When Hani Qawasmeh was named Interior Minister and devised localized co-ordination efforts it relied on a structure in which checks and balances would be heavily applied to his security chiefs to insure group infighting would be minimalized. But as alliances do not come from political efforts and instead regional associations, this plan was rarely followed, case in point being the events which lead to 40 dead in the Gaza strip this week.
Mr. Qawasmeh had little political power and even less social clout, and now in the wake of his resignation on the 14th, the way ahead seems even bleaker. When you find yourself with nothing, and then somehow come up with less, the answers do not come from a blank sheet of paper. If the former Ministers claims that he was nothing more than a “purely decorative” minister with little power and his initial appointment was one of incredible wrangling how large will this wake be?
RPG roughly translates to "Social Reform"
Today we find a conflict that per the “Palestinian Bell Curve” has morphed far from its original premise of security providers as Israel is being attacked by rockets from the Gaza strip in an effort to drag them into the conflict. Ariel Sharon has already been quoted publicly informing the world that a “policy of constraint” can no longer be followed, such a statement has been followed up with air strikes against a Hamas camp in southern Gaza and the Hamas Headquarters in Rafah in the last 24 hours.
EU leaders have renounced the violence and brought upon calls for leaders of all sides to “renounce the use of violence immediately, to restore the cease-fire and to resume their dialogue” of course the only problem being it is become glaringly obvious, through the continued breaking of cease-fires over the last few days that Mr.(s) Abbas and Haniyah may have little to no control over their respective factions in this current crisis.
The struggle for Palestine’s citizens, (sadly not in the forefront of the crisis) is growing daily, a civilian led protest to end the violence on Wednesday featuring numbers in the neighborhood of 200 people was only used by fighting factions to improve fighting positions and soon resulted in gunmen firing into the crowd of demonstrators wounding eight.
Finally, where would we be without American’s getting scapegoated into the conflict? On Hamas’ radio frequency the organization’s fighters could be heard referring to their Fatah rivals as “American Mercenaries” due to the support the west provides it. Mercenaries kill for money gentlemen; you kill due to ignorance and cowardice.
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