February 18, 2011
the long wave MAGHREB
Infection Hamas terrorizes the border at Rafah
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is all yellow, eh? The desert sand, cement dust. It is impressive, right? Who would dream of entering, it seems the door of hell .... " Marwan is right. Seen from outside Rafah, with its ocher blanket of dust, there's nothing attractive. If this is a matter of there's really nothing to look charming in this strip of Gaza, here the ruined outskirts of Rafah, Palestinian, from there, quivering like a distant mirage, the Egyptian Rafah, on the left Long Gray Line of desert and the beginning of this 270 km long border between Egypt and Israel is becoming a nightmare for authorities in Tel Aviv and the obsession of the military.
What Marwan my guide does not say, and how could it otherwise?, Is that suddenly the world seems upside down, things do not go back there, everything is upside down: not only no one wants to get to Rafah, but no longer able to leave since Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip since 2007, has lined up the men of the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades on the border, on the "Philadelphi Corridor", which has always been the safety valve and communicating with the outside world. Hamas that shuts down. Why? "But it's simple: the most Egyptians can not be trusted, in Rafah beyond the border overlooking the chaos, the police did not check anything, there are bands of Bedouins who intercepted the goods, kidnap people, demand protection money . So we closed the door. Farewell valves ".
Now that border is guarded by a Hamas hard, with their tripod and binoculars from a distance leaning over to sip every meter of the border, ocher cloud permitting. From a distance, do not seem so different from Israeli soldiers. A few miles away soldiers with the Star of David have the same apprehension. Earlier this month someone has blown up the pipeline el-Arish in northern Sinai, leaving Jordan and Israel - which derives from the Egyptian gas to 40% of its needs - with a sudden lack of energy. For this, notwithstanding the Camp David Accords, Netanyahu has agreed to drain 800 soldiers of the Egyptian army in the area.
The police no longer enough. But even the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) seems sufficient. Just consider the fool remedied recently by the director of intelligence, Kochi Aviv, on the eve of the insurrection Egyptian declared before the Knesset: "The stability of Mubarak is not in question, and the Muslim Brotherhood are not yet prepared to aim to succeed." All wrong, as we have seen, and now the pau 'ra resurfaces silent, as in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, far away from that border in Sinai, but psychologically very close to those Askhelon, Sderot to those accustomed to deal daily with Gaza . But one of perverse twist of history, at this time Hamas shows have the same heartache, the same fears, perhaps the same interests of Israel before the unknown in Egypt.
As the Israeli prime minister said yesterday, "we hope for the best, but prepare ourselves for the worst. " Do not joke, the lords of Hamas. Asma al-Ghoul, the most famous blogger in the Gaza Strip should know. In December, his brother Mustafa was arrested by police in Gaza for taking an active part in organizing non-profit 30 Sharek Youth Forum, the embryo of the symbolic protest last year that first shook the torpor of the Strip. "They were all young - he said - demanded to live, to be free from the chains, even those of Hamas, not only of Israel." It ended badly. Hamas has made arrests, devastated the headquarters, accused the youth of Sharek "because according to them - continues Asthma - teaching dance, gymnastics and immorality to the girls. " There is another nice
. A month ago, a Palestinian journalist close to Fatah, a-Muheib Nawati, disappeared after his arrival in Syria. He had written a book "from Hamas." It is not easy to explain what became Gaza after the Egyptian Revolution. "A fortress, of course, Hamas has a lot of fear - says Chantal Meloni, Italian researcher of criminal law and former consultant to the Hague Tribunal's house in Gaza - because he has to hold together opposing forces: this side of the extremists and radicals across the people has passed and perhaps the most voted out but is now trapped in this sort of regime. That is fully understood, because even in the West Bank the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen does the same things, stop torture, stifling dissent. " In fact something in common with the rebels and their separated brethren Hamas Fatah really have it: Both have beaten the holy reason the Palestinians in recent days were taken to the streets staging anti-Mubarak demonstrations. "The shocking news of fear, uncertainty - Graeme Bannerman said the Middle East Institute in Jerusalem - of not knowing what will happen tomorrow. It should be also included Israel, thirty-two years on security at the border due to the Camp David accords that crumble in three weeks. "
A treaty which in its own way was also convenient for Hamas, which with the Rafah tunnels built up a turnover of 600 million dollars a year in an area dominated by chronic unemployment touching 45% and that the same time has created a caste of "Lords of the tunnel" merchants of cement, tools, gas station that made fat profits with Egypt and the Gaza Strip, while ensuring the continued maintenance of these underground tunnels (at least 1200 times gold Today only 500 in assets and only 100 in operation). Hamas was limited to politicians to impose price: 36 euro cents per liter gasoline, 40 cents against the euro and that charges Abu Mazen in the West Bank. "But that mechanism is now missing - says Chantal Meloni - and the price crisis strangles even more the Strip."
