islamist enclave
most of the Americans I've encountered within the last few months have little to no idea where Gaza is, or who Hamas is for that matter. I try to explain where I was living in Israel for 9 months, in the Negev Desert about 6 miles from Palestinian territory, the West Bank on one side and the Gaza strip on the other. This begin to register when one looks at a map of the region, but without understanding the history, politics and religion in the area, its still foggier than a San Francisco morning. This is one reason I chose to pursue an MA in Middle East Studies, based on the ignorance of the majority of Americans and in satisfying my own curiosity. Not only is the pursuit of this knowledge culturally awakening, this is the most important region of the world today.
In June 2007 (a few weeks before I left Israel), the Islamist terrorist group HAMAS took over the Gaza Strip by militant force. This is a group which to the public has positioned themselves as an asset to Palestinian society, building schools, community programs, and winning a spot in the Palestinian Government with the election of Ismail Haniya as Palestinian Prime Minister in 2006. His involvement in the higher ranks of the PA official government was short-lived however, as his terrorist ways were displayed even while he was in office. He was arrested and jailed several times for his involvement in radical islamist movements, and was even banned from Palestinian territory - Israeli officials would not let him pass through the Rafah border crossing last year, so he was stuck in Egypt for a while.
Thus it should come as no surprise that Haniya and his masked men were able to pull off the takeover of Gaza, ousting the Fatah (the more contemporary political faction of the PA government) from the territory and banishing them to the West Bank. There Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was forced to create an emergency cabinet to replace Hamas members such as Haniya, thereby denying the terrorist group any future involvement with the Palestinian Authority Government. Suddenly, the international community has come to the aid of the PA, since their renouncement of the terrorist group from their government. They claim that they will now recognize Israel as a State (which it coincidentally has been since 1948) and strive to work alongside her to create a peaceful and harmonious territorial division. Wait a minute, wasn't the land of Israel established as a national home FOR THE JEWS??? Who are these (masked and unmasked) Arab men, and where do they get off playing "this land is your land, this land is my land?"
Even if you've never heard of the terrorist group Hamas and their agenda to destroy Israel, perhaps a few other household names will ring a bell: Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran? It should come as no surprise that these Islamic terrorist groups are all working in conjunction with each other in their anti-Western campaigns and ultimate quest to destroy Israel. Each with a hand in the honey pot, precious water-front property of the Islamist Enclave of Gaza - technically a territory of none other than ISRAEL, the JEWISH state. While America is on the opposite side of the world and seemingly not phased by any of this (too many parties going on, which take priority over understanding such affairs of global magnitude), it may take another 911-type of catastrophe to rock our desensitized world.
In June 2007 (a few weeks before I left Israel), the Islamist terrorist group HAMAS took over the Gaza Strip by militant force. This is a group which to the public has positioned themselves as an asset to Palestinian society, building schools, community programs, and winning a spot in the Palestinian Government with the election of Ismail Haniya as Palestinian Prime Minister in 2006. His involvement in the higher ranks of the PA official government was short-lived however, as his terrorist ways were displayed even while he was in office. He was arrested and jailed several times for his involvement in radical islamist movements, and was even banned from Palestinian territory - Israeli officials would not let him pass through the Rafah border crossing last year, so he was stuck in Egypt for a while.
Thus it should come as no surprise that Haniya and his masked men were able to pull off the takeover of Gaza, ousting the Fatah (the more contemporary political faction of the PA government) from the territory and banishing them to the West Bank. There Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was forced to create an emergency cabinet to replace Hamas members such as Haniya, thereby denying the terrorist group any future involvement with the Palestinian Authority Government. Suddenly, the international community has come to the aid of the PA, since their renouncement of the terrorist group from their government. They claim that they will now recognize Israel as a State (which it coincidentally has been since 1948) and strive to work alongside her to create a peaceful and harmonious territorial division. Wait a minute, wasn't the land of Israel established as a national home FOR THE JEWS??? Who are these (masked and unmasked) Arab men, and where do they get off playing "this land is your land, this land is my land?"
Even if you've never heard of the terrorist group Hamas and their agenda to destroy Israel, perhaps a few other household names will ring a bell: Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad of Iran? It should come as no surprise that these Islamic terrorist groups are all working in conjunction with each other in their anti-Western campaigns and ultimate quest to destroy Israel. Each with a hand in the honey pot, precious water-front property of the Islamist Enclave of Gaza - technically a territory of none other than ISRAEL, the JEWISH state. While America is on the opposite side of the world and seemingly not phased by any of this (too many parties going on, which take priority over understanding such affairs of global magnitude), it may take another 911-type of catastrophe to rock our desensitized world.
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