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horselady
08-31-06, 06:44 PM
Hamas leader blames “BACTERIA of STUPIDITY”
for Palestinian’s own failures.

By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
(Filed: 30/08/2006)


A senior member of Hamas has broken a taboo
by calling on Palestinians to stop blaming Israel
for all their ills and look instead at their own failures.

Ghazi Hamad, the Hamas government's official
spokesman, said Palestinians had been "attacked
by the bacteria of stupidity".

"The anarchy, chaos, pointless murders, the
plundering of lands, family feuds … what do all
of these have to do with the occupation?" he
asked in the opinion piece published in the
Palestinian newspaper, al-Ayyam. "We have
always been accustomed to pinning our failures
on others, and conspiratorial thinking is still
widespread among us."


He was particularly scathing about the failure of
the Palestinians to make a success of the Gaza
Strip, the territory that Israel effectively
surrendered a year ago.

"When you walk around in Gaza, you cannot help
but avert your eyes from what you see:
indescribable anarchy, policemen that nobody
cares about, youth proudly carrying weapons.

"The reality in which we are living in Gaza can
only be described as miserable and wretched, and
as a failure in every sense of the word." His
description resonates with what many outsiders
find when they leave the orderly roads and fields
of Israel and cross into Gaza, a dirty, crowded
coastal strip teeming with 1.4 million people.

Israel can be blamed for many of Gaza's problems
but there is plenty of evidence to support Mr
Hamad's thesis, that the kidnapping, lawlessness
and social chaos are, at least partly, homegrown.

But it is a sign of growing division between
Hamas members living in the Palestinian territories
and exiles living elsewhere, including the leadership
in Damascus.

The exiles take a hard-line attitude, insisting on
militants continuing to fire Qassam rockets from
Gaza into Israel. But people, such as Mr Hamad,
who live in Gaza seem to have lost patience with
these tactics.

The rockets have killed only four Israelis, yet
hundreds of Palestinians have died in Israeli
retribution.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/
2006/08/30/wmid130.xml



It's about time someone over there told the truth.
But he's probably lying in a ditch with his head
cut off by now.