J's Cafe Nette

The violence going on in Gaza, with Palestinians fighting and killing Palestinians has been a story kind of on the back burner of the newspapers, and we haven’t discussed it here.

Two years ago Israel forcibly pulled the remaining Jewish “settlers” out of Gaza and turned the territory over to the Palestinians.

Now the Palestinian political forces of Hamas and Fatah are warring with each other, putting the innocent Palestinians in the middle as is their habit.

Those Palestinians who can afford it are leaving for Egypt or any other Muslim country that will take them.

Palestinian infighting, almost daily Israeli air strikes, and a steadily worsening economic situation triggered by an international aid boycott has made life unbearable for many Palestinians. Those who can are leaving.

European Union monitors at the Rafah border crossing from the Gaza Strip to Egypt say that more than 14,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza since Israel withdrew soldiers and settlers in 2005 and the rise to power of the Islamist Hamas five months later. In the past year alone, the average number of people leaving Gaza per day has doubled from 15 to 30.

The rising number of Palestinians seeking to emigrate has prompted Jerusalem’s Mufti, Mohammad Ahmed Hussein, to issue a fatwa prohibiting Palestinians from leaving Palestinian territories.

“Immigration from this blessed land is not permissible according to Islamic law,” said the religious edict. “People who live in this land should not leave it for the invaders and occupiers.”

It should be noted the Israelis are using air strikes because the fighting has overflowed into Israel and they are just protecting their own territory and not participating in this civil war.

One of the great leaders of Israel past, Abba Eban once said, “Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

When the Palestinians elected Hamas they should have known this would happen, but they did it willingly anyway. How many of their sons and daughters will have to die before they try to fix the mistake?

The problem is they will be unable to fix the mistake as the Hamas are firmly entrenched and will kill every last person if that’s what it takes for them to “win” and have their style of government.

What a shame. They have frittered away the land they got and now they are frittering away their most valuable resource: their people.

Hat Tip to Captain’s Quarters.

Written by Jeanette

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