Israel treats Gaza girls; Abbas calls Israel barbaric

Earlier I wrote:

Aside from the silliness of allowing Hamas to re-arm unmolested, Israel is setting itself up for a PR hit. The first time an Israeli soldier fires on a terrorist approaching the border, Israel will be the party that violated the lull ceasefire. (When Israel is blamed, it will take on the more serious term “ceasefire.”)

Well, I got the circumstances wrong, but the effect correct.

Israel kills four after Hamas sets truce termsIsraeli forces killed four Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank, hours after the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers demanded a halt to all Israeli ‘aggression’ as a condition for a ceasefire

So Hamas set the truce terms and Israel violated them by killing four terrorists.

Jihad Watch, btw, wasn’t much in favor of having Hamas set the terms.

The article doesn’t say anything about Israel’s terms, but these would be just a start:1. Release Gilad Shalit.
2. Put an end to incitement in Hamas-controlled media — for example, praising the Jerusalem yeshiva attacker.
3. If Hamas likes to think of itself as “controlling” the Gaza Strip, they need to actually control it, or admit they can’t or won’t. Rocket attacks must end, and “loose cannon” jihadist groups are no excuse.

Those would be minimal requirements. There are many others that could and should be added, including the demand that Hamas renounce the goal of destroying Israel.

Jihad Watch also links to an article from Ynet that claims that one of the terrorists killed today was responsible for the massacre at Merkaz Harav.

Bethlehem sources say IDF forces operating in town kill Muhammad Shahade, Islamic Jihad operative believed to be responsible for attack on Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem; three other militants killed in raid.

Maybe he was the mastermind, but Abu Dhaim reported to someone else. If he had been reporting directly to a high ranking member of Islamic Jihad in Bethlehem, I doubt that he would have had a clear record according the Shin Bet. So I’m not convinced that the massacre was the work of only Islamic Jihad.

There are a number of groups trying to take credit for Abu Dhaim.

As I briefly mentioned earlier, the “”Galilee Freedom Batallions” published a picture of the Mercaz HaRav mass murderer in combat fatigues to bolster evidence that they were behind the attack.The Hamas Al-Qassam website published an animation showing that this picture was Photoshopped…

I’m still reasonably certain that the Palestinian police or some other Fatah related group was involved.

Meanwhile Abbas called the killing of the terrorists “barbaric.” No word what he called the launching of more rockets at Israeli civilians.

Discarded Lies notes that

Those racist, baby-killing, genocidal Israelis are at it again

Gaza girls in Israel for heart surgery

Israeli and Palestinian heart surgeons teamed up Wednesday to operate on three young girls from the Gaza Strip under a program to save children’s lives despite hostilities between the Hamas-ruled territory and the Jewish state.Doctors said the lives of the children — aged 7, 4, and 8 months — would have been in jeopardy without the surgeries.

The baby underwent open heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect, while the older girls were treated to close holes in their hearts. The operations were successful and the girls are doing well, doctors said.

“We ignore all the politics and we are on great terms with the doctors in Gaza, despite violence and wars,” said Dr. Akiva Tamir, head of cardiology at Wolfson Hospital near Tel Aviv, who performed the operations with Dr. Rula Awwad, a Palestinian surgeon from the West Bank.

Such barbarity.

Crossposted on Soccer Dad.