Rockets hit Israel again today. And from the PA’s very own Fatah terrorists.
A Qassam rocket was fired Thursday afternoon from the Gaza Strip into Israel, exploding in an open area in Sderot’s industrial zone. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, took responsibility for firing the rocket. Sources in the Gaza Strip believe that the firing was meant to embarrass Hamas and to harm the ceasefire efforts.
Meantime, the PA’s own prime minister tells Israel to pay no attention to the rockets raining down on southern Israel, just open the crossings anyway. (What, you expected him to tell terrorists to stop firing the rockets? Please. You must be new here.)
Palestinian authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Thursday called on Israel to reopen border crossing with the Gaza Strip which were shut after Palestinian rocket attacks violated the shaky truce with Hamas.
“We have 1.5 million of our people with a sense of not having much to lose. That situation must end,” Fayyad told a news conference in Prague with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek.
Yes, it’s because they have “a sense of not having much to lose” that they’re firing rockets on Israel. Not because Hamas and Fatah are in a terror war with Israel. Nope. Pay no attention to the rockets, mortars, shootings, stabbings, and bombings. It’s all because of the “humiliations” suffered by the Palestinians.
And in today’s event being held in Arab/Muslim Bizarro World, Hamas is forming a committee to monitor violations of the truce—by Israel.
Earlier Thursday, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said that “the occupier’s continued blockade on the Strip constitutes a violation of the truce agreement.”
He spoke following a meeting held Hamas representatives with members of the Islamic Jihad, Popular Front and Democratic Front on Wednesday, in which the sides decided to form a joint committee which would monitor the Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement and decided on the response.
Got it? He’s talking to the people who are firing the rockets about monitoring Israel for closing the crossings because those people are firing rockets. Yes, a day in the life of a terrorist in Gaza or the West Bank: It’s just like a day with the Red Queen, and makes even less sense.
It’s a ceasefire, Meryl, sure enough. A ceasefire can only be broken by Israel. Firing from the Arab side is only from uncontrollable rogue elements, into whose hands Israel would be playing by responding.
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I suggest that Zahal go into Gaza and wipe out Hamas. And when the world objects Olmert can just shrug and say “It’s uncontrollable rogue elements.” Five divisions of them.