The conference hasn’t even begun, and Hamas is already threatening more terrorist attacks after it’s over.
Hamas will step up attacks against Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank after a US-hosted peace conference next week, an official said in a statement on its website Saturday.
“The period that will follow the Annapolis conference will witness an increase of the resistance against the Zionist occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” said Mussa Abu Marzuq, top aide to Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal.
“The Annapolis conference has two objectives: to help shore up (Israeli Prime Minister) Ehud Olmert after his defeat in the south of Lebanon and secondly to cover up for American plans of a war against Iran,” he said.
I think that’s pretty much an admission that Hamas is in Tehran’s pocket, which we, well, already knew. And just to prove they’re serious, they’re holding a counter-conference of terrorist groups this Monday.
On the other hands, Hamas Movement called the Arab countries not to normalize their relations with Israel and not to give any up during the conference that is expected to be held November 27. In a progressive step, the movement announced that it holds in Gaza a counter-conference. The movement said that it holds this conference backed by Islamic Al Jihad and other Palestinian factions. This counter-conference will be succeeded by a mass rally Tuesday, to be coincided with the starting of the conference’s works. In a similar move, the Popular and Democratic Front of Palestine Liberation and Islamic Jihad Party hold a counter-conference in Gaza without Hamas participation.
How much you want to be that the Gaza conference calls for the destruction of the Jewish State? Any takers? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
In a perverse way it would be a step forward for Hamas to increase its attacks on the IDF. Mostly they attack civilians, unarmed people going about their business. Attacking armed and trained soliders would be refreshing, sort of.
Since the armed and trained people shoot back, a few more Hamas members would be killed, and that’s always encouraging.