During a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the release of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and the Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
It makes him sound as if his hands are squeaky clean and keeps his ‘moderate’ image in the forefront with this lame appeal to the ‘unknown kidnappers” of Corporal Shalit. No doubt Rice put him out to it, but I remember less than two weeks ago Abbas was busy issuing his own demands concerning the release of Corporal Shalit as reported by Ynet News:
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the PA will demand the release of Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and Palestinian Liberation Front Secretary-General Ahmed Saadat as part of any agreement that would include the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.Setting conditions for the release of a hostage doesn’t quite fit the ‘moderate’ image nor does it convey ignorance or a lack of control. Less we forget, the group claiming to have kidnapped Shalit was the Popular Resistance Committee. The PRC are an ad-hoc coalition made up of members from Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and were designed to pool resources and consolidate terror operations.
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What I find most interesting is the way that Abbas will say one thing to the Israeli gov't, another to the US, and something totally different- and far more violent- in Arabic.
This is why no can ever, under any circumstances, trust an Arab. We never know which side of their mouth they are talking from.
I don't know about never trusting an Arab as those Hamas guys seem to be pretty consistent - or at least their words match their actions.
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