3-Oct-06: Palestinian Leadership: When The Going Gets Tough, Demand More Terror

Hamas and Fatah have spent the past few days blasting away at each other and at any unarmed civilians (Palestinian Arab civilians) unlucky enough to be in the vicinity. As the toll of dead and injured rises, the messages from their respective heads are distinctive and notable for (a) their utter lameness and (b) the implicit threat they contain for a tried-and-true solution.

First, listen the words as conveyed by Australia's ABC, of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the Hamas regime:

As Prime Minister, I call on all citizens to be responsible and to rise above disagreements, especially in the face of a serious escalation from the occupying forces, who are threatening to expand their aggression in Gaza. I call for an end to incitement, and call for national unity to be preserved and the institutions of the people to be protected, especially now we are in Ramadan, which dictates that we protect our unity and brotherhood.

Then from the same source, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestine Authority and chief of the Fatah terror organization:

I call on all different factions to work hard on dialogue and to stand in the same line and to empower our national unity in confronting the occupation and the siege that is being implemented against our people and our cause. So we can get out of this crisis which threatens our national discourse and threatens to do away with all our national achievements and to throw our people in the garbage of internal fighting.

It's a fact that intended self-slaughtering bombers have been routinely intercepted at the gates of our cities by alert IDF actions on a depressingly regular basis over the past several months. Experience shows it only takes one slip, one piece of bad luck, for Palestinian Arab savages from Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al-Qaida to succeed in their devil's-work.

We're praying that a massive diversionary attack against Israelis is not the result of these tweedledum/tweedledee messages from Haniyeh and Abbas. If they stand for something other than a call for re-energized, renewed terror attacks on Israelis, then we're not sure what it is.