Why It Was Easy For Hamas To Take Over Gaza

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

                                   Rabin, Clinton, Arafat

By 1964, the primary Palestinian groups were earlier nationalist movements and emerging militant organizations that predated the establishment of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in May of that year. 

• Arab Higher Committee: This was a prominent, older Arab nationalist group that had been active since the British Mandate era and the 1948 War. Led by Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, it was largely sidelined after the establishment of the PLO.                                     
  
  
  
• Fatah (Palestinian National Liberation Movement): Founded as a political movement in 1959 by members of the Palestinian diaspora, including Yasser Arafat from Egypt, Salah Khalaf, and Khalil al-Wazir. Fatah operated clandestinely before 1964 and publicly emerged in January 1965 when it claimed responsibility for attacks in Israel. Fatah members attended the first Palestinian National Congress in a personal capacity.
• Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM): Founded in 1953 by George Habash, a Palestinian Christian, the ANM was a secular, pan-Arab movement with branches in several Arab countries. Its commando group, "Heroes of Return" (Abtal al-Audah), was established in 1966 in collaboration with the PLO's army. The ANM was a precursor to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which was formed in 1967.
• Palestine Popular Liberation Organization: This far-left group was founded in 1964.
• Ba'ath Party: Members of the al-Ba'ath Party also attended the first Palestinian National Congress in a personal capacity. 
It is important to note that many of the major factions prominent in later years, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), were established after 1964. 
• Origins: The PLO was formed in 1964 as a secular, nationalist umbrella organization for various Palestinian groups, with Fatah being its dominant faction. 
• Hamas, an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, was founded much later in 1987 (at the start of the First Intifada) as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, making it an Islamist organization.
• Arafat was the PLO leader, so Israel had been fighting those terrorists since 1964, before the 1967 War.  
• Opposition to Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation: The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, opposed attempts at reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas, stressing that Hamas needed to accept the Quartet Principles (renunciation of violence, recognition of Israel, and acceptance of previous agreements) to be considered a legitimate political actor. This stance made it difficult for a unity government to function or gain international support, thereby entrenching the existing split.
  
  
  
• Lack of Credible Peace Process: The administration's failure to make significant progress on a peace settlement, despite President Obama's initial declaration regarding the 1967 borders, led to widespread frustration and a sense among Palestinians that the U.S. was a biased mediator favoring Israel. "The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states."
• After all the dickering that went on, the Jewish Homeland was eaten up by Jordan's Abdullah who received 80%, leaving 20 % for the Jews, and now they are to lose at least 10% more of it to Palestinians who never ever had land in Palestine.  These people came from surrounding countries, like Syria.  
• This disillusionment with the U.S.-led peace process and the internationally-backed Fatah leadership may have indirectly sustained or increased underlying support for alternative, more resistant factions like Hamas.  

Seated at the table for these important talks were noteworthy leaders, including PLO head Yassir Arafat, former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Norwegian deputy foreign minister Jan Egeland. The Norwegians effectively served as mediators between the two sides.

Now they say that:  Although the Oslo Accords were noteworthy in that the PLO agreed to formally recognize the state of Israel and that Israel, in turn, allowed the Palestinians some form of limited self-governance in Gaza and the West Bank (the so-called Occupied Territories), they were originally seen only as a stepping-stone toward the ratification of a formal peace treaty between the two sides that would end decades of conflict. However, the Oslo Accords have yet to result in any lasting peace—and their overall impact remains up for debate. Why? Because they keep on attacking Israel, like the town of Sderot; attacked almost daily.

• Late 2001 onwards: The city of Sderot has been a target of continuous, though often less lethal, Qassam rocket fire from the Gaza Strip since this time, with rocket fire intensifying significantly after the Israeli disengagement from Gaza in 2005. The first Israeli fatalities from rocket fire occurred in the Sderot area in June 2004. 

Hamas

The Oslo Accords were caused by a convergence of factors, including the Israeli government and PLO facing pressure to end the First Intifada, which eroded Israel's international standing, like today. The Intifada began on 9 December 1987 in the Jabalia refugee camp after an Israeli truck driver collided with parked civilian vehicles, killing four Palestinian workers, three of whom were from the refugee camp. Palestinians charged that the collision was a deliberate response for the killing of an Israeli in Gaza days earlier.

The accords were brokered through secret, back-channel negotiations in Norway and began with the premise of gradual self-governance for Palestinians, based on the mutual recognition of Israel and the PLO. 

