China Confidential
Monday, January 12, 2009
At Least 300 Hamas-Jihad Fighters Killed in Combat
Foreign Confidential....
Israeli ground forces have killed at least 300 Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters in Gaza.
Israeli security sources say Hamas is showing signs of exhaustion and disarray.
But the enemy still has thousands of fighters scattered in cells across Gaza and plenty of rockets capable of striking Israel.
China Confidential analysts expect Hamas supporters in Europe and the United States--including the increasingly demented former U.S. president Jimmy Carter--to make every effort possible to increase pressure on Israel to agree to a flawed ceasefire in order to save the Islamist terrorist organization from defeat.
Hamas supporters in the West, including, possibly, Carter, are in contact with exiled Hamas leaders in Damascus, Syria. The exiles are insisting on a suicidal last-stand--in sharp contrast with the fighters on the ground, who appear to be ready to accept an end to the conflict.
China Confidential analysts say the split could lead to a civil war within Hamas.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The assassination of one or more terrorist leaders--by islamist terrorists--could strengthen the hand of Palestinian secular nationalists. Despite the apparent solidarity among Gazans, and the outpouring of pro-Hamas sentiment and violence across Europe and parts of the U.S.--backed up by the far left and neo-Nazis--more and more Palestinians in Gaza and the so-called West Bank territories are fed up with the extremists, who seek the establishment of a theocratic state "from the river to the sea"--meaning from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean, replacing all of Israel.
Islamists in Jordan plan to overthrow the monarchy and ultimately link up with the new Palestine.Pakistani Students Storm US Consulate
Foreign Confidential....
Security forces used tear gas and batons to repel anti-Israel protesters who tried to attack the US consulate in Pakistan's provincial capital, Karachi, on Sunday.
Thousands of protesters in Karachi burned US flags and chanted anti-Israel slogans, and several hundred of them marched on the US consulate.
More than six people were injured when police clashed with the demonstrators, who were armed with bricks, stones, and clubs.
The protest was organised by the Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) and headed by top Shia clerics.
A US Embassy spokesman in Islamabad said the protestors did not get close to the consulate, which was closed on Sunday.
Monday, 12 January 2009
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