Zionist has four options for dealing with Hamas

18 August 2007

After the Zionist occupation forces and Abbas failed to broke Hamas. The Zionist forces claimed. In the Zionist website "Y net", that it has four alternatives. One possibility is to attempt to topple Hamas' government in Gaza through an ongoing economic and diplomatic boycott coupled with military pressure.

Another option is for Zionist to silently agree that Palestinian and international elements, for example the European Union, would engage in contacts with Hamas. Initially this would be done in order to reopen the crossings and ease the economic pressure on the Strip, and later in order to press Hamas to moderate(cooperate with the Zionists) its positions.

The Zionist sources said that the danger is that Hamas, once it extracts itself from the diplomatic isolation, would view it as a sign that its policy succeeded. It won't change its fundamental positions and continue to grow stronger militarily, but also elicit further concessions and use them in order to undermine Fatah's status in the West Bank as well.

A third possibility is an agreement with Hamas: Zionist will reconcile itself de facto to Hamas' control in Gaza, engage in direct dialogue with it through low-ranking officials and officers( refused by Hamas), and also allow Abbas to do that. In addition, Zionist will demand and get a long-term ceasefire that would promise several years of tranquility to Al Naqab areas.

The Zionists said that A wide-scale military operation that would see the Zionist occupation forces taking over some areas and creating a water obstacle that would clog the tunnels in the Philadelphi Route. At the end of the operation, the Strip would be handed over to the joint control of Abbas and a multinational force.

Barhoum warns of joint plot between Zionist and Fatah to assassinate Haniya

Fawzi Barhoum, the Hamas spokesman warned of a joint scheme between Zionist entity and the Fatah-affiliated mutiny trend to assassinate Ismail Haniya, the premier of the legitimate PA caretaker government.

In a press release, Fawzi Barhoum stated that there were many failed attempts by Fatah in the last months to assassinate Haniya and other Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip, attributing the assassination attempts to "the strong personality and popularity Haniya enjoys in addition to his success in grabbing the reins of the national unity government."

The spokesman explained that there is Zio-American conspiracy weaved in Washington to liquidate the Hamas leaders in order to pave the way for the return of Fatah to the Gaza Strip according to the Dayton plan.

The spokesman recalled previous failed attempts carried out by the mutiny trend in Fatah to assassinate Haniya such as the shooting at the headquarters of the cabinet in Gaza city from a adjacent place during a formal session, and the targeting of Haniya's house with an "RPG" shell in the last events of Gaza.

Hamas sources had unveiled a few days ago two videotapes including confessions by members of security apparatuses affiliated with Fatah who participated in a failed attempt to assassinate Haniya.