The Oslo Accords were made up of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). They also involved other parties as mediators and witnesses, most notably Norway, which hosted the initial secret negotiations, and the United States, which hosted the signing ceremony for the first accord and played a role in its implementation. 

• Main parties: The primary signatories and participants were the Israeli government, represented by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO, represented by Chairman Yasser Arafat.
• Mediators: Secret negotiations took place in Oslo, Norway, and were facilitated by Norwegian officials like Jan Egeland and Johan Jørgen Holst.
• Witnesses and supporters: The signing of the accords was witnessed by leaders from other countries, including the United States and Russia, as well as representatives from Egypt, Jordan, and the European Union. The U.S. played a significant role in bringing the parties together and helping to implement the agreement. 

• 1994: Under the Oslo Accords, Israel began a phased transfer of governmental authority in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank city of Jericho to the newly created Palestinian Authority (PA), led by Yasser Arafat.
• Since 2001, Palestinian militants have launched tens of thousands of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip as part of the continuing Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
• August-September 2005: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon implemented a full, unilateral disengagement from Gaza, which involved evacuating all Israeli settlers and soldiers and demolishing all 21 Israeli settlements in the territory. The last soldier left the Gaza Strip on September 12, 2005
• Following the 2005 withdrawal, control of the territory was transferred to the Palestinian Authority. However, Israel maintained control of Gaza's borders, airspace, and shoreline for self protection-security, leading many international bodies and legal experts to still consider the territory under Israeli occupation according to international law. 

2006 Election: Tensions escalated after Hamas, an Islamist movement designated a terrorist organization by the US and EU, won a decisive victory in the Palestinian legislative elections, ending decades of Fatah leadership.  The 2006 elections were the second elections to the PLC. The first elections took place in 1996, but the subsequent elections had been postponed for many years due to disagreements between Fatah and Hamas. They vied for being leader with power.  Hamas was considered a terrorist organization by countries like the United States. Along with this, Yasser Arafat's cabinet called off the 2003 election because it claimed that the "Israeli military occupation of West Bank cities made a free ballot impossible"

• In 2007, the militant group,  Hamas,  forcibly seized control of the Gaza Strip from the Fatah-led PA after a violent conflict, and the territory has remained under Hamas's governance since then. This led to Israel and Egypt imposing a significant blockade on the area. The Bush administration, which had pushed for the elections in an effort to promote democracy, chose to ignore the results and isolate Hamas after it won a majority of the seats. 
• The 2007 conflict between Fatah and Hamas, known as the Battle of Gaza, was a brief but brutal civil war from June 10 to 15, 2007, resulting in Hamas's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip and a de facto division of the Palestinian territories. 

Resource:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_the_Gaza_

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Israel Facing Illegal Kangaroo Court-Terrorists Suing Israel in War and Review of Standards of Terrorists

Nadene Goldfoot                                         

At times, Fatah terrorists have joined with Hamas Terrorists
Against Israel, but the two groups fight
about who is the leader

        I'm sure I'm living in Alice in Wonderland's planet.  This is surely an upside down world we are living in today.  I see that Hamas has the chutzpa to be taking Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for something during the constant war between the two;  War Crimes.  Terrorists who terrorize are suing the most legalistic and moral state in the world! Israel!
The sad thing is that people such as the court and others are going along with it.  Logic is not king anymore.  
                                                 

Dr. Ghazi Hamad born 1964
former chairman of the border crossings authority in Gaza

 The plaintiff is the spokesman for the PA Executive Committee made up of 45 members.  They have taken their grievance to the ICC.  Dr. Ghazi Hamad is their spokesman, the deputy foreign minister of the terrorist group, Hamas, who have been actively warring against Israel since being given Gaza by Israel.  The committee also includes 2 other terrorist organizations;  the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF).  
                                                 

Faou Bom Bensouda, born 1961
ICC's chief prosecutor since June 2012
Gambian lawyer and minister of justice in Gambia,
a small state born in 1965. 

  The prosecutor for the ICC is a woman, Fatau Bensouda of Gambia, Africa.  She secretly colluded with the PA against 
Israel according to a Jordanian newspaper. A previous investigation of silly charges of systemic human rights abuses by the British military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq showed up her conduct of bias.   
No wonder that the PA's negotiator, Saeb Erekat, thinks the ICC investigation will prove to be successful in Hamas's favor.  Gambia's standards of moral conduct in war must be a lot different!!
                                            

The US State Department revoked her visa in early April 2019.  She had been investigating whether US servicemen or US officials engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan Poland, Romania and Lithuania.  The UN officials criticized the US for doing this.  Was she picking on the US all of a sudden?  

