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Titolo: Hamas desperate for lull

Khaled Abu Toameh ,
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As the IDF operation in the Gaza Strip entered its 10th day, Hamas has
begun sending conflicting messages regarding its intentions.
These contradictory messages, Palestinian political analysts said,
reflected the state of confusion in Hamas and raised questions as to
who was calling the shots in the Gaza Strip.
While some Hamas leaders have been openly signaling their readiness to
accept a new cease-fire, others are still calling for pursuing the
fight against Israel "until victory."
What is clear is that Hamas is now desperate for a lull in the
fighting. But it is also eager to score some kind of a "military
victory" before a cease-fire is reached.
Hamas can't accept a new cease-fire without having proved to the Arab
and Muslim masses that it was capable of making Israel pay a heavy
price for its military offensive.
Hamas is fighting for its survival and its leaders know that their
collapse would constitute a severe blow not only to the movement, but
also to its patrons in Teheran and Damascus.
"It's hard to tell who's in charge in the Gaza Strip these days," said
a Ramallah-based analyst. "Hamas's political leaders have disappeared
after throwing away their mobile phones. No one knows exactly what
Hamas wants."
The analyst said that according to his sources, the embattled Hamas
leaders in the Gaza Strip were no longer in direct contact with their
colleagues in Syria.
"The political leaderships of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Damascus
have been disconnected from each other," he added. "I doubt if there's
any coordination between them."
He pointed out that the decision to dispatch two senior Hamas envoys
to Cairo for talks about a cease-fire came as a surprise to the Hamas
leadership in the Gaza Strip. The two envoys are based in Damascus and
report directly to Khaled Mashaal, he said.
Another Ramallah-based political analyst said that the political
leadership of Hamas has given the movement's armed wing, Izaddin al-
Kassam, full freedom to take any measures it deems necessary to
prevent the collapse of the Hamas regime.
"The gunmen on the streets are now in charge," he noted. "This is a
dangerous situation, because they don't report to anyone at the top.
This has created a state of anarchy and confusion."
Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip said on Monday that the
general feeling was that Hamas does not exist any longer as a
governing body. "All their government institutions have been
destroyed," said a Gaza City reporter. "The Hamas leaders are now
behaving like al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden and [his deputy] Ayman
Zawahiri. Their only public appearances are through recorded messages
aired on Arab TV stations."
On Monday, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar made his first public
appearance in a previously recorded message broadcast on a Hamas TV
station. Zahar's appearance was reminiscent of similar appearances
made by al-Qaida terror leaders.
Until two weeks ago, Zahar, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Interior
Minister Said Siam - the three top Hamas leaders - were still sleeping
in their homes and moving around freely and fearlessly. Until then,
they were also frequent guests on various talk shows in the Arab media
- especially Al-Jazeera, which is being accused by some Palestinians
as serving as a mouthpiece for Hamas.
Sources close to Hamas said that in light of the new reality, where
the Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip have virtually vanished, the armed
wing was receiving its instructions from the movement's leadership in
Syria.
The sources said that Mashaal, the Damascus-based leader of Hamas, was
in direct contact with commanders of Izzadin Kassam in different parts
of the Gaza Strip. "There's a vacuum in the Hamas leadership in the
Gaza Strip," they said. "The Hamas leaders in Damascus are now in
charge. There's no one to talk to in the Gaza Strip."
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israele ha già perso vista la reazione assolutamente inattese della turchia 
e della giordania-
l'iran ha di che felicitarsi 

 israele ha già perso
sicuramente la guerra mediatica è strapersa. Adesso voglio vedere
Pacifici con che faccia organizzerà la manifestazione per Israele....

 victory" before a cease-fire is reached.
Beh, oggi ne hanno raggiunta una.
Hanno fatto ammazzare 30 civili sparando coi mortai da una scuola.
Tb

 Hanno fatto ammazzare 30 civili sparando coi mortai da una scuola.
fonte: i boia che sparano sui medici. E Tony the butcher ci crede

 fight against Israel "until victory."
mica solo a Gaza, ma pure su IPI... :-))