HashTag #AskHamas

Hamas are running a 5 day social media campaign with the Hashtag #AskHamas

Let's just say - it's not going quite as they intended.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AskHamas&src=hash&mode=photos

Hamas urges collaborators to hand themselves in

Hamas has put out a threat to "collaborators" with Israel - Hand yourself in.

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- The Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza has a list of collaborators who will be detained if they do not turn themselves in, a security official said Tuesday. 

"Collaborators must contact dignitaries to help them turn themselves over to security services," said Muhammad Lafi, of the Internal Security Service. 

Informers who give themselves up by April 11 will not be detained or sent to interrogation centers, Lafi told reporters in Gaza City.

No, they will be killed.

The Ministry of Interior and the Social Affairs Ministry will allocate a monthly salary to the families of collaborators who surrender, he added. 

Yes, to make up for their family being killed

"This campaign against collaborators isn't purely a security campaign, as it also has a social element. We do not discriminate between them according to their political affiliation, and we will provide them with information to make sure they can make right their mistakes and thus protect resistance fighters," Lafi said. 

Interior Ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan said the campaign aimed to "reinforce society" against Israeli enlistment efforts.

Not "security", but "society".  People are classified "collaborators" if they do anything that insults the fundamentalist regime.

Get ready for more killings and torture by Hamas of their own people.

When the UN exonerates Israel, the media ignores

Remember Operation Pillar of Defense, and the immediate show of children killed by "Israeli fire".

Well, it turns out the Palestinian children were actually killed by errant Hamas fire.

The other images Hamas used were either of the Syrian conflict, or sometimes even of Israeli children they had murdered themselves during the Intifada.

Unsurprisingly, there has been no retraction in the media.  This needs wider attention.

Thanks to Honest Reporting for this story

Ceasefire in Gaza!

Ceasefire in Gaza is announced!  Israel stops immediately, Hamas about 3 hours later.

Whilst this is a good thing in the short term, it is surely just a matter of time before Hamas rearms and launch their next round of terror.

Also, I expect that either Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt  will be rewarded by accepting aid packages or similar support.  This would be essentially rewarding terrorism.

Hamas Justice

Reported and filmed by CNN.  A body was dragged through Gaza city yesterday.  Apparently a "collaborator".  No word on any actual trial or crime.

Not the first, apparently there have been 6 (unconfirmed).

This is Hamas Justice. 

Operation Pillar of Defense

Operation Pillar of Defense has started.  Apparently the media is reporting this is because of the killing by Israel of the Terrorist leader Ahmed Jabari.  The fact that Hamas had escalated rocket activity in the last month had been completely ignored by all outside of Israel.

Can you imagine the gall of people who say "Israel broke the Truce".  What Truce, where you are able to rain missiles on innocent civilians?

The usual response in the media is that Palestinian rocket fire is harmless.  Supposedly small homemade firecrackers.  Well one of those rockets killed 3 people, including a baby.  And they are landing in Tel Aviv!  That is some serious distance.  These are Grad missiles smuggled from Iran.  Cynically fired from underground sites within densely populated areas.  Hamas will do whatever they can to provoke Israel and attempt to make more martyrs.  Nobody complains that they are putting their own people in the firing line.  To do so would risk death from their own leaders.

Iron Dome is intercepting about one in three.  I guess that is something.

Locally, cynical people are referencing the upcoming Israeli election.  Firstly, the operation is being undertaken by the IDF, not the government.  And it has bipartison support.  There is only so much terror activity that civilians will put up with.  Whilst protecting citizens would definitely be a popular topic, this can hardly be taken just to win political points scoring.  If anything, this is a risk to government if the military operation goes bad.  The Lebanon operation in 2006 was politically bad for the Olmert government

However, speaking of elections, any word on Palestinian elections?  People seem to forget about those.  If you want to be cyncial about anything, remember that only the other week, Mahmoud Abbas renounced his right to live in Sefad, to the anger of Hamas.  Next week, Palestine go to the UN to recognise Statehood.  How does it look if they are firing rockets wanton into Israel.

This operation is being documented in Social Media like never before.  Hamas and the IDF are tweeting each other.

And right on cue, if you search twitter for "Israel" or "Gaza" you will see a war going on.  My facebook account has been awash with Memes.  I'm not going to reproduce any here - in essence I don't feel they achieve anything but whip up more fervour.

Hamas are keen to promote the idea of Israel as "baby murderers", and that is the majority of what is posted under the Gaza hashtags are such.  Again, just to get the emotions going to try and promote and justify their own atrocities.  Given they are attempting to generate their own martyrs (in the name of God!) is disgusting and despicable.

PA also fears Nuclear armed Iran

Palestinian "moderate" Salam Fayyad was interviewed recently

President Ahmadinejad, he said, should stop acting as a supposed spokesman for the Palestinians

This is quite damning, although I doubt we will see similar sentiments from Hamas, who are armed via Iran.

Fayyad also had this to say on Hamas.

"Hamas's actions are not consistent with reconciliation." Last Friday a Fatah delegation was barred from entering Gaza for talks.

So the "Unity election", and talk of Hamas disarming are probably just hot air.

 

Palestinian Activist confirms Hamas puts terror bases amongst civiliants

From AIJAC - Hamas worst kept secret is confirmed.  Terrorist bases are embedded in civilian areas in Gaza.

This starts to shed new light on faults in the Goldstone report

Hamas is rearming

Whale Oil has a link to show Hamas rockets and the targets within Israel.  The source is the IDF Blog