Article 27 of the Hamas Charter states:

“The Palestinian Liberation Organization [PLO = Al Fatah] is the closest to the heart of the Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas]. It contains the father and the brother, the next of kin and the friend. The Moslem does not estrange himself from his father, brother, next of kin or friend. Our homeland is one, our situation is one, our fate is one and the enemy is a joint enemy to all of us.”[1]

“To think that Palestinians will attack Palestinians is a rotten idea”

...said by Jibril Rajoub, head of the PLO’s security service, when asked, right after the Oslo Accord was signed, whether his forces would suppress the terrorists in the Hamas organization, where his brother Nayef Rajoub is an important religious leader.[2]

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Table of Contents

( hyperlinked < )

< Short Preface

< Before the ‘fight’

< The ‘fight’

< The battle that never was

< The consequence
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Short Preface

How to interpret the supposed fight between Hamas and Al Fatah (also known as ‘the PLO’)?

The media has always represented Hamas and Fatah as great enemies, but this has always flown in the face of the facts (consider the love letter to the PLO contained in the Hamas Charter, at top). In the pages of the New York Times and other such publications Hamas and Fatah would snarl at each other but in the real world there was a dramatic contrast: leaders of Hamas would become leaders of Fatah and vice-versa, and they cooperated closely when it came to repressing the Arab civilian population of the West Bank and Gaza, and when it came to attacking Israel.[2] We are told that Hamas is supported by Iran because they are ‘Islamist extremists,’ but not Fatah because they are ‘secular moderates.’ In fact, however, Fatah has a long tradition of advocating Islamism to its Arab audiences (though not to the Western press), and it also has a very long relationship with the Iranian mullahs who took over that country in 1979, because Al Fatah in fact helped put them in power.[1a] The truth is that, as this history would lead us to expect, Iran is supporting both Fatah and Hamas.

Is anything at all consistent with the supposed fight between Hamas and Fatah?

Let me take you back a few months, so that we may take a look at how the ‘fight’ between Hamas and Fatah came to be, and then played out. Then I will examine its consequences.

Before the ‘fight’
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Go back a number of months, and what you have is Al Fatah and Hamas as the two main groups disputing the leadership of the West Bank and Gaza Arabs in the ‘Palestinian Authority’ government. Hamas wins big in the parliamentary elections and then refuses to say anything even remotely moderate: “Death to Israel” is all that Hamas can pronounce. Fatah also wants to destroy Israel, but it occasionally tells the Western press that it has abandoned this goal. Seems like a small difference: why can’t Hamas, like Al Fatah, just make believe? They could then jointly get the Israeli concessions that will make the destruction of Israel easier and ride together into the genocidal sunset. But Hamas will not. Why not? It is an interesting question, because Islamic law explicitly allows lying to infidels in order to be in a better position to kill them.[3] But Hamas, in an apparently counterproductive move, chooses (prematurely, it seems) to fire one gleeful rocket after another at Israeli civilians.

Now, since, according to election results, Hamas now represents a majority of the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, even the façade of a ‘peace’ process is already dead. Ethically, therefore, what should the Israeli government and the Western sponsors of the Oslo process do? They should declare it dead and give this problem a military solution, to protect Jewish -- and, incidentally, Arab life -- from the Hamas and Fatah gangsters (the Arab residents of Gaza have been calling the Palestinian Authority police the ‘death squad’ for years).[4]

But the Western powers won’t do the ethical thing. What they do is freeze the monies they have been sending to the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority -- because it is just too embarrassing to be sending money to a body that openly says “Death to Israel” while firing rockets at Israeli civilians. And the Western powers rush to try and get Hamas to stop firing rockets and say that it will recognize Israel so that the funding can resume and a final ‘peace’ agreement can be signed. On the face of it, this is truly desperate stuff. Even if Hamas complies, there can be no reason to believe that their ‘recognition’ of Israel will be sincere, and yet US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and European Union Foreign Secretary Javier Solana appear quite concerned to produce this statement. Why? Do they actually want a phony ‘peace’ agreement so that Jews can be cleansed out of Judea and Samaria like they were cleansed out of the Gaza Strip (which brought nothing but increased violence for both Arabs and Jews)? Do they actually want to give Hamas or Fatah or both total control over strategic high ground overlooking a tiny 11-mile wide strip of concentrated Jews with their backs against the sea?

Their behavior would appear consistent with that hypothesis. It does not appear consistent with the hypothesis that the US is an ally of Israel.[5]

But surely Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will react against this blatant attempt to destroy the Jews? Surely not! Olmert would like to go forward with the cleansing of the Jews from Judea and Samaria, and he seems worried that until Hamas cooperates with the charade of ‘peace’ he cannot. But doesn’t this mean he is in full agreement with Rice and Solana’s radically anti-Israeli approach?

His behavior does appear consistent with that hypothesis.[6]

Olmert gets a lucky break in late November 2006. There is a ‘truce’ between Hamas and Israel, and he renews the charge:

“On Sunday, a truce ending five months of violence took effect on the Gaza-Israel border, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert urged the Palestinians to discuss a final peace deal, complete with significant Israeli territorial concessions in the West Bank.”[7]

So we have that the ‘Israeli government’ withdrew unilaterally from the Gaza Strip and gave it to the Fatah and Hamas terrorists without asking anything in return, meanwhile cleansing the territory of all Jews. The terrorists then used this territory to shower Jewish civilians for many months with unprovoked violence, at the end of which Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert became eager to make peace on their terms. And this, mind you, before Hamas has even bothered to say that it will recognize Israel. What is the message and lesson? It is obvious: terrorism works.

If only Hamas will now say that it recognizes Israel, Olmert can clinch his deal. But no deal.

“[On] Thursday…Abbas announced the failure of months of negotiations with Hamas over setting up a moderate government that could win international recognition and help end a foreign aid boycott. Talks deadlocked over the distribution of key portfolios and the government’s platform, with Hamas rejecting international demands that it renounce violence and recognize Israel.”[8]

Again, this is very interesting. Islamic law allows for the lies that Hamas simply will not say. So why doesn’t Hamas just say it and conclude the ‘peace’ deal that will give the terrorists so much in exchange for nothing, really? Why so much ‘honesty’?

