[Jpost] Amid Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, Islamic Jihad...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
calls for 3rd Paleostinian uprising, PA security sources say the West Bank won't be scene of chaos.
The Paleostinian Authority won't allow an intifada against Israel in the West Bank, Paleostinian security sources in Ramallah said on Sunday.
The sources told the London- based Asharq Alawsat newspaper that the West Bank "won't be the scene of chaos to serve any private agendas."
The sources emphasized that despite calls by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, "there is no orientation toward a new intifada in the West Bank."
The paper said that the PA and Fatah view the calls by the two groups "with mistrust and suspicion."
According to the report, the calls by Hamas and Islamic Jihad last weekend for launching a third intifada have fallen on deaf ears in spite of a number of violent incidents that took place in east Jerusalem and some parts of the West Bank.
Hamas opponents have accused the movement of seeking to ignite a third intifada as a way of ridding itself from its crisis in the aftermath of the downfall of the Moslem Brüderbund regime in Egypt.
They said that Hamas is seeking to embarrass the PA leadership in the West Bank by calling on Paleostinians to initiate violent confrontations with Israel.
The sources said that Hamas wants an intifada in the West Bank while it is preventing terror attacks against Israel from the Gazoo Strip.
"The Israelis are sitting in the surroundings of the Gazoo Strip and if Hamas wants it could ignite an intifada there," the sources pointed out.