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| Palestinian group threatens to kill Hamas leaders |
| 2006-10-03 |
| Looks like they're goin to the mattresses... GAZA (Reuters) - Fatah gunmen threatened on Tuesday to kill leaders of the governing Hamas group, escalating a power struggle marked by the worst internal violence in Gaza and the West Bank since the Palestinian Authority was created in 1994. Because this...is the business...we've CHOSEN... Twelve Palestinians have been killed and more than 100 wounded in two days of clashes in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank between the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas. Scorecard! Get ya scorecard here! Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Fatah, said it held Hamas's Damascus-based political chief Khaled Meshaal, Interior Minister Saeed Seyam and senior Interior Ministry official Youssef al-Zahar responsible for the deaths."We in al-Aqsa announce, with all might and frankness, the ruling of the people in the homeland and in the diaspora, to execute the head of the sedition, Khaled Meshaal, Saeed Seyam and Youssef al-Zahar, and we will execute this ruling so those filthy people can be made an example," a statement said. Grrrrrr! Woof! Seeeeeethe! Death to...somebody! Abbas has been locked in an increasingly bitter power struggle with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas over stalled efforts to form a unity government. C'mon, Ismail. Blood's bad for business. Haniyeh, repeating a call for an end to internal violence and a return to talks on a unity government, accused the US of trying to "divide and rule." He urged Arab and Muslim nations "not to be dragged into following the interests and plans" of the U.S. administration. Oh, yeah, Condi's in town. Hopefully, somebody bought her a scorecard. Hamas, which advocates Israel's destruction, defeated Fatah in elections in January. The victory led to a cut-off of Western aid to the Palestinian Authority and deep economic crisis in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank. Elections? We got guns! We doan need no steenkin elections!!! Responding to al-Aqsa's threat against his life, Zahar said it was not representative of the group but the work of "coup seekers who want to achieve what the Occupation (Israel) failed to do -- liquidate Islamists serving the homeland." I knew if the Israeli's gave them enough time that they'd end up eating their own... Hamas legislator Mushir al-Masri said Hamas would "not show mercy" if any of its top officials were targeted. We'll show youze guys! A spokesman for al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Gaza declined to say whether the statement, sent to Reuters, represented the views of the entire group or certain factions. He described the threat as a "natural response" after Seyam ordered his forces to take to the streets of Gaza on Sunday to confront striking policemen demanding overdue salaries. We always threaten to kill people after...anything. It's just "our way"... Clashes between Hamas and Fatah forces quickly erupted and spread in the most serious Palestinian violence since the Palestinian Authority was set up to oversee limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza under interim peace accords with Israel. Tension has been fueled by the government's inability to pay full salaries to its workers, many of them from Fatah, as a result of the Western aid embargo designed to push Hamas to recognize Israel, renounce violence and abide by interim deals. Unpaid hacks with guns leads to no good...film at eleven... Some Fatah leaders have accused Syria, which sponsored an armed rebellion by Palestinian dissidents against then Palestine Liberation Organization chief Yasser Arafat in 1983 in Lebanon, of encouraging Hamas to resist any calls to bend. Yeah. Zippy says you Hamas guy's don't have to take that shit! Curse their mother's mustaches! A top aide to Abbas said on Monday the president was seriously considering the possibility of forming an emergency government, an administration of technocrats or calling early elections to end the crisis with Hamas. Or maybe hitting those secret bank accounts and flying off to Aruba and setting up there. In a separate incident on Tuesday, an Israeli air strike destroyed a metal foundry in the southern Gaza Strip, killing one Palestinian and wounding another, medical staff and residents said. Another tough night in the "metal district"... An Israeli army spokesman said the air strike was aimed at a suspected weapons factory. Israel has frequently targeted buildings it believes are used by militants to make or store rockets. Notify Mutual of Gaza... |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #23 if they keep their promise of killing Hamas leaders---are they entitled to piza? what part of piza Grom? ~~~~ NY pies for me.. |
| Posted by: RD 2006-10-03 22:44 |
| #22 I'd buy some, but not deep dish, and of ephemeral satisfaction.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-03 22:27 |
| #21 Of course, gromgoru -- with slices of pepperoni and Italian pork sausages! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-10-03 21:48 |
| #20 IMO, the question that needs to be addressed here at Rantburg is: if they keep their promise of killing Hamas leaders---are they entitled to piza? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-10-03 20:34 |
