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Titolo: Hamas has failed – it is time they stepped down

Lo scrive Sultan Al Qassemi un top manager e analista finanziario,
autorità di riferimento nel diritto islamico.
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090104/OPINION/361845413/1080
Regardless of the outcome of the barbaric Israeli Operation Cast Lead,
one thing is certain; it is high time for Hamas to step down as the
keeper of Gaza. This is where people will object and remind us that
they were democratically elected. My answer to that is: Yes, but they
are incompetent.
Most of us in the Middle East still believe that incompetence is a
trait exclusive to dictators such as Muammer Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein
and Jamal Abdul Nasser. However modern history has proven that
democracy and incompetent governance aren’t mutually exclusive. For
example, George W Bush and Mikhail Saakashavili were both
democratically elected and yet they are responsible for disastrous
wars.
Clearly, Hamas has not mastered the art of politics, and as the
veteran British journalist Robert Fisk recently noted, they do not
have the military discipline of Hizbollah. Hamas also baulked at the
opportunity of reconciliation that was brokered by King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia last year and didn’t mend the relations with Fatah that
may have allowed them to take partial control of the vital Rafah
crossing with Egypt.
Then there was the audacity of Khaled Mashaal, the Hamas supreme
leader, who called for the launch of a third intifada from exile in
Syria.
Mashaal wakes up in the safety of Damascus, turns on the television,
reads the paper and then says live on Al Jazeera TV – where else? –
that “we want armed resistance, a military uprising to face the
enemy”. Couldn’t he smuggle himself into the Gaza Strip to be with his
resistance fighters?
That resistance has for many years been funded by donations from
wealthy Arabs in the Gulf, among others to cover an annual budget that
the US Council on Foreign Relations estimates at $70 million. Despite
such sums, Hamas has hardly managed to amass a significant arsenal or
military capabilities.
All it has to show after all this time and money is little more than
long-range fireworks that it launches into neighbouring towns but
which do more damage to its own image than to any infrastructure in
Israel.
Ultimately Khaled Mashaal, who declared from Damascus that the
resistance “has lost very few people” as the body count approached
434, displayed the same arrogance as the Israeli Foreign Minister,
Tzipi Livni, who unashamedly declared only last Thursday that there is
“no humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.
Many thought that Gaza and the West Bank were inseparable entities
until Hamas’s bloody takeover of the Strip in the summer of 2007
damaged that notion. Their 18-month rule is marred by lawlessness,
extra-judicial public killings and gang warfare that is more
reminiscent of Somalia than a civilised state.
Time magazine reported on the violence that followed the takeover
then: “Gangs have tossed enemies alive off 15-storey buildings, shot
one another’s children and burst into hospitals to finish off wounded
foes lying helplessly in bed.”
Last week, Taghreed El-Khodary of the New York Times reported that
Hamas militants in civilian clothing again resorted to killing wounded
former inmates of Gaza’s central jail who were accused of
collaboration with the enemy. These unproved “collaborators” were
executed in public even though Palestinian Human Rights groups
repeatedly claim that “most of these people are completely innocent”.
Hamas seems to be either unable or unwilling to stop such
extrajudicial executions.
Additionally, on the first anniversary of Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza
Strip, the Christian Science Monitor found a lack of medicines in
hospitals as well as of clean drinking water in the territory, and raw
sewage streaming into the sea. And this isn’t because Hamas’s dignity
prevents it from meeting the enemy.
Hamas’s vast propaganda machine around the Arab world mysteriously
fails to report on the meetings between its members and Israeli
government representatives. For example, after a 90-minute meeting
with an official from the Israeli state electricity company in order
to sort out the town’s electricity needs, the Hamas-affiliated mayor
of Qalqilya told the BBC about the meeting: “It was civil, without any
problem between him and I.”
Where do you think Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader in the Strip, gets
his electricity from?
By any standards Hamas has failed miserably. It has failed in peace,
failed in governance, and moreover failed in war. In addition to
Hamas’s ambiguous political agenda, their goal seems to be resistance
for the sake of resistance, a quagmire where the journey really is the
destination. It is time for Khaled Mashaal to step down and allow more
competent leaders to emerge before he causes even more damage to his
cause. The question is if Hamas leaves, what is the alternative?
In fact, probably the only good thing that can be said about Hamas is
that they are not Fatah.
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"i palestinesi"  (Luca Logi / rodewalder / Golda Meir, febbraio 2008)
http://raionim.blogspot.com/2009/01/certo-che-i-qassam-sono-pericolosi_05.html

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Lo scrive Sultan Al Qassemi un top manager e analista finanziario,
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LOL, Nahum sta applicando al rovescio il principio dell'amico ebreo
dell'antisemita. Che schifo!