tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post4893544543387947161..comments2024-01-08T04:16:25.601-08:00Comments on Ché (What You Call Your) Pasa: Warsaw/GazaChé Pasahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-26296122791188193912009-01-19T07:42:00.000-08:002009-01-19T07:42:00.000-08:00IngSoc -- Robert Fisk was on Al Jazeera yesterday ...IngSoc -- <BR/><BR/>Robert Fisk was on Al Jazeera yesterday discussing the whole dog-awful situation in Gaza and the Middle East generally, and one of his points was that "Hamas is no Hezbullah," and that Hamas's claims to be some kind of "resistance" in Gaza is pathetic. I tend to agree. <BR/><BR/>If that was <I>resisance,</I> yeek. For all intents and purposes, Hamas did not resist at all. Most of them apparently hid or worked civil defense and rescue operations, they were not fighting the Israelis. <BR/><BR/>Israelis claimed that the high civilian casualty toll was due to Hamas's penchant for using civilians for human shields, and that Hamas was firing from positions among civilians. In many -- perhaps most -- cases, no such thing was true. There was practically no defensive fire from anyone in Gaza from anywhere. And I'm wondering if what little there was came from Hamas or from one of the other Islamic factions in Gaza.<BR/><BR/>The Israelis tried their best to decapitate Hamas and to terrorize the remainder, but they did not try to eliminate them. Fisk -- and others -- wonder whether the remnant of Hamas in Gaza is capable of governing the rubble and its inhabitants in the aftermath, however. Their performance during the Onslaught was, shall we say, lacking.<BR/><BR/>But perhaps not as lacking as the dismal performance of the Arab potentates and their EU and American sponsors. That's a whole other issue that I'm sure will have to be aired out. The stink of it is pretty foul.Ché Pasahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01926630891287949373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2304235862479840318.post-86036647374429885552009-01-17T19:51:00.000-08:002009-01-17T19:51:00.000-08:00You make some interesting assertions re Hamas. Per...You make some interesting assertions re Hamas. Perhaps they're not as strong as they want people to believe? This could explain some things, particularly how al-Fatah was able to effectively take over the West Bank.<BR/><BR/>Where indeed is the resistance in Gaza?<BR/><BR/>I hadn't really given that serious thought until this point; perhaps there's more going on than we've heard about?<BR/><BR/>Food for thought...IngSochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07511241598629928574noreply@blogger.com