goods that pass by the tunnel now cost much more, the Bedouins we put a surcharge, not everything arrives intact. Even concrete, leave the tunnel we see in big bundles from which come crumbling scrolls gray blends with the desert dust and at least offer some explanation to the yellowish cloud overlooking Gaza, a hood that contains symbolic fear and hypocrisy over the most densely populated corner of the world. Sad parable to Hamas when they won the general election in 2007, the watchword was: enough with the corruption of Fatah. Now the movement of the late Yasser Arafat to Hamas of three years later looks like a drop of water restrictions, prohibitions, arrests, under the counter business, privileges granted only to party leaders (the only ones which have been completely rebuilt the houses affected in 2009 by Israeli bombing during Operation Lead Time). It seems materializes so merciless diagnosis of Noam Chomsky: The Middle East viscerally afraid of democracy, independence, freedom of thought. We will never un'uprising, an uprising in Gaza?
I do not think - says the lawyer in The Hague - are too resigned, too scared. " Israel knows this, and indeed his fears are others. Political and military thinking over al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranian ships sailing to Suez, think of the terrorists escaped from prison and re-appeared on Egyptian TV screens Hezbollah in Lebanon or Gaza to be greeted with triumph. And they think that the infection can be spread as a seismic wave through the Sinai and the Negev, near the lands of that other restless until recently considered safe, the last that remains: the Hashemite Jordan. And it is there, in the now troubled reign of Abdullah II we are going to bring us.
What Marwan my guide does not say, and how could it otherwise?, Is that suddenly the world seems upside down, things do not go back there, everything is upside down: not only no one wants to get to Rafah, but no longer able to leave since Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip since 2007, has lined up the men of the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades on the border, on the "Philadelphi Corridor", which has always been the safety valve and communicating with the outside world. Hamas that shuts down. Why? "But it's simple: the most Egyptians can not be trusted, in Rafah beyond the border overlooking the chaos, the police did not check anything, there are bands of Bedouins who intercepted the goods, kidnap people, demand protection money . So we closed the door. Farewell valves ".
Now that border is guarded by a Hamas hard, with their tripod and binoculars from a distance leaning over to sip every meter of the border, ocher cloud permitting. From a distance, do not seem so different from Israeli soldiers. A few miles away soldiers with the Star of David have the same apprehension. Earlier this month someone has blown up the pipeline el-Arish in northern Sinai, leaving Jordan and Israel - which derives from the Egyptian gas to 40% of its needs - with a sudden lack of energy. For this, notwithstanding the Camp David Accords, Netanyahu has agreed to drain 800 soldiers of the Egyptian army in the area.
The police no longer enough. But even the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) seems sufficient. Just consider the fool remedied recently by the director of intelligence, Kochi Aviv, on the eve of the insurrection Egyptian declared before the Knesset: "The stability of Mubarak is not in question, and the Muslim Brotherhood are not yet prepared to aim to succeed." All wrong, as we have seen, and now the pau 'ra resurfaces silent, as in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, far away from that border in Sinai, but psychologically very close to those Askhelon, Sderot to those accustomed to deal daily with Gaza . But one of perverse twist of history, at this time Hamas shows have the same heartache, the same fears, perhaps the same interests of Israel before the unknown in Egypt.
