Tuesday, 27th January 2009
Blood brothers
9:33pm
An illuminating and authoritative report by Dan Diker and Khaled abu Toameh, warning that counting upon Fatah to be a civilised replacement for Hamas in Gaza is a dangerous fallacy, contains the following arresting passage:The enmity between Fatah and Hamas is far greater than Palestinian hatred of Israel. Nasser Juma'a, a Palestinian Legislative Council member from Nablus, described Hamas as "insects" in the final week of Israel's offensive in Gaza. Hamas legislator Salah Bardaweel countered that PA Chairman Abbas "played a major role" in the Israeli killing of Hamas Interior Minister Said Siam "through his men in the Gaza Strip, who have been pointing out the homes of Hamas members." However, what is remarkable and ignored in Western diplomatic circles is that Fayyad has continued to pay the monthly salaries of between 6,000 and 12,000 Hamas Executive Force operatives in
...A selective approach to the facts
3:21pm
The pressure group Arab Media Watch has put out a statement claiming that my observation in my Daily Mail column yesterday, thatHamas has intercepted dozens of aid trucks and confiscated food and medical supplies bound for the UN stores in Gaza
is untrue. It bases its claim upon the following:AMW chairman Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi spoke on the phone with John Ging, director of the UN Relief and Works Agency in Gaza, and its spokesman Chris Gunness. Ging described the claim as ‘completely untrue.’ Gunness described it as ‘utter nonsense,’ and said he would make a statement about this to the Mail. ‘It took me a few minutes to verify that this very serious claim is false,’ wrote Nashashibi in a letter to the newspaper. ‘Phillips could have, and should have, done the same.’
Presumably, AMW will therefore...
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
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