Arab Fifth Column Watch - Israel Shouldn't Lock Up Terrorists Edition
This is a good illustration of how low our expectations of traitorous Israeli-Arab lawmakers have become. When we first clicked on the headline MK Taleb A-Sanaa calls for Marwan Barghouti's release we actually said to ourselves: "you know, he probably said that Barghouti is a strongman who will enforce a peace deal by any means necessary... obviously that's not really why he wants the terrorist Barghouti released, but at least the excuse is not a risible lie on its face... good for him!" And then it turns out that actually the excuse he used was just another stream of shameless demonstrable lies, and we were faced with the challenge of actually lowering our expectations to new depths:
Following the meeting, a-Sanaa told The Jerusalem Post that Barghouti was an important figure in any future deal involving an exchange of prisoners for captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. "If Israel wants a significant release of prisoners, Barghouti needs to be at the top of the list. He embodies the hope of the Fatah and the future leadership of the Palestinian people," said a-Sanaa. Barghouti, he continued, remained a critical force in the Palestinian political arena. "He was the force and strength behind the Prisoners' Agreement, which is the basis of an agreement for a unity government between Fatah and Hamas," said a-Sanaa. According to a-Sanaa, Barghouti saw such a unity government as necessary "to end the blockade of the Palestinian Authority, to stop Palestinian terror and to prevent a civil war in the PA... Hamas has come a long way toward recognizing Israel," a-Sanaa said, adding that it was PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and not the Hamas government that had the mandate for international negotiation on behalf of Palestinians.
(a) Actually, Hamas has made no significant progress toward recognizing Israel. We gleaned this obscure fact by reading the Hamas statements that went something like "some people are saying that we've come a long way toward recognizing Israel - but those people are wrong, since we are committed to never recognizing Israel"
(b) In fact, the very premise of the claim is as false as the claim itself - acceptance of the Prisoner's Agreement would under no circumstance imply that Hamas was accepting the existence of Israel. The Prisoner's Agreement, after all, demands that four million of the most radicalized anti-Israel Arabs in the world (aka fourth and fifth generation UN-fed and watered refugees) be allowed to flood into Israel. Which would mean the end of Israel. Which is the opposite of continuing to exist.
(c) We were going to sub-subpoint out and address all the dumb potential reasons that someone might make for why a Palestinian government uniting Al Aksa terrorists and the Hamas terrorists would be motivated to stop terrorism, but screw it. He didn't believe it when he said it, so proving that it's not true is kind of beside the point.
In other Barghouti news, he's now saying that not freeing Palestinian prisoners will cause more kidnappings and attacks on Israeli soldiers. This is to be contrasted with the rest of the known universe, which points out that freeing Palestinian prisoners also seems to inspire more Palestinian kidnappings and attacks. We strongly suspect that both of the those causes are true.
Following the meeting, a-Sanaa told The Jerusalem Post that Barghouti was an important figure in any future deal involving an exchange of prisoners for captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. "If Israel wants a significant release of prisoners, Barghouti needs to be at the top of the list. He embodies the hope of the Fatah and the future leadership of the Palestinian people," said a-Sanaa. Barghouti, he continued, remained a critical force in the Palestinian political arena. "He was the force and strength behind the Prisoners' Agreement, which is the basis of an agreement for a unity government between Fatah and Hamas," said a-Sanaa. According to a-Sanaa, Barghouti saw such a unity government as necessary "to end the blockade of the Palestinian Authority, to stop Palestinian terror and to prevent a civil war in the PA... Hamas has come a long way toward recognizing Israel," a-Sanaa said, adding that it was PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and not the Hamas government that had the mandate for international negotiation on behalf of Palestinians.
(a) Actually, Hamas has made no significant progress toward recognizing Israel. We gleaned this obscure fact by reading the Hamas statements that went something like "some people are saying that we've come a long way toward recognizing Israel - but those people are wrong, since we are committed to never recognizing Israel"
(b) In fact, the very premise of the claim is as false as the claim itself - acceptance of the Prisoner's Agreement would under no circumstance imply that Hamas was accepting the existence of Israel. The Prisoner's Agreement, after all, demands that four million of the most radicalized anti-Israel Arabs in the world (aka fourth and fifth generation UN-fed and watered refugees) be allowed to flood into Israel. Which would mean the end of Israel. Which is the opposite of continuing to exist.
(c) We were going to sub-subpoint out and address all the dumb potential reasons that someone might make for why a Palestinian government uniting Al Aksa terrorists and the Hamas terrorists would be motivated to stop terrorism, but screw it. He didn't believe it when he said it, so proving that it's not true is kind of beside the point.
In other Barghouti news, he's now saying that not freeing Palestinian prisoners will cause more kidnappings and attacks on Israeli soldiers. This is to be contrasted with the rest of the known universe, which points out that freeing Palestinian prisoners also seems to inspire more Palestinian kidnappings and attacks. We strongly suspect that both of the those causes are true.
