Oh, You Think So?
Penetrating analysis from the Shin Bet chief:
The Palestinian Authority is crumbling, its leader Mahmoud Abbas is too weak to enforce law and order, his Fatah party is in disarray and Hamas is taking control of the Gaza Strip, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said on Wednesday during a rare on-the-record briefing with military reporters.
This is obvious to anyone who knows anything about the Middle East. The longer it takes Abbas to disarm the terrorists, the more intractable the situation becomes. Which of course means that Secretary Rice's demand that Israel give Abbas more time makes the opposite of sense:
Palestinians did a good job helping Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip but now must focus on security, said Condoleezza Rice. "The Palestinians did a very good job of helping to create a dignified circumstance for the Israelis to withdraw" by preventing attacks on soldiers and settlers, the U.S. secretary of state said in an interview with the New York Post. Rice said that P.A. head Mahmoud Abbas must fulfill his commitment to disarm Hamas and other terrorists, but suggested he needed time.
And since Abbas has committed to not dismantling terrorist infrastructure ever, we have trouble understanding why Secretary Rice is pressing Israel to give Abbas more time to do something that he neither can nor wants to do. It boggles the mind.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
The Palestinian Authority is crumbling, its leader Mahmoud Abbas is too weak to enforce law and order, his Fatah party is in disarray and Hamas is taking control of the Gaza Strip, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said on Wednesday during a rare on-the-record briefing with military reporters.
This is obvious to anyone who knows anything about the Middle East. The longer it takes Abbas to disarm the terrorists, the more intractable the situation becomes. Which of course means that Secretary Rice's demand that Israel give Abbas more time makes the opposite of sense:
Palestinians did a good job helping Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip but now must focus on security, said Condoleezza Rice. "The Palestinians did a very good job of helping to create a dignified circumstance for the Israelis to withdraw" by preventing attacks on soldiers and settlers, the U.S. secretary of state said in an interview with the New York Post. Rice said that P.A. head Mahmoud Abbas must fulfill his commitment to disarm Hamas and other terrorists, but suggested he needed time.
And since Abbas has committed to not dismantling terrorist infrastructure ever, we have trouble understanding why Secretary Rice is pressing Israel to give Abbas more time to do something that he neither can nor wants to do. It boggles the mind.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
