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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Did Mahmoud Abbas Just Foil a Hamas Coup?
2015-03-15
Datelined March 12th.
[PJMedia] Over the past several days, Israeli sources report that some 500 members of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and 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...
-- residents of the West Bank, which is under the control of the Paleostinian Authority (PA) -- have been tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
by PA security services.

An anonymous Hamas source acknowledged about 60 such detainees, including students and academics, to Agence La Belle France Presse. The Paleostinian Ma'an News Agency quotes an anonymous PA security official as acknowledging 40 detainees, without further details. Ma'an alleged (without citing a source) that the arrests were possibly in response to the detention of Fatah official Mamun Suweidan by Hamas security forces in Gazoo. PA security front man Adnan Dameiri claimed no political motivation for the arrests, and said simply that the detainees had broken the law.

Yet Israeli sources have claimed that this massive wave of arrests -- which began on Sunday -- was conducted on the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
' orders, and assert that a coup against Abbas orchestrated by Hamas and Islamic Jihad has been foiled.

The coup was supposed to begin with riots in the West Bank, beginning in the capital of Ramallah, and culminating in Abbas' liquidation and a complete takeover of the PA by the two terrorist groups which at present control the Gazoo Strip.
The same script that the Israelis foiled last summer when they arrested everyone in sight as they searched for the three kidnapped Haredi lads. Like digging a tunnel, once the path is set one just keeps digging in the same direction, I guess.
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