Like the US, Bensouda's beef with Israel is expansive.  The ICC is ready to begin an investigation of ALLEGED war crimes by Israeli soldiers against Arab civilian citizens of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.  Bensouda said on April 30th that she would go ahead with the investigation if the pre-trial judges of ICC tell her that she is on solid ground to start the inquiry.  
                                                 

"Legal affairs journalist Yonah Jeremy Bob writes that Israel's   IDF conducted at least 500 probes and more than 30 full inquiries into actions taken by Israeli soldiers during the 2014 Gaza conflict. In 2015, a commission of military figures from several democratic states that reviewed the military operations by Israel in the 2014 Gaza war established that "the IDF not only met its obligations under the Law of Armed Conflict but often exceeded these on the battlefield at significant tactical cost.""

According to the court's own rules, they are breaking the rules if they go ahead.  "According to the ICC's charter, the Court cannot investigate the conduct of non-signatory states of the 1998 Rome Statute that established the Court. Israel, like the U.S., is not a signatory of the statute."  They really have a warped sense of moral law if you ask me.  

Hamas to shower Israel cities with missiles!

Palestinian Hamas militants take part in a rally marking the 31st anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Gaza City December 16, 2018.

(photo credit: REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA)

Hamas, started in 1987,  has been the major player in the terrorist war against Israel.  They have perpetuated 40% of suicide bombings and dominates Gaza.  They use rocket and mortar attacks and are closely tied to Syria, Iran and Lebanon.  Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Western Europe, Hezbollah and others fund them. Hamas is listed as a terrorist organization by the US State Department.  They have built a lot of tunnels with that money.  One use of them is to pop up and attack or kidnap.  
                                                   

The PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, started in 1967, have been major players in the 1970s and 1980s.  This and related groups are small and considered miner players today.  They have been in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), Gaza, Syria and Lebanon.  They follow Marxist/Leninist, revolutionary nationalism through armed insurrection and refuse to recognize Israel. They broke off from PLO in 1974, but have rejoined again.
                                               

Arafat and his friends, Hillary Clinton and her daughter

The PLO started in 1964 and is the representative of the Palestinian people.  They are the political party in the PA.  They are accused by the international community of extensive corruption and theft of international aid during its governance of the PA.  They were guilty of plane hijackings, hostage taking, bombings, assassinations, targeted Israeli civilians and Jews globally, and conducted operations against Lebanese, Jordanians and Americans.  They tried to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan and was crushed by Hussein's army in September of 1970.  Arafat was their well-known leader.  

Update: 5/16/20 https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/mike-pompeo-icc-case-against-israel-is-illegitimate-prosecution-628203?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Holy+Jewish+site+of+Esther+and+Mordechai+set+ablaze+in+Iran&utm_campaign=May+16+night Resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatou_Bensouda
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=wm#inbox/FMfcgxwHNMZTbRRDvQKzJLGwppzVCnfq
magazine:  Israel 101 by StandWithUs
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-official-says-israel-will-be-to-blame-if-gaza-sees-virus-outbreak/
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16001/international-kangaroo-court

Qaradawi, Theologian of Terror, Behind Muslim Brotherhood's Jerusalem Attacks

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                             

The Muslim Brotherhood started the problems in Syria.  When Assad ordered his troops to attack his city of Hama in 1982, it was because it was the capital of the Muslim Brotherhood.  They had tried to assassinate him.  20,000 people were killed in that attack.  This came about because Assad is an Alawite, not a Sunni Muslim.  It's a branch of Islam.  When Assad became the president, the Muslim Brotherhood starting their planning of his overthrow.  On June 26, they had tried to assassinate him with hand grenades.  Assad suffered a foot injury, and Hama was the result.

Now that IS has come upon the scene of Sunni Islam, the Muslim Brotherhood is working on uniting all the Islamic movements around the idea of the Muslim Caliphate with the center being Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque.
                                                                     

It is Khaled Mashal of Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood member since 1971,  who is bringing in  the Palestinian issue to cause the Arabs to support the Muslim Brotherhood.  Mashal is living in Qatar, home of Qaradawi (b. 1926), the religious leader who wants to kill all Jews wherever they are.  He's best friends with Qatar's Emir.
                                                                         

