Thread Rating:
  • 1 Vote(s) - 5 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Generational Dynamics World View
*** 7-Jan-19 World View -- Hamas vs Fatah relationship deteriorates sharply on Palestinian anniversary

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Hamas vs Fatah relationship deteriorates sharply on Palestinian anniversary
  • Bomb disposal robot detonates object carried into Israel by helium balloons

****
**** Hamas vs Fatah relationship deteriorates sharply on Palestinian anniversary
****


[Image: g190106b.jpg]
Employee inspects damage to Palestinian Authority media office in Gaza after attacks by five men (AFP)

Tensions between Hamas, the governing authority in Gaza, and the
Palestinian Authority (Fatah), the governing authority in the West
Bank, have intensified substantially in the last few days.

The trigger for the latest fallout was apparently plans by Fatah's 83
year old leader Mahmoud Abbas to celebrate the 54th anniversary of the
launchng of Fatah's first attacks against Israel, and to do so by
holding several rallies throughout the Gaza strip, which is governed
by Hamas.

According to Fatah, Hamas prevented those rallies from taking place by
arresting 500 of its men in the Gaza strip, subjecting many of them to
torture, and also by raiding the homes of many Fatah officials and
activists, confiscating material and equipment that was supposed to be
used during the Fatah rallies.

Then, to make matters worse, Hamas allowed Abbas's political rival,
Mohammed Dahlan, and his supporters to hold their own rallies to
celebrate the 54th anniversary of Fatah’s first attack against Israel,
according to the Jerusalem Post.

This had led to vitriolic mutual accusations, with each side accusing
the other of the being a traitor. Abbas accused Hamas being "spies"
for Israel, while Hamas accused Abbas of being a dictator, senile, a
liar, and mentally unstable. Abbas was called a collaborator because
of the security coordination between his security forces and Israel in
the West Bank.

On Friday, five armed men entered the offices of the Palestinian
Authority's media headquarters in Gaza, assaulted the workers and
destroyed equipment, including cameras, equipment, furniture and
broadcasting equipment.

On Saturday, Hamas arrested five men and accused them of
being the perpetrators, and also announced that all five men
were Fatah employees whose motive was revenge for not
getting paid salaries. However, Fatah leaders hold Hamas
responsible.

On Friday evening, Abbas announced a halt to payment of salaries and
social welfare to thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, which
amounts to $96 million monthly. Fatah also announced it would close
all its offices in Gaza "in anticipation of any attacks on them."

On Saturday, Fatah announced that it would be withdrawing its
employees from the Rafeh border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. This
border crossing is a lifeline to many Gazans, but it's been closed for
many periods in the last ten years. Thanks to Hamas-Fatah mediation
efforts by Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi, the Rafah crossing
has been open continuously for several months, under the condition
that Fatah provides the guards to run the crossing. Egypt has not
commented, and it's not clear whether Hamas will be allowed to replace
Fatah in operating the crossing.

For several years, Egypt’s president, Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi has been
trying to mediate a reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, so that
they can form a unity government representing all Palestinians. Once
that's done, the grand fantasy is that this unity government can then
negotiate with Israel for the boundaries in the two-state solution,
which will produce two nations, Israel and Palestine, side-by-side in
peace.

As I wrote in my very first Generational Dynamics analysis on May 1,
2003, when president George Bush published his "Mideast Roadmap to
Peace," which described the details of a two-state solution, that will
never happen. Generational Dynamics predicts that the plan would fail because the Jews and the Arabs
would be refighting the 1948 war that followed the partitioning of
Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.

All the machinations and negotiations for a unity government and a
two-state solution are completely naive. Polls have shown that young
Palestinians consider 83-year-old Mahmoud Abbas to be a fool. The
Hamas leaders get more respect because they're a generation younger,
but not much more respect. What they're all waiting for is a young
obsessed fanatic, their own version of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
to inspire them to inspire them to become martyrs for their
cause.

As I've written many times, Generational Dynamics predicts that the
Mideast is headed for a major regional war refighting the 1948 war
between Jews and Arabs that followed the partitioning of Palestine and
the creation of the state of Israel. The war will also pit Sunnis
versus Shias, and various ethnic groups against each other. Iran is
controlled by an ancient generation of hardliners whose policies are
strongly opposed by the growing population of younger generations.
Generational Dynamics predicts that in the approaching Clash of
Civilizations world war, the "axis" of China, Pakistan and the Sunni
Muslim countries will be pitted against the "allies," the US, India,
Russia and Iran. Jerusalem Post (2-Jan) and Mideast Eye and Al Arabiya (5-Jan) and Jerusalem Post (5-Jan) and Reuter

****
**** Bomb disposal robot detonates object carried into Israel by helium balloons
****


[Image: g190106c.jpg]
A police bomb disposal robot carries away a drone-shaped device from a carrot field that had been flown in from Gaza by a cluster of helium balloons on Sunday. (Israel Police)

On Sunday morning, a large object was flown into Israel from Gaza by
means of a large cluster of helium balloons. The object looked like a
drone glider, although it was apparently not capable of flight. The
name of a Gaza engineering college was printed on the side of the
object.

