Debkafile is the first online with the report but I would suggest checking in with Ha’aretz (Ha'aretz has it up on the website as a ticker news flash)and/or the Jerusalem Post for a full report in about an hour’s time.
Former FM Likud’s Silvan Shalom says the transfer of moneys to the Hamas-ruled administration is “scandalous,” and sends a wrong signal to donor-countries for their relations with the terrorist regime. Hours after its election victory emerged, Hamas posted through a third party a threat that any holdups in funds transfers to the new Palestinian administration would be casus belli.
It would prompt large-scale attacks inside Israel and disrupt its March 28 elections - acting prime minister Ehud Olmert’s prospects in particular. Hamas sources evinced an interest in an open-ended truce with Israel.
However Olmert’s military and security advisers warn that Hamas’s only goal is not peace but time to achieve full control of all Palestinian security and intelligence services in preparation for full-scale war against Israel. It will then employ its parliamentary majority to oust Abu Mazen as PA chairman.
Debkafile’s report suggests that Olmert’s Kadima party has given into extortion, and if realistic, it bodes badly for the Israelis and dashes any hope that Hamas will renounce violence and reform itself. There is one lesson history illustrates clearly and that is one can never appease crocodiles enough to satisfy their bottomless appetites. And since Olmert & Kadima are acting on former US President Jimmy Carter’s fiscal advice, I can only pray that he is giving them election advice as well – and Olmert follows it faithfully down to the last “t” on defeat.
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