Hamas's partner, Fatah, former PLO terrorists, was quick to glorify the terrorist who drove purposely  into the crowd in Jerusalem of people who just got off the train and killed a baby girl and a woman when he hit about 10 people. Fatah has the Silwan or Jerusalem branch, and they have glorified the driver as they always do to people who manage to kill Jews.
                                                                                 

Unfortunately, the security situation in Jerusalem has not been good lately thanks to the Muslim Brotherhood.  During Operation Protective Edge, they raised the banner "The siege of Gaza" in trying to incite European Muslims to demonstrate in their streets against Israel.  In this they hope to raise that status of Islam.  Now they have a "Save Jerusalem" campaign in wanting ALL of Jerusalem for Muslims only, and this is because it is a Jewish city created by King David himself.  The commandment of not to covet other people's things is unknown to Muslims, evidently, or ignored as not applying to them..  They want to take what is dear to others.  For them, it gives them status if they can pull it off.  As for their weak point of Mohammad flying to Jerusalem on his flying horse to the farthest Mosque, it never mentions Jerusalem by name.  It's an allegory.  It's a tale of flying carpets and horses.  It was a dream.  It's not usable in taking a city belonging to Jews for the past 3,000 years plus historically, religiously, politically and by population.

Khaled Mashal published a note calling on his people to hurry now to DEFEND (translated as TO TAKE OVER) Jerusalaem and Al-Aqsa.  Al Aqsa is in the hands of Jordan.  Our general, Moshe Dayan saw to that at the end of 1967's war when Israel won.  He was foresighted enough to avoid more problems by allowing them to police the property of their mosque.  So, is the Muslims Brotherhood taking it  from Jordan?  And for why?  They have been piggish about who they allow to pray on their property, causing some Jews to be angry about not being able to pray on the land that held our Temple, which could be worked on later by peaceful leaders, but certainly not by the Muslim Brotherhood's instigations.

The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to take over all of Jerusalem.  Do you remember in your culture hearing "if you give them an inch they will take a foot?  It seems like the Brotherhood had high hopes with a part of Jerusalem being the capital of their Palestine, but were plotting and scheming to take over all of Jerusalem, something they never even had in 1948 when Jordan took east Jerusalem and Israel got it back in 1967 after being attacked.  .
                                                                               

This call comes from Al-Aqsa by sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi himself when he was in Cairo in February 2011.  when President Mubarak was ousted.  He called for Al-Aqsa's LIBERATION (take over).  Qaradawi, theologian of terror,  is the most evil of religious leaders that one can find.  It was he who said he'd kill Jews with his bare hands if he could.  The 88 year old is in a wheelchair, however, but is up to trying to kill a Jew.    The man is dangerous because he broadcasts weekly from Qatar to the whole world with his evil thoughts about Jews and Israel.  He had been ousted from Egypt for his radicalness, and taken in happily by Qatar.  Qaradawi put out a fatwa and told the Muslims it was their duty to DEFEND (take over) Jerusalem with their lives.  He would like to die a martyr.  That way he'll get his 72 virgins.  I would hope they'll all be  as old as he is.

A two-faced theologian, while he has condemned the murder of civilians in the 9/11 terror attack, he supports terrorist acts against Israel.  Qaradawi claimed that "such martyrdom operations should not be carried out outside of the Palestinian territories.  He justifies this by claiming that Israeli civilians do not exist because the Israeli government requires all citizens to serve in the army.  So children are fair game, too, to him.

"Mashal and Mousa Abu Marzuk were said to have accumulated vast personal wealth estimated at $2.5 billion each. Mashal was alleged to have appropriated, for himself and his confidantes, the entire Hamas "Syrian Fund" of hundreds of millions of US dollars upon leaving Damascus for an opulent lifestyle in Qatar in 2012."  They follow the footsteps of the PLO's Arafat who also managed to keep a fortune for himself.  
                                                                       

The recent attack in Jerusalem against  the crowd of light rail riders who just got off the train  who were hit by a car on purpose killed a 3 month old American baby girl, Chaya,  immediately, and another of the 10 hit just died in the hospital. She was an Ecuadorian 20 year old.    That was a baby very much wanted by her parents who had waited a long time for her.  

Resource:   http://jcpa.org/article/hamas-fatah-jerusalem-disturbances/
ADL, http://www.adl.org/NR/exeres/788C5421-70E3-4E4D-BFF4-9BE14E4A2E58,DB7611A..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Mashal
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/in-israel/local/a-young-woman-died-of-her-wounds-in-the-jerusalem-terror-attack-9117?utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter

How Israel's Foreign Minister Views Hamas

Nadene Goldfoot                                               

   
Avidor Lieberman, Foreign Minister for Israel, spoke on CNN's Fareed Zakaria's program this morning.  He explained that he was against the cease fire, but found he was a minority with this opinion in the Knesset.  He felt that Israel could finally wipe out Hamas and had the force to topple them at this time.

