Why aren’t such globalist bureaucrats pursuing a diplomatic solution to Israel’s conflict with Hamas? Perhaps because they’ve read the Hamas Charter, which declares in Article 13: “There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Kothari and his colleagues to blame Israelis. These are limited operations, but the possibility of a large operation, something akin to the 2002 Operation Defensive Shield, has become a possibility. In response, the Israel Defense Forces have been entering West Bank towns, attempting to break the terrorist cells, arresting members, sometimes getting into shootouts with them. Starting in March, these groups have been organizing sporadic but lethal terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Beersheba and other Israeli cities. Members of both are believed to be young and eager to slit Jewish throats. There’s a Jenin Brigade and a new Nablus-based group called The Lion’s Den that my FDD colleague, Joe Truzman, has been reporting on. Hamas also competes for power, as do radical factions of Fatah, of which Mr. Such cities as Jenin and Nablus are increasingly dominated by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (a proxy of Tehran), and groups with ties to the Islamic State. Over recent months, he’s been either unable or unwilling to exercise control over the northern West Bank. In practice, he’s more like the mayor of Ramallah. He’s remained in that position since, never again daring to face the Palestinian electorate. The experiment failed when Hamas, after a bloody civil war with Fatah, its rival, came to power two years later and began staging terrorist attacks against Israelis.Īlso in 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was elected to a four-year term as president of the Palestinian Authority. Israelis withdrew from Gaza in 2005, a concession that could have led to the rise of a Palestinian state in that territory and the West Bank.
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