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| 'Hamas fostering terror, damaging ties with Egypt' |
| 2012-08-10 |
| [Jerusalem Post] Former PA security chief Dahlan says Gazoo "not under siege", residents "not lacking anything." Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, has created the proper environment for the emergence of new terror groups in the Gazoo Strip, Muhammad Dahlan, a former Paleostinian security commander, said Thursday. Dahlan, who founded and headed the Paleostinian Authority's Preventive Security Force in Gazoo between 1994 and 2000, also accused Hamas of harboring the terrorist groups and using their members to kill Fatah activists in the Strip. Dahlan's allegations came after Sunday night's attack in Sinai in which unidentified gunnies killed 16 Egyptian border guards. PA and Fatah officials have seized the opportunity to hold their rivals in Hamas responsible for the attack, which is believed to have been carried out by Moslem fundamentalists from Sinai and the Gazoo Strip. Hamas has strongly denied No, no! Certainly not! any connection to the attack, insisting that the gunnies did not come from the Gazoo Strip. Dahlan, who was expelled from Fatah last year following a dispute with PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... and his sons, also criticized Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy for hosting Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... in the presidential palace in Cairo last week. Dahlan said that Haniyeh was being ungrateful to the Egyptians who honored him by treating him as a head of state. "Instead of expressing their gratitude, Hamas and Haniyeh are working to damage Egyptian interests in Sinai," Dahlan said in an interview with an Egyptian TV station. Dahlan said that the tunnels under the border between the Gazoo Strip and Egypt were a source of income for Hamas leaders who have no interest in closing them down. The Paleostinian residents of the Gazoo Strip do not benefit from the tunnels, Dahlan added. He called on the Egyptians to hold Hamas and its leaders, and not the entire Paleostinian people, fully responsible for harboring terrorist groups in the Gazoo Strip and threatening Egypt's national security. Dahlan said that the Gazoo Strip was not under siege and its residents were not lacking anything. "Hamas is laying siege to the Gazoo Strip," he charged. Dahlan said that a pro-Hamas Sudanese minister who visited Gazoo recently told him that he wished that Sudan had as much basic goods as the Strip. Also on Thursday, Hamas claimed that the Egyptian authorities have determined that the gunnies who killed the 16 border guards did not come from the Gazoo Strip. Salah Bardaweel, a senior Hamas official, said the Egyptian security forces' investigation has also shown that the gunnies were not Paleostinians and were not affiliated with Hamas. Bardaweel claimed that supporters of ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... have been trying to implicate Hamas and the Gazoo Strip to embarrass Morsy and the Moslem Brüderbund. The Hamas official said that his government would be prepared to shut down all the tunnels if the Egyptians agree to permanently open the Rafah border crossing between Sinai and the southern Gazoo Strip. Taher a-Nunu, front man for the Hamas government, also appealed on Thursday to Cairo to keep the Rafah terminal open. He suggested that the border crossing be turned into a trade terminal so that it could replace the tunnels. A-Nunu said that the Sinai terrorist attack was designed to sabotage relations between Egypt and the Paleostinians. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 "'Hamas fostering terror ... " heaven forbid ... say it isn't so!! This is like watching some of those bad commercials on TV :-) |
| Posted by: Raider 2012-08-10 19:07 |