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.
