Mere Rhetoric: Bonus Outrage: Abbas Rejects Two-State Solution, Eilat Bombing Happened After Israel Released Money To Him Anyway

It was more or less their answer to an Israeli peace gesture:

A Fatah spokesman has condemned the suicide bombing at a bakery in Eilat, in which three Israelis lost their lives. But Fatah terrorists have also taken responsibility for the attack, along with other Palestinian groups. Indeed, an announcement endorsing the attack can be seen on the Arabic Web site of Fatah's Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, flanked by a portrait of Yasser Arafat (http://tinyurl.com/3yhwrx). This attack came four days after Abbas and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni spoke on the same panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos and shortly after Israel released, ostensibly to the control of Abbas, $100 million in Palestinian tax revenues collected by Israel.

Obviously, this is a man that needs our full support and who should be bolstered with troops and money. Because he's putting them to good use. Oh - and about that whole "he's a partner for peace" thing:

Nor is it just on the issue of terrorism that the lines between Fatah and Hamas are, to put it mildly, blurred. At that same Ramallah rally, for example, Abbas said, "The issue of the refugees is nonnegotiable. We will not give up one inch of land in Jerusalem and we consider the settlements illegal. We also reject any attempt to resettle the refugees in other countries." If this is "moderation," it is not of the sort that is compatible with a two-state solution.

Let's go over this again: not giving up on refugees means refusing to make peace until three million of the most radicalized, anti-Semitic people on Earth are allowed to flood across the border into Israel proper. Refugees who have been raised for five generations in a climate of anti-Israel incitement and violence.

Abbas is outright declaring that he won't make peace until Israel agrees to its own destruction. There's no subtlety or mincing words about this - the "right of return" is a demand that Israel cease being a democratic Jewish state. It's destruction by demographics, but nobody pretends that it won't be a violent destruction anyway - the chaos and anti-Jewish violence in a world like that would be constant. It would be a world of unending riots and pogroms, at the hands of three million anti-Semitic lunatics. And this is the peace plan of Israel's ostensible partner for peace.

Previously: Palestinian Civil Society Watch - Abbas Sulks A Lot, Fails to Stop Terrorism, Abbas Focuses on What's Important, What The Hell Is Going On At Reuters - Palestinian Moderate Is A "Kingpin" Edition

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