What is going on?

Rice and Solana seem crestfallen: Hamas’s refusal, they say, means they cannot resume funding of the Palestinian Authority. They really would like to subsidize these terrorists, it seems, but a minimum of cooperation with the theater of ‘peace’ is necessary and they cannot even get that. “Very sadly, I have to say the chance has been lost,” Solana tells reporters.[9]

Later we will be told of course of the great “economic hardship” that the Western ‘embargo’ is imposing on the suffering Arabs.[10] But is the Hamas-dominated PA government really strapped for cash? It seems not. One week later we read that “Hamas, however, appears increasingly confident it can keep its government afloat without Western aid, mainly with help from the Arab world.”[11]

The ‘fight’
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The disagreements between Hamas and Fatah turn violent as armed battles break out in late December 2006.

The reports of the initial battles were quite interesting because “despite the intensity of the fighting, no one was wounded.” Read that again. There is intense fighting and yet nobody is even wounded. What were they doing? Shooting into the air? But when two of Hamas’s notoriously inaccurate rockets are at the same time fired at the Jews (because the fighting among the Arabs somehow produces an end to the ‘truce’ with the Jews) they manage to injure “a 2-year-old boy.”[12] Doesn’t this all laugh in the face of the laws of probability? And just as the Arabs see an opportunity in their internecine ‘fighting’ to attack the Jews, so does Olmert see an opportunity, and in mid January he announces that he will “free $100 million in frozen tax funds to boost moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.”[13] (So Mahmoud Abbas is not strapped for cash either.)

The emerging story? That Mahmoud Abbas, the Fatah chief, is the “moderate Palestinian President,” and good people everywhere -- certainly the ‘well-meaning’ Israeli Prime Minister! -- ought to boost him and Fatah against Hamas (to save ‘peace’).

I suppose that Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas are the moderates because Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a component of Fatah, is considered “the deadliest Palestinian militia.”[14] And when Yasser Arafat died the Brigades were chanting in the street for continuing the violence against Israeli civilians and also for Mahmoud Abbas to succeed Arafat as Fatah chief.[15] (Because Abbas is a moderate, you see, and so is Fatah.) Never mind that “Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] is...one of the founders of Fatah, one of the original Arafat band of brothers.”[16] And never mind that this “original Arafat band of brothers,” brought together in Egypt to become Al Fatah, was trained by Hajj Amin al Husseini, who before this had been one of the top leaders -- if not the top leader (at least according to Adolf Eichmann’s lieutenants, and they should know) -- of the German Nazi Final Solution.[17] Never mind: Mahmoud Abbas is a ‘moderate’ so Ehud Olmert rushes to defend him against the ‘true extremists’ in Hamas.

This is an old story: the Western and Israeli ruling elites have been selling us this story ever since the diplomacy of the Oslo ‘peace’ process got started: it is central to the representation of a supposed ‘rivalry’ between Hamas and Fatah, because, according to the cover story, it is the refusal of Hamas to be moderate, like Al Fatah, that creates conflict between them (and hence the fight). But the representation of Al Fatah as the ‘moderate’ organization is a complete phony: Al Fatah means to repeat Hajj Amin al Husseini’s achievement and exterminate the Israeli Jews.

So is the fighting between Hamas and Fatah also a phony?

Consider for a moment the Israeli-government withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. This move was celebrated around the world as a positive step for the Gaza Arabs, and yet it has been a disaster for these Arabs: “Since Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, the area has experienced a wave of infighting, armed robberies, deadly family feuds and kidnappings.”[21] This was perfectly predictable, because Hamas and Fatah are both gangster organizations. So what was the point of the withdrawal that abandoned the Gaza Arabs to these gangsters? In my view, to answer this question is also to answer what the Hamas vs. Fatah ‘fight’ is all about.

The Associated Press reports a number of very interesting things about the withdrawal from Gaza:

“Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza in September 2005, enabling Hamas to build and expand its militia...

...Since winning parliamentary elections a year ago, Hamas has invested heavily in its Gaza paramilitary unit, the so-called Executive Force, with millions of dollars in support, mainly from Iran.

The militia currently has 5,500 members, but thousands more sympathizers can easily be mobilized...

Hamas has also established its own arms industry in Gaza, building anti-tank rockets, mortar shells, land mines and hand grenades. Smuggling tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border help refresh supplies. Some of Hamas’ weapons engineers were trained abroad.

The Executive Force has also bought SUVs and German-made minivans and set up training camps throughout Gaza.

On the West Bank, by contrast, Hamas militants remain underground or only appear in public without weapons, for fear of being targeted by Israel.”[18]

Of course, the Egyptians initially pretended to oppose the Hamas takeover but, according to DEBKA, have been clandestinely assisting Hamas.[19] Now, who is responsible for arming the Egyptians to the teeth? The US government![20] So the evidence is at the very least consistent with the idea that the point of the Israeli withdrawal -- a policy endorsed by the US government -- was a US-sponsored theater to help the Iranians and Egyptians prepare an attack against Israel. It matters, to this hypothesis, that the US has done this sort of thing before: immediately after Egypt failed in its genocidal war against Israel, in 1948, the US government sent German Nazi specialists -- whom it had recruited for the CIA -- to train the Egyptian military and security services; they also trained Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, and helped them create Al Fatah.[22]

So is the Hamas vs. Fatah fight another US-sponsored theater to help prepare a Muslim attack against Israel?

The least you can say about the US government is that it is consistent. Its reaction to the violence between Hamas and Fatah is this: “President Bush asked Congress to provide $83 million to train and equip Abbas’ force.”[22a] So the 'fight' becomes an excuse to send more US training and weaponry to Abbas, who, though heir to Hajj Amin al Husseini’s German Nazi Final Solution, is once again represented as the supposed ‘moderate.’

