Hamas Terrorists Now Preventing Partner PIJ Terrorists To Fire Rockets Into Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                 

     Rocket being fired from Gaza towards Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 12, 2023.  Israel confirmed that one rocket was fired from Gaza on Sunday afternoon, less than 24 hours following an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire.  In response to that, IDF strikes Hamas posts in Gaza (8-7-23)  

During the May 2021 conflict in Gaza, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired over 4,300 rockets at Israeli civilians. In August 2022, Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired over 1,100 rockets at Israelis during the three-day escalation, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

An odd report came out Monday of Hamas thwarting a PIJ rocket fire

 from Gaza Strip by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, better known as

 PIJ..  Why?    

As of Saturday night in May 2023, Hamas, which has controlled the 

Gaza Strip since 2007, had not been actively 

involved in the fighting. Its absence 

indicates that the fighting has not widened to include regional players.

 Earlier Saturday a senior Israeli official called on

 Hamas to seize control  of the situation and end Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) rocket  fire into   Israel.     The Palestinian Islamic 

Jihad (PIJ)'s history started in 1979 with 3 men.                             

       Fathi Shaqaqi  Died October 26,, 1995  He was 

assassinated by Mossad agents in Malta in 1995, leading to a 

weakening of the PIJ until its resurgence after the Arab Spring.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad are terrorists. This group started in 1979 founded by 3 men;  Fathi "Abd al-Aziz al-Shqaqi (1979-1995), or Fathi Ibrahim Abdulaziz Shaqaqi  4 January 1951 – 26 October 1995) was the founder and Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine.  Fathi Shaqaqi was born in the Gaza Strip to a refugee family and received his early education at a United Nations school. He studied physics and mathematics at Bir Zeit University and later medicine at Mansoura University in Egypt. Shaqaqi became a follower of Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Sayyid Qutb. Influenced by the Iranian Revolution, he wrote a book praising Ayatollah Khomeini's approach to an Islamic state. 

                                                 

The 2nd man was Sheikh "Abd al-aziz Odah.   The Iranian Revolution was a major influence on Awda's political outlook and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's ideology, serving as proof that violent revolt was the key to expelling Western influence and establishing an Islamic state.  Awda eventually departed Egypt, returning to Gaza in 1981. In Gaza, Awda worked as a professor of Sharia at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) and as an imam at the al-Qassam Mosque,^located in the Nuseirat Camp. The FBI states that Awda was born on 20 December 1950 in Jabalia, a village just south of the city of Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip. However, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) lists 1946 as his year of birth. Awda's family was originally from the Beersheba district in southern Mandatory Palestine, and came to Gaza in 1948, living in the Jabalia refugee camp.

Awda obtained a bachelor's degree in Arab and Islamic studies at Dar al-Ulum, part of Cairo University in Egypt, and a master's degree in Sharia law at Zagazig University in Zagazig, a city north of Cairo, where he met future PIJ co-founder Fathi Shaqaqi. Awda and Shaqaqi's time in Zagazig, a hotspot of radical Islamism, particularly Qutbism, proved to be influential on their beliefs.  So we find the two were radical bosom buddies.

                                            

            Died June 6, 2020  Shalah died on 6 June 2020 in Lebanon after a long illness, possible stroke, that included two years in a coma. His funeral was held in Damascus and was attended by, among others the head of the PIJ movement who replaced him, Ziyad al-Nakhalah.

The 3rd and last was  Dr. Ramadan Shalah.   Ramadan Abdullah Mohammed Shalah  (1 January 1958 – 6 June 2020) was the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) between 27 October 1995 and 2018.  PIJ has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States,^[2] the European Union,^[3] the United Kingdom,^[4] Japan,^[5] Canada,^[6] Australia,^[7] New Zealand^[8][9] and Israel. On becoming secretary-general of PIJ, Shalah was designated a Specially Designated Terrorist (SDT) by the United States on 27 November 1995.^[10] In 2006, he was placed on the United States FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list.^{[11]  It looks like by the time he came along, the FBI was organized}

^{and ready to follow the PIJ terrorists.}  Shalah was born in Shuja'iyya, also called Gaza Sejaiya district, a neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.

Shalah earned a Ph.D. in banking and economics from the University of Durham, England. His 1989-thesis was entitled Islamic banking in an interest-based economy : a case study of Jordan.

