In the wake of the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, the United States said Thursday that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush will now work to prevent the violence from spilling over to the West Bank. The U.S. therefore aims to accelerate the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to allow Abbas to present some achievements.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also intends to tell Bush that Hamas’ coup d’etat must be contained in the Gaza Strip, and not allowed to occur in the West Bank as well, a government official told Haaretz on Thursday.
The American administration is also interested in improving living conditions in the West Bank to demonstrate to the Palestinians that they are better off under Fatah than Hamas.
Washington will urge Israel to reconsider loosening its military grip on the West Bank. Israel will also be requested to unfreeze unfreeze the Palestinian tax funds it has been withholding from the PA. The money and further funding will help boost Abbas’ new emergency government.
Every time Israel “loosens its military grip” on the West Bank, the Palestinians murder Israelis. Two women would-be suicide bombers were just caught by Israeli security services—even as the war was raging in Gaza—and Bush wants Israel to reduce checkpoints?
Twin bombings. Tel Aviv and Netanya.
The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said Wednesday that it thwarted a double suicide attack set for Tel Aviv and Netanya last month, orchestrated by Islamic Jihad and meant to be carried out by two Palestinian women, one of them pregnant.
One of the women, Fatma Zak, 39, a mother of eight in her ninth month of pregnancy, has been director of Islamic Jihad’s women labor department in Gaza City for the past four years. As part of her job, she was in direct contact with senior terrorists and served as a go-between for women interested in becoming suicide bombers.
The second suspect is Zak’s 30-year-old niece, Ruda Habib, a mother of four. Both were arrested by the Shin Bet at the Erez Crossing on May 20, moments before entering Israel.
The two women admitted the plot and confessed to being Islamic Jihad operatives. They said they had used Israel’s humanitarian policy to acquire entrance permits on a false medical pretext.
The women took advantage of Israel’s humanitarian gestures, using them as a pretext to get into Israel so they could mass-murder innocents—as well as the baby growing inside one of them. How depraved do you have to be before you murder your own unborn child while taking out Israeli women and children as well?
These are the people that the Bush Administration think should be allowed to move freely again. Because it works so well every time.
Here’s a better idea for Mahmoud Abbas, the coward who fled Rafah and didn’t have the balls to order his men to fight Hamas: Stick a fork in him. He’s done.
According to Gateway Pundit, Fatah has banned Hamas in the West Bank and will begin tit-for-tat executions if Hamas continues to execute Fatah in Gaza.
So, good luck on containing the violence.