Now, we have already seen that even intense fighting between Hamas and Fatah can result in zero wounded. Notice how the fighting is reported towards the end of January:

“Neither side is using all of its firepower because they are giving coalition talks another chance and because they fear risking defeat in an all-out confrontation, said Mouin Rabbani, a Jordan-based analyst for the International Crisis Group, an independent think tank.”[23]

So the fighting is restrained. This is the pattern throughout. And there are repeated truces, and even announcements of an impending unity government. Then they go back to pinprick fighting. Almost civilized. This means that neither side is seriously depleted. Since the 'hostilities' are used as an excuse for outside powers to arm both sides to the teeth, it follows that, if the fight is eventually decided without a very big clash, the amount of weaponry in both Gaza and the West Bank will have increased tremendously.

Should the ‘fight’ be decided without an actual battle, therefore, we may conclude that it is indeed a phony, there merely to consolidate forces under unified commands in both Gaza and the West Bank, preserving the theater of a supposed rivalry, and also the theater of a ‘moderate’ Fatah. From this point of view the sprinkling of killings that do take place may be nothing more than the Hamas and Fatah leaderships using each other’s forces to conduct high-level purges in order to streamline the leadership in advance of a major attack against Israel.

Lo and behold, the fighting in Gaza is decided without an actual battle, and Hamas takes over.

The battle that never was
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The New York Post expresses in amazement:

“Fatah had some 60,000 armed men in Gaza, a strip of land covering some 65 square miles. It also had heavy cannons and rocket-propelled grenades, which Hamas lacked. Yet even Fatah’s four chief bases of al-Hawa, al-Muntadam, Sarayah and al-Safineh, claimed to be impregnable, fell in just a few hours, as their defenders fled.”[24]

Not only that. In January the press was explaining that “the security forces loyal to Fatah in Gaza still outnumber the Hamas militia by several thousand.”[25] They were not exaggerating but understating: if “Fatah had some 60,000 armed men in Gaza” and “Hamas last year set up its own 5,600-man militia,”[26] then the word “several” is a huge distortion. When speaking of “several thousand” the numbers that come to mind are 5, 6, or 7 thousand. Here the difference is more than 54 thousand in favor of Fatah.

There were almost eleven Fatah soldiers for every Hamas soldier, and Fatah was much better armed. How could Hamas take over so easily?

In an article titled Fatah Never Fought, Charles Levinson, Middle East Correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph has shared on his blog some of his interviews with the Fatah soldiers, conducted before he fled Gaza in a Red Cross aid convoy. What these soldiers say is that they were ordered to give up. For example, 23-year-old Abu Qusay shared his confusion as follows:

“We handed Gaza over to Hamas. We don’t understand why our leaders betrayed us like this. We fought back against orders because if we had followed orders, we would have given ourselves up… [Our leaders] received orders from Abbas to give up bases but some military commanders couldn’t accept this.”

Abu al Majd, another 23-year-old fighter, corroborated those statements as follows:

“It was a story of surrender. The bases were given up. I feel psychologically destroyed. It really hurt. I understood that there was an order to evacuate the bases. We were betrayed.”

Levinson explains further:

“The presidential guard were the most highly trained and professional soldiers in the security services’ ranks and they were dismayed when rudimentary and repeatedly drilled steps to respond to the Hamas onslaught were never taken.

No state of emergency was ever declared, curfews were never imposed, no contingency counter attack plans were ever drawn up, heavy weapons were never mounted on the roofs of the security bases, and extra ammo stocks were never dragged out of storage.”[27]

The consequence
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This is the key point: Because the Fatah soldiers were ordered to give up, all their arms and ammunition, and all those heavy weapons that Hamas didn’t have, Hamas now has.

As World Net Daily explains, “the U.S. in recent years reportedly transferred large quantities of weaponry to build up Fatah forces against rival Hamas.” According to what Hamas members told WND, they have seized “hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. weaponry and equipment” from Fatah -- in fact, over $400 million, Hamas said.[28] So the United States ruling elite has armed Hamas, indirectly, via the cover story that Fatah are the supposed ‘moderates’ who must be armed against the ‘real extremists’ in Hamas, plus the theater of a supposed rivalry between Hamas and Fatah that was decided without an actual fight. Those are US weapons that Hamas will now use against ordinary Israelis.

Under the cover story that Hamas are the ‘real extremists’ it made perfect sense for the Israeli government, as soon as the compound fell into Hamas’s hands, to bomb “Fatah’s major Ansar complex, where American-provided weapons were delivered and stored.”[29] And under the hypothesis that the US is an ally of Israel, the US government should have supported this. But this is not what happened. What happened instead is that the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that he would “stay out of Gaza,” and the US president supported him.[30]

What happened, therefore, is not consistent with the hypothesis of a US ruling elite allied with the Israeli Jews, or with the hypothesis of an Israeli ruling elite loyal to the Israeli Jews. It is consistent with a different hypothesis.

This alternative hypothesis says: 1) that the US ruling elite is an enemy of ordinary Jews in the Middle East; and 2) that the Israeli ruling elite collaborates with the US-led attack on ordinary Jews in the Middle East. If the first point surprises you, please consult HIR’s documentation of US foreign policy toward Israel and the Jews since the 1930s.[31] If the second point surprises you, then allow me to point out that the Jewish ruling elite allied with the enemies of the Jews during the Greco-Macedonian and Roman terrorist -- in fact, genocidal -- onslaughts against the ancient Jews.[32] Many upper-class Jewish converts to Christianity allied with the attacks against the Jews during the Middle Ages.[33] The same happened in the 19th c., when the assimilated, upper-class maskilim, leaders of their self-proclaimed ‘Jewish Enlightenment,’ allied with the efforts of European governments to destroy Jewish religious practice.[34] In the 20th c., the Jewish ruling elites: 1) banded together to sabotage a boycott of Nazi Germany that almost destroyed Hitler right after he took power[35]; 2) sabotaged the defense of the Jews during the Holocaust[36]; and 3) Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, and Moshe Sharett (Shertok), hailed as great founding fathers of the Israeli state, were in fact responsible for the murder of 800,000 Hungarian Jews, as demonstrated at a trial in Jerusalem, in the 1950s, that the government of these three characters -- despite using the resources of the state to fight the accusations of a penniless old man -- lost.[37] The architect of the Oslo mess in Israel is the current Israeli president, Shimon Peres, a protégé of David Ben-Gurion; Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister, has been an enthusiastic promoter of Shimon Peres’s policies.[38]

Hamas in Gaza now has a unified and much better equipped force with which to attack the Israeli Jews. There is the mutual buildup during all the months of ‘fighting,’ and now all of that build up, on both sides, is essentially intact in Hamas’s hands. Meanwhile, this is again an excuse for the Western powers to rapidly strengthen further the military capabilities of Al Fatah in the West Bank! (Don’t you just love this?)

