Head of IDF’s Gaza command: Hamas is the new policeman in Gaza

[azurnoir]

Here are some of the quotes brought by Channel 10 Monday night

"Hamas leaders, both military and political, are doing everything to maintain restraint. One of their most important brigades is now acting as ‘border police,’ with 800 combatants taking shifts preventing all sorts of tiny organizations that want to fire rockets or place roadside bombs" [on the border].

" Suddenly Hamas is the strip’s policeman. There is no guarantee that it will last for long but for now it has brought about very serious restraint [in activities against Israel]. They know how to get to people […] Today we have a space of 100 meters inside the strip in which we operate. At the beginning they [Hamas] demanded that we not go in even one meter, but we sent them a message that the 100 meters is for their own good. It takes away their need to act against Palestinian civilians who might try and disturb public order near the fence.

Today Hamas knows where we operate. We tell them in advance and [Hamas] places its own people on the other side to keep the peace."

http://972mag.com/head-of-idfs-gaza-command-hamas-is-the-new-policeman-in-gaza/82895/

[oberliner]

1. 972mag Digest

Literally every single article it seems like.

[azurnoir]

2. Thanks for noticing

anything to say about the subject?

[shira]

3. Hamas can't afford war vs. Israel. Egypt won't help them out anymore.

The new bosses in Egypt view Hamas (Muslim Brotherhood) as the enemy.

[azurnoir]

4. ah so Morsi was a member of Hamas

Last edited Wed Dec 4, 2013, 09:52 PM - Edit history (1)

according to you then right?

[shira]

5. Egypt is now paranoid of any MB connections. Hamas is part of the MB.

It's an offshoot of the MB.

Egypt doesn't want Hamas helping the MB in Egypt in any way....no weapons, no attacks, nothing.

[azurnoir]

6. so once again Morsi was Hamas according to you? eta

by the same token you have also equated the PLO and PA with Hamas too

[shira]

7. Hamas is part of the MB, not the other way around. Morsi was not part of Hamas. n/t

[azurnoir]

8. No it is not part of the MB

at it's inception Hamas was funded in part by MB related charities that was back in the 1980's

[shira]

12. Hamas is still a branch of the MB. So tell me...

...does it bother you that Hamas is doing its best to prevent rocket attacks against Israel?

[pelsar]

9. oops....

Last edited Thu Dec 5, 2013, 02:49 AM - Edit history (3)

so if Hamas does what Egypt has done, what Jordan has done and police their own border, they actually get in return a peaceful border..and if history is any guide (yes i know the progressives here do not like referring to past events to recognize patterns that can be used to project into the future), as confidence in the security increases, trade has been known to follow. (its been happening for hundreds of years that particular pattern)

so i guess after all, hamas does in fact have choices and has decided NOT to attack israel in order to make a better future for its citizens and israel in turn cooperates with them...imagine that.

and apparently hamas has, unlike some posters here and other places, acknowledged that those little kassams do infact affect israelis and have decided to stop them...gosh, hamas, the locals, disagreeing with the vast knowledge of so many progressives

and that they in fact have the ability to make choices and have done so all on their own.

that must be a surprise to many.

[geek tragedy]

10. That's the same Hamas Israel refuses to allow at the bargaining table, and has made

it mandatory that the PA repudiate them.

[pelsar]

11. Israel makes the PA repudiate them?

wow...quite the imagination. I guess you missed out when hamas tossed PA members off the roofs of gaza buildings, murdered PA members in front of their families....maybe the PA has their own grudge against hamas,.....or do you assume they can't even do that by themselves?

but this is a familiar fable: that Israel controls the palestenians, until the Palestenians show otherwise. And here we have Hamas proving that, they infact can make their own decisions.

anything to say about that?...that hamas has clearly decided to stop shooting at israel which means in the past they were never "forced to" or that they "always had a choice"