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Hamas Marches Forward
January 30, 2008
From theTrumpet.com
Israel has tried to deal with Hamas nonconfrontationally. The result: Its own security alliance with Egypt is threatened, and Hamastan has tripled in size.
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In his State of the Union speech Monday night, President Bush said this: “Our foreign policy is based on a clear premise: We trust that people, when given the chance, will choose a future of freedom and peace.”
Hamas never got the memo.
The Iranian-backed terrorist group—which Palestinians put into power two years ago in free elections, and which violently seized the Gaza Strip and transformed it into a terrorist fortress—has just effectively tripled its base of operations.
Last week, in a coordinated attack, Hamas blew open the border with Egypt and set up shop in northern Sinai.
The feat was huge. In a swoop, Hamas markedly increased its threat not only to Israel, but also to the current Egyptian government. It also shifted the regional balance of power yet deeper into Tehran’s ambit.
Hamas officials revealed that the demolition had been long planned. Operatives were cutting through the heavy metal border blockade for months, preparing for a sequence of bomb explosions that would bring it down in an instant. Hamas also “minutely planned” the subsequent flooding of Gazans into northern Egypt, according to debkafile sources within Egyptian intelligence. The terrorist group had paid $300 to each of the half-million refugees, “which accounts for the shopping spree they could suddenly afford,” debka said (January 29).
The mob included more than just eager shoppers, however. It also held terrorists on a mission. Carrying masses of weapons, they traveled in both directions—into Gaza, and out to specific preordained locations in Egypt.
And patrolmen just sat and watched it all. “Egyptian security men at the border were very passive—they wanted this to happen,” said one terrorist. “They didn’t prevent anything from coming in or going out.”
Why so passive? Interesting story.
Hosni Mubarak’s government had been forewarned about the border bust, and the Egyptian president ordered his troops to let the people through. This mostly reflected his need to appear, in the eyes of his own people, sympathetic to the Palestinians—despite his fear of Hamas’s growing power.
However, wanting to contain the crisis to the Sinai, Mubarak blockaded the Peninsula and the Suez Canal, shutting down shipping and ferry services to the Egyptian mainland. Away from the media glare at the border crossing, in one 24-hour period, Egyptian forces caught 30 Palestinians “on their way to the Suez Canal armed with weapons, explosives and devices for monitoring Egyptian and Israeli security communications,” debka reported.
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