The device landed in a carrot field in southern Israel. A police bomb
disposal robot examined the device, causing it to explode like a bomb.
The drone lookalike was then carried away.

In retaliation, Israeli military helicopters attacked two observation
posts in Gaza controlled by Hamas. Times of Israel

Related Articles:

KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Israel, Gaza, West Bank, Hamas,
Fatah, Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, Mohammed Dahlan,
Egypt, Abdel-Fatteh El-Sisi

Permanent web link to this article
Receive daily World View columns by e-mail
Contribute to Generational Dynamics via PayPal

John J. Xenakis
100 Memorial Drive Apt 8-13A
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone: 617-864-0010
E-mail: john@GenerationalDynamics.com
Web site: http://www.GenerationalDynamics.com
Forum: http://www.gdxforum.com/forum
Subscribe to World View: http://generationaldynamics.com/subscribe
Reply


Messages In This Thread
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by radind - 05-14-2016, 03:21 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by radind - 05-23-2016, 10:31 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by radind - 08-11-2016, 08:59 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by SomeGuy - 01-18-2017, 09:23 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by tg63 - 02-04-2017, 10:08 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 03-13-2017, 03:33 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by SomeGuy - 03-15-2017, 02:56 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by SomeGuy - 03-15-2017, 03:13 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 05-30-2017, 01:04 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 07-08-2017, 01:34 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by tg63 - 08-09-2017, 11:07 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by tg63 - 08-10-2017, 02:38 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 10-25-2017, 03:07 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by rds - 10-31-2017, 03:35 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by rds - 10-31-2017, 06:33 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by noway2 - 11-20-2017, 04:31 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 12-28-2017, 11:00 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 12-31-2017, 11:14 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 06-22-2018, 02:54 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 07-11-2018, 01:42 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 07-11-2018, 01:54 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 07-19-2018, 12:43 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 07-25-2018, 02:18 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 07-11-2018, 01:58 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 08-18-2018, 03:42 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Galen - 08-19-2018, 04:39 AM
7-Jan-19 World View -- Hamas vs Fatah relationship deteriorates sharply on Palestinia - by John J. Xenakis - 01-07-2019, 12:17 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by tg63 - 09-25-2019, 11:12 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 03-09-2020, 02:11 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Camz - 03-10-2020, 10:10 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by tg63 - 03-12-2020, 11:11 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by JDG 66 - 03-16-2020, 03:21 PM
RE: 58 year rule - by Tim Randal Walker - 04-01-2020, 11:17 AM
RE: 58 year rule - by John J. Xenakis - 04-02-2020, 12:25 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by Isoko - 05-04-2020, 02:51 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by tg63 - 01-04-2021, 12:13 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by CH86 - 01-05-2021, 11:17 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by mamabug - 01-10-2021, 06:16 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by mamabug - 01-11-2021, 09:06 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by mamabug - 01-12-2021, 02:53 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by mamabug - 01-13-2021, 03:58 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by mamabug - 01-13-2021, 04:16 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by mamabug - 01-15-2021, 03:36 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by galaxy - 08-19-2021, 03:03 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by galaxy - 08-21-2021, 01:41 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by galaxy - 02-27-2022, 06:06 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by galaxy - 02-27-2022, 10:42 PM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by galaxy - 02-28-2022, 12:26 AM
RE: Generational Dynamics World View - by galaxy - 02-28-2022, 04:08 PM

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Why the social dynamics viewpoint to the Strauss-Howe generational theory is wrong Ldr 5 4,800 06-05-2020, 10:55 PM
Last Post: pbrower2a
  Theory: cyclical generational hormone levels behind the four turnings and archetypes Ldr 2 3,387 03-16-2020, 06:17 AM
Last Post: Ldr
  The Fall of Cities of the Ancient World (42 Years) The Sacred Name of God 42 Letters Mark40 5 4,660 01-08-2020, 08:37 PM
Last Post: Eric the Green
  Generational cycle research Mikebert 15 16,218 02-08-2018, 10:06 AM
Last Post: pbrower2a
Video Styxhexenhammer666 and his view of historical cycles. Kinser79 0 3,322 08-27-2017, 06:31 PM
Last Post: Kinser79

Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 7 Guest(s)