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Coolassprov MC
21-06-07, 19:27
Was this not the same logic of the Iraq experiment by Bush? "“Life in the West Bank at least economically, will improve and, we hope, politically will improve,” said Taher Masri, a former prime minister of Jordan. “Hamas in Gaza will look to this positive developments and wish they can join, which will lead elements outside Hamas in Gaza to moderate their position and to join the legitimate government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/world/middleeast/21arabs.html?_r=2&ref=middleeast&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Hamas Conquest of Gaza Disturbs Arab World With Echoes of Recent Splits and Alliances

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By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: June 21, 2007

CAIRO, June 20 — The conquest of the Gaza Strip by Hamas has frightened Arab leaders because it was characterized by the same dynamics that have been agitating the region.

Once again, as in Lebanon last summer, the fight pitted a Western-backed government against a newly empowered, radical Islamist group aligned with Syria and Iran. And, once again, the Western-backed group lost and the Iranian-Syrian group won.

The outcome demonstrated the rising threat to the status quo in places like Cairo; Amman, Jordan; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, posed by political Islam. And it gave Iran yet another foothold on Arab borders.

“We have a big problem here that is much deeper,” said Abdel Moneim Said, director of the state-financed Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. “It is related to the bankruptcy of the shape of the modern Arab political entity and its inability really to convince the people with where they are going. Then you have the success of the other side, like Hamas, in making a clearer, simpler message.”

As the shock has set in, the Western-friendly governments of the region have tried to spin victory from defeat. They have fallen in squarely behind Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and his emergency government in the West Bank, offering money and support. Some have even spoken of emotional relief over the division among Palestinians, because it has ended the gridlock created after Hamas won control of the parliament and government in free elections early last year. “At the official level, I would say it is seen as a relief,” said Randa Habib, a political analyst and journalist in Amman. “Things were totally at a standstill. I won’t say they wished this happened. But it is not very far from that.”

Egypt quickly moved to isolate Hamas. It moved its diplomatic offices to Ramallah in the West Bank from Gaza. It also doubled efforts to tighten the security seal around Gaza.

The goal was to quickly demonstrate that siding with the status quo would bring economic prosperity and a greater chance of a Palestinian state. The goal was also to squeeze Hamas into accepting a regional formula defined by peace between Arabs and Israel, and an alliance with the West.

“Abbas is accepted by all the Arabs,” said Muhammad Abdullah al- Zulfa, a member of Shura Council of Saudi Arabia, an advisory body with no legislative authority. “I think all the Arabs are with Abbas because all Arabs are with the peace initiative. The whole world is behind Abbas.”

But, of course, it is not that simple. Not all Arabs are with Mr. Abbas, and not all Arabs support peace with Israel. The challenge posed by this crisis is the challenge Arab leaders have faced as they have tried to restore their legitimacy and slow a rising tide of political Islam. Egypt is trying to contain the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood, while Jordan is struggling to hold down the Islamic Action Front, the political arm of the brotherhood. Much of the region has been unsettled by Qaeda-minded terrorist groups.

As a result, Arab states, with the exception of Syria, have pushed for peace between Israel and the Palestinians as the first and most essential step toward stabilizing the region, securing their own rule and countering Iran’s growing influence. That agenda, however, widens a divide between the rulers in places like Cairo and Amman and the street, where anti-American sentiment is prevalent and Israel-as-the-enemy is a given.

In a sense, a race has begun to see which comes first, a successful peace process that can help secure the leadership of those now in charge, or the growth of a political Islamist movement that can stop the peace process in its tracks and crack the foundations of the status quo.

The conflict between the Palestinians is another lap in that race. “There are two constants in the Arab street: hatred toward Israel and hatred toward the U.S.,” said Hassan Abu Hanieh, a Jordanian researcher who has specialized in Islamist groups. “These are two firm facts. They don’t change, and anybody who cooperates with Israel and the U.S. is automatically hated.”

These are facts Arab leaders know all too well. In Egypt, for example, the government has traditionally played a double game, offering itself to Washington as a strategic partner while publicly castigating American interference in the region. But the Palestinian conflict threatens to lay bare the common alliance with the United States, and Hamas supporters are quick to point that out.

“Imagine if the U.S. did not support President Abbas, would the international community and the Arab governments have taken this position?” said Muhammad Habib, the deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is banned in Egypt. “This is what bothers the Arab people. The U.S. announces a position and immediately Arab governments adopt it. This is what creates a split between people and their leadership, this subordination to the West.”

Last summer, when Hezbollah crossed the border into Israel and captured two soldiers, prompting Israel to attack the militia in Lebanon, leaders in Cairo, Riyadh and Amman at first had harsh comments for Hezbollah. But as the war dragged on, and Hezbollah’s popularity soared around the region, that approach looked like a blunder.

Now with the exception of Egypt, which borders Gaza and has been humiliated by Hamas’s refusal to accept Egypt’s mediation efforts, Arab leaders are supporting Abbas — while being cautious not to openly rupture relations with Hamas. A bit of hedging is going on, part of the race, as one side hopes that a prosperous West Bank will lead to peace and the other hopes that a stable Gaza will continue to erode the footing beneath those allied with the West.

“Life in the West Bank at least economically, will improve and, we hope, politically will improve,” said Taher Masri, a former prime minister of Jordan. “Hamas in Gaza will look to this positive developments and wish they can join, which will lead elements outside Hamas in Gaza to moderate their position and to join the legitimate government.

“That might be wishful thinking,” he said. “I don’t know.”

Nada Bakri contributed reporting from Beirut, Lebanon.
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Shemharosh
21-06-07, 19:30
ok dan....alle arabieren de zee in....Hamas achterna...echt te dom voor woorden!!!

Coolassprov MC
21-06-07, 20:20
Geplaatst door Shemharosh
ok dan....alle arabieren de zee in....Hamas achterna...echt te dom voor woorden!!!

Alleen Zionisten zijn bang voor de zee.

Shemharosh
21-06-07, 20:27
Geplaatst door Coolassprov MC
Alleen Zionisten zijn bang voor de zee.

en de gelovigen liggen er topless bij