Hamas defends the attack, Abbas opposes it -- although a Fatah group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, has claimed credit for it. What an elaborate charade: Abbas says he can overrule the group, but what does that mean? Stop them from carrying out suicide bombings? He couldn't do that before Hamas was in power. What makes him think he can now? From Reuters, with thanks to JE:
GAZA (Reuters) - The Islamist group Hamas defended on Friday a suicide bombing that killed four Israelis as "resistance" against Israeli "crimes," putting it at odds with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who condemned the attack.Hours after the bombing, Israeli warplanes and artillery struck the Gaza Strip, though no casualties were reported.
A car explosion in Gaza later killed a top leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, a group that frequently fires rockets into Israel. The army, which often targets Palestinian militants in airstrikes, denied involvement in the blast.
The conflicting statements of Hamas and Abbas on the West Bank suicide bombing were the first since the president swore in the Palestinian Authority's first Hamas government on Wednesday.
Abbas has said he could overrule the group, which is pledged to Israel's destruction, if it continues to block peacemaking.
The suicide bombing, claimed by al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, occurred days after Israeli leader Ehud Olmert's Kadima party won elections on a platform of setting Israel's borders in the occupied West Bank unilaterally in the absence of peace talks.
Hamas: Okay Abbas, we will take the hard line stance. You condemn it from on high. *snicker...they won't know what to think!
Abbas: oooo...good plan...*claps hands together excitedly...it ALWAYS works.
I cannot believe this old Arafat trick can still work....*sigh
*revolving door
how long will it take for the EU, USA, etc to stop sending money over there!!
Hamas is bombing and western media gives space for these guys to express their hate. (See The Guardian, today edition, Comment by Ismail Haniyeh, new Palestinian prime minister and a Hamas leader)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1743628,00.html
I am waiting for the moment, when Georges Bush gets the chance to comment developments on the Hamas website.
Nanuk,
Thanks for the link. I see alGuardian has provided a link to the new Hamas prime minister. Wow democracy in action. Now everyone can write to their terrorist representative. I encourage everyone to send him your thoughts on Hamas's rise to power.
Ismail Haniyeh is the new Palestinian prime minister and a Hamas leader. Email:
ihaniyyeh@hotmail.com
Israelis have been living with this farce or charade since Sept 13, 1993, when Rabin, arafat, and Bill Clinton did their famous Oslo handshake show on the white house lawn. Remember, the number of deadly terrorist attacks dramatically increased after the Oslo accords were announced in August 1993, and especially after the handshake. And then when arafat's panamanian authority actually got established on the ground in Gaza and Jericho, things got worse yet. For those who were not informed by their "minimalist" press and media [minimalist in the sense of minimal information], it was not only terrorist attacks with bombs, guns, knives, and more recently rockets. It was also forest fires. Starting in the summer of 1994 when yasser got his govt set up in Gaza and Jericho there were unexplained forest fires in the area west of Jerusalem, which is very dry in summer anyway. The govt of the time, headed by Saint Rabin, Shimon Peres, and the execrable Yossi Beilin [on the European Union payroll], pretended not to why or how the forest fires took place, although it was announced that fires started in several different places [spontaneously?]. So Rabin, Peres, and Beilin were playing a game, pretending not to know that arafat had never stopped being a terrorist, that peace was against his nature, and indeed peace was against his religion, unless Muslims find themselves in a weak position. So we have a triad of enemies: Arab terrorist leaders like Abbas and Hamas, Western govts [including Russia], and some of our own leaders, who are incapable or unwilling to tell the truth.
by the way, the forest fires stopped after Netanyahu became prime minister and official sources began to blame the palestinian authority for them.
Hey Naseem;
What was that about Israel giving back that land to the Palestinans being a good thing?
In this instant, I hate that I was right. The blood of the Israelis is beginning to flow in the streets of Israel and Hamas is rejoicing. With Fatah wahhabi in full effect.
A good time to convert, huh?
Sick is as sick does. If you're a jihadist, cold blooded murder of innocent men, women, and children is the order of the day.
Hey Pong,
Now you see why I call Muslim terrorists Islamofeces?
This may be a severe dumbing down of the entire situation, but why is Isreal not declaring war on the new Hamas government? How much can Isreal take of the tit for tat approach? Just END it. What would Harry Truman do? KaBOOM!
Rafi and Helena HaLevy, Re'ut Feldman, Shaked Lisker, may their names be blessed.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=101204
A Kedumim resident who was driving a car behind them later said, "I saw the car veer strangely, then stop abruptly, and then, within seconds, there was a tremendous explosion." Another neighbor said that the HaLevys had acted heroically, refusing to drive the car into the community when they understood the terrorist's intentions. "They bodily prevented many other people from being killed," she said.
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Mahmoud what's his name and all of Hamas, may they be erased. And soon.
Jordanian Television (September 13, 1995)
"Since we cannot defeat Israel in war we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel." (Yasser Arafat)
Yup. Exactly like what the Bible says will happen (Ezek 38).
Stupid is as stupid does: Willie the 'Blowjob' Clinton is at it again:
Is there no way to stop this whacko constantly embarrassing all of us?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060401/pl_afp/mideastuspalestinian_060401001759;_ylt=Ap43s.7eNJyPufr8rkoNOHas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-
Spit!