Palestinian Civil Society Watch - Abbas Sulks A Lot, Fails to Stop Terrorism
Yeah, whatever:
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that the upcoming legislative elections due on Jan. 25 may be delayed if Israel bans Jerusalem Arabs from voting, reported the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television. "We all agree that Jerusalem should be included in the elections" and "if it is not included, all the factions agree there should be no elections," Abbas was quoted by the satellite channel as saying in Doha, where he is on a visit.
Meanwhile, Abbas urged Palestinian militant groups not to abandon the truce with Israel, which they agreed to last January, saying "I appeal to all Palestinian factions to continue to respect (the truce) while we are organizing elections... Everyone must show restraint and not give Israel a pretext" to continue its policies in the Palestinian territories, he stressed.
OK. We know that Abbas has some problems with "language" and "meaning." For instance, he seems to believe that the word "all" in the phrase "all agree" means "except for Jews". But this is getting absurd - when Palestinian terrorists seek to blow up children's parties in orgies of genocidal violence, that is not a "pretext" for going after terrorists! Seriously - it's not like Israel is looking for excuses to risk their soldiers' lives in daily arrest raids and checkpoint operations. It's not like the soldiers themselves wouldn't rather prefer to be eating loof and sitting on base. Quick, easy test - who is infiltrating and blowing up whose cafes, and who is not bombing whose apartment complexes? "Pretext" indeed.
In other 'Israel shouldn't get to defend itself' pronouncements, Abbas grandiosely declared that "Israel left the Gaza Strip and has no right to return.". He then added "except maybe the right to self-defense, but United Nations resolutions have firmly established that Israel doesn't get that right". Also that "the Holocaust didn't happen". He really didn't say that second part. Or the third part. Though he seriously doesn't believe that the Holocaust happened. And the United Nations really has all but declared that Israel doesn't have a right to self-defense. So he could have said them. But he didn't. The first part about Israel not having any right to respond to daily bombings of their civilians by Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists - that part he did say.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that the upcoming legislative elections due on Jan. 25 may be delayed if Israel bans Jerusalem Arabs from voting, reported the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television. "We all agree that Jerusalem should be included in the elections" and "if it is not included, all the factions agree there should be no elections," Abbas was quoted by the satellite channel as saying in Doha, where he is on a visit.
Meanwhile, Abbas urged Palestinian militant groups not to abandon the truce with Israel, which they agreed to last January, saying "I appeal to all Palestinian factions to continue to respect (the truce) while we are organizing elections... Everyone must show restraint and not give Israel a pretext" to continue its policies in the Palestinian territories, he stressed.
OK. We know that Abbas has some problems with "language" and "meaning." For instance, he seems to believe that the word "all" in the phrase "all agree" means "except for Jews". But this is getting absurd - when Palestinian terrorists seek to blow up children's parties in orgies of genocidal violence, that is not a "pretext" for going after terrorists! Seriously - it's not like Israel is looking for excuses to risk their soldiers' lives in daily arrest raids and checkpoint operations. It's not like the soldiers themselves wouldn't rather prefer to be eating loof and sitting on base. Quick, easy test - who is infiltrating and blowing up whose cafes, and who is not bombing whose apartment complexes? "Pretext" indeed.
In other 'Israel shouldn't get to defend itself' pronouncements, Abbas grandiosely declared that "Israel left the Gaza Strip and has no right to return.". He then added "except maybe the right to self-defense, but United Nations resolutions have firmly established that Israel doesn't get that right". Also that "the Holocaust didn't happen". He really didn't say that second part. Or the third part. Though he seriously doesn't believe that the Holocaust happened. And the United Nations really has all but declared that Israel doesn't have a right to self-defense. So he could have said them. But he didn't. The first part about Israel not having any right to respond to daily bombings of their civilians by Gaza-based Palestinian terrorists - that part he did say.
