bureau chief Moussa Abu Marzouk said he was hoping that the conflagration in Gaza would inspire West Bankers to launch a third intifada.
“Today, we are all called upon for a popular intifada, an intifada for prisoner Jerusalem. Today, more than ever before, we are demanded to express our rejection of the occupation … we are sick of talk of resolutions and peace,” he wrote on his Facebook page. Attempting to capitalize on the murder of Palestinian teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir last week, allegedly by Jewish terrorists, Hamas political bureau member Izzat al-Rishq wrote that “such battles and intifadas are always sparked by the blood of heroic youth, and then adopted by the people.”
Meanwhile, on the Egyptian front, Hamas’s pleas have also fallen on deaf ears. The Rafah border crossing has remained largely shut for months, and Egypt continues to operate against smuggling tunnels unabated.
In a speech Monday marking the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War according to the Muslim calendar, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi made no reference to Gaza; a fact that spoke volumes for the new regime’s attitude toward the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as illegal under Egyptian law.
“No previous Egyptian president from the military has ever dared to ignore Israeli aggression against the Palestinians, neither before the Camp David [peace accords with Israel] nor after it,” claimed a TV report in Al-Jazeera, a staunch supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Israel, for its part, remains reluctant to provide Hamas with the satisfaction of a new intifada. It is bracing itself for a gradual escalation to match that of Hamas, but nothing more, for now. Nuclear talks with Iran reach their deadline in 12 days, and Israel would not want to see the world distracted from what it defines as its greatest existential threat — a nuclear Iran.
In combined efforts of both aerial and naval forces, the IDF targeted overnight approximately 50 terror sites and targets across the Gaza Strip, commencing operation ‘Protective Edge’ – aimed to retrieve stability to the residents of southern Israel, eliminate Hamas’ capabilities and destroy terror infrastructure operating against the State of Israel and its civilians.
Looks like Hamas won’t be getting much help from Egypt:
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Israel is being pushed into protecting itself and its citizens by a murderous bunch of liars claiming to be victims. Just like the liars of CAIR.
Ultimately they will have to take big steps to stop the terrorist rocket attacks on their children and residents.
They will need help. And we, here in America will get to watch the lying, muslim brotherhood member we elected under the banner of Hope and Change, and because he is Black, offer nothing but more of his bullsh*t.
that bottom video looks like an old one to me
you go israel you’ve been way too patient. you’ve got some ass to kick
No, it’s from yesterday.
Bonni, my biggest fear is not Hamas alone but that they are just the tip of the iceberg. The one thing the moslem terrorists have in common is to destroy Israel, as she is now, a Democracy, and create a Islamic State. It is possible that Hamas is not the only group targeting Israel.
Marcia, why do you think Obama is trying so hard to replace all the secular leaders of the Arab states with Islamofascists? When they are all in place, they will attack Israel under Obama’s orders. He WILL try to take Sisi out sooner or later.
BNI: re Sisi, I agree with you. I think Obama acts on emotions and not on rational thinking. This is why his foreign policy has been such a failure. The man himself is a total failure.
Let’s hope Israel has el Sisi’s back.
Bonni, I too watched as he went from each ME country attempting to replace HIS muzzie brothers…that’s exactly what I am afraid WILL play out if Israel does not Stop it Once & For ALL…NO One Else Will. In the end…Israel is blamed for being EVIL anyway…just like USA or any other country that attempts to do the “right thing”…whatever that is.
Susan
BO acts on his orders from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. Only when that nation is threatened will BO intervene.
The Jews need to understand that They missed their chance in the Six day war. They should have pushed them into the sea. The Muslim in chief and his insane despot are out of control. Muslims are working hard to subvert governments in Canada and especially Australia. They have infiltrated the left and tricked almost everyone that they are just honorable leftists. Israel is running out of time. The Australian media is controlled by ignorant atheists that conceive religion as some kind of mental illusion that they condescendingly have a ‘control of ‘ These Muslims once anywhere near control will kill the lot of them. The Israelites need to show God that they have returned to God’s presence and thus to drive all Muslims out of Israel.
Probably not. Al-Qaeda and IS(IS) have been a real eye-opener to the face of Islamic Terrorism. Very, very few people Arab or otherwise view these lunatics as “soldiers” or “martyrs” they’re egocentric maniacs.
And I am sure there have been more than a few conversations on either side… to the tune of “You know what? These guys that start the wars… never fight or die in them?”
Extended periods of warfare are never desirable because they expose the true intentions of the war-mongers.
it is one more scratch on the striker of the spirit of islam (antichrist seeking blood and to fully engage the fires of destruction leading to Mahdi time.. Mahdi does not deserve capitalization any more than lie does or antichrist..This is a virus spreading in patches worldwide and its end will be only in the Lamb of Gods time.
Something also has to be done with the muslim arabs in East Jerusalem.
Palestinian rioters in the Arab-Israeli town of Shuafat outside Jerusalem have completely destroyed a new light rail system built by Israel to improve travel in the city and connect it to other towns.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-rioters-bomb-jerusalem-light-rail/
That’s what happens when you try to be nice to savages.
Get some Israel!!!!.
agreed