And the walls come tumbling down

Mahmoud Abbas, who has been weakly asking Hamas to “honor previous agreements with Israel” for the past few weeks while Hamas builds a cabinet out of their slate of terror chieftans elected to the Palestinian parliament, wasn’t bothering to honor previous agreements with the UK, the US, and Israel himself:

A March 8 letter from the British and American consul generals to Abbas, obtained by Haaretz, states that “the Palestinian Authority has never fully complied with basic provisions of the agreement that established the U.S. and U.K. Jericho Monitoring Mission.”

The letter goes on to say that, “While the six detainees… are held in continuous custody, the Palestinian Authority has consistently failed to comply with core provisions of the Jericho monitoring arrangements regarding visitors, cell searches, telephone access and correspondence.”

“If the Palestinian Authority would like the U.S. and U.K. to continue their involvement… conditions at the Jericho Prison must be brought into full compliance,” the letter continues.

Should this fail to happen, the letter concludes, “we will have to terminate our involvement… and withdraw our monitors with immediate effect.”

Jericho Prison was nothing more than office space for the leadership of PFLP, with open access to phones, the media, assistants, and others who could allow the PFLP leaders to continue to plan terror activies. What’s sick about this whole situation is that if Abbas hadn’t have pulled an Arafat and offered to release these vile scum, the British would have kept sending letters instead of acting.

And where was the U.S. State Department in all of this? Even the British swent through the effort to send letter. Did Condi’s Corps bother even doing that while their Royal Mistress was calling Abbas a “partner for peace” and practically begging Hamas to just issue an empty statement thinking about possibly considering recognizing Israel so she could whip out W’s checkbook?

Of course, only a fool of the highest sort would look back at his repeated offers to release those prisoners and think that Abbas was honoring the agreement at all.

So when Abbas turns to the cameras and promises to keep them in jail, what better a fool to slurp up Abbas’ lies than Yossi Bellin?

Beilin said the PA chairman told him in a phone conversation that he calls on Israel to avoid unnecessary escalation and withdraw from the prison in order to prevent more bloodshed.

“Abu Mazen said to me, ‘I am willing to be the one who guarantees you that Gandhi’s murderers, the six who are in there, will not leave the prison in Jericho. We will take full responsibility on ourselves to hold them,'” Beilin told Israel Radio, referring to Abbas by his nickname.

Beilin added that he “certainly believes in his willingness.”

According to Beilin, Abbas said he pledged to seek the return of international inspectors to the prison, stressing he would ensure the prisoners remain in jail until his efforts succeed.

Following Abbas’ announcement, Beilin called on Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert “to accept [Abbas’] offer immediately, in order not to waste precious time and human lives.”

Yossi Bellin, ladies and gentlemen. If he’d have been Tina Turner’s assistant, she’d have gone back one last time and gotten beaten to death, and someone else whould have run Bartertown.

On the other end of the spectrum, MK Lieberman is calling for the prison to be bombed into oblivion in order to avoid any more troops getting hurt during the raid. (I say hold off… let a few reporters and human shields from Al-Jazeera and some PA-run media get in there.)

Either way, Gaza and the West Bank are turning into a Kidnapapalooza and Embassy Roasting Zone again. Kinda makes you wonder why anyone bothers with embassies and cultural centers when the so-called “Palestinian security forces” provide zero security and diplomatic staff are nothing but convinent locations to pick up hostages.