Gaza: Governed by terrorists
You can tell that you are not reading a news article by any western media outlet, because I proclaim that the people of Gaza are ruled by terrorists. No not militants, not freedom fighters, and not political activists, but terrorists.
Yesterday, UK television station Channel 4 aired a documentary entitled “Inside Hamas”, which portrayed how the “resistance movement” was adapting to becoming a government. Ultimately it was failing. It was leading a divided people, who it was prepared to oppress just to win a propaganda war. It also treats anyone who disagrees with it as an enemy. In one encounter a resident of Gaza proclaims that his treatment by Hamas made them “worse than the Jews”. The Hamas member who this was directed at was profusely insulted, and irate at being compared to the Jews.
So what has this got to do with them being terrorists? Last week the first suicide bomb in over a year hit Dimona in southern Israel. An elderly woman was killed and thirty-eight were injured.
Another suicide bomber, with 5kg of explosives was shot dead before they could commit further murder. Within hours, Hamas was one of the terrorist groups to claim responsibility for the attack.
Over the weekend, Hamas has continued launching Qassam rockets into the Israeli town of Sderot. Two brothers, aged eight and nineteen are amongst the latest to become seriously injured in these rocket attacks, which are directly orchestrated by Hamas.
Sderot residents are now protesting the lack of response from the Israeli government. Olmert who still faces criticism from his response to the capture of soldier Gilad Shalit in July 2006 (who remains captured), has been wary of his next step. Hamas seem to want a full scale war. They care not about the lives of the Israelis nor the Palestinians that would be lost if such a war were to happen, but could easily claim a propaganda victory. With Israel constantly portrayed at the aggressors, when dealing with a terrorist enemy who refuse to recognise its right to exist, it seems that a solution to this problem will not be easy.
