Hamas videos 'confession' of 'plotter' to reinstall Fatah's Dahlan in Gaza

Shavua tov, Gmar chatima tova v'Shana tova - a good week, a good finishing seal and a good year to all of you.

Hamas has posted a video of a 'collaborator' who 'confessed' to participating in an 'Israeli-Fatah' plot to reinstall Fatah's Mohamed Dahlan as the ruler of the Gaza Strip.

Let's go to the videotape (for those who don't have the patience to listen to eleven minutes of Arabic, there's a summary below).

The man, whose identity was not revealed, claimed that Israel, the Palestinian Authority and and some Arab countries were behind the plot. He did not name the Arab countries.

The scheme, he added, envisages the return of the PA to the Gaza Strip and appointing former Fatah operative Mohamed Dahlan as president of the enclave. On Saturday, Dahlan, a former security commander in the Gaza Strip, denied the allegation, saying Hamas was unable to face growing popular anger against its oppression.

"I understood that the goal was to stage a coup [against] Hamas," the man in the video said, adding that PA officers belonging to the Preventive Security Force had met with him in the Gaza Strip. "I was told that blood would be up to the ankles in the Gaza Strip."

According to the man's "confession," PA security agents who met with him in the Gaza Strip told him that the mission of toppling Hamas should be completed in six months.

"They instructed me to form cells in the southern Gaza Strip," he added. "They told me that they have their own groups and enough weapons in the northern Gaza Strip and that they are prepared to put an end to Hamas's injustice. They also said that they have a lot of money."

Islam Shahwan, spokesman for the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Interior, claimed that the man was part of a group of "suspicious elements" whose goal was to undermine the Islamist movement. Some of the suspects were linked to Israel, he claimed.

 Sounds to me like an invention of some vivid imaginations in Hamas.