Hamas- More Suicide Attacks to come [???]

Es scheint so das die Hamas nach der Tötung des Sohns von al-Zahar doch den Weg der Selbstzerstörung gehen möchte: Hamas' representative in Iran, Dr. Abu Osama Abd al-Moti, said on Wednesday that the militant group's armed wing has renewed its suicide bombings inside Israel, and that Israel should expect additional bombings. Hamas claimed responsibility for its first suicide attack since 2004 on Monday, after a bombing in the southern town of Dimona on Monday, which killed one woman. "For more than a year, we stopped [attacks] but the Zionist enemy continued in its aggression and degraded the ceasefire on the part of the resistance. The message of the operation in Dimona is that Izz al-Din al-Qassam [Hamas' military wing] declared the renewal of suicide operations, and the enemy should expect additional operations." Auf der anderen Seite gibt es viele Möglichkeiten, die hinter der "Kriegserklärung" stehen. Plausibel erscheint das die Hamas aufgrund enormer Kosten bei ihren Finanziers über den "Widerstand" neue Finanzquellen erschließen möchte. Andererseits sind Statement eines Regionalführers im Iran nicht unbedingt der Ausdruck das die Bewegung die offensichtlichen Flankenschwächen der Israelis wirklich nutzen kann und will. Leider aber ist in solchen statements keinerlei Anzeichen von Modifikation zu erkennen. Die Hamas hat sich trotzt der Macht im Gazastreifen inhaltlich nicht weiter entwickelt und fällt somit als halbwegs ernst zu nehmender Verhandlungspartner für jeden aus. Dennoch kann sowohl die Dimona-Aktion [die ich mittlerweile zu 87% der Hamas zuschreibe] auch ein plumpes Spektakel des islamistischen Größenwahns darstellen der aufgrund der eigentlichen Niederlage [Blockade, geringe Opferanzahl, poltischer Flurschaden in Ägypten] nun sein rhetorisches Echo findet. Das die Hamas die Attacken einstellen kann, wenn sie WILL ist nach der ruhephase der letzten beiden Wochen bis Montag hingegen erwiesen. Also ist noch nicht alle Hoffnung verloren. [...] Earlier on Wednesday, a Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck Kibbutz Be'eri in the western Negev, lightly wounding two young girls. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. [...] Later Wednesday evening, an Israel Air Force strike wounded three Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip as they tried to launch Qassams into Israel, Hamas and medical officials said. An Israel Defense Forces spokesman confirmed the strike on Palestinian gunmen near the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Earlier, four civilians were wounded by two air strikes on an unoccupied metal workshop and a caravan located outside a Hamas security position, the officials said. [Der Islamic Jihad verbreitet am Abend, man habe zwei israelische Soldaten "niedergeschossen". Eine offizielle Meldung steht aus.]

Dimona-Bombing: Police Southern District commander Uri Bar Lev said Wednesday that the 10-kilometer gap in the separation fence between Israel and the southern part of the West Bank is "calling out to terrorists." Bar Lev spoke before the Knesset Internal Affairs Committee following a suicide bombing in Dimona on Monday in which one woman was killed and 11 people were hurt. "Every day, thousands of Palestinians enter [Israel] without supervision through the gap in the wall. The suicide bombers in Be'er Sheva two and three years ago came in through this gap, as did the bombers two days ago in Dimona. It is imperative to obstruct the passageway," Bar Lev said, adding that Israel has knowledge of additional planned attacks in the area.

Politk? Fehlanzeige. Seit dem die Spekulationsblase des Winograd-reports geplatzt ist findet keinerlei Aktivität mehr statt. Etwas nachgeblätter habe ich in Sachen PEGASE: The new European mechanism, PEGASE, will pay NIS 121 million (€ 22 million) today in favour of 74,000 Palestinian public service providers and pensioners. Aus den Texten ist nur ersichtlich das man die Fatah als Treuhänderin vollständig verantwortlich die Konten plündeeee... verwalten läßt. Zur Beobachtung empfohlen.

Sources at Ezz Eddin al-Qassam militias, the military wing of Hamas, said 2000 Egyptians belonging to Salafist and Jihad groups have entered the Gaza Strip in the past few days after the opening of the Rafah crossing to join the resistance and struggle against Israel. The sources told al-Masry al-Youm that these groups met with the leaders of Hamas and Jihad to join the military wings of the resistance and carry out martyrdom operations, but Hamas has declined and asked them to return to Egypt so as to avoid a political crisis between Egypt and Israel. [...] Iranian President Ahmadinejad is planning to visit Egypt next month, in response to Cairo's last week's invitation, reported Israeli's 'Ha'aretz' newspaper yesterday. "This is the first time an Iranian president visits Egypt since the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, after which Cairo severed its relations with Tehran; keeping them at the level of minimum representation," said the paper. "The invitation to Ahmadinejad was made through Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad, who held talks in Cairo last week with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak," it added.