Born on June 5, 1958 in Russia, he immigrated to Israel 2 years before I did in 1978.  Being much younger and a male, he did his stint in the IDF.

Avidor explained that Hamas is a radical terrorist group. 

He is 'bothered' that a terror group endured in battle against 'strongest army in Mideast.' One of many ways was in  their use of tunnels they had built and using them by popping out in Israel and taking lives is certainly a terrorist act.  Of course he neglects to say that Israel was following the rules of conduct in this fight by warning the civilians of their bombing way before the act, even though the terrorists saw to it that it was in vain and they fought by using this uncivilized tactic.  It is uncivilized to use your own people in gaining the advantage instead of trying to keep the civilians alive.  This fact alone prove they are a terrorist group.  Yet by doing this, they successfully deflected the blame of the deaths onto the Israelis who value all life, so no wonder he realizes that Hamas survived.  

This differs from the UN opinion of them.  Avidor feels that they differ little from ISIS. 
                                                                               

 William Schabas, a Canadian-born professor of international law at Middlesex University in London feels that it would "inappropriate " to assert that Hamas is a terrorist organization.  He's also very much against Netanyahu, even though his father is Jewish and he sits on the advisory board of the Israel Law Review.  I personally find this opposition from young people striving to make a name for themselves so take opposing stands and then later on, as maturity and extensive reading and research sinks in, often change their views. This has happened with Israeli historian, Benny Morris.   That Schabas is part of the board goes towards Israel's open-mindedness and democratic principles.  William Schabas is a product of English thinking which has been against Jews for centuries and certainly was when they held the mandate in Palestine.

"In 2014 Schabas was appointed the head of UN Committee investigating the Israeli role in 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict. The move was criticized by Canada’s Foreign Minister John Baird  and Geneva based NGO UN Watch, due to previous records of Schabas' alleged anti-Israel bias, a charge that Schabas denies.  Schabas was born on November 19, 1950, so is 8 years older than Lieberman.  

Avidor would like to see a more moderate Palestinian group taking over in Gaza.  He says that Hamas is radical in having a charter that says to wipe out Israel.  They have been firing rockets into Israel ever since they took over the power seat from Fatah and kicked Fatah into Judea and Samaria.
                                                                       

Abbas, born March 26, 1935, is older than either Lieberman or Schabas,  is threatening to sue Israel in the UN over crimes against humanity.  He has lost popularity.  They are no partner in peace for Israel with an attitude like this.  They had united several times with Hamas and their charter which is the same as the Muslim Brotherhood in regards to Israel.  Abbas is using his newly founded power in the UN now against Israel of an automatic majority.  He is making a new play to reassert his role and cast himself as the leader of all Palestinians by taking his cause to the UN.  

The UN Human Rights Council already met last month and adopted a resolution against Israel with a vote of 29 to 1 with 17 abstentions and has moved to establish a commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.  The USA was the only country against this decision.  

Netanyahu has pointed out that the report has already been written and  have decided that Hamas is not a terrorist organization.  He said they should really look at Damascus, Baghdad and Tripoli and go see ISIS, the Syrian army and Hamas.  They'll find their war crimes in these places but not in Israel.  This probe is just like what happened in 2009 and the Goldstone Report which Israel had rejected as being it was inaccurate and biased.  Goldstone even retracted that report but the die was already cast against Israel's reputation.  

Hamas's charter, which is also adopted by the unification of Fatah and Hamas, says,
1. “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will 
obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it” 
(The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory). 
These are the words of terrorists.

2. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. 

It needs all sincere efforts.
Note, this is a religious terrorist war, like ISIS is bringing on the rest of the world.  

3. The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished 
Palestinian movement, whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose 
way of life is Islam. It strives to raise the banner of Allah 
over every inch of Palestine,
The Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS also share this goal.  

CNN, Fareed Zakaria program
The Jewish Press, Friday, August 22, 2014, Israel Keeping Distance, front page, page 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avigdor_Lieberman
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.613150
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Schabas
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/world/middleeast/abbas-seen-as-ready-to-seek-mideast-pact-on-his-own.html?_r=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas
http://www.standwithus.com/online_booklets/HamasCharter/HamasCharter.pdf