Professor Sami Al-Arian helped bring Shalah to Al-Arian's university, the University of South Florida, in Tampa, Florida, where Shalah taught as an adjunct professor, and where he was appointed by Al-Arian as head of WISE. Shalah left in 1995 to head PIJ.  Al-Arian would later plead guilty to helping PIJ, and was sentenced to 57 months in prison. Al-Arian said he was shocked to learn Shalah was "anything other than a scholar."

                                      

Ziyad al-Nakhalah was born on 6 April 1953 in Khan Yunis, Gaza, then under Egyptian occupation.

In 1971, al-Nakhalah was sentenced to life imprisonment in Israel because of his militant activities with the Arab Liberation Front. He was one of the 1,150 security prisoners released by Israel on 21 May 1985 in a prisoner swap under the Jibril Agreement.

After his release from Israeli prison, then-PIJ secretary-general Fathi Shikaki tasked al-Nakhalah with establishing in the Gaza Strip the group’s military wing, the Al-Quds Brigades.^[16] Al-Nakhalah was detained again by Israel in April 1988 for his role in the first Intifada, and was exiled to Lebanon in August 1988 with other PIJ leaders.

Al-Nakhalah became deputy secretary general of PIJ in 1995.

He became a 4th head, a replacement of the 3rd.   Ziyad al-Nakhalah  was born in 1953 in Gaza. He was elected secretary general of Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in September 2018, succeeding Ramadan Shalah who suffered a stroke in April 2018. He was re-elected for a second term in February 2023.  In January 2014, the United States Department of State designated him as a Global Terrorist under Executive Order (E.O.), freezing his property and interests in the United States. He has been detained by Israel a number of times since 1971.  Al-Nakhala served as deputy secretary general of the movement between 1995 and 2018.

PIJ is sponsored by Iran and Syria.  They are radical Islamists and nationalists, meaning they don't have the law on their side-only irrational ideology.  Their goal is to create an Islamic Palestinian state and of course, the destruction of Israel by using a "Holy War."  They are against pro-Western and Arab governments.  

Nothing is beneath them to use to achieve their goals: They have already:

1. 1,000 terrorist attacks from 2000 to 2004. with 950 Israelis wounded and 150 killed.

2. 39 suicide bombings from 2000 to 2005.

3. Battle in Jenin in 2002, the Palestinian terrorist"suicide capital."

4.  They recruit in mosques and universities.  

 The IDF, under the Israeli Ministry of Defense, is responsible for the West Bank, but PA security forces were granted security control of 17.5 percent (called Area A) under the 1993 Oslo Accords.  The PA has administrative control over Area B (about 22 percent of the West Bank), but security control is shared with Israeli authorities.  Israel maintains all administrative and security control of Area C, which comprises 61 percent of the West Bank.  PA security forces and the IDF continued counterterrorism and law enforcement efforts in parts of the West Bank, where U.S.-designated FTOs such as Hamas, PIJ, and the PFLP operated.  PA security forces constrained the ability of those organizations to conduct attacks, including arresting Hamas members.  PA security forces continue to proactively arrest individuals planning attacks against Israeli targets or those suspected of supporting terrorist organizations, and continue to arrest Palestinians wanted for weapons smuggling or illegal weapons possession.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Public Security, “the West Bank saw 39 terror attacks in 2021, down from the IDF’s reported figure of 60 in 2020.”  

Hamas, a U.S.-designated FTO and Specially Designated Global Terrorist, maintained de facto control over Gaza in 2021.  Hamas and several militant groups, including Sunni violent extremist groups such as PIJ, launched an estimated 4,400 rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza.  Hamas and its affiliates launched incendiary balloons and devices toward Israel, damaging farms and nature preserves.  Hamas and PIJ tunneling activities continued.  Live ammunition from Hamas’s anti-aircraft weapons struck buildings in Israel.

Resource:

Magazine: ISRAEL 101, 2010/StandWithUs.  p. 26

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-742947

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-753906

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathi_Shaqaqi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abd_Al_Aziz_Awda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramadan_Shalah

https://ecfr.eu/special/mapping_palestinian_politics/ziyad_al_nakhalah/

USA's Failure in Reading Iran

A reminder of the USA failure in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba
which Ayatollah Khamenei just brought up with Palestinian terrorists.  .  

