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What passes for a Palestinian identity is violence. Violence is the only way they know. From 1948, when the British Mandate gave the area once known as Palestine to the displaced European Jewry, the Arab peoples have been at perpetual war with the Jews. During the Israeli War of Independence, the backers of and Arab state of Palestine, all six of the neighboring nations, could not prevail against an under-equipped partisan militia of farmers, refugees and teens.

With each successive attempt, the Arabs fighting for Palestinian statehood have been weakened by an ever strengthening Israeli Military. Today, nearly 60 years later, what is left of Palestine is a few thousand people, mostly youths, whom refuse to accept that they are themselves refugees. Generation after generation of Arabs clinging to an impossible dream of self rule have flung themselves mindlessly at an unassailable wall, taught their children to value hatred and exemplify martyrs and bred into their cultural identity values based upon uncompromising hatred and militant extremism.

For decades, the Palestinian Authority has been accepting foreign money to build an economic foundation for their dream. Instead they hoard the money through corruption; How did Yasser Arafat become a millionaire? Money for healthcare and education given in faith to enrich lives of so-called Palestinians founded the militant organization known as Hamas, which is currently vying for control of a Palestinian police state inside the Gaza strip. From the Institute of Counter-Terrorism:

Hamas enjoys strong financial backing. In fact, its rivals claim that this is major reason for its strength. Hamas receives financial support from unofficial bodies in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and recently also from Iran. These funds are distributed among the various groups and associations identified with the movement, and from them filter down to the operatives in the field.

A broad network of charity associations (Jamayath Hiriya) and committees (Lejan Zekath) operates in the Territories, on the basis of two Jordanian statutes: the Charity Association and Social Institutions Law, and the Charity Fund-Raising Regulations. Hamas makes extensive use of many of these charity associations and committees, which (together with the mosques, unions, etc.) also serve as the overt facade of the organization’s activity, operating parallel to and serving its covert operations. The movement’s ideology attributes great importance to the giving of charity (zekath, which is also one of the five basic principles of Islam). Giving charity can serve to bring the people closer to Islam and, as a result, to broaden the ranks of Hamas.

The network of charity associations serves as a screen for its covert activities, including liaison with the movement’s leadership abroad, the transfer of funds to field operatives, and the identification of potential recruits. The great importance which Hamas attaches to the overt aspect of its operations - charity and welfare - has been particularly evident since the extensive arrest and exclusion of many of its operatives.

An important aspect of the charity associations and committees is their role as a means for the channeling of funds into the region. While part of these funds is in fact used for charity, it is not always possible to distinguish between the ‘innocent’ activity of the charity associations and the funding of covert, subversive and terrorist activity. Thus, for example, the associations pay fines and assist the families of operatives who are arrested, or the operatives themselves. Such donations are defined as charity, but are in fact given to the hard and active core of Hamas. The charity associations can also help in transfering funds to Hamas through their financial-administrative infrastructure. Hamas enjoys strong financial backing. In fact, its rivals claim that this is major reason for its strength. Hamas receives financial support from unofficial bodies in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and recently also from Iran. These funds are distributed among the various groups and associations identified with the movement, and from them filter down to the operatives in the field.

A broad network of charity associations (Jamayath Hiriya) and committees (Lejan Zekath) operates in the Territories, on the basis of two Jordanian statutes: the Charity Association and Social Institutions Law, and the Charity Fund-Raising Regulations. Hamas makes extensive use of many of these charity associations and committees, which (together with the mosques, unions, etc.) also serve as the overt facade of the organization’s activity, operating parallel to and serving its covert operations. The movement’s ideology attributes great importance to the giving of charity (zekath, which is also one of the five basic principles of Islam). Giving charity can serve to bring the people closer to Islam and, as a result, to broaden the ranks of Hamas.

The network of charity associations serves as a screen for its covert activities, including liaison with the movement’s leadership abroad, the transfer of funds to field operatives, and the identification of potential recruits. The great importance which Hamas attaches to the overt aspect of its operations - charity and welfare - has been particularly evident since the extensive arrest and exclusion of many of its operatives.

An important aspect of the charity associations and committees is their role as a means for the channeling of funds into the region. While part of these funds is in fact used for charity, it is not always possible to distinguish between the ‘innocent’ activity of the charity associations and the funding of covert, subversive and terrorist activity. Thus, for example, the associations pay fines and assist the families of operatives who are arrested, or the operatives themselves. Such donations are defined as charity, but are in fact given to the hard and active core of Hamas. The charity associations can also help in transfering funds to Hamas through their financial-administrative infrastructure.

Today, Hamas clashed with Palestinian police in Gaza. Now that the Jew have gone, they have no one but themselves to pick on. From WaPo:

A police officer and two civilian bystanders were killed in the hours-long gun battles, and at least 50 others were wounded in the most sustained factional fighting since Israel withdrew from Gaza three weeks ago.

Palestinian authorities and Hamas officials gave conflicting accounts of how the clashes began. Hamas officials said gunfire broke out after Palestinian police sought to disarm a group of Hamas fighters riding in a taxi in Gaza City…

Palestinian officials said the violence began with a dispute at an automated teller machine involving a Hamas member. When Palestinian police arrived to settle the matter, Hamas gunmen tossed grenades at the men, authorities said. Witnesses said Hamas gunmen later used RPG-7 grenade launchers to attack two police stations.

So-called Palestinian so-called Freedom Fighters throw grenades at policemen called to the scene of a disturbance. The group is upset at an attempt to disarm the rabble for the safety of others in the crowded city. A protracted gun fight breaks out. All of this happens in an area that is supposed to be a testing ground for a future Palestinian state. They have proved, and will do so again, that they aren’t ready for self rule, they aren’t mature enough as a people to be awarded statehood.

All of this illustrates why an Arab “state” inside the boundaries of Israel is a foolish dream. How many wars does it take for a people to realize that they have been well and truly conquered? Only in the modern world of global media could the meme of “Palestine” continue to circle the globe ad infinitum. Palestine is dead, and the miscreants and over equipped gangs that is remaining of a once proud nation should be given their cultural due, equal education and economic opportunities as free Arab subject of Israel, and forget the whole Palestine thing as the memory it is. The Israelis have known this for decades; only the Western media is unaware, mostly because they really don’t care (besides, a peaceful resolution would harm newspaper sales.)