Prime Minister Netanyahu took to the UN to make the case that ISIS and Hamas have a lot in common. That’s true, but he might have put his time to better use making the case that the PLO and Hamas have a whole lot in common.
Don’t take my word for it. Take President Abbas’ word for it.
Around the time that Obama visited him, Abbas gave an interview to Putin’s RT in which he claimed that he was just like Hamas.
“As far as I am concerned, there is no difference between our policies and those of Hamas. So why are they labeled as terrorists?”
Good question.
While we pretend to make a distinction between both groups, one of the triggers of the recent conflict was Abbas’ sabotage of negotiations by forming a unity government with Hamas.
The PLO uses foreign aid to pay salaries to Hamas terrorists in prison and out of prisons. It views all terrorists who died killing Jews as “martyrs”.
So this latest outburst shouldn’t surprise anyone.
In June 2014, Hamas terrorists kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teenagers: Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Frenkel, 16. One of the boys managed to call the police from the car immediately following the kidnapping. In the police recording of the phone call, shots are heard followed by the murderers, Marwan Al-Qawasmi and Amer Abu Aisheh, laughing and celebrating.
Last week, Israel discovered the hiding place of the murderers, and when Israel attempted an arrest, the terrorists opened fire and eventually were killed in the ensuing exchange of fire.
The official PA news agency WAFA is calling Israel’s attempt to apprehend the terrorists and their eventual killing an “execution,” while the terrorists themselves are being honored by the PA as “Martyrs” (Shahids) – a term indicating they are receiving sublime rewards from Allah.
“Israeli occupation forces executed citizens Marwan Al-Qawasmi and Amer Abu Aisheh today, Tuesday, in the early hours of the morning in a military operation in central Hebron… Security sources told WAFA that the occupation forces were still holding on to the bodies of the two Martyrs (Shahids).”
[WAFA (the official Palestinian Authority news agency), Sept. 23, 2014]
The PA Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is also called the murderers “Martyrs” who were “assassinated” by Israel:
“[PA] Minister of Religious Affairs Yusuf Ida’is denounced the heinous ‘Israeli’ crime committed by the occupation forces in Hebron when they assassinated several of our people this morning. [The crime] took the lives of Martyrs (Shahids) Marwan Al-Qawasmi and Amer Abu Aisheh.”
[Ma'an, independent Palestinian news agency, Sept. 23, 2014]
There are other similar Palestinian Authority quotes at the Palestinian Media Watch article linked.
It’s impossible to negotiate with Hamas. But it’s also impossible to negotiate with the PLO. Both are genocidal Islamic terrorist groups. The futility of two decades of concessions to the PLO has established that much. The Two State Solution is dead in any sense except the unilateral one in which it already exists.
Terrorists are terrorists. You can’t negotiate with them.























