Gaza: Questions for Egypt and Hamas

An Egyptian protester shouts slogans during a protest against Israel's ongoing military operation in the Gaza Strip, in front of the Arab League offices in Cairo 15 November 2012. (Photo: Reuters - Amr Abdallah Dalsh)

 طالبت نوارة نجم الرئيس مرسي بالتوقف عن اداء الصلاة في الاماكن العامة ( حتى لا تكفر الشعب ) وقالت ان المصريات بدأن يخلعن الحجاب نكاية بجماعة الاخوان .. واضافت :يا اخ يا رئيس يا مؤمن.. لو حتخرج تصلي كده يبقى صلي في بيتكوا وثوابك حيبقى اكبر ان شاء الله وفي رقبتي انا شخصيا.. يوم القيامة حاقول انا اللي شورت عليه الشورة دي.. فليسعك بيتك مدام كل ما حتخرج حتعمل لنا دبكة وعطلة وترهبنا بالامن المركزي كأنك نازل تحرر فلسطين واحنا الاسرائيليين صلي في البيت صلي في البيت صلي في البيت وفي رقبتي انا قدام ربنا
 

Gaza: Questions for Egypt and Hamas
By: Ibrahim al-Amin

Published Thursday, November 15, 2012

Israel has dealt a harsh blow to the resistance in Palestine. Its assassination of the prominent Hamas military commander Ahmad al-Jaabari was a vengeful move, which will affect Hamas in several ways.

The immediate impact is on the running of the movement’s military apparatus. In the short term, it is on the command of that apparatus, given that its top commander, Mohammad al-Daif, was heavily reliant on his aide Jaabari. The long term impact relates to Jaabari’s official position in the Hamas leadership, the choice of his successor, and the considerations and outlook which govern that choice.

Regardless of how the Palestinian resistance responds on the ground, or whether Israel’s claim to have destroyed its strategic missile infrastructure in the Gaza Strip is true, the answers needed today are less about Palestine than Egypt.

No amount of evasion can prevent a succession of questions from being asked about the real strategy of the worldwide organization of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and of its Egyptian and Palestinian branches, which control the Egyptian state and the Gaza Strip respectively.

Israel’s government – as well as its security and military establishments – has ample reason for wanting to unleash all kinds of aggression on Gaza. But Israel’s audacity in deciding to go after such a heavyweight target as Jaabari remains puzzling.

On the ground, Israel was relying on its intelligence and operational prowess to counter the Palestinian resistance’s improved capabilities. Its announcement that it destroyed some 20 key missile sites presents a challenge in this regard, after Israel tried the same thing in Lebanon in 2006, but fell into a trap that made its “operation” to establish decisive deterrence come to nothing, even after the “operation” turned into “war.” 

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