Thursday, February 15, 2007
Great hook to start another excellent Jeff Jacoby piece: Statehood for Palestine? Take a good look
But Abbas made clear it was only intra-Palestinian bloodshed he opposed. Attacking Jews was still OK.
"We should put our internal fighting aside and raise our rifles only against the Israeli occupation," he said, according to a WorldNetDaily report. He praised archterrorist Ahmed Yassin, the co-founder of Hamas who was killed by Israel in 2004. For good measure, he threw in some anti-Semitic boilerplate: "The sons of Israel are mentioned as those who are corrupting humanity on earth."
Most media accounts of the Fatah rally mentioned only Abbas's "unity" remarks, leaving out the gamier stuff about raising rifles against the humanity-corrupters (AP headline: "Abbas calls for respect at Fatah rally"). In similar fashion, news reports have rarely pointed out that in the Gaza Strip, where the Fatah-Hamas street battles have taken place, the "occupation" ended in August 2005, when Israel razed 21 Jewish settlements and expelled every Jew from the territory. For all intents and purposes, there has been a sovereign Palestinian state in Gaza for the past 18 months. The anarchy and violence, the kidnappings, the myriad of armed gangs -- that is the authentic face of Palestinian statehood. Take a good look...
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While I agree with Mr. Jacoby, the problem is that those who read him already agree with him. And, I have no doubt at all that there are people looking at what he writes who are thinking "Well, of COURSE he supports Israel. He's Jewish"..........