While the vast majority of Palestinians have welcomed the Egyptian-mediated ceasefire between the Hamas movement and Israel the American-backed “fifth column” within Fatah is viewing the tahdiaa or brief calm in the Gaza Strip as an existential threat to its very survival.
Since the conclusion of the fragile ceasefire nearly ten days ago these rouge elements have spared no effort trying to thwart the truce by firing primitive projectiles across the border. They also have been accusing Hamas of betraying the resistance and undermining the vital interests of the Palestinian people.
Of course the purported concern for the resistance is insincere and disingenuous. It is an exposed and cheap distraction aimed at blurring the real purpose of these thugs namely to provoke Israel to revoke the ceasefire and carry out an all-out invasion of Gaza to destroy Hamas and hand over the coastal territory to Israel’s and American agents.
Isn’t this exactly what these “Fatah leaders” have been intimating to western news agencies and Israeli correspondents always “on condition of anonymity.”
We all know and the bulk of Palestinians know that these mercenaries are first and foremost answerable to US General Keith Dayton who effectively serves as American High Commissioner in Ramallah and is himself answerable to Elliot Abram who is more or less AIPAC’s representative in the Bush administration.
Abrams as we all know has always worked strenuously toward igniting the flames of civil war between the western-backed “moderates” and the “extremist elements” led by Hamas. He had actually made several public statements to that effect but the self-absorbed regime in Ramallah wouldn’t pay attention to that preferring to believe that Abrams was only making jokes.
The Bush administration’s goal was of course and probably still is to push the Palestinian society toward a sort of violent and bloody implosion that would eventually allow Israel and the neocons in Washington to liquidate the Palestinian cause once and for all.
This is exactly what Abrams had in mind last summer when he okayed the transfer of huge sums of money and shipments of arms to America’s man in Gaza Muhammed Dhalan.
We all know the rest of the story as Hamas moved swiftly and decisively to pre-empt Abrams’ criminal designs by putting an end to Dahlan’s coup-in-the-making and ousting his men and cohorts from Gaza.
Defeated embittered and expelled these people have never stopped hatching plots to sow the seeds of civil war and violence in the Gaza Strip.
They have tried every conceivable conspiracy to beat Hamas even as the Israeli occupation army was murdering Palestinian civilians in droves.
In fact at one point the Fifth Column in Fatah seemed fully embedded with Israel in the common battle against Hamas. Their collusion with Israel and the US in maintaining the Nazi-like blockade on Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants speaks volumes. It constitutes a stigma of shame on the foreheads of the traitors and their supporters that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.
Having failed to dislodge Hamas these traitors are now trying to sabotage the ceasefire in Gaza under the rubric of resistance. This happens as tens of thousands of Fatah “forces” are working in close coordination with the Israeli occupation army to hound and eradicate real freedom fighters including Fatah’s own in the West Bank. Obviously this is done on Israel’s behalf and in order to obtain a certificate of good conduct from the likes of Bush Rice Dayton and Abrams.
I realize that Fatah is not a monolithic movement. I also know for sure that the movement includes many dignified and patriotic elements that reject the shameful behavior of certain elements within the group that claim to be speaking and acting in the name of Fatah when they are effectively at Israel’s and the CIA’s beck and call.
Unfortunately these rouge elements have the money (American dollars) and the wherewithal not only to corrode Fatah from within but also to destabilize the internal Palestinian front all in the service of Israel and her diabolical designs against our people and enduring just cause.
Hence it is imperative that true patriots within Fatah move swiftly and decisively to undercut these fifth-columnists and prevent them from morphing the largest political movement in Palestine from a liberation movement into a quisling entity.
Fatah leaders especially those who had spent many years in Israeli jails and dungeons should understand that these perfidious money-grabbing careerists are not merely seeking Hamas’s demise. They are also seeking Fatah’s demise as well and also the liquidation of the Palestinian national cause including the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
The are the enemies from within. If you don’t eradicate them they will eradicate you..
