Abbas: Only Non-Terrorists Will Be Allowed To Get Land And Money From Israel – That They’ll Give To Terrorists

By
Omri Ceren
– February 19, 2007Posted in: Anti-Israel Diplomacy, Palestinians, US Security Aid

There’s a lot to be written about the Rice-Abbas meetings that took place over the weekend. At some point we’ll probably blog something about how Rice promised to boycott any terrorist government, and how we don’t believe that. There’s probably also something to be written about how Democrats think the US should negotiate with terrorists anyway. But buried deep inside the JPost report is something that’s as infuriating as it is revelatory:

“President Abbas appealed to Rice not to take a final position regarding the proposed unity government until the new coalition is formed,” he said. “The president stressed that it would be a big mistake to reject the new government before it announces its political program.” PA official Saeb Erekat, who participated in the meeting, said Abbas reassured Rice that the new Hamas-led unity government would not be in charge of the negotiations with Israel. “President Abbas emphasized during the talks that he alone will be responsible for the portfolio of negotiations with Israel,” he said.

So let’s break that down. Hamas will be in control of the Palestinian government since, well, they’re the majority party in the Palestinian government. And the platform of that government doesn’t recognize Israel because, well, Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel. But Israel is supposed to pretend that Hamas isn’t in charge, because the people they’ll be talking to aren’t from Hamas.

So Hamas – elected by a majority of Palestinians – will continue to pursue their genocidal agenda. But Israel is supposed to just kind of forget that in the background Hamas is running everything, and to undermine its own security in hopes of peace. Because when Hamas was relatively weak in the 1990s, they used Israeli concessions to commit mass murder – but now that they’re strong and committed to wiping out Israel, they’re – what – not going to do that?

Yet again, we feel the need to reference the dozens of times that Abbas more or less said that this is where he was going to end up

How about this: if the Palestinians elect people who are willing to make peace with Israel and can enforce that peace, Israel will give them land and money. In other words, when the Palestinians are willing and able to make peace Israel will make peace with them – and when they’re not, Israel won’t pretend otherwise? Is that too far outside the bounds of polite diplomacy?

References:
* Palestinians: Rice-Abbas talks ‘difficult’ [JPost]
* Done and Done: Abbas Takes US Money and Cutting Edge Weapons, Tells the US That He’s Siding With Hamas Anyway [MR]

Previously:
* Abbas Complains That Israel Doesn’t Trust Him
* US State Department: By “Shun” Terrorist Governments We Mean “Not Shun”
* This Is How the Palestinian Authority Will Dodge Its Treaty Obligations. Again.

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