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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• January 23, 2015 at 5:00 am
According
to Israeli security forces, dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members in
the West Bank have defected to the Islamic State in recent months. Their
main goal, according to sources, is to topple the Palestinian Authority
and launch terror attacks on Israel.
Some
200 supporters of the Islamic State, who held up Islamic State flags,
took to the streets of Gaza City to protest the latest cartoons published
by the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. They also chanted
slogans that called for slaughtering French nationals, and burned French
flags. Attempts by Hamas to impose a news blackout on the protest failed,
as photos and videos found their way to social media.
The
glorification of terrorists and jihadists by the Palestinian Authority,
and the ongoing anti-Israel incitement by both Hamas and the Palestinian
Authority, is driving many Palestinians into the open arms of the Islamic
State.
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Palestinians waving Islamic State flags attempt to
storm the French Cultural Center in Gaza City. Some in the crowd
carried posters glorifying the terrorists who carried out this month's
attacks in Paris. (Image source: ehna tv YouTube screenshot)
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Hamas and other Palestinian groups are continuing to deny the
obvious, namely that the Islamic State terror group has managed to set up
bases of power in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Palestinians do not feel comfortable talking about the fact that
Islamic State is working hard to recruit Palestinians to its ranks.
The presence of Islamic State in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is an
embarrassing development for both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority.
For Hamas, the fact that Islamic State has long been operating in
the Gaza Strip is something that it does not want the world to know
about.
Hamas cannot afford a situation where another Islamist terror group
poses a challenge to its exclusive control over the Gaza Strip. Since it
seized control over the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has successfully
suppressed the emergence of rival forces, first and foremost the secular
Fatah faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas.
by Samuel Westrop
• January 23, 2015 at 4:00 am
There
are several reasons the British government may be publishing only the
"principal findings" of the report. First, some of the
information gathered will have been done so by the intelligence services,
so there are assets and agreements to protect. Another is the possibility
that by revealing the scope of the Muslim Brotherhood network in full,
the government would be revealing its own partnerships with Brotherhood
organizations, and providing insights into the vast amount of public
funds that has filled the coffers of Brotherhood charities.
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Muhammad Sawalha, a fugitive Hamas commander who is
"said to have masterminded much of Hamas's political and military
strategy" from London, is a trustee of the Finsbury Park mosque,
which receives tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money. (Image
source: inminds YouTube video screenshot)
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The British government will publish only the "principal
findings" of an inquiry commissioned by the British government into
the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Britain, according to a
report in the Financial Times.
Although the former head of the MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, has
described the Brotherhood as being, "at heart, a terrorist
organization," Brotherhood organizations in the UK have,
nevertheless, long enjoyed the support of government ministers and taxpayers'
money.
Previous media statements have indicated that the report written for
the inquiry, first commissioned in April 2014, has since sparked a great
deal of argument between government ministers and officials and has led
to a lengthy delay.
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