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January 11, 2005

Analysis / Hezbollah's terror factory in the PA

Topics: Middle East News and Perspectives

Will the new Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas live long enough to attempt a reduction or end to the Palestinian militant's mindset of conducting terrorism as a way of life instead of political reforms and attainment of a more 'normal' and civilized society - even if that is his true desire which I still doubt? What role will Hezbollah play in the direction Abbas tries to move the Palestinian Authority? Is Iran playing a role in a Hezbollah plan to target Abbas?

Haaretz (Israel) Jan 11.
The conventional view of the Hezbollah in Israeli eyes is of a professional, focused, secret organization; terrorist professionals conducting a well-planned campaign against the IDF - so successful that it forced the army out of south Lebanon in May 2000

(...)There's quite a lot of exaggeration in this description when it comes to Lebanon. When it comes to the main terrorist arena in which Hezbollah now operates against Israel - the territories - it is simply untrue.

(...)  Senior defense officials monitoring Hezbollah activity, which include sending money and instructions to Palestinians in the territories during the last two years, describe a very different picture. The Shi'ite organization runs a conveyor-belt operation in the territories. Its goal is to create as many small terrorist cells as possible, and Hezbollah is happy with even the smallest attacks.

(...)  Meanwhile, Hezbollah, under instructions from Iran, has targeted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, even to harm him physically, to prevent any accommodation between Israel and the PA.

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Posted by Hyscience at January 11, 2005 8:14 AM

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