Can There be Any Surprise?: Abbas Supports Killing Jews

PLO Chief Abbas Supports Hitting Israel, Not Hamas, by By Michael Widlanski (IMRA)

Commentary;

The Olmert Regime may not like it. And it may be tabboo to say in Israel’s current repressed state of “Freedom of Speech,” but Abbas Supports Killing Jews, and the Regime know’s it!! MB

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Excerpts;

“Our rifles, all our rifles are aimed at The Occupation,” [Arabic: “Al-Ihtilal”] declared Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today (Jan. 11) in a major speech that was warm to Hamas and harsh to Israel and the United States.

Abbas’s comments were interpreted by Palestinians themselves as a clear reference to attacking Israel-a badge of honor rather than something to condemn.

The Palestianin leader’s words were repeated almost exactly in later television shows by other Palestinian officials, such as Ibrahim Abu-Naja and Dr. Kamal Sharafy who called Israel “the enemy” and “the Zionist enemy,” respectively.

As if to remove any doubt about the militancy of Abbas’s words and the place to aim Palestinian rifles, minutes after Abbas’s own speech, Palestinian television’s senior announcer, described Israel’s establishment as the beginning of “occupation.”

“No one [here] is a criminal. All our people are as one hand to free our land,” declared Abbas, speaking about the struggle against Israel that unites all Palestinians. Not once in his speech did he condemn or even disapprove of continuing rocket attacks and attempted suicide assaults by Hamas and by his own Fatah movement.

But Abbas made it clear that Palestinian violence had to be curtailed for practical reasons, because it was “crossing a red line,” endangering Palestinians.

“I have heard the sound gunshots here, and that is forbidden,” asserted Abbas, the Fatah and PLO chairman, remonstrating against the largely pro-Fatah crowd that gathered to listen to his words in the town of Ramallah, north of Jerusalem.

“No one [Palestinian] is outside our society,” yelled Abbas. waving his hands at the noisy crowd. He specifically saluted the late Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, one of the founders of Hamas, which developed the human bomb attacks that ravaged Israel from 1994-2004, after it signed agreements with the Palestinians.

“No one is a traitor. No one is a collaborator [with Israel]. No one is an infidel,” Abbas continued, strongly suggesting that anyone who has used arms against Israel, even if he vied with Fatah for leadership, was still not beyond the pale.

[Almost all Palestinians are Sunni Muslims and the term “Shi’a” in Arabic, which means faction or faction member, refers to those Muslims who broke away from the majority community after the death of Islam’s leader, Muhammad, and supported Ali, Muhammad’s nephew. -MW]

In what was in many ways one of the most militant speeches against Israel from a Palestinian official normally touted as a moderate, Dr. Abbas also stretched out his hand to the Hamas terror organization that has never even pretended it does not want to destroy Israel.

Dr. Abbas seemed to reject all possibilities of territorial compromise or anything less than full repatriation of Palestinian refugees, and he repudiated Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s idea that a further Israeli withdrawal would lead to a Palestinian state inside temporary borders.

“Today more than any other day, we must hold fast to our Palestinian principles, and we will not accept a state with temporary borders” said Abbas, adding, “We will not give up one grain [of land] in Jerusalem.”

Referring to Palestinian refugees, Chairman Abbas said, “We send our greetings to our brothers in Jordan, in Syria, in Lebanon,” adding, “our hearts and our hands are open to all Palestinians.”

Throughout his speech Abbas hinted strongly that spilling blood of Israelis was permitted, while explicitly saying that spilling Palestinian blood was a crime.

“He who spills Palestinian blood is a criminal,” he said. “We must say ‘Palestinian blood is forbidden,'” he continued, acknowledging the continuing bloody feuding between Hamas [which holds the PA legislature] and Fatah [which holds the PA executive branch].

Frequently throughout his speech, Abbas referred to Arafat as martyr, similarly describing those Fatah gunmen who died while carrying out attacks on Israel.

Abbas was speaking at the forty-second anniversary of the founding of the Fatah organization-a day commemorating the first Palestinian attack on Israel’s national water carrier on January 1, 1965, and … was trying to use Israel as a common enemy.

Both Fatah and Hamas have continued to launch rocket attacks and to attempt suicide bomb attacks against Israel. Abbas has sometimes said such attacks “do not serve Palestinian interests,” but again today he made it clear that such attacks are morally justified in his eyes.