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Hamas’ Gaza army in place


By Stan Goodenough
July 10, 2007

The Allah-enslaved, blood-crazed Hamas "Palestinian" terrorist organization that took over Gaza last month, wresting control from the marginally-less-religious Fatah terrorist movement of Mahmoud Abbas, has wasted no time in consolidating its power in the strip.

Hamas has reportedly also undergone structural changes and is modeling itself on the Lebanese Hizb'allah which last year scored a major victory over the IDF.

According to reports in the Israeli press Monday, Israeli intelligence officials say Hamas has already established its army: a 7,000 to 10,000-strong force that now controls the lives of eight hundred thousand Palestinian Arabs.

Hizb'allah, by comparison, is estimated to have just 1,000 fulltime members and another 6,000 to 10,000 so-called volunteers, according to Mustafa Alani, security director at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Centre.

Hamas' army is assigning serial numbers to its Kassam rockets and roadside bombs. It is building up its armament supply through the continuous smuggling of weapons from Egypt and has complemented this by the development of "a real military industry which operates inside buildings and private houses."

A senior intelligence officer in the IDF's southern command Monday apprised visiting Italian Prime Minister Roman Prodi of the situation in Gaza and told him Hamas together with other Muslim organizations have fully commandeered Fatah’s headquarters there.

All this is taking place just 44 miles south of Tel Aviv.

It is the result of the Bush-Sharon dream of giving Gaza to the Arabs in order that they could begin to establish their Palestinian state there.

Prodi – whose country, along with the rest of Europe, has for years been trying to coerce the Jews of Israel into surrendering their millennia-old claim to half of their national homeland so that another Arab state can be created there – was reportedly dumbstruck to hear that more than 5,000 Kassam rockets have been fired from Gaza, many hitting the Negev city of Sderot.

During his tour, Ynetnews reported, he asked Sderot mayor Eli Moyal "in disbelief three times, '5000 rockets have hit Sderot and the Gaza perimeter?'"

Prodi reportedly responded that it was "impossible to live like this." And it was "hard [for him] to see the daily suffering of the residents here."

There was no sign of admission, however, that world leaders like himself who pushed Israel into leaving Gaza two years ago were in any way to blame for the "impossible" situation that exists today.

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