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                           

More than a year ago on March 2, 2015, the Iranian nuclear deal was ready to be announced at the end of March.   Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said back in 2013 that they would never give into economic sanctions .  The USA would  never force Iran into unwelcome concessions over nuclear development.   Khamenei wants to " be able to produce nuclear energy for power and medical purposes, and wants an end to sanctions that keep it from shipping oil or gaining access to global financial markets.  Khamenei, has said that Iran would want to build peaceful nuclear enrichment capability when a negotiated agreement expired."  Within the next minute, he is cursing Israel and threatening their end.  Can anyone believe him?  
                                                                          
John Kerry had said, "“We want to recognize the main goal here is to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. And on that, Israel and the United States agree.”  The problem is that Israel and the USA do not agree as to how to prevent this from happening.  
                                                 

John Kerry figured that with time, Iran will turn into a state
like other states and
come to be compliant about  nuclear power.  On the contrary,
they break laws and have become more aggressive with every
concession the USA makes. 

The deadline for finalizing an outline of an agreement was the end of March, and a final deal was to be reached by June. Under an agreement, Iran’s ability to produce nuclear fuel would probably be strictly limited for at least 10 years, and restrictions would be eased gradually. Iran would ship some nuclear equipment to Russia. After the deal ends, Iran would still be subject to inspections and unable to produce bomb-grade fuel. It remains unclear whether Iran would have to answer all questions from inspectors about its suspected work on bomb designs.  Now isn't this the most important part of all and no one was sure about it on our side?   Everyone knows that inspections are imperfect, as the U.S. has learned from Iraq to North Korea.

May 2, Monday, Khamenei threatened the US Navy's 5th Fleet sitting in Bahrain
waters.  He lashed out on TV at the USA's protecting the free flow of commerce and
shipping in the Persian gulf which he said was Iran's sphere.
"What is the US Navy doing here?  Go back to the Bay of Pigs.  Go and hold exercises there.
What are you doing in the Persian Gulf?  It is OUR home.

This is a very serious statement since he was pointing out the USA weakness from their failed
operation of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. Muslim do not eat any meat from a pig, just like the Jews and
consider it also as an unclean animal.  He's being more fisty against the USA with each concession
that the USA makes with Iran.  What's the psychology that causes this?  One can't lose the upper hand
with people like the Ayatollah.  You can't grovel or give in an inch.  

                                                                                           

2003 and Islamic Jihad Palestinians burning 3 flags in demonstration,
have much in common with Khamenei.

 During this past weekend of May Day, The Ayatollah spoke to the Palestinian ISLAMIC JIHAD'S DELEGATION,  Palestinian terrorists that came to him   to find ways to strengthen their intifada in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem. The Ayatollah  told them that the main enemy of Iran was America, not Israel.  His hostility is evident towards America,  but comes after the Obama Administration's announcement that the USA was subsidizing Iran's nuclear program by buying tons of HEAVY WATER from them.  They are also granting Iran the ability to receive US dollars.  Now that the Ayatollah is flush with cash, courtesy of Barack Obama,  he will find a few ways to strengthen the intifada of the Palestinians who turn into terrorists with the mere mention of it.  We also notice that Iran is far more aggressive now and gets more so with every concession Obama makes.  
                                                                           

Terrorists here keep their faces covered so can't be identified.
Israel has 1.7 million Arab citizens along with their 6 million Jews.
Israel is the only Jewish state in the world.  There are Muslim states that do not
allow Jews to enter.  In all, there are already 48 Muslim majority states without a Palestine created.  The UN faults Israel with every breath they take yet say nothing
about how Muslim countries treat them!  

 " Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), is a Palestinian Islamist Paramilitary organization formed in 1981 whose objective is the destruction of the State of Israel and the establishment of a sovereign, Islamic Palestinian state." Islamic Jihad seems to be carried over to what is now called ISIS who have the same goals but for all the states of the Middle East.  They've been successful in Iraq and Syria to a degree.  

Another Jihad group, ISIS, and how they behead fellow Muslims
on the wrong side of the politics.  

The delegation "was  headed by the organization’s Secretary- General Ramadan Abdullah, who will visit Iran for a few days, according to a statement issued by the terrorist organization.

The delegation will meet Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani and Supreme National Security Council chief Ali Shamkhani  Islamic Jihad announced that “the delegation visiting Tehran has met with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, as well as other senior Iranian officials.”.

Resource: CUFI, from Gary L. Bauer, Director: Khamenei Threatens US Navy

 http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/02/world/middleeast/2015-03-02-iran.html?_r=0

Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, via Associated Press
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/02/world/middleeast/2015-03-02-iran.html?_r=0
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/05/islamic-jihad-delegation-visits-iran-to-discuss-ways-to-strengthen-intifada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Jihad_Movement_in_Palestine