More Evidence of New Palestinian Strategy - Blame Only the Terrorists That Are Out of Power
Remember how for years Arafat's Fatah party would say that all the Palestinian terrorism was being done by non-Fatah groups like Hamas that they couldn't control? It was a great trick - they got to claim that they were doing their best to clamp down on terrorism while they demanded more concessions from Israel in the meantime. Not only that, but they actually claimed that the terrorism was meant to weaken Fatah - so that the best way to combat the terrorists was to strengthen Fatah by giving them land. But that trick doesn't work when Hamas is actually the party in power. Unless...
Some Fatah-affiliated militias are behind the latest wave of Kassam rocket attacks, in the hope of prompting a massive IDF operation in the Gaza Strip that would eventually bring down the new Hamas cabinet, Hamas officials claimed on Sunday. The officials told The Jerusalem Post that the timing of the recent increase in attacks - almost immediately after the Hamas cabinet was sworn in - was not coincidental. They also accused some elements in the rival Islamic Jihad of working together with Fatah militias.
Last week we joked about how there was evidence emerging of a new Palestinian division of labor. A Palestinian terrorist group takes over the government and presents a somewhat non-terrorist face to the world, while all the other terrorist groups continue their murder campaigns - until those other groups have used their terrorism to gain enough popularity to win an election, at which point everybody switches. That joke is beginning to look less and less like a joke and more and more like an accurate description of Palestinian terrorist and diplomatic strategy.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Some Fatah-affiliated militias are behind the latest wave of Kassam rocket attacks, in the hope of prompting a massive IDF operation in the Gaza Strip that would eventually bring down the new Hamas cabinet, Hamas officials claimed on Sunday. The officials told The Jerusalem Post that the timing of the recent increase in attacks - almost immediately after the Hamas cabinet was sworn in - was not coincidental. They also accused some elements in the rival Islamic Jihad of working together with Fatah militias.
Last week we joked about how there was evidence emerging of a new Palestinian division of labor. A Palestinian terrorist group takes over the government and presents a somewhat non-terrorist face to the world, while all the other terrorist groups continue their murder campaigns - until those other groups have used their terrorism to gain enough popularity to win an election, at which point everybody switches. That joke is beginning to look less and less like a joke and more and more like an accurate description of Palestinian terrorist and diplomatic strategy.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
