Hamas Terrorists Sign On with Islamic Jihad To Terrorize to Obliterate Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot                                       

       Hamas leader in West Bank:  Saleh al Arouri (Photo AP)Saleh al-Arouri (born 19 August 1966; Arabic: صالح العاروري), also transliterated as Salah al-Arouri or Salih al-Aruri, is a prominent leader of Hamas and founding commander of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas military (a terrorist fighter). He is regarded as "the military commander of the West Bank." And as being "a capable, charismatic, suspicious, and shrewd operator, with excellent connections.

Hamas doesn't need lessons to terrorize Israel.  They've been doing it; by shelling Israel daily with rockets, setting fires to forests and fields with flying fire on kites, digging tunnels to bring in weapons and to kidnap civilians and IDF.  Now they're teaming up with  another terror group.

                                                  

Arafat and his PLO were bad enough as terrorists.  Why Hillary Clinton befriended him, one wonders.  

Hamas and Islamic Jihad have signed an agreement to increase terror attacks against Israel and to coordinate their military wings. The agreement was reached in meetings between the leaders of both terror groups in Lebanon and in Gaza. The deal is seen by Palestinian political analysts as a new challenge for the Palestinian Authority (PA), whose security forces continue to carry out a massive crackdown on Hamas and Islamic Jihad members in the West Bank.

This is bad news for Israel, as there are times when the PA does happen to be in agreement with Israel.  Abbas is losing power, however, being their leader for so long, and Hamas is trying to take over.

Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) is a terrorist group and work in the West Bank and Gaza.  They were even elected to run Gaza.  They are the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist and opposes PLO.  Their motto is "Israel will exist until Islam will obliterate it."  There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad, which is Holy War.  That's in their charter.  

What have they been responsible for?  Shootings, bombings, rocket attacks, suicide missions, with 773 terrorist attacks in just from 2003 to  2004.  They performed 41 suicide bombings from 1993 to 2000.  Then from 2000 to 2005 they added on 58 suicide bombings.  377 Israelis were killed and 2,076 injured by Hamas from 2000 to 2005. They are the major player in the terrorist war against Israel.  They perpetrated 40% of suicide bombings.                       

 Hamas  dominates Gaza.  They have shifted their strategic emphasis to rocket and mortar attacks. Hamas is closely tied to Syria, Iran and Lebanon.  Groups like Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Western Europe, and Hezbollah have funded them to keep them going against Israel.  

The USA State Department has listed them as a terrorist organization.  This is ironic because the US is pushing for a creation of a Palestinian State alongside Israel, the object of their very terrorism.  How duplicitous can you get?                                                

Mahmoud Abbas,, AKA Abu Mazen: b: November 15, 1935 in Safed, Israel, where I lived for 4 years;  took his position in January 2005 as President of Palestine, which really doesn't exist. What will a Palestine consist of?  Right now Abbas rules as the Palestine Authority over the West Bank.  Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists. 

In their plans of a Palestine, they've even cut Jerusalem into their section of East Jerusalem.  This is not to happen.  Israel will not allow Jerusalem to be divided.  As one can see, their are many things to discuss that are not ever going to leave the table.  It's like expecting apples to turn into oranges.  All along, the PA and Hamas cannot agree on ruling Palestine.  How does the world expect the two of them to agree to anything with Israel when their goal is to  destroy the Jewish state?  

The Palestinians have a reputation of disagreeableness. They almost destroyed Jordan and that's a Muslim State.  Black September is still in the minds of Jordanians.  Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود; Aylūl Al-Aswad), also known as the Jordanian Civil War, was a conflict fought in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan between the Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF), under the leadership of King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), under the leadership of Yasser Arafat.  That was solved when the King of Jordan married a Palestinian girl, the present Queen.  

Even in 2020, people were complaining about Abbas being in power for so long.  "The upcoming Palestinian elections will be meaningless as long as PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his top aides remain in power, according to a former Palestinian Authority security commander".Fahmi Shabaneh said he did not rule out the possibility that Abbas and his ruling Fatah faction would lose the presidential and parliamentary elections, if and when they take place, provided that the vote is free and fair.                   

Hamas  wrested control of Gaza from forces loyal to Palestinian Abbas during a bloody conflict in 2007.  Remember, Obama made a point of calling for elections for Gaza.  Gazans, never experiencing democracy,  weren't ready to make wise choices without being coerced. The Israelis had just moved out and left it as land they could take over and live in.  The Israeli disengagement from Gaza (Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות, Tokhnit HaHitnatkut) was the unilateral dismantling in 2005 of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Israeli settlers and army from inside the Gaza Strip. 

Abbas was elected on 9 January 2005 to serve as President of the Palestinian National Authority until 15 January 2009, but extended his term until the next election in 2010, citing the PLO constitution, and on 16 December 2009 was voted into office indefinitely by the PLO Central Council. As a result, Fatah's main rival, Hamas, initially announced that it would not recognize the extension or view Abbas as the rightful president.                            

Palestinian Islamic Jihad activists take part in an anti-Israel military show, in Khan Yunis the southern Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2020. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib

Islamic Jihad must be the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) that was formed in 1979 in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza, sponsored by Iran and Syria.  Their ideology is of radical Islamists and nationalists who are committed to the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state and the destruction of Israel through holy war.  

What have been their operations?  Shootings, bombings, rocket attacks and suicide bombings.  They had 1,000 terrorist attacks from 2000 to 2004.  This is 2022.  Probably thousands more since then.  They were in the Jenin battle.  In 2002,a their hub was in Jenin, the Palestinian terrorist "suicide capital." They were responsible for 59 suicide bombers who failed and were arrested in 2005.  

 It had been a small group but has been increasing as a major player.  The group recruits followers in mosques and universities.  They are opposed to lulls in the terrorist operations, such as the one negotiated for in February 2005 to January 1, 2006.  They lack patience.  

Resource:

Israel AM news. 

https://www.adl.org/resources/glossary-terms/palestinian-islamic-jihad

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bychgc39t?utm_source=email

https://www.adl.org/resources/glossary-terms/palestinian-islamic-jihad

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