Abbas Can't Even Implement Fake Ceasefire To Lock In Hamas's Victory
Yeah, so that's not really a surprise:
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was forced earlier this week to call off plans to deploy PA security personnel in the northern Gaza Strip when several armed groups, including militias from his own Fatah movement, threatened to attack these forces, PA officials here told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Abbas had planned to deploy several hundred PA policemen and security officers in an attempt to stop the armed organizations from firing rockets at Israel, the officials said, noting that the proposed move had won the backing of the US and Israel.
We want to be very clear - our problem isn't with his failure to achieve a ceasefire. It's with the concept of a ceasefire itself. A ceasefire in Gaza right now would lock in a victory for Hamas exactly the way a ceasefire in Lebanon locked in a victory for Hezbollah. No one seems to remember that it was Hamas that ignited hostilities in Gaza by crossing an internationally recognized border into Israel to kill and kidnap Israeli soldiers. They still have one of those soldiers, and declaring a ceasefire allows them to keep him... allows them to profit from their act of war as the elected, recognized government of the Palestinians.
This is like if we invaded your house, killed one of your children, and then kidnapped another one. And then we ran with your child back to our house.
Then you run after us. But we meet you at our door and say: "no no no - how about we both agree to stop fighting".
To which you reply: "OK, seems reasonable - but first you have to give me back my child"
But instead of doing that, we threaten to take more of your children. And not only that, but we get some our mutual neighbors - many of whom are ostensibly your friends - and they take our side and start telling you things like "why can't you be reasonable and just stop fighting?"
And of course you say "we're more than willing to do that - just give me back my kid"
And then we get Amnesty International and the New York Times to say that you're standing in the way of peace.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was forced earlier this week to call off plans to deploy PA security personnel in the northern Gaza Strip when several armed groups, including militias from his own Fatah movement, threatened to attack these forces, PA officials here told The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Abbas had planned to deploy several hundred PA policemen and security officers in an attempt to stop the armed organizations from firing rockets at Israel, the officials said, noting that the proposed move had won the backing of the US and Israel.
We want to be very clear - our problem isn't with his failure to achieve a ceasefire. It's with the concept of a ceasefire itself. A ceasefire in Gaza right now would lock in a victory for Hamas exactly the way a ceasefire in Lebanon locked in a victory for Hezbollah. No one seems to remember that it was Hamas that ignited hostilities in Gaza by crossing an internationally recognized border into Israel to kill and kidnap Israeli soldiers. They still have one of those soldiers, and declaring a ceasefire allows them to keep him... allows them to profit from their act of war as the elected, recognized government of the Palestinians.
This is like if we invaded your house, killed one of your children, and then kidnapped another one. And then we ran with your child back to our house.
Then you run after us. But we meet you at our door and say: "no no no - how about we both agree to stop fighting".
To which you reply: "OK, seems reasonable - but first you have to give me back my child"
But instead of doing that, we threaten to take more of your children. And not only that, but we get some our mutual neighbors - many of whom are ostensibly your friends - and they take our side and start telling you things like "why can't you be reasonable and just stop fighting?"
And of course you say "we're more than willing to do that - just give me back my kid"
And then we get Amnesty International and the New York Times to say that you're standing in the way of peace.
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
