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September 30, 2007
Abbas the, Ahem, Moderate
We are constantly being told that Fatah and its Holocaust denying President Mahmoud Abbas are moderate. Time and again, we are assured by the current Israeli and American governments that Abbas "deplores violence" and that he is a "political pragmatist."
Well, yes, he deplores violence when he speaks to the Western press. To the Arab press, he's just another admired Jew-hating jihadist.
And Abbas is a political pragmatist. He advocates the destruction of the state of Israel over several years. Hamas and Hizbullah want to do it now, the sooner the better. But Abbas is content to do it over several generations, using various methods.
Thus, to strengthen Abba's hand, Olmert and Co. release Fatah aligned terrorists from Israeli jails in order to prove that there are positive results to negotiations with Israel.
Olmert has yet to show the Israeli public what they get in return save dead Jews and steadily shrinking borders.
Oh yes, Israel gets lots and lots of, well, promises.
These terrorists vow to give up their murderous ways against Israel.
But, guess what, sharia, Islamic law conveniently provides an out, a terrorist loophole. It's, ahem, kosher for Muslims to lie to infidels in order to further jihad: taqiyya
So much for Arab/Muslim honor.
Thus Israel releases convicted terrorists, indeed strengthens Fatah's hand, and Abbas has even more gunmen at his disposal to kill even more Jews.
This is known as the politics of national suicide.
Anyhoo!
Now that Hamas has bitch-slapped Fatah in Gaza, Abbas has decided to pull back the happy-g0-lucky secular image of Fatah, and roll with the latest fashion: insane Islam.
It's Jihad for Dummies in Fatah Land.
Never forget that the conflict between Israel and her so-called Palestinian enemies has nothing to do with the so-called occupation of Judea and Samaria. It was never about the 9,000 Jews who lived in Gaza.
It has always been about the existence of the state of Israel.
It's always been about the intolerance of the 22 Arab/Muslim states for one tiny Jewish state.
It's always been jihad disguised under a hundred fashionable grievances that resonate with the gullible liberals of the West.
Once again, we remind our readers of this simple equation when evaluating Hamas and Fatah:
Fatah is Hamas
Hamas is Fatah.
For further proof:
A new squad of morality police has begun detaining Palestinians who eat or drink in public during Ramadan in the West Bank, where the Islamic month of daytime fasting was always widely observed but never imposed.
The 12-member squad appears to be an attempt by President Mahmoud Abbas' West Bank government to challenge the monopoly on religious righteousness claimed by the militant group Hamas, the rival ruler of Gaza.
The sudden deployment of Ramadan police was unexpected in Ramallah, the seat of Abbas' government and the most cosmopolitan and well-to-do of the Palestinian cities. Ramadan squads have not been set up in other West Bank towns.
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Posted by Robert J. Avrech at September 30, 2007 12:18 PM
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