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2019-03-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Islamic Jihad is the real threat from Gaza
From Friday.
[Ynet] While Israel is busy negotiating ways to calm tensions in the coastal enclave, it would do well to pay attention to the organization that does not listen to Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, and is only trying to make the situation worse.

Islamic Jihad was responsible for most of the rocket, anti-tank missiles and sniper attacks carried out in recent months against Israel.
On Tuesday morning, a delegation of Egyptian intelligence officers arrived at Ben-Gurion Airport, headed by the chief of the "Paleostine Department," General Omar Halfi. The group of Israeli officers waiting for them drove them directly to the Defense Ministry's Tel Aviv headquarters for talks with the upper echelons of the defense establishment, in an attempt to find a way to reduce the growing tensions in the Gazoo Strip, ahead of an kaboom of violence.

The Egyptians came up with a list of Israeli commitments to improve living conditions in Gazoo: water, electricity, expanding fishing areas, increasing the amount of goods coming from Israel, and so on. But the following day, when the Egyptians went to Gazoo with the Israeli proposals in hand, it became clear that they were insufficient.

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And so Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
's envoy to the region, Mohammed al-Emadi, found himself summoned to the region on Wednesday because Hamas demanded an increase in Gazoo's monthly Qatari stipend from $15 million to $20 million. It also emerged that the planned work that the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
was supposed to organize in the Gazoo Strip had yet to begin.

And so the Egyptians went to Gazoo on Wednesday with a partial package. Last week, they tried to do their bit to ease tensions by releasing eight Hamas prisoners, but contrary to expectations, Hamas did not use this release to hold mass celebrations that would highlight the achievements of the organization's leadership. What Hamas wants is water and power, and it wants them now. It is demanding the immediate activation of Israel's Electric Corporation's plan to supply electricity to Gazoo.

The impact of the last round of Egyptian mediation efforts will be seen in the weekend protests at the Israel-Gazoo border fence: If the violence escalates, Gazoo will not accept the Israeli-Egyptian proposal to calm the situation. If the tensions remain at their current levels, there is still room for compromise. At the moment, both sides are one step away from the abyss. One small trigger, and we will find ourselves in a real conflict.

This fragile situation also has another major factor that could up-end the entire table: It appears that for now Israel and Hamas in Gazoo have a common enemy: Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem 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...
Islamic Jihad was responsible for most of the rocket, anti-tank missiles and sniper attacks carried out in recent months against Israel. Its leaders, who are hiding in the Dahiya neighborhood of Beirut under the leadership of deputy secretary-general Ziad al-Nahla, have decided to renew military activity from the Gazoo Strip. The organization's representatives in Gazoo also stopped coordinating their military activities with Hamas, as part of a joint war room set up by all the terrorist organizations in the Strip.

And so Hamas today finds itself facing off against an intransigent organization that acts in contravention to its agenda. Islamic Jihad is making sure to carry out its military provocations on the days when Hamas is conducting some sort of dialogue with Israel or with Egypt regarding arrangements in the Strip - and when they attack, Israel retaliates with attacks on Hamas installations.

One can make the fair assumption that if there are any signs of any constructive progress between Israel and Hamas towards the end of the week, Islamic Jihad will try to sabotage it. It is enough for one mercenary sniper to hit one Israeli for Gazoo to burn. But when Israel does not deal with the Islamic Jihad threat, it encourages increased anarchy in Gazoo, which will ultimately lead to a ground invasion by the IDF.

Hamas, for its part, is waging an ineffective battle against the renegade organization. Several days ago, for example, Hamas's internal security apparatus placed in durance vile
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
Hashem Salem, an Islamic Jihad member who converted from Sunni to Shiite Islam, and established a pro-Iranian organization in the Gazoo Strip. That's how it starts: Today it's a small charity, funded by Iran, which supports widows and orphans, but if we do not pay attention, tomorrow that charity will be yet another Iranian military organization in Gazoo.

Hamas understands the danger inherent in the pro-Iranian organizations, but in Israel, Islamic Jihad is only regarded as a secondary enemy. While Hamas is a political movement, Islamic Jihad is a military one. It does not recognize the PLO as a representative of the Paleostinian people, and it sees itself as a fighting elite unit with the aim of liberating Paleostine, and now has more rockets in the Gazoo Strip than Hamas. And this is what will set the Israel-Gazoo border aflame.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic Jihad (Palestian) 

#1 IDF doesn't have the intel to effectively target Islamic Jihad

yet
Posted by lord garth 2019-03-10 09:07||   2019-03-10 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 I enough pain is inflicted on Hamas, they will provide the intel
Posted by Frank G 2019-03-10 10:14||   2019-03-10 10:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Hamas demanded an increase in Gazoo's monthly Qatari stipend from $15 million to $20 million.

"Pay us or we'll SEETHE"
Posted by Frank G 2019-03-10 10:16||   2019-03-10 10:16|| Front Page Top

#4 They want water and power.

Somehow I don't think electricity is what they're talking about.
Posted by AlanC 2019-03-10 12:35||   2019-03-10 12:35|| Front Page Top

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