This news item seems to suggest as much (h/t – Instapundit).
It’s a strange world, but there you have it. I’ve been talking to friends of mine, former Palestinian Authority intelligence officials (ejected from power by the Hamas coup), and they tell me that not only are they rooting for the Israelis to decimate Hamas, but that Fatah has actually been assisting the Israelis with targeting information. One of my friends — if you want to know why they’re my friends, read this book — told me that one of his comrades was thrown off a high-rise building in Gaza City last year by Hamas, and so he sheds no tears for the Hamas dead. “Let the Israelis kill them,” he said. “They’ve brought only [t]rouble for my people.”
Something tells me this will not be an Isreali military failure this time.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Fatah would like Israel to clear up the Hamas problem for them. But as soon as the do, Fatah will fill in the void of Jew Killing.
There will be no love lost for Israel – even when they do the right thing.
Mmm, I’m not quite so sure, Leah. I agree with you that Fatah would love nothing more than to see Hamas gone, but it’s my opinion that Fatah finally “gets it” relative to the fact that Israel is going to exist whether they like it or not; they can either keep fighting a futile battle, or they can take what they have and make the best of it.
On the other hand, if Obama and the Democrats sell out Israel to appease the progressive core of the Democrat Party (think the Queers for Palestine groups and others), which I think is a very real possibility, Fatah will be in the perfect position to continue the Jew-killing with the support of global liberals and leftists.
I wish Israel would just unleash the dogs and force Hamas to pound sand.
Unfortunately there are few workable options;
1. As suggested, let Israel and Fatah crush Hamas….unlikely or,
2. Reconsider the “Roadmap” instead as a Three-State Solution.
Today, it may make more pragmatic-sense to partition Gaza and the West Back as two separate sovereign states. Let Fatah have the West Bank as “Palestine” …and accept the Hamas-ruled (or even Fatah-ruled) Gaza Strip as “Gaza”. Historically and culturally they are disparate territories, and it eliminates the risk to Israelis created by the need for safe passage corridor between them. East and West Pakistan could not remain manage as one nation for long; and the existence of East Prussia always endangered Poland.
option 4.
a) Raze Gaza and build some nice Jewish communities on its ashes.
b) Turn the the West Bank “Now about the peace agreement…”
Pity we won’t see that.