“The United States will continue financing the Palestinian Authority’s presidential guard, which is loyal to PA President Mahmoud Abbas…officials in Washington said.”[39]

Ehud Olmert of course announces that this in no way endangers his planned evacuation of the Jews from the West Bank. Why should it? The first evacuation worked out so well (just look at Gaza).

“Olmert said that the new reality in the PA might present a new opportunity for political progress as Israel would consider a Palestinian government without Hamas as a legitimate partner for future talks.”[40]

Why? Because Mahmoud Abbas and Fatah are the good guys, remember? So Mahmoud Abbas outlaws Hamas in the West Bank, and right away the embargo is lifted and Al Fatah starts receiving the Western millions again (which in fact never ceased because the fighting was Bush’s reason to send his millions during the ‘embargo’).[41]

We also hear that “US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert both gave strong backing to the cabinet appointed by moderate president Mahmud Abbas after Hamas’s takeover of Gaza.”[42] (I remind you that the “moderate president Mahmoud Abbas” is heir to Hajj Amin al Husseini, great architect of the German Nazi Final Solution, the greatest genocide of the Jewish people in absolute terms -- it really is important not to lose sight of that).

As if US support for Fatah were not enough, the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS explains that Moscow views with approval “the Israeli intention to...transfer some of the tax and customs revenues to the Palestinian National Authority, release 250 Palestinians from custody [read: Arab terrorists who had been jailed for participating in the murder of innocent Jews], and remove a number of checkpoints [whose purpose is to prevent Arab terrorists from murdering innocent Jews].”[43]

And Olmert is even considering releasing a multitude of Hamas prisoners in exchange for one captured Israeli soldier, which will of course teach the terrorists that they should kidnap more Israeli soldiers.[43a]

The official point of the Oslo ‘peace’ process is that Israel makes territorial (and other) concessions in exchange for the Arabs abandoning their effort to ‘destroy Israel’ (= exterminate the Jews). This is how Israeli leaders sold the Oslo process to the Israeli Jews. It is important always to keep this in mind when passing judgment over the behavior of Israeli leaders, because the antisemitic terrorist organizations have clearly not abandoned their genocidal goals, and yet Israeli leaders have continued to make one concession after another, literally as if they were in the pay of the enemy.[44]

The new Defense Minister of the Jewish State is Ehud Barak, who, while he was Israeli prime minister some years ago, offered to give everything to the antisemitic terrorists essentially for nothing (but the terrorists needed more).[45] The ‘opposition’ is personified by Benjamin Netanyahu, who, when he was prime minister, offered to give everything to the antisemitic terrorists in exchange essentially for nothing (but the terrorists needed more).[46] This is no opposition. Consider: It appears that Olmert will allow PLO terrorists now stationed in Jordan to come into the West Bank, using the cover story that these troops are needed to prevent a Hamas takeover in the West Bank as well.[46a] Who provided the political cover for this? ‘Opposition’ leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been calling for Ehud Olmert “to bring thousands of Jordanian soldiers into Israel to strengthen Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas.”[47] Check mate. It matters not which ‘leader’ ordinary Jews support, they will be burned. Manhigut Yehudit, a large faction within Likud, has at least denounced Netanyahu. Better than nothing. But even Manhigut Yehudit does not tell the Israelis the truth about Al Fatah and Mahmoud Abbas: that this organization is the continuation of Hajj Amin al Husseini’s German Nazi Final Solution.[48]

The Jews are leaderless. And, once again, their ‘leaders’ are leading them to slaughter.

Gaza is now ready for Egypt’s genocidal assault. It remains to prepare the West Bank so that Jordan and Saudi Arabia -- also armed to the teeth by the US[49] -- can attack from there, and Netanyahu is already pushing for this outcome. Once that is achieved, all that will remain is for the US government to pull its troops from Iraq, and everything will be ready. If you want a countdown, that's it: the US withdrawal. Because, you see, the invasion of Iraq has given Iraq to Iran (the US ruling elite really is very consistent). Iran already controls Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Syria, so once the US troops leave, Iran will have a land corridor going all the way to the northern border of Israel. They will hardly need to wait for nuclear capability.

Don’t wait for the US to attack Iran. As HIR predicted a long time ago, this is not going to happen.[50]

We have, then, that the forces that wish to destroy Israel staged a fight between Hamas and Fatah so that they could consolidate an enormous amount of weaponry in Gaza under a unified leadership, ready to launch Egypt’s final genocidal assault against Israel. This theater has represented the PLO, once again, as the ‘moderates,’ and this has become a renewed excuse to arm the PLO to the teeth in the West Bank, where it has consolidated its forces under a unified leadership and renewed, massive Western and Israeli funding. The chessboard is now almost ready for another great mass killing of Jews, a very stable process of Western and Muslim civilization, for such events have been happening repeatedly with great regularity for over two millennia.

We are due for another one.

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Footnotes and Further Reading
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[1] http://www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm

[1a] “GRAND THEATER: THE US, THE PLO, AND THE AYATOLLAH KHOMEINI: Why did the US government, in 1979, delegate to the PLO the task of negotiating the safety of American hostages at the US embassy in Tehran?”; Historical and Investigative Research; 10 Dec 2005; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/iraniraq/plo-iran.htm

In 1994, as the Oslo ‘Peace’ Process got started, the man supposedly in charge of keeping the PLO’s promises to go after the terrorists was Jibril Rajoub, because he was the head of the PLO’s security service. But would he do it? From the beginning, Jibril Rajoub made it perfectly clear -- in public, in English, to the Western press -- that he would not.