| #19 "Going to the mattresses" means secret location while in war with another Family. The term is derived from the temporary war-time hideouts in which the Family's soldiers sleep on mattresses en masse. Source |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-10-03 20:21 |
| #18 I stand corrected - I didn't regret it! ;) Thanks guys, I can now go to my own mattress somewhat enlightened (it's late here) - cheers! Oh, and to remain slightly on topic - it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of 'people'. |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-10-03 20:08 |
| #17 ya know? If you had some internal, say, economy besides foreign aid, you might be able to give everyone the finger. As it is, the EU will suck dick and provide Euros as a symbol of thir dhimmitude, but that won't last. Might think about building....a nation? With an economy, an economic base, and such? The Jooooos were able to do a lot with the tiny portion of Gaza they cultivated, but you....destroyed that, didn't you? Go figure |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-10-03 20:03 |
| #16 Tony: Ok, ignorant limey here, but please, what does 'going to the mattresses' mean? (I know I'm gonna regret this) Here: Meaning Prepare for a battle or adopt a warlike stance. Origin San Miniato al Monte Consider these two tales: In 1530 the combined troops of Charles V and Medici Pope Clement VII lay siege to Florence. The bell tower of San Miniato al Monte was part of the defences. Michelangelo Buonarroti, as he was good at most things, was put in charge of defending the city. He used the ploy of hanging mattresses on the outside of the tower to minimize damage from cannon fire. In times of war or siege, Italian families would vacate their homes and rent apartments in safer areas. In order to protect themselves they would hire soldiers to sleep on the floor in shifts. Ordinarily we would want to verify such stories before publishing them here as part of a phrase derivation. In this case though it isn't really important. The meaning of the phrase turns on the association in Italian folk-memory of mattresses with safety in wartime. The phrase wasn't well known outside of the USA and Italy prior to the Godfather movies. It was used there, and later in The Sopranos television series, to mean 'preparing for battle'. Whether or not the stories that originated it are true doesn't alter the fact that the screenwriters of those films used them in that context. Here's the dialogue from Godfather: Clemenza: That Sonny's runnin' wild. He's thinking of going to the mattresses already. Sonny: No, no, no! No more! Not this time, consiglieri. No more meetings, no more discussions, no more Sollozzo tricks. You give 'em one message: I want Sollozzo. If not, it's all-out war: we go to the mattresses. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-10-03 20:03 |
| #15 Aw shit, Tony. You may not be able to understand my writing. Please change defense to "defence" and honored to "honoured". |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-03 19:55 |
| #14 Mob warfare, Tony. Mattresses used as shields. As seen in The Godfather, The Godfather II, The Godfather III... |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-10-03 19:52 |
| #13 Tony, in 1930 US Gang wars, gunmen would hide out in sparsely furnished houses, having little more than mattresses to sleep on. The expression means the (gang) war is on in earnest. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2006-10-03 19:52 |
| #12 Matresses are often used in shootouts as a layer of defense against incoming gunfire. It is also a decent play on words regarding the time-honored and more worthy saying of "going to the mat" over something worth fighting for, as opposed to these thugs "going to the (much softer) matresses" for their usual lunchtime round of cowardly bloodshed. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-03 19:52 |
| #11 Butter, check. Salt, check. Popcorn, check. Soda, check. Yep, I'm all ready to sit back and watch this civil war get underway! |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-10-03 19:49 |
| #10 Ok, ignorant limey here, but please, what does 'going to the mattresses' mean? (I know I'm gonna regret this) |
| Posted by: Tony (UK) 2006-10-03 19:42 |
| #9 Religion of Peace. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-10-03 19:34 |
| #8 "Palestinian group threatens to kill Hamas leaders" promises, promises |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-10-03 19:26 |
| #7 #6: It's understood. :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-10-03 18:56 |
| #6 Zenster, please add the descriptor "pedofilic" to your rant if you would. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-10-03 18:01 |
| #5 Let's you and him fight. |
| Posted by: Pencilneck 2006-10-03 17:56 |
| #4 Quick, Israel, return all those detained leaders before the shooting starts! |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-10-03 17:51 |
| #3 Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of psychotic genocidal parasitic murderous child-killing shitheads. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-03 17:46 |
| #2 Oh yeah? I dare ya...I double dawg dare ya! |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2006-10-03 17:45 |
| #1 Faster, please! |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-10-03 17:18 |