Ami Isseroff reviews the situation in Gaza as no one else can and argues Gaza: The Fatah is dead, what next?
[..] Accordingly, a takeover by the Hamas would be disastrous for Israel, for peace and for Palestinian moderates. An analysis in dovish Ha’aretz newspaper concludes that an Israeli invasion and reoccupation of Gaza is the only way to save the Fatah in Gaza, and that this is what Palestinians inside Gaza are saying. Shimon Peres likewise offered Israeli help.
Thus, there is pressure for an Israeli reoccupation of Gaza from the right, to stop the Qassam rockets, and from the left, to save the Fatah. Those who advocate re-occupation of Gaza however, are overlooking a few points.
An Israeli reoccupation of Gaza cannot save Fatah. If Fatah, with all the aid that it gets, cannot defend its positions, then it is no longer a viable political force and it is not worth saving. It has apparently become a basket case like the Nationalist Chinese army of Chiang Kai Chek, the infamous ARVN – Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and the current Iraqi Army. It may be impossible to explain why and how armies and political movements disintegrate in this way, but the phenomenon is well known and recognizable by now.[..]
Isseroff closes with this expression of hope:
Hope that Radical Islam will disappear, is not the stuff Israel or for that matter America can rely on to survive.
The way to cope with the Iranian-Syrian influence as it were would be a devastating strike against both nations and send them to back to the dark ages. Hezbollah which depends on that evil axis for its existence would find that without life sustaining support, it will bleed out, dry up and blow away.
As for there being no saviour on the horizon to save the Gazan Palestinians, why would anyone shed a tear as they destroy themselves.
If Hamas wins out as Isseroff predicts, no amount of recognition of Hamas by the EU or by other nations will yield any option to Israel but to kill Hamas and the Palestinians society behind Hamas or be killed.
As I noted before, word continues to leak out that as Gaza becomes more radicalized, Mubarek has been fearing blowback and devastating blowback at that, should the Palestinian radicals ally with the Muslim Brotherhood and seek to achieve a coup d’etat. In such case, Mubarek would be gone and a a radical Islamic government would be installed.
Likewise, Jordan too has a radical element within their society. What happened when Israel pulled out of Gaza and Gaza became an armed radical Islamic camp that could blowback at Egypt, did not go unnoticed by King Abdullah. King Abdullah is getting anxious that the same blowback could happen to his nation and his monarchy if Israel leaves the West Bank and Jordan, like Egypt will have an Islamic radical society on their borders.
If these Egyptian and Jordanian fears could be played up and amplified, both nations might come to realize that having a strong stable and peaceful neighbor in Israel would be far more preferable then to having an unstable Islamic radical neighbor that threatens the stability of their nations and not just Israel.
With such a change in thinking on the part of Jordan and Egypt, that change might just be catchy within the region which would pave the way for a new peace paradigm.
That new paradigm would see Israel annexing the West Bank and possibly Gaza without objection by Jordan and Egypt and the dream of an independent Palestinian state, made impossible of fulfillment by the Palestinians themselves and their Arab brethren who manipulated them, would disappear.
The Palestinian Arabs would be induced by wads of cash in their pockets to emigrate from the area and be absorbed into neighboring and other nations who would have them and would revert to becoming just the Arabs that they are.
There would be plenty of money from the billions in welfare payments the West has been making each year to induce these Palestinians to leave to start a better life elsewhere with more than enough money to get a big head start.
Money talks and that probably would be just the right language to use to get through to to each and every Palestinian.