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Misrule in Gaza

28 april 2007
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April 28, 2007.

HAMAS, the terrorist group that Palestinians last year elected to govern their
territories, is failing to govern at all.

March alone saw at least 46 kidnappings of civilians in the Gaza Strip, as
well as over 25 killings of Palestinians by fellow Palestinians.

Internecine violence has gotten so bad that one human-rights activist says Gaza
“has become worse than Somalia.” Yasser Abed Rabbo, an
executive-committee member of the rival Palestine Liberation Organization, calls
it “anarchy.”

The violence is just the tip of the iceberg in “Hamasistan.” Other troubling signs
include:

International Exodus: Foreigners who came to help are starting to flee for their
lives – even armed foreigners. One group of Egyptian military officers has
reportedly been recalled to Cairo on account of the dangers, with the two
generals who remain spending most of their time in Israel, for fear of violence.

The United Nations may even declare Gaza a “dangerous zone.” That
would precipitate the evacuation of nearly all foreign nationals.

This would be disastrous for the general population: Nearly two-thirds of
Gaza’s 1.4 million residents claim refugee status, and rely on the U.N. Relief
and Works Agency (UNWRA) and other aid organizations.

Unsafe Streets: The Palestinian media reports that crimes, including car theft
and abductions, are skyrocketing. Iranian-trained Hamas forces are battling
Egyptian-trained Fatah forces, rather than policing the streets. National Security
Adviser Muhammad Dahlan admits that “many young men prefer to work for
clans and not the security forces.” Last Sunday, a group calling itself the
Islamic Swords of Truth, a self-appointed vice squad, claimed responsibility for
bombing the Gaza Bible Society’s bookstore and two Internet cafes. In
response, Palestinians are taking the law into their own hands. In March, one of
Gaza’s large clans gathered to blockade a main road in Northern Gaza to protest
against the targeting of one of their shops by a vice squad. The family
demanded that the government bring law and order back to the streets.

Dwindling Media Freedom: Last week, security guards broke up a peaceful
media protest of the government’s inability to secure the release of Alan
Johnston, the BBC journalist kidnapped more than a month ago – and injured
three journalists. A group calling itself the Tawhid and Jihad Brigades just
issued a statement claiming to have executed Johnston. Foreign journalists now
fear for their lives.

Health Risks: The collapse of a sewage-treatment pool in Umm al-Naser, a
North Gaza village, killed three women and two toddlers and injured 25 others
in March. The “sewage tsunami” submerged at least 25 homes and caused
untold damages to the 3,000-person village.

Fadel Kawash, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, told the
Associated Press that a number of sewage projects, including the one in Umm
al-Naser, were halted when Hamas pulled funding after their electoral victory in
January 2006. Said one U.N. official, “this has been a tragedy that was
predicted and documented.” Officials believe that another cesspool collapse is
possible, unless prophylactic steps are soon taken.

Provocations: Hamas continues to permit provocations against Israel from Gaza
– notably, the homemade Kassam missiles shot into Israel nearly every day.
Yuval Diskin, the chief of Shin Bet, Israel’s counterintelligence and
internal-security service, recently warned that Israel must begin to think about
thwarting a more dangerous situation in Gaza, should Hamas develop more
dangerous capabilities.

Hamas is tempting Israel into a confrontation, with reckless disregard for
the Palestinian population. Gaza is the most densely populated place on earth;
any military incursion – like Israel’s response last year to similar Hamas
provocations from Lebanon – would inflict utter devastation.

In short, Hamas has not made the transition from terrorist group to government.
It is exposing Gazans to danger without providing key freedoms and services –
and seems on track to produce wider internecine violence, deepening poverty
and perhaps new rounds of violence with Israel.

In other words, Gaza’s suffering proves, once again, that terrorist groups,
thanks to their utter indifference to human suffering, are unfit to govern.

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