You see, Jibril Rajoub has a brother, “Nayef Rajoub, [who] is a 35-year-old prayer leader aligned with the militant Islamic Hamas organization.”(a) That quotation comes from a 1994 Associated Press wire entitled “Brothers Swear Off Violence.” Were the brothers jointly swearing off violence against Israel? Not at all. They were swearing off violence against each other.

“Nayef Rajoub said he would be willing to cooperate with the Palestinian authority his brother represents, if Hamas is permitted to act as an opposition.

He wants to stage demonstrations against the autonomy agreement, to hold rallies and make mosque speeches, and to continue to fight against Israelis, including with violence.”

The words “including with violence” carry an obvious specific meaning. Nayef Rajoub, with Hamas, was explaining to the Associated Press that he didn’t expect his brother’s PLO security service to get any trouble from Hamas so long as the PLO allowed Hamas to go on killing innocent Israeli civilians. The same AP wire reported that:

“His brother [Jibril Rajoub] said his forces will not fire at Islamic activists…

‘To think that Palestinians will attack Palestinians is a rotten idea,’ Jibril Rajoub said. ‘We are not outsiders.’”

Given that his brother Nayef Rajoub is a leader of “Islamic activists,” why doubt Jibril Rajoub’s sincerity that he means no harm to “Islamic activists”? But what is the likelihood that Jibril Rajoub is sincere when he says, in his capacity as a top PLO official, that the idea “that Palestinians will attack Palestinians is a rotten idea”?

To help answer that question, consider this news item from 1992, immediately before the Oslo Process gave formal authority to the PLO over the lives of Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza:

“On Tuesday the body of a 30-year-old [Arab] mother of seven was dumped outside her home in Rafah refugee camp [in Gaza]. She gave birth to twins two months ago. PLO ‘Black Panthers’ claimed responsibility.

On June 7, after a wave of protests over the slaughter of dozens of alleged [Palestinian Arab] collaborators, supporters of HAMAS and the main PLO faction Fatah distributed in Gaza the text of a ‘charter of honor.’

A key element of the accord was a call to regulate the killing of collaborators through reference to the highest levels of the Palestinian leadership in the territories. The murder of innocents was condemned.

The [Israeli] army says more than 85 Palestinians on the Gaza Strip have been murdered as collaborators so far this year [this is in June] - adding that most were not collaborators.”(b)

The degree of cooperation between Hamas and the PLO, the supposed rivals, when it comes to extra-judicial murders directed against ordinary Palestinian Arabs is striking: they wanted “to regulate the killing of collaborators through reference to the highest levels of the Palestinian leadership in the territories.” What the PLO and Hamas mean by “collaborators” is of course people who want to live in peace with their Jewish neighbors, and who assist the Israeli government in their efforts to defeat organizations devoted to the killing of innocent Jewish men, women, and children.

Of course, the PLO and Hamas also kill anybody who disagrees with them in any way, for any reason. These organizations daily brutalize and extort Arab civilians (and, not insignificantly, they destroy innocent Arab children by using them as human bombs). All of which is consistent with the Israeli claim that “most [of those killed] were not collaborators.” Are the Israelis right? Well, consider that there was “a wave of protests over the slaughter of dozens of alleged collaborators.” That was Arab civilians protesting. Consider also that, according to a 1993 report by the human rights organization B’tselem (no friend of Israel), “between 750 and 950 Palestinians ‘suspected of collaboration’ with Israeli authorities have been killed by Palestinian activists since the beginning of the intifada” and that “less than 50 percent of those killed for suspicion of collaborating with Israel were actually working with Israeli authorities.”(c)

In January 2007, as the ‘fighting’ between Hamas and Fatah was already on, Nayef Rajoub was referred to in the press as “Hamas leader Sheikh Nayef Rajoub.”(d) Meanwhile, his brother,“senior West Bank Fatah official Jibril Rajoub,” after Fatah’s Col. Mohammed Ghayeb and his six bodyguards were murdered, said this: “Our battle with Hamas is not a battle of assassination, kidnapping or revenge. Our battle with Hamas is a democratic moral battle.” He added: “Our battle is with the occupation, not with each other.” Top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (at the time Prime Minister of the PA), meanwhile, “urged Palestinians not to let the violence spill over to the West Bank and to focus on fighting against Israel.” This was after an “urgent meeting” between Haniyeh and Abbas in which “the two sides agreed to pull back their forces.” Rather than calling for revenge, the Fatah leadership merely said that “there would be no further attempts at reconciliation between the movements until the killers were brought to justice.” Mind you, the attack against Mohammed Ghayeb and his bodyguards was “the bloodiest single battle in weeks of factional fighting in the Gaza Strip,” so the battles haven’t been too bloody, and look: this one, the bloodiest battle, resulted in reduced tension.(e) To me it seems that the Hamas and Fatah leadership wanted to get rid of Mohammed Ghayeb, and they turned his execution into part of the theater of their ‘fight.’

SOURCES:

(a) The Associated Press, May 19, 1994, Thursday, AM cycle, International News, 629 words, Brothers Swear Off Violence - For Now, By SAID GHAZALI, Associated Press Writer, DURA, West Bank

(b) Agence France Presse -- English, June 16, 1992, News, 854 words, War on collaborators flares up, GAZA CITY

(c) Rights group says up to 950 Palestinian collaborators killed, United Press International, January 9, 1994, Sunday, BC cycle, International, 430 words, JERUSALEM

An Israeli human rights organization said Sunday between 750 and 950 Palestinians ‘‘suspected of collaboration’’ with Israeli authorities have been killed by Palestinian activists since the beginning of the intifada, the Palestinian uprising.

The B’tselem organization issued the first detailed study of human rights violations against Palestinians by other Palestinians under Israeli occupation. B’tselem officials said in addition to those killed on suspicion of collaboration, thousands more were tortured.

(…)

The new report said the tortures and killings of collaborators ‘‘constitute gross violations of basic human rights.’’ It said less than 50 percent of those killed for suspicion of collaborating with Israel were actually working with Israeli authorities.

Many ‘‘collaborators’’ were in fact executed for being ‘‘moral offenders,’’ such as homosexuals, drug dealers and criminals whose behavior was unacceptable to Palestinian activist groups.

