Bender? Palestine has an army?
No problem...
We got Kiran and is she packing!
Posted on 01/28/2006 6:54:04 AM PST by Cornpone
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - The Islamic militant group Hamas was ready to merge armed factions including its military wing to form an army to defend the Palestinian people, a senior Hamas leader said on Saturday.
"We are willing to form an army like every country ... an army to defend our people against aggression," Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal told a news conference in Damascus after the group swept Palestinian parliamentary elections.
Oh yeah - so many wishing to invade pali and steal all their booty.
What they consider aggression is Israel existing anywhere in the middle east.
A Palestinian Army under Hamas would not last as long as the Eygptian Army did in June '67 when the balloon goes up.
Bender? Palestine has an army? No problem...
We got Kiran and is she packing!
Even if all their crazy Arab neighbors armed them to the teeth (some of them have teeth I hear), they couldn't and wouldn't stand up in any kind of conflict. They know how to murder innocents women and children. If they ever had to face a grown man, they'd run off blubbering and crying.
It's still early, but the hopes that Hamas will have to moderate in order to govern aren't being reflected in the rhetoric.
Oh, cool! They have decided to make this an easy decision for Israel!
Yep, this should be priority numero uno for a corrupt beauracracy.
On the plus side, this does supply Israel a large and legitimate target.
If Hamas puts their terrorists in uniform as a military, they get all of the protections of the Geneva Convention. OTOH, if they hit Israel, it is an act of war to which Israel can respond by wiping the Palis off the map.
Hmmm.
nope a pali army would be like a iraqi army.
iraqs army was geared for internal suppression....i see the old wheel of history turning again here.
You're right about that. One would have hoped their first policy statements would have dealt with issues like the economy, poverty and jobs. Seems like they took a page from the Clinton playbook when his first major policy statement after his first inauguration was about gays in the military....like we didn't really have bigger issues at the time. Anyway, in a sense this could be good if they are really thinking strategically. One of the failures of the previous PLO regime was the failure to get the armed militias and factions under control. If they can be consolidated in a single entity under PLO control then Israel would actually have someone to negotiate with that has some semblance of actually authority.
Aren't these bad things for a terrorist network; it has no viable sanctuary, its army can't melt into the background, its leadership is known.
good. And preparing for the "mother of all battles" too, I assume.
Defintely a positive move.
Don't worry, the neocons have assured us that democracies (and Hamas was elected through democratic means) never start wars. You can rest easy.
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