The Oh-So-Moderate Abbas Urges Palestinians To Unite, Target Israelis

By
Omri Ceren
– January 30, 2007Posted in: Palestinians

What an awful – and predictable – thing for Abbas to say:

If there is one thing on which all Palestinian factions agree, it is that Palestinians should not be killing one other, but instead should be killing Israelis. As Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said to a rally on January 11, “We will not give up our principles and we have said that rifles should be directed against the occupation.” In case he had not been clear enough, Abbas continued, “We have a legitimate right to direct our guns against Israeli occupation. It is forbidden to use these guns against Palestinians. The occupation has perpetrated brutal attacks in Jenin, Beit Hanun and Ramallah.”

Remember how just a little earlier today we said that the Palestinians intentionally set the stage for accidents and then use hysterical screams about atrocities to mobilize further violence against Israel? Brutal attacks indeed. Jenin was a war zone where the gunmen hid among civilians and even then the IDF took excruciating care to avoid injuring noncombatants. Beit Hanun was the result of Palestinians lobbing bombs from densely packed civilian areas, and Israel trying to target their building. And we’re not sure which particular Ramallah attack he’s talking about – there have been so many where the IDF had to go in and pick up terrorists who were plotting atrocities against Israeli civilians.

Anyway, that’s beside the point. Here’s the moderate Chairman of the moderate Fatah movement – the ones that the US is committed to arming and training – saying that the cutting edge weapons that the US is about to give him are going to be turned against Israelis. So that’s going to go well.

Previously: Tell Us, President Abbas, How Can We Help You Today?, White House: Sure Abbas is Powerless, But That Doesn’t Mean Israel Shouldn’t Give Him Land, Abbas: Recognizing Israel Not Required

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