As local Palestinian officials parrot Leftist talking points (‘genocidal violence is caused by poverty’), Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is promising yet another crackdown:
In Ramallah, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack and promised an especially harsh response by his security forces.
However, similar promises following other attacks have gone unfulfilled.
“This operation… against civilians causes the most serious harm to our commitment to the peace process and the Palestinian Authority will not go easy on whoever is proved to be responsible for this operation,” said a statement issued by Abbas’s office.
Two things: (1) read that part about “similar promises” again. We assure you that when the AP and Reuters writes the story up, it will become ‘Israel stopping the Palestinian Authority from fighting terrorism’ (2) we wonder if Abbas’s recent decision to reward the families of suicide bombers with money will make it less or more difficult for him to reduce the incentive for terrorism.
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