Cause and Effect
Aussie Dave | Jan 02, 2005 | 3 comments
I can’t say I am surprised by this:
Palestinian terrorists fired two Kassam rockets at the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Sunday morning. As a result, one woman was lightly wounded by shrapnel while five other people were treated for shock.
It is the logical reaction to this:
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said in an Associated Press interview Saturday that he wants to protect militants from Israel, rejecting Israeli demands that he crack down on them. It was his latest campaign gesture to court gunmen seen by many Palestinians as resistance heroes and by Israel as terrorists.—-In the interview, Abbas defended a series of recent public appearances with gunmen and indicated he has no such plans, saying the Palestinian leadership has a responsibility to protect its people.“When we see them, when we meet them, and when they welcome us, we owe them,” Abbas said. “This debt always is to protect them from assassination, to protect them from killing, and all these things they are subject to by the Israelis.”
Which, in turn, is inconsistent with this:
Palestinians declare an unequivocal end to violence and terrorism and undertake visible efforts on the ground to arrest, disrupt, and restrain individuals and groups conducting and planning violent attacks on Israelis anywhere. Rebuilt and refocused Palestinian Authority security apparatus begins sustained, targeted, and effective operations aimed at confronting all those engaged in terror and dismantlement of terrorist capabilities and infrastructure. This includes commencing confiscation of illegal weapons and consolidation of security authority, free of association with terror and corruption.
*Sigh*
Update: My mistake. Abbas opposes rocket attacks – they aren’t effective enough.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, renewing a call for a ceasefire with Israel, has said rocket attacks by militants against Israelis are counter-productive because they draw Israeli retaliationAbbas, the frontrunner in a January 9 presidential vote to succeed Yasser Arafat, did not call for such attacks to stop but told Reuters in an interview on Saturday that the raids Israel launches in response to them hinders the election campaign.—-“It is true that there are some issues regarding rockets, which are useless, but in return there is a grave, a very grave Israeli escalation,” he said.
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Sorry if this is off-topic.
“The settlers who make an outcry, threaten violence and desecrate the memory of the holocaust victims are not quiet inhabitants living in their homes. Therefore, their evacuation from the occupied terriotires does not constitute “expulsion” or “ethnic cleansing.” The founders and leaders of the settlement movement, starting with Rabbi Levinger (‘the rabbi with the pistol’) who led settlers to the heart of Hebron immediately in 1967, have come to the occupied territories as invaders, in order to rob from the Palestinian people the remnant of its land, and suffocate the inhabitants of Palestinian towns and villages in narrow enclaves.”
OK Ken, you’re off topic. You take us to a leftie site with some story about the settlers. That’s nice – thanks for the trip. But where’s your COMMENT about the both the topic we’re engaged in and the one you are attempting to hijack us to?
Take your bandana and placard waving elsewhere ‘ I come to this blog to get enlightened but quite frankly mate ‘ you’re standing in my light. Peace off.
BOTTOM LINE -
To get elected in Israel you have to be a moderate. Sharon’s popularity has soared since he announced withdrawal plans after seriously lessening terrorist attacks.
To get elected in the Territories you have to appeal to the Pali street which is in its loudest form irredentist today… Until that changes it doesn’t matter how many elections they have.
Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Asqua and killing Jews will be the tour de force to popularity.
The only things that will change that will be the fence, Gaza withdrawal perhaps and civil war there, and the EU clamping down on the PA…
Since the 3rd will never happen it will likely be 30 years at the earliest instead of sooner… And that’s coming from Benny Morris’s mouth… 30 years that is, when I asked him personally.
Mike