Truce or No Truce: That Is The Question!

Whether it is better to allow the IDF to destroy Hamas, and taking with it the dream of Gazastan;
Or perchance, to allow a truce, and survive the war like Hizbollah.


Hamas keeps saying no to a UN truce. Even if Israel was to say yes, Hamas will still say no. Are they meshuge? Quite possibly, but that is not why they are saying no.

It seems that their Iranian masters are telling them to fight on or else.

Iran is exerting heavy pressure on Hamas not to accept the Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel, an Egyptian government official said on Sunday.

The official told The Jerusalem Post by phone that two senior Iranian officials who visited Damascus recently warned Hamas leaders against accepting the proposal.

His remarks came as Hamas representatives met in Cairo with Egyptian Intelligence Chief Gen. Omar Suleiman and his aides to discuss ways of ending the fighting in the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas representatives reiterated their opposition to a cease-fire that did not include the reopening of all the border crossings into the Gaza Strip, Hamas spokesmen said on Sunday.

"The Iranians threatened to stop weapons supplies and funding to the Palestinian factions if they agreed to a cease-fire with Israel. The Iranians want to fight Israel and the US indirectly. They are doing this through Hamas in Palestine and Hizbullah in Lebanon."

Or the right to rearm and shoot rockets into Israel at will. So Hamas will not stop firing rockets, making cheesy videos, lying through their teeth about what is really happening in Gaza. Meanwhile the people are Gaza will suffer for their action.

The Iranians have signed up 15,000 idiots fighters to go to Gaza and join the fight, but they refuse to send them. All this in an attempt to steer the eyes of the world off of their nuclear weapons program.

The official pointed out that the Iranians were applying "double standards" regarding the current conflict - on the one hand, they encouraged Iranian men to volunteer to fight alongside Hamas; on the other hand, Iran's spiritual leader, Ali Khamenei, told the volunteers that they would not be permitted to join the fight against Israel.

"The Iranians never fired one bullet at Israel," he said. "But now they are trying to appear as if they are participating in the war against Israel. The leaders of Teheran don't care about the innocent civilians who are being killed in the Gaza Strip."

"This conflict serves the interests of the Iranians," he said. "They are satisfied because the violence in the Gaza Strip has diverted attention from their nuclear ambitions. The Iranians are also hoping to use the Palestinian issue as a 'powerful card' in future talks with the Americans.

"They want to show that they have control over Hamas and many Palestinians."

And Hamas has always done their master's bidding. This is a proxy war in many ways. The pro-Iranian Hamas, who recently imposed Shar'ia law upon Gaza, against Israel. And the Iranians have been boasting that they would wipe Israel off the face of the Earth. If the fighting in Gaza is any indication of how the Iranians would accomplish that feat, Israel has little to fear from Iran.

We are seeing a shift in Arab solidarity now. No longer is the whole Arab world behind Hamas. The Egyptians are questioning their leadership's judgment.

Karam Jaber, editor of the semi-official Egyptian weekly Roz Al-Youssef magazine, said that Hamas was caught between the Syrian anvil and the Iranian hammer. The Iranians, he said, prevented Hamas from negotiating a cease-fire with Israel, while the Syrians were blackmailing and intimidating the Hamas leaders in Damascus.

"History won't forget to mention that Hamas had inflicted death and destruction on the Palestinians," he said. "We hope that Hamas has learned the lesson and realizes that it has been fighting a war on behalf of others. We hope the Hamas leaders will realize that they are fighting a destructive war on behalf of the Iranians and Syrians."

Egyptian political analyst Magdi Khalil said he shared the view of the Palestinian Authority and Egypt that Hamas was responsible for the war in the Gaza Strip. "Ever since Hamas seized control over the Gaza Strip in 2007, they turned the area into hell," he said. "They imposed restrictions on the people there and even prevented them from performing the pilgrimage to Mecca."

The analyst said that the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service was right when he recently described Hamas as a group of gangsters. "Hamas and its masters in Damascus and Teheran want to spread chaos in Egypt," he said. "They want to solve the problem of the Gaza Strip by handing the area over to Egypt. They want to create a homeland for the Palestinians in Sinai."

And the MSM was and is quiet about all this. Although using the Sinai for a Palestinian homeland might not be a bad idea. It is bigger than Gaza and the West Bank put together. And if the Palestinians would stop begging for welfare, and actually try to build a nation there, it could work.

It is a shame about Gaza. It could have become a wonderful spot on the Earth. It had the potential of becoming a major port city like Singapore, or Dubai. Instead what they have gotten is Tora Bora.