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2ND ANNIVERSARY
Hamas' Harness
T
he people of Gaza have suf-
fered intentionally under the
rule of Iran-backed Hamas,
which violently took control of the
beleaguered strip on Israel's southern
border in a
showdown with
the Fatah-led
Palestinian
Authority (P.A.)
in 2007.
Hamas is a
U.S.-declared
terrorist orga-
nization that
has deprived its
subjects of basic
rights — all to
keep street conditions desperate so the
Zionist "enemy" could more easily be
blamed.
For four years since its deadly coup
against the P.A., Hamas has held the
upper hand against Israel. Formally
the Islamic Resistance Movement,
Hamas not only has fired missiles at
Sderot and the surrounding Negev area,
but also has held kidnapped Israeli
soldier Gilad Shalit in captivity and
has refused to let the International
Committee of the Red Cross visit him
in violation of the Geneva Convention.
The Washington–based Israel
Project, which monitors the accuracy
of disseminated information about the
Middle East, gives five cogent reasons
why life for Gazans is so poor.
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The reasons bear repeating:
• Hamas' relentless air assaults on
Israel, spurring loss of Palestinian
lives and property as the Israel
Defense Forces (IDF) responded.
Hamas' campaign of rocket, missile and
mortar attacks forced Israel to unleash
Operation Cast Lead as a defensive
response in Gaza during December
2008 and January 2009. More than
1,300 Palestinians were killed and
2,600 buildings in Gaza were destroyed
or damaged. Despite efforts by the IDF
to minimize civilian casualties, Hamas
made the operation more dangerous for
Palestinians through widespread use of
civilians as human shields.
• Hamas' violent takeover of Gaza
and its persecution of political
opponents. During Hamas' overthrow
of Fatah, P.A. President Mahmoud
Abbas' political party, 150 Palestinians
were killed and 700 were wounded.
During and after Operation Cast Lead,
Hamas intensified its war on Fatah,
executing and torturing Fatah activists
believed to be collaborating with Israel.
• llamas' indoctrination of kids to
hate Jews and their ancestral home-
land. Each summer, Hamas organizes
children's camps to instill such hatred
wrapped in a murderous ideology.
These military-like camps teach kids
to embrace guns and rockets, to march
and rally, to sing anti-Zionist and anti-
West songs and to idolize "martyrdom"
for Allah, a euphemism for murdering
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Israeli Jews in hopes of destroying
the Jewish state and making it part of
"Palestine."
• Hamas' enforcement of strict
Islamic morality and repression of
women. In keeping with its roots as
a fundamentalist religious movement
based on the Muslim Brotherhood,
Hamas has gradually imposed shariah,
Islamic religious law. For example,
Hamas has closed Internet cafes, movie
theaters and bars frequented by young
people in Gaza in contrast to Ramallah's
burgeoning nightlife in the West Bank.
• llamas' repeated attempts
to block humanitarian aid from
reaching ordinary folks under the
regime's reign. Israel has delivered
more than a million tons of food and
other supplies to Gaza since January
2009. Still, Hamas has sustained its
attack on Israel-Gaza border crossings,
including Kerem Shalom — passage-
way for 200 truckloads of aid per week.
Israel offered to deliver aid from an
illegal Gaza-bound, Turkish-launched
flotilla it intercepted on May 31, but
Hamas turned away the shipment, stall-
ing delivery for a month.
There's nothing new in this grim
assessment. But when recapped as a
collective, the five reasons outlined by
the Israel Project underscore Hamas'
strident strategy: to sacrifice its people,
other Palestinians as well as Jews all
in pursuit of gaining control of Eretz
Yisrael, the biblical Land of Israel. ❑
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