B’tselem found the fundamentalist Hamas group overtly supported the killings, while Palestine Liberation Organization leaders spoke out publicly against the killings but did not take the necessary measures to prevent them.

(d) The America terrorists never see, USA TODAY, January 23, 2007 Tuesday, FINAL EDITION, NEWS; Pg. 11A, 947 words, Dinesh D’Souza

(e) Fatah members mourn 7 killed in Hamas attack; Hamas urges restraint, The Associated Press, January 5, 2007 Friday 4:08 PM GMT, INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 912 words, By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer, GAZA CITY Gaza Strip

[3] Arnaldez, R. 1962. "La guerre sainte selon Ibn Hasm de Cordoue," in Études d’Orientalism dediees a la memoire de Levi-Provençal, vol. 2, pp. 445-59. Paris: Masionneuve and Larose.

Reproduced in: Bostom, A. G. 2005. The legacy of jihad. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. (pp,.267-81). Translation by Michel J. Miller. (on the topic of lying to infidels, consult pages 278-79).

For a thorough exposition of Muslim attitudes toward non-Muslims, visit:

“The religion of peace?: What, exactly, is ‘moderate Islam’?”; from THE CULTURE OF ISLAM, An HIR Series; Historical and Investigative Research; 10 January 2007; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/islam/culture01.htm

[4] “the Gaza Security and Protections unit [has been] nicknamed the ‘death squad’ by Palestinians”

SOURCE: Associated Press Online, November 27, 2004 Saturday, INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 991 words, Palestinian Security Unit to Be Disbanded, IBRAHIM BARZAK; Associated Press Writer, GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip

[5] “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A Chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally.htm

[6] "What is the problem with the Israeli ruling elite? Is it stupidity? Or is it something else?"; THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, an HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 12 September 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders3.htm

[7] Abbas meets with Palestinian leaders after declaring coalition talks at "dead end", The Associated Press, December 1, 2006 Friday 3:40 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 729 words, By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer, RAMALLAH West Bank

[8] After failure of unity talks, showdown between Abbas, Hamas intensifies; talk of early elections, Associated Press Worldstream, December 2, 2006 Saturday 1:12 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 660 words, By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer, RAMALLAH West Bank

[9] “EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said the collapse of unity government talks took with them any hopes of ending the international economic sanctions on the Palestinian government. After meeting with Abbas, Solana accused Hamas of missing its opportunity to form a unity government. ‘Very sadly, I have to say the chance has been lost,’ he told reporters.”

SOURCE: After failure of unity talks, showdown between Abbas, Hamas intensifies; talk of early elections, Associated Press Worldstream, December 2, 2006 Saturday 1:12 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 660 words, By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer, RAMALLAH West Bank

[10] “The Palestinian parliament was set to vote in a long-awaited unity government Saturday amid hopes it will end a turbulent year of deadly power struggles, international isolation and economic hardship.”

SOURCE: Palestinians to vote in new unity government, Agence France Presse -- English, March 17, 2007 Saturday 9:28 AM GMT, , 470 words, Adel Zaanoun, GAZA CITY, March 17 2007

[11] Hamas supremo blames US for unity talks breakdown, Agence France Presse -- English, December 8, 2006 Friday 7:18 PM GMT, , 313 words, DAMASCUS, Dec 8 2006

[12] Gunbattles break out between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza City, Nablus, The Associated Press, December 22, 2006 Friday 9:49 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 620 words, By DIAA HADID, Associated Press Writer, GAZA CITY Gaza Strip

[13] Israel releasing $100 million to Abbas before his unity talks with Hamas, The Associated Press, January 18, 2007 Thursday 11:40 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 812 words, By MARK LAVIE, Associated Press Writer, JERUSALEM

[14] Newsday (New York, NY), September 8, 2002 Sunday, NASSAU AND SUFFOLK EDITION, Pg. A05, 1333 words, WEST BANK; Inside the Crucible; An occasional series on te Israel-Palestine conflict; Militia Goes More Quietly; Al-Aqsa changes tactics after losses, By Matthew McAllester. MIDDLE EAST CORRESPONDENT

[15] After Yasser Arafat died, the Fatah terrorists who publicly cried against ‘peace’ and promised to go on killing innocent Israelis were precisely those most eager to see Mahmoud Abbas succeed Yasser Arafat as Fatah chief.

An Associated Press wire dated 27 November 2004 reports that:

“. . .in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus, about 1,000 Palestinians -- including scores of armed, masked militants affiliated with Fatah -- demonstrated for the continuation of the uprising.

The demonstrators also declared their support for Mahmoud Abbas, the new head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Fatah’s candidate in Jan. 9 presidential elections.”(a)

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade branch of Fatah was passionate, taking Abbas’s side vociferously when it seemed like Marwan Barghouti, another Fatah leader, might seek the post:

“Abbas already has been nominated as Fatah’s presidential candidate, so Barghouti must run as an independent. But as a leading Fatah member, he would likely undermine Abbas’ prospects. . . Zakaria Zubeidi, the 29-year-old West Bank leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a violent group linked to Fatah, said he would back Abbas. ‘Barghouti. . .should resign from Fatah,’ he told the Associated Press.”(b)

SOURCES:

(a) Associated Press Online, November 27, 2004 Saturday, INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 991 words, Palestinian Security Unit to Be Disbanded, IBRAHIM BARZAK; Associated Press Writer, GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip.

