#1 Just like Hezbollah, Hamas uses some of their funds to provide some social services (at least more than Arafat does) to secure the street's loyalty. They need to have those activities diminished along with their terrorist activities, to strip any popular support. This also means Abbas has to avoid the Arafat-like corruption and actually use international funding to provide the social services instead of hamas - is this any different than what we expect of any national government, and so unlike what Arafat has provided in the past?
Fox also says IDF tanks are on the move in Rafah/Gaza as well to stop the smuggling from Egypt |