The non-truce farce is over

Hamas has finally declared their non-truce—in which they continue to launch suicide attacks, shootings, and rockets at Israel, but don’t claim the attacks in Hamas’ name—over.

It’s good to know that Mahmoud Abbas thinks that these are the people that Israel should “deal with” being in his cabinet, because now the real face of the palestinian has been revealed. Hint: It’s not the face of peace.

Hamas’s Qassam Brigades have declared an end to a ceasefire with Israel, according to a statement released on Wednesday evening.

The call to end the truce appeared on Hamas’s official website , in both English and Arabic, and is the first time in months that Palestinian armed forces directly under the control of the Hamas government openly threatened to attack Israel .

Abu Obaida, spokesman for the Qassam Brigades, said in the statement that “the truce with the Israeli occupation is no longer valid,” citing the “assassination of Islamic Jihad commander” Mahmoud Qassem as the reason.

Qassem was shot dead in the West Bank by Israeli Border Police on Tuesday, after security forces traced a foiled suicide bomb attack planned for Tel Aviv back to him.

In Hamas’ statement, Abu Obaida said: “This crime falls in line with a plan to liquidate Palestinian resistance in the West Bank in particular.”

I look forward to hearing the excuses Abbas makes after the first time Hamas claims an attack. Of course, it’s reprehensible that even a paper like Ynet calls this “the military wing” of Hamas. All of Hamas is the military wing. That’s an Orwelling deception used only for the purpose of political cover, and the Israeli papers, at the very least, should not abide by the fiction. The “Qassam Brigades” answer directly to the Hamas leadership—the ones that won election to the PA, and the ones that are hiding out in Damascus.

Here’s hoping the IDF has much success in making the “military wing” suffer the same kind of fate as the PIJ leader who is now sporting an extra few pounds of lead in his chest.