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October 20, 2005

Israel: Islamic Jihad Are Angered by Abbas

We brought you details of the weekend killings in Israel, when three settlers were shot dead, and five others were injured in drive-by attacks. On the same day IDF operatives in the small town of Burkin shot dead Abu Ghanem, a Palestinian terrorist from the group Islamic Jihad.

According to the Arabic site Albawaba, the Islamic Jihad Movement yesterday vehemently denounced the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas for condemning Sunday's killing of Israelis. Abbas is currently in the US to discuss ways to reduce tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. His condemnations have provoked the ire of the terrorist group.

"Such a condemnation represents a dangerous retrogression in the PA's official stance being the first of its kind that criticized the resistance attacks on the Israeli occupiers in Palestinian lands occupied in 1967," a source in the Movement said in statement Wednesday.

"The danger of such a denouncement lies in the fact that it might herald legitimacy for what the Zionists and Americans call as settlement blocs and outposts in the West Bank, including Kfar Etzion, which the offensive took place at its entrance," he added.

The representative said the Palestinian Authority should "stand by the resistance option and to stop wooing the Israeli occupiers who would be only content with a Palestinian internal civil war".

Meanwhile, President Bush and Mahmoud Abbas have finishd day one of talks, and the results have been dramatic. According to Reuters, the meeting included President Bush urging the PA President to continue coming down hard upon "armed gangs".

"I'd like to see two states. And if it happens before I get out of office, I'll be there to witness the ceremony. And if doesn't, we will work hard to lay that foundation so that the process becomes irreversible," Bush said.
However, Bush said he was "a heck of a lot more confident today" about the possibility of the state of Palestine emerging than when he first took office.

In Israel, the talks have created rage an impassioned speech from Likud's Yuval Steinitz, the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman, according to Jerusalem NewsWire. He warned that if Abbas did not silence the men of violence, he could find himself isolated in a bunker, as his predecessor, Yasser Arafat had been.

Steinitz reacted with fury to an editorial published earlier in the day that Abbas had penned for The Wall Street Journal, in which the Arab accused Israel of acting to strengthen the more radical elements of "Palestinian" society in an effort to see his rule fail. "It's clear that there is no end to audacity," Steinitz said. "The man who is personally making it possible for Hamas and the other terror organizations to hold onto their weapons and prepare for another round of bloodshed is accusing Israel of strengthening them."

Abbas had stated in the article that he had created a "climate of peace", and the only things preventing regional harmony were obstacles "Israel has created".

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at October 20, 2005 2:04 PM

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