(b) Barghouti Seeking Palestinian Presidency, Associated Press Online, December 1, 2004 Wednesday, INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 836 words, MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH; Associated Press Writer, RAMALLAH, West Bank

[16] THUS FAR AND NO FATAH FOR MR PALESTINE; Resistance is growing within the PLO over Yasser Arafat and the Israeli peace process, The Guardian (London), November 12, 1993, THE GUARDIAN FEATURES PAGE; Pg. 24, 1204 words, DAVID HIRST

[17] Please consult the section entitled:

“Hajj Amin al Husseini, leader of the ‘Palestinian movement,’ becomes an architect of Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution, and then continues the extermination effort beyond the World War, helping create Al Fatah, the controlling core of the PLO”

in the following piece:

“How did the ‘Palestinian movement’ emerge? The British sponsored it. Then the German Nazis, and the US”; from UNDERSTANDING THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT; An HIR Series, in four parts; Historical and Investigative Research; 13 June 2006; by Francisco Gil-White
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov4.htm#final_solution

[18] In bloody equation, Fatah retaliates in West Bank for Hamas attacks in Gaza , The Associated Press, January 7, 2007 Sunday 8:00 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 937 words, By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, RAMALLAH West Bank

[19] “DEBKAfile Exclusive: Sudden Egyptian decision to lift anti-Hamas blockade of Gaza, day after condemning Hamas Gaza takeover as illegal coup”; DEBKA File; June 24, 2007, 1:19 PM (GMT+02:00).
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4343

[20] LANTOS’ BILL ON EGYPT FUNDING REJECTED; LAWMAKER SOUGHT TO SHIFT MILITARY AID TO ECONOMIC NEEDS, The San Francisco Chronicle, JULY 16, 2004, FRIDAY, FINAL EDITION, NEWS;, Pg. A10, 652 words, Edward Epstein, Washington.

FULL TEXT BELOW:

The House defeated Rep. Tom Lantos’ latest effort at Middle East policy making on Thursday, turning aside his proposal to convert $570 million in military aid to Egypt into economic help for the largest Arab nation that he says has no foreign enemy but faces grueling poverty.

The San Mateo Democrat said it has been wasteful for the United States to pump about $30 billion in military aid into Egypt over the past 20 years when Egypt is at peace with its neighbors and hasn’t cooperated extensively with U.S. military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“If Egypt isn’t going to support us militarily, we can nevertheless serve the interests of the Egyptian people and of our own national interests, by supporting health, education and economic development programs that contribute to the civility of Egypt. We can do this by correcting our own mistaken priorities in Egyptian foreign aid,” Lantos told the House as it debated a $19.4 billion foreign operations appropriations bill.

But Lantos’ proposal was defeated 287-131.

Egypt, a nation of 76 million, has a per capita income of $3,900, compared with $38,000 in the United States. It receives $1.8 billion a year in U.S. economic and military aid, $1.3 billion of that for the military, a package that makes Egypt and its neighbor Israel among the top recipients of American help. The two countries have been in that position since their U.S.-brokered 1979 peace agreement.

Israel is scheduled to get $2.6 billion in economic and military aid under the bill. Of that amount, $360 million is economic help.

Economic aid to both countries is being phased out over 10 years under current U.S. policy. Lantos argues the approach should be reversed for Egypt.

“We should no longer have to pay the Egyptian military political protection money to keep it in place. The biggest threat to Egyptian stability is its bloated military budget, which undermines economic and political development and democratization,” said Lantos, one of Israel’s strongest congressional supporters.

But the Bush administration opposed Lantos, who authored a bill enacted last year that allowed the president to invoke sanctions against Syria if it didn’t end support for terrorism. The State Department sent a letter of opposition to House members, and White House legislative aides lobbied just off the House floor during the debate.

Opponents of Lantos’ proposal said it would be counterproductive to cut military aid to Egypt just as the United States, Israel and Egypt are engaged in quiet talks on how to facilitate Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s proposal to withdraw all Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip. Lantos has blasted Egypt for not doing enough to end the smuggling of arms into Gaza by Palestinian forces.

“One of the only stabilizing factors in the unstable Middle East is America’s relationship with Egypt,” said Rep. Bill Young, R-Fla., the Appropriations Committee chairman. “Any change to this assistance account would undermine that relationship.”

Young said that in addition to helping with Gaza, the Egyptian government of President Hosni Mubarak is working to alleviate the situation in southern Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their homes in a case of reputed ethnic cleansing, and has provided limited but vital support for U.S. military operations.

Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., said he normally would prefer economic over military aid, but Lantos’ plan “would be counterproductive.”

“It is in Israel’s best interests to maintain the best relations we can with our friends in the Middle East,” Obey said, pointing out that Egypt will be expected to facilitate the Gaza withdrawal and train Palestinian police to take control of the densely populated seaside pocket of land between Israel and Egypt.

[21] Gunfight between Hamas and Fatah forces mars launch of new plan to bring quiet to Gaza, The Associated Press, May 10, 2007 Thursday 6:29 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 445 words, By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer, GAZA CITY Gaza Strip

[22] "Al Fatah's Nazi training was CIA-sponsored"; Historical and Investigative Research; 22 July 2007; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cia-fatah.htm

[22a] In bloody equation, Fatah retaliates in West Bank for Hamas attacks in Gaza , The Associated Press, January 7, 2007 Sunday 8:00 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 937 words, By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, RAMALLAH West Bank

[23] .No clear winner emerging from Hamas-Fatah fight as hopes linger for political settlement, The Associated Press, January 29, 2007 Monday 4:22 AM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 947 words, By IBRAHIM BARZAK and SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writers, GAZA CITY Gaza Strip

[24] “Hopeless in Gaza: Can Hamas Actually Rule?”; New York Post; 16 June 2007; by Amir Taheri.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06162007/postopinion/
opedcolumnists/hopeless_in_gaza_opedcolumnists_amir_taheri.htm?page=1

[25] In bloody equation, Fatah retaliates in West Bank for Hamas attacks in Gaza , The Associated Press, January 7, 2007 Sunday 8:00 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 937 words, By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, RAMALLAH West Bank

[26] No clear winner emerging from Hamas-Fatah fight as hopes linger for political settlement, The Associated Press, January 29, 2007 Monday 4:22 AM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 947 words, By IBRAHIM BARZAK and SARAH EL DEEB, Associated Press Writers, GAZA CITY Gaza Strip

[27] “Fatah never fought”; Conflict Blotter; June 19th, 2007; by Charles Levinson.
http://conflictblotter.com/2007/06/19/fatah-never-fought/

[28] FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU; “Hamas lists seized U.S. weapons; Claims over $400 million in munitions, equipment taken from compounds”; June 20, 2007; 1:00 a.m. Eastern; By Aaron Klein.; WorldNetDaily.com
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56262

[29] See previous footnote.

