PA ‘ready’ to take Gaza if Hamas ousted
Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah said Saturday that they were prepared to assume control over the Gaza Strip if Israel succeeds in overthrowing the Hamas government.
Israel must not turn over Gaza to Fatah or the PA. One, because they will screw it up and two, they are too intransigent. Israel must dictate terms of peace to both Hamas and Fatah. On Feb 9/08 DEBKA reported Israeli Military up in Arms over Bush-Olmert Plan for Major Operation in Gaza on Behalf of… Palestinian Authority. This exactly what I have been concerned about. Ted Belman
“Yes, we are fully prepared to return to the Gaza Strip,” a top PA official told The Jerusalem Post. “We believe the people there are fed up with Hamas and want to see a new government.”
Another PA official said Fatah had instructed all its members in the Gaza Strip to be prepared for the possibility of returning to power.
“We have enough men in the Gaza Strip who are ready to fill the vacuum,” he said. “But of course all this depends on whether Israel manages to get rid of the Hamas regime.”
The two officials voiced hope that the current IDF operation would end Hamas rule in Gaza. They said that the PA was also prepared to dispatch security forces from the West Bank to replace the Hamas militiamen.
However, they denied Hamas allegations that the PA had urged Israel to launch a massive attack to overthrow the Hamas government.
Also Saturday, Fatah called on its supporters in the Strip to storm Hamas-controlled prisons to release Fatah detainees. The call came as most of Hamas’s security installations were demolished by IAF planes.
Fatah representatives in the West Bank said that Hamas was holding more than 250 Fatah men in its various prisons throughout the Gaza Strip. They expressed fear that Hamas would use the detainees as human shields against the Israeli air strikes.
Where’s the Vatican now? Didn’t they seat Yasser Arafat next to the Vatican at the United Nations assembly? Yes, the expulsion of Hamas would be a VERY GOOD THING! But I don’t think Louis Farrakhan would tell Reverend Wright to advise Barack Obama to do anything more than shake hands with Hamas, sing Kumbaya around their their terrorist campfires, and love their neighbors as they love themselves on a suicide mission to destroy everybody everywhere until nothing is left.
Comment by Michael Sunstar — December 29, 2008 @ 12:37 am