Turning Over a New Leaf Watch
Everything's going to be OK though, because, having tried to be really nice to murderous terrorists, the Palestinian Authority is now - the wording of this is so perfect - "concerned":
Palestinian Authority officials on Monday expressed concern at growing lawlessness and anarchy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and called for tough measures to enforce law and order. The officials warned that unless strict measures were taken to restore law and order the PA would lose control of the situation... Hours earlier, Fatah gunmen in the city murdered taxi driver Ahmed Tarifi, 30, on suspicion of "collaboration" with Israel... "We are operating against local gangs that are openly challenging the Palestinian Authority," he said.
Turns out, Abbas's strategy of being nice to terrorists did very little to make them less committed to terrorism. It's almost as if all of those ostensible grievances about checkpoints and economic dislocation were just excuses for a totally different motive that they have for killing Jews...
