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The Palestinian anti-terror military operations (Arabic: عملية عسكرية فلسطينية لمكافحة الإرهاب, Russian: Палестинская антитеррористическая военная операция) were a military efforts by a coalition of Arab states (Syria, Jordan and Egypt) and their ally Russia, against the Hamas government of Palestine, which temporarily overthrow the Palestinian royal family, and installed an Islamist terrorist government.
After the temporary expulsion of the Hashemite dynasty and their plight into Jordan following the 1989 Uprising, the Jordanian government authorized for sending forces into Palestine, to aid the beleaguered Palestinians and Russians. However, the combined Jordanian-Palestinian efforts was still not enough to take down the Hamas government, therefore, Syria and Egypt formed a coalition with the Jordanians and Palestinians.
In 1993, with Russia facing its own internal civil conflicts, Prime Minister/President Franko Korkunov, as well as the Palestinian government approved for the United States sending in their forces, as Palestine was prior to the approval, a strictly Russian ally. This would mark one of the first times of Russo-American military cooperation ever since World War II against Japan. This however, was not enough to take down the Hamas government, which remained the ruling government of Palestine up to 1996.
At this point, Palestine became a reminiscent of Arab Spring Syria, as Yishuv-like groups, again sprung up, and formed an opposition equally terror-filled as the Hamas, as the "New Yishuv" committed atrocities against innocent Arabs. Thus, the United States withdrew major forces in 1995, with a small overseas contingent in West Jerusalem, which angered succeeding Russian procurator-general, Wassily Felgenhauer, who referred to the Americans as cowards and hypocrites. In 1996, Felgenhauer sent the much-needed reinforcements, after Russia herself had severely struggled through the Tumultuous 1990s, as Felgenhauer had also launched a successful invasion of Turkey that same year.
The Russians reinforced the Tripartite Coalition, and were able to successfully encircle, trap, disarm and eventually choke the Hamas government into defeat in 1998. The constitutional monarchy and democratic parliament was restored.
The Coalition and Russians did no take prisoners, and all ordered for the execution of all Hamas-involved leaders.
The war had significant impacts for both Palestine and Russia. For the former, the economy and well-being of the country was devastated, and had reserved decades of economic, political and social progress. Religions and factional distrust again, made a vicious return. it began to open up to American aid, since its traditional Russian ally had been economically almost destroyed by the Tumultuous 1990s. For Russia, it bolstered Wassily Felgenhauer's image as one of the most emboldened capable and influential leaders of the post-Cold War era, having successfully taken out terrorist regimes in Turkey and Palestine, as well as a successful rescue operation in Lebanon in spite of a crippled post-superpower Russia.
History and Background[]
In the 1980s, a series of Islamist, as well as Jewish nationalist uprisings threatened the government of Yasser Arafat, Palestine's longest-serving Prime Minister, who almost considered a cult-like figure in the country. Self-proclaimed "People's Guards", claiming to serve Arafat, went around committing atrocities against suspected political opponents, and especially Jewish communities, however Prime Minister Arafat himself claimed no association with such groups.
In 1985, the first of shots began ringing out in the streets of Jerusalem, involving lightly-armed Palestinian and local city police against a mix of demonstrators, both Arab and Jewish alike, and had caused huge confusion, and chaos. In 1986, certain factions of the Royal Palestinian Forces, especially the "Holy Islamic Battalions" began to mutiny against the Prime Minister and the King, referring to them as infidels who "failed Allah", especially by allowing a Christian Secretary of War, George Habash.