Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Olmert talks political peace, Hamas threatens 3rd Intifada

According to this Ynet News article the US thinks that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has given the Palestinians a new political horizon to shoot for that wasn’t meant to be taken literally but someone needs to explain the nuance to Hamas. Ynet News:
Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal has threatened further kidnappings of Israeli troops on Monday afternoon, according to the Hamas affiliated Palestine Info website.

Kidnappings like the abduction "done four months ago" of Gilad Shalit would go on, the report said, as part of "a bid to swap them for Palestinian detainees languishing in occupation dungeons." "As long as there are (Palestinian) captives, the resistance will continue to capture Zionist soldiers to exchange them for those captives who spent long years in occupation jails," Mashaal was quoted as saying.

Referring to an earlier threat of launching a third intifada, Mashaal told Egyptian TV "that it was not a threat but rather an explanation that a third intifada might be the Palestinian people's option if their suffering persisted," the report added. The same website reported in another article that Fatah's armed wing fired "two Aqsa-103 missiles at the Sderot settlement to the north of the Gaza Strip in retaliation to the IOF troops violations of the fragile truce concluded between the Palestinians and the Hebrew state on Sunday (sic)."

It’s a common refrain to hear that the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity but what if it just isn’t so? What proof or evidence is there that a second “Palestinian” state would satisfy their demands and they would never again look towards the 1949 Armistice lines without hunger or longing?

1 comment:

Michael said...

No proof at all. Their goal, their true goal, is to destroy Israel.

In a previous post, you mentioned the PLO Charter. Take a look at articles 19 and 20 of that very revealing document.