Wow, THAT bubble didn't take long to burst....
Rarely has reality bitten so quickly:
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon severed contacts with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas until he acts against militants, a spokesman said Friday, a day after six Israelis were killed in an attack on a Gaza Strip crossing.
But wait - it gets better:
Shariv said Israel made the decision because the attack on the Gaza crossing was launched from a Palestinian Authority base...Three Palestinian gunmen were killed in the attack, and three armed groups claimed responsibility, including Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which has ties to Abbas' ruling Fatah movement. [my emphasis]
What is Mr. Abbas doing to try and rein in his jihadis?
Abbas has said he will not use force against militants. Instead, he is expected to try to co-opt them by asking Al Aqsa gunmen, many of them former policemen, to return to their jobs, and by offering Hamas a say in decision-making.
Oh, yeah, that'll really boost the "peace" process, won't it?
Of course, Israel does have a role in the encouragement of continuing attacks - not in retaliating, as Mr. Abbas argued over the weekend, but in their foolish decision to pull out of the Gaza Strip:
Israel intends to pull out of Gaza in the summer. Militant groups have been stepping up their attacks in recent months to try to show that they are forcing the Israelis out. A month ago, soldiers discovered a tunnel militants were digging toward the Karni checkpoint in an attempt to blow it up. [my emphasis]
The Israelis demand that Mr. Abbas crack down on his own jihadis. But they made the same demands of Yassir Arafat, and Arafat never complied. What possible reason could they have to believe that Abbas will be more cooperative? Especially since apart from the Armani suits, the absence of headdress, and an evident familiarity with disposable razors, the new PLO kingpin is a carbon copy of his predecessor?
December 30: Abbas, appearing in Jenin, is hoisted on the shoulders of Zakaria Zbeida, a notorious and wanted al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist. Abbas declares that he will protect all terrorists from Israel.
December 31: Abbas reiterates his undying loyalty to Arafat's maximalist demands: complete Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines, Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, and — the red-flag deal-breaker — the "right of return," which would send the millions of Palestinians abroad not to their own country of Palestine but to Israel in order to destroy it demographically.
January 1: Abbas declares that he will never crack down on Palestinian terrorism.
January 4: Abbas calls Israel "the Zionist enemy." That phrase is so odious that only Hezbollah and Iran and others openly dedicated to the extermination of Israel use it.
Such two-facedness - saying all the right things to his Western bankrollers and remaining true to the jihadi cause to his own people - is straight out of the Arafat playbook.
Why anybody - least of all Ariel Sharon, who of any man on the face of the Earth should know better - would expect anything different from anybody who could attain the top spot in the PLO without getting a bullet through his head within minutes; and why anybody - again, Sharon most of all - would believe that yielding territory to the terrorists would accomplish anything other than to bring about an escalation in the number and scope of their attacks against Israel's civilian population is a matter probably best left to psychologists (or psychiatrists).
What is known, even if nobody wants to acknowledge it, is what is encapsulated in the old adage, "There's no substitute for victory." Until the PLO is defeated and its entire leadership jailed and the Palestinian rank & file is made to understand beyond any possibility of self-deception the comprehensiveness and magnitude of that defeat such that further resistance will be recognized as futile, there will never be peace. And that will not come from negotiation or "peace" processes or an endless snipe hunt for "moderates" who can be Israel's "peace partners."
For all the ludicrously naive euphoria that swirled around the Holy Land in the wake of the departure of Yassir Arafat for "warmer climes," all that has really happened is that the Pals are now "led" by another corrupt, duplicitous jihadi who happens to smell a little better and grasp the meaning of the term "sartorial."
Breaking off ties with Mr. Abbas is a minimum first step for Prime Minister Sharon. The next is to stop whining about the former's failure to shut down his own irregular forces and unleash the IDF to wipe them out for good.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon severed contacts with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas until he acts against militants, a spokesman said Friday, a day after six Israelis were killed in an attack on a Gaza Strip crossing.
But wait - it gets better:
Shariv said Israel made the decision because the attack on the Gaza crossing was launched from a Palestinian Authority base...Three Palestinian gunmen were killed in the attack, and three armed groups claimed responsibility, including Hamas and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which has ties to Abbas' ruling Fatah movement. [my emphasis]
What is Mr. Abbas doing to try and rein in his jihadis?
Abbas has said he will not use force against militants. Instead, he is expected to try to co-opt them by asking Al Aqsa gunmen, many of them former policemen, to return to their jobs, and by offering Hamas a say in decision-making.
Oh, yeah, that'll really boost the "peace" process, won't it?
Of course, Israel does have a role in the encouragement of continuing attacks - not in retaliating, as Mr. Abbas argued over the weekend, but in their foolish decision to pull out of the Gaza Strip:
Israel intends to pull out of Gaza in the summer. Militant groups have been stepping up their attacks in recent months to try to show that they are forcing the Israelis out. A month ago, soldiers discovered a tunnel militants were digging toward the Karni checkpoint in an attempt to blow it up. [my emphasis]
The Israelis demand that Mr. Abbas crack down on his own jihadis. But they made the same demands of Yassir Arafat, and Arafat never complied. What possible reason could they have to believe that Abbas will be more cooperative? Especially since apart from the Armani suits, the absence of headdress, and an evident familiarity with disposable razors, the new PLO kingpin is a carbon copy of his predecessor?
December 30: Abbas, appearing in Jenin, is hoisted on the shoulders of Zakaria Zbeida, a notorious and wanted al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist. Abbas declares that he will protect all terrorists from Israel.
December 31: Abbas reiterates his undying loyalty to Arafat's maximalist demands: complete Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines, Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital, and — the red-flag deal-breaker — the "right of return," which would send the millions of Palestinians abroad not to their own country of Palestine but to Israel in order to destroy it demographically.
January 1: Abbas declares that he will never crack down on Palestinian terrorism.
January 4: Abbas calls Israel "the Zionist enemy." That phrase is so odious that only Hezbollah and Iran and others openly dedicated to the extermination of Israel use it.
Such two-facedness - saying all the right things to his Western bankrollers and remaining true to the jihadi cause to his own people - is straight out of the Arafat playbook.
Why anybody - least of all Ariel Sharon, who of any man on the face of the Earth should know better - would expect anything different from anybody who could attain the top spot in the PLO without getting a bullet through his head within minutes; and why anybody - again, Sharon most of all - would believe that yielding territory to the terrorists would accomplish anything other than to bring about an escalation in the number and scope of their attacks against Israel's civilian population is a matter probably best left to psychologists (or psychiatrists).
What is known, even if nobody wants to acknowledge it, is what is encapsulated in the old adage, "There's no substitute for victory." Until the PLO is defeated and its entire leadership jailed and the Palestinian rank & file is made to understand beyond any possibility of self-deception the comprehensiveness and magnitude of that defeat such that further resistance will be recognized as futile, there will never be peace. And that will not come from negotiation or "peace" processes or an endless snipe hunt for "moderates" who can be Israel's "peace partners."
For all the ludicrously naive euphoria that swirled around the Holy Land in the wake of the departure of Yassir Arafat for "warmer climes," all that has really happened is that the Pals are now "led" by another corrupt, duplicitous jihadi who happens to smell a little better and grasp the meaning of the term "sartorial."
Breaking off ties with Mr. Abbas is a minimum first step for Prime Minister Sharon. The next is to stop whining about the former's failure to shut down his own irregular forces and unleash the IDF to wipe them out for good.
posted by JASmius at 3:36 PM
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