Comments on: This time it’s so not Israel’s fault

By: Tap

Tap — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 19:31:06 +0000

Actually, I hear it IS the fault of Israel and America! Who knew?

http://abuyussif.blogspot.com/2007/02/another-gaza-truce-victim.html

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:04:28 +0000

You’re right, Kurt. The comment to which you responded was just spam, so I deleted it.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:34:49 +0000

Hey Olive Grove…a few simple sentences along with a link would have been sufficient. Now I just see you and Atlas Books as an annoyance.

But…I’m just one.

By: swampacreage

swampacreage — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 12:29:13 +0000

Hamas and Fatah should remake themselves . . kind of like born again, or a psychriatric makeover, into lets say, FAHATHMASA(kool name) ,and start afresh. But hey, try being nice guys. Now ,let me see, what could Israel do ? They could combine with USA into LISUREARS(not so kool name . . kinda of geeky ) and try being nice guys as well. I will set up the first summit meeting with FAHATHMASA and LISUREARS.
What a dog’s breakfast mess for children living ( if you can call it that ) through this crap.
PUT A LITTLE ANDY KIM LOVE IN YOUR HEART PEOPLE. Children deserve better .

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:16:37 +0000

Hamas now has legitimacy, and it seems they also have the problems of legitimacy. Before, when they were just a rag tag group, I suppose nothing happened. But when they started going into politics and what not… I guess that really upset Fatah and a power struggle began. You got to watch out for the power plays, these people love their power. More than they love their children, that is for sure.

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:14:53 +0000

Strangely, savvy observers are not sanguine that this ceasefire will have any sticking power:

Wow, Book. Shockingly surprising.

It never occurred to me that the Palestinians would keep themselves occupied in the first instance by fighting each other.

A little schadenfreude is appropriate here.

I see two old tricks here. The trick of a “cease fire” in order to gear up for the next phase of the war. Combined with destabilizing your enemy by getting your enemy to fight themselves, within themselves.

While I didn’t envision a traditional war between Hamas (or whatever) vs Israel, but I did envision that Hamas now had to fight a far more open war instead of the shadowry war they used to fight.

This of course, seemed to upset Fatah in a way. I guess their desire for power, and what not, overwhelmed their desire to kill Jews. Or maybe the fence frustrated their attempts to kill Jews, so they had to grab the best target left over. Which would be, other Palestinians.