The so-called moderate, Mahmoud Abbas, with whom the Israelis are supposed to be moving forward towards final-status issues, issued a statement about the number of terrorists killed by the IDF yesterday:
A spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday condemned “the Israeli escalation, the killing crimes and the assassinations against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
“The assassination of 13 civilians in one day, including innocent children, is a massacre which cannot be justified. This escalation casts doubt on Israel’s real intentions regarding the peace process, which is first of all expressed in halting all violent activities, attacks and assassinations,” the spokesman said in a statement.
Let’s break down the “massacre,” shall we? This is a list of who the 13 “civilians” were:
- Six Hamas members killed by a missile strike after launching kassams into Israel
- Three members of Islamic Jihad approaching the border fence
- One member of the PFLP who fired on IDF soldiers in Nablus
- Two children killed by IDF missiles right after kassams were launched
- One senior Hamas commander killed in Gaza while heading with a group of armed men towards the border fence.
By my count, that makes 11 terrorists and two children used by terrorists to help perform terrorist acts against Israel. Even stretching the word “civilian” to its limit will not fit. Dupes, maybe. Child soldiers, perhaps. The responsibility for their deaths is the terrorists’.
The deals being made with Abbas will turn out no differently from the deals made with Arafat. There has been no reform whatsoever in the PA. There is no real wish for peace, only for a regrouping and a re-arming. And statements like this, which doubtless will be denied by Abbas tomorrow, simply prove that there is still no real peace partner for Israel.
Ok.. a little off topic, but I think it pertains to the blogs here so far for today.
Are sooo many people really so naive and dare I say, ignorant, as to sugest the police actions of Israel on the West Bank and Gaza is equivalent to Apartheid? Really? Are they?
I just want to pull my air out (it’s very fine air and I can’t do a thing with it, BTW) and scream aloud “Get a GRIP!!!”
What is Israel SUPPOSED to do in the face of wave on wave of suicide bombers and terrorist attacks, rocket terror attacks, infiltration tunnels and the like.
C’mon peopl. Use your brains. Look at what’s been happening and what’s happening now. THEN look at Israel proper. Israeli Arab citizens have full rights. There is no *apartheid* They can join the military, have college scholarships and go to the same universities as Jews. So…where do people get off even TRYING to suggest that Israel is practicing Apartheid??
OK rant and, hopefully off topic comment done….
So Abbas is lying. What’s new?
chsw
As long as the Palestinian Authority continues anti-Semitic incitement in the media under its direct control, nothing else matters.
They are enemies waiting for their chance to attack. What are we told to do when we know an enemy is approaching to attack us?
Attack them first.
And if the world condemns us? The world condemns us when we sit still and get shot at. No one respects a sucker.