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Former Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Ibrahim Abu Ali (L) speaks with a smiling Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas as white pigeons are released at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank. The United States and Israel have said Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were making progress despite what the Jewish state referred to as its small and limited settlement activities. (AFP/File/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Looks like the pigeons themselves released something as well. Check out the man at the bottom right. Could it be that the guy at center-left is laughing at him?

“There will be no peace without the release of all Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.”

- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

Funny, because I don’t recall the release of all palestinian prisoners ever being mentioned in any of the so-called peace agreements signed by Israel and the PA. In fact, it has always been clear that certain categories of prisoners would not be released.

Furthermore, Abbas is essentially demanding the release of terrorists and murderers. Yet another disturbing fact that should make you question his peace partner credentials.

If you haven’t already.

Is it just me, or are very different subliminal messages being applied to palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak?

(Thanks to Soccer Dad for the heads up on the first photo)

She’s back..

Abbas: “Help.”

With the palestinians at each other’s throats (let alone ours), it is good to see that palestinians affiliated with their moderate leader Mahmoud Abbas are leading the way in showing what can be achieved with some good old fashioned cooperation.

A Palestinian truck bomber attacked a key border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel early Thursday morning, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said.

Army Radio reports that there were no injuries in the explosion at the Erez crossing on the northern end of the Gaza-Israel border.

A spokesman for the Islamic Jihad group said they carried out the attack in cooperation with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s more secular Fatah faction. Jihad described the attack as a successful martyrdom operation.

An Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman confirmed that there had been an explosion in the area. No IDF soldiers were hurt.

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Hamas said the bomb-laden truck was driven by a suicide bomber. Residents in the Gaza Strip who live over 30 km (20 miles) from the crossing reported hearing the blast.

Israel’s Channel 10 television said troops had prevented the truck from getting close to the crossing by firing at it before it exploded.

Notice also how Islamic Jihad described it as “a successful martyrdom operation” even though they did not manage to kill any Israelis.

Last week, US President George Bush said:

“It breaks my heart to see the vast potential of the Palestinian people, really, wasted.”

I’m guessing the palestinians agree. They have the potential to kill many more Jews.

Yesterday, it was reported that PA President Mahmoud Abbas had threatened to resign if he does not reach a peace settlement with Israel by the end of the year.

Today, the palestinians are denying it.

Palestinian Presidential spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeineh denied reports on Monday that President Mahmoud Abbas plans to resign if a final agreement is not reached in negotiations with Israel within six months.

Speaking to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, Abu Rdeineh said the report, published in Israeli media on Sunday, that Abbas had told Israeli Knesset member Yossi Beilin about his threatened resignation, was false.

Abu Rdeineh said ” President Abbas would continue exerting efforts to achieve the dream of the Palestinian people in establishing the independent state, with Jerusalem as its capital.”

The PLO’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, also said that Abbas is committed to reaching a peace agreement with Israel by the end of 2008.

“In case of failure to achieve this goal, he will weigh his options then, not now,” Erekat added.

Either the palestinians are lying or Abbas realized that palestinian ministers have about as much trouble resigning as they do renouncing terror.