One must conclude they are doing it with his approval, if not at his direct orders.

So like Arafatian politics. Deja vu?
I see it as exactly the same as when Arafat ran things.
Is it going to take a new US president to see through Abbas?

On the one hand, if the Arabs asre still smoldering over the crusades or the Reconquista, that only shows how authentic they are and in touch with their roots. Aren’t they colorful and picturesque?

On the other hand, Middle Eastern history began this morning. So bringing up what happened last week, much less in 1948, is entirely irrelevant. Any Israeli action is therefore by definition only contributing to the cycle of violence, a cycle for which, if it didn’t start this morning,the Arabs aren’t responsible.

By corollary, the Arabs aren’t responsible for anything they do and it is cultural imperialism, not to mention insensitive, to expect that they are. That’s why in any discussion of the Arab-Israel conflict (note I do not say “Palestinian-Israel conflict”), mentioning the state the Palestinians could have had if they’d accepted the 1947 UN Partition Plan is not only irrelevant but culturally hegemonic in that it imposes Western standards on Arabs.

Cynic’s post is very important. It is apparent now that Abbas’ organization is conducting terrorism without letup. One must conclude they are doing it with his approval, if not at his direct orders. So the President of the PA is, once again, a terrorist. Shzdes of Arafat.

An Islamic Jihad revenge bombing Wednesday killed five Israelis,

Analysis: Abbas’s dilemma By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

The events of the past few days have shown that many of the militiamen belonging to his ruling Fatah party are operating openly together with Islamic Jihad in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Islamic Jihad operative Luai Sa’di, who was killed in an IDF operation in Tulkarm earlier this week, had been working closely with Fatah gunmen in the area.

Sa’di’s cohort, Majed al-Ashkar, a senior leader of Fatah’s armed wing, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, was also killed in the IDF raid. Sources in Tulkarm said the two men had formed a joint Fatah-Islamic Jihad cell responsible for a series of attacks on Israel over the past 18 months.

To add to that Israel’s channel 10 showed that the video the bomber made before he blew up in Hadera was made before Sa’adi was killed.
The truly bad thing is that the MSM help
spread the lies and spin.

It is funny that the Quartet

… demanding that Syria immediately shut down the offices of the militant Islamic Jihad group in Damascus …

made no objection to Syria’s infusion of arms into the Palestinian camps in Lebanon.
But then that’s a Hezbollah of another colour.