Mahmoud Abbas sent his condolences today to the families of the dead soldiers.
We learned, after two years of Hezbullah refusing to acknowledge proof of life, that Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are dead. On this day, the president of the Palestinians, who is negotiating with Israel to create a Palestinian state, might have some words that the leader of a people tends to deliver at times like this. And indeed, Abbas has delivered greetings to those involved in the prisoner exchange.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has congratulated the family of Samir Kuntar and the four other prisoners who will be returned to Lebanon as part of a prisoner exchange deal with Hizbullah.
Okay, let’s take the mindset of someone who has no dog in this fight. Abbas was a “resistance” fighter, the Lebanese captured in the war are “resistance” fighters, and Samir Kuntar worked with one of Abbas’ old buddies, Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front, and the man responsible for the hijacking of the Achille Lauro and the death of Leon Klinghoffer (in a wheelchair, shot at point-blank range). So now we see why he would congratulate the Lebanese. And even Kuntar’s family. But did he extend any condolences? You know, the leader of a people tends to send condolences to the families of the bereaved when events like this occur.
He also expressed his condolences to the families of Hizbullah fighters receiving their relatives’ bodies.
Ah. To the families of the Lebanese, but not to the Goldwassers and Regevs.
And with that action, the “moderate” Palestinian president’s mindset is shown for what it is: An unrepentant, inveterate terrorist, and leader of terrorists, whose doctoral thesis was titled “”The Secret Connection between the Nazis and the Leaders of the Zionist Movement.”
These are Israel’s “partners in peace,” that Condi Rice are pushing Israel to jump ahead with in the two-state solution. And the world will continue to label him as “moderate” and make excuses for his not expressing condolences to Israel. But they will never admit that Abbas is still in the middle of a war to destroy Israel. His actions prove this, time and again.
Abbas couldn’t so much as make a polite statement regarding the loss of Regev and Goldwasser.
His silence on this topic speaks volumes.
Kuntar should have been tried and executed after being captured. Keeping him in prison made it almost inevitable that something like this would happen, sooner or later.
I understand the historical reasons why Israelis tend to oppose capital punishment, but it makes no sense in a war against terrorists. It is strange moral reasoning that says you can kill a terrorist with a JDAM missile…always with the possibility of hitting the wrong target…but you can’t shoot him after trial.
Simply an excellent post.
Now the world can see what Abbas really is – a low-life terrrorist like all the rest of them. Shame on him!!!
This may sound like wishful thinking, but IMO, Kuntar will be monitored by Israeli agents in Lebanon, and will meet with a fitting end at a later point in time.
There is a lot going on behind the scenes that we do not need to know about.
The Israeli leaders for obvious reasons, are not sharing all that they know!
Herschel, I hope you are right but I have no optimism about it.
Shireen, it won’t make a bit of difference. There has been plenty of evidence for well over a decade that the PA is filled with terrorists and that the Oslo Accords were negotiated by them in total bad faith. Nobody pays attention, and everybody continues to press Israel to give more and more concessions to these terrorist thugs. Their goal is the destruction of Israel and the genocide of its Jewish population (yes, that includes Fatah). Nobody pays any attention, even though the evidence in the form of Palestinian Arab declarations and actions is manifest.
No,the world will not see Abbas as a low life terrorist, they will continue to see him as Israel’s “peace partner”. And they will continue to criticize Israel for not being nicer to him.
Israel must take the first step before the world comes around to see Abbas for who he is, an unrepented terrorist.
Israel commits the fundamental mistake when it does not claim all of the land of Israel as rightfully Jewish land. The timid Israeli stand lends legitimacy to Arab Imperialism. Arab imperialism, also known as “Submission” or “Islam”, claims that any land that Arabs (or their Muslim followers) have even conquered forever belongs to Allah.
The world will listen, but only when Israel takes a firm stand, for it’s to all of the Land of Israel.
All that will do is get the “World Opinion” more angry with Israel. They are constantly going on about settlements already as an obstacle to peace, as if there was peace before Israel conquered Judea and Samaria as a result of the Arabs’ attempted extermination of Israel and its Jews. None of the clowns wh make such a fuss about such things seem to remember that such an Arab attack was the origin of the “occupation”. It’s as if they think that one day those mean, nasty Jews woke up and decided to attack the poor, peace-loving Arabs and take over their terrirtory.
No, claiming the while of Eretz Israel will bring Israel only more grief.