Sunday, June 17, 2007

Fatah Supporters Try to Take Refuge in Israel   [J. Peter Pham]

If there is any doubt about how bad the Hamas takeover of Gaza in, consider this nugget from a report by Ian Fisher and Tagreed El-Khodary in Sunday's edition of The New York Times:

On Saturday morning, hundreds of Fatah supporters tried to flee Gaza through the Erez crossing into Israel. Many made it through, according to witnesses and Israeli radio, but others scattered after Hamas gunmen, who had set up roadblocks to prevent people from leaving, fired over their heads to scare them away.

Yes, the Fatah militants - including, sources report, some actually who, for their own nefarious activities, were wanted by Israeli security services - preferred to throw themselves at the feet of the same Jewish state that they have sworn to eliminate (see, inter alia, the map on Fatah's official website) rather than live in the emergent terrorist enclave of "Hamastan." The irony is almost too rich.

06/17 09:42 AMShare