As the Israeli prime minister said yesterday, "we hope for the best, but prepare ourselves for the worst. " Do not joke, the lords of Hamas. Asma al-Ghoul, the most famous blogger in the Gaza Strip should know. In December, his brother Mustafa was arrested by police in Gaza for taking an active part in organizing non-profit 30 Sharek Youth Forum, the embryo of the symbolic protest last year that first shook the torpor of the Strip. "They were all young - he said - demanded to live, to be free from the chains, even those of Hamas, not only of Israel." It ended badly. Hamas has made arrests, devastated the headquarters, accused the youth of Sharek "because according to them - continues Asthma - teaching dance, gymnastics and immorality to the girls. " There is another nice
. A month ago, a Palestinian journalist close to Fatah, a-Muheib Nawati, disappeared after his arrival in Syria. He had written a book "from Hamas." It is not easy to explain what became Gaza after the Egyptian Revolution. "A fortress, of course, Hamas has a lot of fear - says Chantal Meloni, Italian researcher of criminal law and former consultant to the Hague Tribunal's house in Gaza - because he has to hold together opposing forces: this side of the extremists and radicals across the people has passed and perhaps the most voted out but is now trapped in this sort of regime. That is fully understood, because even in the West Bank the Palestinian Authority Abu Mazen does the same things, stop torture, stifling dissent. " In fact something in common with the rebels and their separated brethren Hamas Fatah really have it: Both have beaten the holy reason the Palestinians in recent days were taken to the streets staging anti-Mubarak demonstrations. "The shocking news of fear, uncertainty - Graeme Bannerman said the Middle East Institute in Jerusalem - of not knowing what will happen tomorrow. It should be also included Israel, thirty-two years on security at the border due to the Camp David accords that crumble in three weeks. "
A treaty which in its own way was also convenient for Hamas, which with the Rafah tunnels built up a turnover of 600 million dollars a year in an area dominated by chronic unemployment touching 45% and that the same time has created a caste of "Lords of the tunnel" merchants of cement, tools, gas station that made fat profits with Egypt and the Gaza Strip, while ensuring the continued maintenance of these underground tunnels (at least 1200 times gold Today only 500 in assets and only 100 in operation). Hamas was limited to politicians to impose price: 36 euro cents per liter gasoline, 40 cents against the euro and that charges Abu Mazen in the West Bank. "But that mechanism is now missing - says Chantal Meloni - and the price crisis strangles even more the Strip."
goods that pass by the tunnel now cost much more, the Bedouins we put a surcharge, not everything arrives intact. Even concrete, leave the tunnel we see in big bundles from which come crumbling scrolls gray blends with the desert dust and at least offer some explanation to the yellowish cloud overlooking Gaza, a hood that contains symbolic fear and hypocrisy over the most densely populated corner of the world. Sad parable to Hamas when they won the general election in 2007, the watchword was: enough with the corruption of Fatah. Now the movement of the late Yasser Arafat to Hamas of three years later looks like a drop of water restrictions, prohibitions, arrests, under the counter business, privileges granted only to party leaders (the only ones which have been completely rebuilt the houses affected in 2009 by Israeli bombing during Operation Lead Time). It seems materializes so merciless diagnosis of Noam Chomsky: The Middle East viscerally afraid of democracy, independence, freedom of thought. We will never un'uprising, an uprising in Gaza?
I do not think - says the lawyer in The Hague - are too resigned, too scared. " Israel knows this, and indeed his fears are others. Political and military thinking over al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Iranian ships sailing to Suez, think of the terrorists escaped from prison and re-appeared on Egyptian TV screens Hezbollah in Lebanon or Gaza to be greeted with triumph. And they think that the infection can be spread as a seismic wave through the Sinai and the Negev, near the lands of that other restless until recently considered safe, the last that remains: the Hashemite Jordan. And it is there, in the now troubled reign of Abdullah II we are going to bring us.
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