[30] Israel Decides to Stay Out of Gaza, Associated Press Online, June 14, 2007 Thursday 8:40 PM GMT, , INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 700 words, By ARON HELLER, Associated Press Writer, JERUSALEM

[31] “IS THE US AN ALLY OF ISRAEL?: A Chronological look at the evidence”; Historical and Investigative Research; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/hirally.htm

[32] The First and Second Books of Maccabees, ancient Hebrew books that Christians will find included in their Bible, narrate in some detail the genocidal assault of the Greco-Macedonian king Antiochus Epiphanes against the Jews of Judah and surrounding areas. They also cover in considerable detail the manner in which the ancient Jewish ruling class allied with this terrorist attack against ordinary Jews. In fact, the Jewish ruling class led this attack.

In the first and second centuries the Romans carried out a genocide against the ancient Jews that is perhaps greater in proportional terms than what Adolf Hitler did in the 20th c. To read about this ancient Roman genocide against the Jews consult chapter 1 of:

Gil-White, F. J. 2005. The Crux of World History. Volume 1. The Book of Genesis: The birth of the Jewish people: Historical and Investigative Research.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cruxcontents.htm

There was a widespread alliance by members of the Jewish ruling class with the Roman oppressors, so much so that organized groups of Jewish revolutionaries would target members of the ruling class for assassination (the Sicarii).

The following excerpts are from: Horsley, R. A. 1979. The Sicarii: Ancient Jewish "Terrorists". The journal of religion 59:435-458.

“The Sicarii emerged in Jerusalem during the 50s. They received their name from the weapons they used, that is, ‘daggers resembling the scimitars of the Persians in size, but curved and more like the weapons called by the Romans sicae’ (The Jewish Antiquities [herafter cited as Ant.] 20.186). Josephus's accounts of this distinctive group are both precise and consistent.

… Especially during the festivals they would mingle with the crowd, carrying short daggers concealed under their clothing, with which they stabbed their enemies. Then when they fell, the murderers would join in the cries of indignation and, through this plausible behavior, avoided discovery. The first to be assassinated by them was Jonathan the High Priest. After his death, there were numerous daily murders. [BJ (Bellum Judaicum -- The Jewish War) 2.254-561].” -- p.436

“The strategy of the Sicarii was apparently focused on the Jewish ruling groups, the sacerdotal aristocracy, the royal family, and other notables. This is only to be expected in a rationally calculated strategy; for in Jewish Palestine, as elsewhere in the empire, the Romans ruled largely through the upper classes who collaborated in the imperial system.” -- p.445

“In a second and closely related tactic the Sicarii extended their activities from Jerusalem into the countryside where the estates of the pro-Roman gentry were located, eliminating the Jewish notables and destroying their property.” -- p.440

[33] Under violent pressure from the Catholic Church, many Jews converted to Christianity during the Middle Ages. “These new converts were extremely zealous in their efforts to return to their former co-religionists and to convince them of newly discovered truths” (Chazan 1977:829). Some of these new converts became leaders of the Catholic repression against the Jews, a famous example being Pablo Cristiani, responsible for reviving the famous yellow star that Jews were forced to wear, and for policies of forcing Jews to hear Christian sermons in France (Roth 1950:143, fn. 41). It was another Jewish convert to Christianity who instigated the great burning of the Talmud that took place in Paris in 1243 (Schechter 1892:82).

SOURCES:

Chazan, R. 1977. The Barcelona "Disputation" of 1263: Christian missionizing and Jewish response. Speculum 52:824-842.

Roth, C. 1950. The Disputation of Barcelona (1263). The Harvard theological review 43:117-144.

Schechter, S. 1892. Nachmanides. The Jewish quarterly review 5:78-121.

[34] Consult the section entitled “The push for Jewish assimilation in the 19th century” in the piece:

“The Crisis of 1933: In 1933, ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came within an inch of destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their leaders failed them.”; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 06 May 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders0.htm#assimilation

[35] “The Crisis of 1933: In 1933, ordinary Jews all over the world banded together and came within an inch of destroying the Hitler regime. They did not fail. Their leaders failed them.”; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 06 May 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders0.htm

[36] “How the mainstream Jewish leadership failed the Jewish people in World War II”; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 17 Jan 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders1.htm

[37] “The responsibility of the mainstream (Labor Zionist) Israeli leaders during the Shoah (‘Holocaust’)”; from THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, An HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research ; 21 February 2007; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders4.htm

[38] "What is the problem with the Israeli ruling elite? Is it stupidity? Or is it something else?"; THE PROBLEM OF JEWISH SELF-DEFENSE, an HIR series; Historical and Investigative Research; 12 September 2006; by Francisco Gil-White.
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/leaders3.htm

[39] “US TO CONTINUE TRAINING ABBAS’ GUARD: State Department spokesperson confirms that US will continue program to train PA’s presidential guard, although training would likely move from Gaza to West Bank”; Y-Net News; Yitzhak Benhorin; 06.15.07, 05:16 / Israel News.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3413190,00.html

[40] “OLMERT: ISRAEL CAN TALK TO A PA WITHOUT HAMAS: En route to Washington PM addresses crisis in Palestinian Authority: ‘We can look at it as a setback but there is a possibility that this is a new opportunity’. New PA situation expected to top agenda in talks with Bush; Y-Net News; Ronny Sofer; 06.17.07, 02:33 / Israel News.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3413671,00.html

[41] “Abbas outlaws Hamas after swearing in emergency gov’t”; By KHALED ABU TOAMEH, JPOST STAFF AND AP RAMALLAH; Jun. 17, 2007 0:36 | Updated Jun. 17, 2007 13:48; Jerusalem Post; JPost.com
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813048270
&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[42] Hamas accuses West of playing politics with aid, Agence France Presse -- English, June 19, 2007 Tuesday 8:00 PM GMT, , 767 words, Adel Zaanoun, GAZA CITY, June 19 2007

[43] Moscow welcomes Mideast quadripartite summit, TASS, June 26, 2

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