Fatah And Hamas Agree On War Objectives

Fatah And Hamas Agree On War Objectives
August 7, 2009: A large gathering of Fatah activists are trying to determine how to resume negotiations with Israel, and Hamas. The Palestinians remain divided into Hamas and Fatah factions, although leaders from both groups have been more united in their public pronouncements of how important it was to destroy Israel. The two factions differ on how they plan to go about this. Fatah takes a longer view, and is willing to wait decades for the higher Arab birth rate and growing anti-Israeli attitudes in the West, to do the job. Hamas is piling up rockets and other weapons, and wants to destroy Israel by force, as soon as possible. Neither faction is willing to negotiate a meaningful, long term, peace deal with Israel. At least that's what they tell their followers.

Because of the sharp reduction in terrorist activity in the West Bank over the last few years, Israel will stop manning dozens of concrete watch towers and low lying bunkers (pill boxes). Another reason for getting the troops out of the concrete structures, is because many soldiers just goofed off (drank alcohol or smoked marijuana) while on tower or pillbox duty. Because of the great expense, the concrete structures will not be dismantled, but instead locked up.

http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/israel/articles/20090807.aspx




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