Hamas Plot Uncovered That Would Strike Inside of Israel and At the PA In the West Bank

It appears that the Iranians and their proxy terrorist group in Gaza, Hamas, don't want to see the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority sit down to peace talks as today, a Hamas plot to conduct a major terror operation inside of Israel as well as a strike against the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank was uncovered. The Hamas leader apparently doesn't even want to deny the plot.

From the story at DEBKA:

debkafile's intelligence and counter-terror sources report Hamas is setting its sights on torpedoing the direct Israel-Palestinian negotiations Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are to launch in Washington on Sept. 2.Hamas is said by our sources to be preparing to activate its West Bank networks for coordinated strikes against a major target inside Israel and another associated with Abbas' power base or the US- and British-trained Palestinian security forces. However, if those networks are thwarted by the preventive measures set in motion meanwhile, Hamas will resort to attacks from the Gaza Strip which it controls or further South from Sinai, across the leaky Egyptian-Israeli border.

Now Hamas knows as well as anyone that the Israeli-PA talks will end up like all the other attempts with nothing being hammered out but Hamas, via the Iranians, is all about flexing what they see as their rightful power over all of the Palestinian areas. Let's face it - if the IDF did not have a presence in the West Bank, Abbas and his rag tag bunch of PA would be slaughtered by Hamas in about 3 weeks time.

See, this is all about Iran's idea that they actually are the formulator of Islamic policy worldwide - they truly believe they are the true voice of Mohammed and that the clowns in the Middle East like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and such are nothing but charlatains. But as always, the Iranians are too chickenshit to face any opponent so they do their bidding through proxies, like Hamas in this case.

In my mind, I see the Iranians feeling that given enough time for them to become nuclear weapon enabled, they will see themselves as the true negotiator of the Palestinian state with Israel - and they see that negotiation as a direct threat to Israel, in other words, "give us this or we will attack Israeli soil with our nuclear weaponry." So, in the meantime, the Iranians do not want any sort of movement at all towards peace made by the Israelis and the PA, thus the timing of this terror plot.

I have said many times that the Iranians are the kings of the bluff - and it's about time that someone (and yes, I feel it is America) steps up to the plate and make the mullahs blink. If that does not happen, then we will continue to see the Iranians and their proxies continue to teeter the world on the edge of world war.

Hamas' large-scale terror plot sets off high Israel, Palestinian alerts


The belligerent speech delivered by Hamas' Damascus-based political leader Khaled Meshaal Tuesday, Aug. 24 only confirmed the information reaching Israel and the Palestinian Authority intelligence services that the extremist Palestinian group is set for large-scale terror attacks against Israeli and Palestinian West Bank targets. debkafile's intelligence and counter-terror sources report Hamas is setting its sights on torpedoing the direct Israel-Palestinian negotiations Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas are to launch in Washington on Sept. 2.
Hamas is said by our sources to be preparing to activate its West Bank networks for coordinated strikes against a major target inside Israel and another associated with Abbas' power base or the US- and British-trained Palestinian security forces. However, if those networks are thwarted by the preventive measures set in motion meanwhile, Hamas will resort to attacks from the Gaza Strip which it controls or further South from Sinai, across the leaky Egyptian-Israeli border.

Hamas last attacked Israel on Aug. 2, sending a cell from its military wing, the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades, to infiltrate Sinai through the arms tunnels running under the Gaza-Sinai border for a rocket attack on the twin Red Sea towns of Israeli Eilat and Jordanian Aqaba. This attack was more extensive than admitted at the time. Our military sources report that seven Iranian-made Grade missiles were fired, hitting the two towns. Two also knocked over two Egyptian military observation towers on the Israeli border and left casualties.

Israeli and Palestinian security officials do not rule out a Hamas strike from Lebanon or even from the Mediterranean Sea.
Meshaal's speech Tuesday, shortly before the iftar meal breaking the Ramadan fast, was exceptionally vicious. Never before, had he dared vent his fury on Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah. For the first time, Khaled Meshal not only openly criticized Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah but threatened them: Should they refuse to boycott the US-sponsored Israel-Palestinian negotiations, he said, "The results… will be catastrophic for the interests and the security of Jordan and Egypt."
The Hamas leader showed he was even prepared to jeopardize the lifelines given his organization by both Arab governments: Egypt provides Hamas officials and military leaders with their only exit route from Gaza, while Jordan tolerates Hamas' extensive political organization, which has always been careful not to upset its delicate ties with the royal family and risk its freedom of action there.
Meshaal had only venom to pour on Mahmoud Abbas, who he predicted would end up like Yasser Arafat (a reference to Hamas' allegations that foreign parties including Israel poisoned him in 2004). He depicted the PA Chairman as an enemy of Islam, accusing him of setting loose Palestinian security forces on mosques, Islamic charitable associations, cultural centers and Koran study groups.

Allowing the Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin to visit Jenin -"the city of martyrs - was unconscionable, Meshaal said, and so was permitting Israeli officers to be present at training courses for Palestinian security officers.

The direct talks with Israel, he said, aimed at "liquidating" the Palestinian cause.

Meshaal's speech was the last straw, Palestinian and other Arab intelligence officials said Wednesday: The breach between him and Mahmoud Abbas must be seen as final and irrevocable.