Hama-Nazis
What ... Hamas and Nazis? Huh? Apart from the obvious shared desire to kill Jews, what on Earth am I prattling on about?
The Hamas Interior Minister Said Siyam has decided to appoint a known terrorist Abu Samhadana (wanted by Israel for multiple rocket attacks, and survivor of numerous assassination attempts by Israel; by the US for the attack on a US Embassy convoy in the Gaza when it was still civilized) as the head of a new security force -- made up exlusively of Islamic militants. And get this: Abu Samhadana's thugs will be answerable only to the Interior Minister.
Does this sound like the SA (Sturmabteilung) to you, or perhaps the SS (Schutzstaffel)? They too, were not answerable to the electorate but only to Roehm and Heydrich (well Himmler, but more acurately Heydrich in terms of executive function) until they too met their demise. Where society creates "security forces" of any sort that are not answerable to the electorate -- and please don't bore me with the notion that Hamas can now be voted out ... that is why the security forces are to be created -- we see the inevitable creation of a dictatorship, a one-party state where any right to dispute politics will be ruthlessly crushed.
Hamas will cleanse its population of dissent. Anyone not on board with the notion of terrorism and violence will be eliminated (or liquidated?) until Palestine is forged into a tool to do the political bidding of its rulers.
The net of this will be a show-down: there can be no peace with Israel without a democracy on the other side. Israel will have to pull up the ladders and build the bunkers. By this one move, Hamas has declared its long term intent in a more demonstrative way than any mere verbal proclamation to destroy Israel. If I were in the driver's seat in Jerusalem, I'd start thinking about a systematic way of targeting and eliminating anyone associated with the new security force. By any means.
The Hamas Interior Minister Said Siyam has decided to appoint a known terrorist Abu Samhadana (wanted by Israel for multiple rocket attacks, and survivor of numerous assassination attempts by Israel; by the US for the attack on a US Embassy convoy in the Gaza when it was still civilized) as the head of a new security force -- made up exlusively of Islamic militants. And get this: Abu Samhadana's thugs will be answerable only to the Interior Minister.
Does this sound like the SA (Sturmabteilung) to you, or perhaps the SS (Schutzstaffel)? They too, were not answerable to the electorate but only to Roehm and Heydrich (well Himmler, but more acurately Heydrich in terms of executive function) until they too met their demise. Where society creates "security forces" of any sort that are not answerable to the electorate -- and please don't bore me with the notion that Hamas can now be voted out ... that is why the security forces are to be created -- we see the inevitable creation of a dictatorship, a one-party state where any right to dispute politics will be ruthlessly crushed.
Hamas will cleanse its population of dissent. Anyone not on board with the notion of terrorism and violence will be eliminated (or liquidated?) until Palestine is forged into a tool to do the political bidding of its rulers.
The net of this will be a show-down: there can be no peace with Israel without a democracy on the other side. Israel will have to pull up the ladders and build the bunkers. By this one move, Hamas has declared its long term intent in a more demonstrative way than any mere verbal proclamation to destroy Israel. If I were in the driver's seat in Jerusalem, I'd start thinking about a systematic way of targeting and eliminating anyone associated with the new security force. By any means.
posted by Zaphod at Friday, April 21, 2006
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