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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Scoobah who wrote (9955)9/19/2005 2:44:32 PM
From: paret   of 32591
 
Anarchoterror in Gaza
Washington Times ^ | 9-19-05

To people of goodwill who want to see an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, the anarchy and chaos that have engulfed Gaza since Israel uprooted its settlements and withdrew its military has been a very ugly jolt of reality. Both President Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have sought to give the Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, a chance to build a democratic country that would live in peace next to Israel. But Gaza is coming to look more like Afghanistan under Taliban rule than a viable democracy.

Today, it is a place where masked Hamas terrorist operatives openly parade in the streets and vow to destroy Israel and commit mass murder; where terrorists, no longer having to worry about the Israel Defense Forces, routinely smuggle arms and contraband across the Egyptian border, despite the existence of an agreement between Egypt and Mr. Abbas to police the Philadelphi Corridor given up by Israel; and where armed gangs drag people from their homes and loot and destroy property turned over by Israel to the control of the PA without interference from the Palestinian security forces.

The weapons smuggling and general anarchy in Gaza has spilled over into the Egyptian-controlled Sinai, where local jihadists are operating. Israeli officials report that some of the smuggling goes directly from Egypt into Israel. Given Hamas's determination to replicate its Gaza terror network in the West Bank, this creates another security problem for Jerusalem.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
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