AP: A Civil, Civil War?
January 2, 2007, 10:08 am |
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by Andrew L. Jaffee
Palestinian terrorists are at each others throats again, but with etiquette? An AP story entitled, “Palestinian factions clash in Gaza Strip,” seems to imply that Palestinians are playing nice, despite all the evidence (savagery) to the contrary. The author goes out of his/her way to emphasize that people kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists are usually released unscathed. How nice:
At least two people were wounded in the gunfire on Monday, security officials said, and reports of the numbers of Fatah and Hamas activists kidnapped ranged from three to 11. In the past, the kidnapped militants have usually been released unharmed.
And:
This was just the latest in a string of kidnappings of foreigners in Gaza in recent months. Most have been carried out by disgruntled workers seeking promises of payment of long overdue salaries or splinter militant groups. In most cases, the victims have been released unharmed within hours. An exception was the abduction of two Fox News employees over the summer — they were held for two weeks.
Most of the kidnapped foreigners have been journalists, but aid workers have also been targets.
If Palestinians won’t honor “ceasefires” amongst themselves, why would anyone believe that they would honor any agreements with Israel?
Related: Israel, Palestinians, Terrorist Groups
January 6th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
[…] The AP is at it again regarding the ongoing Palestinian civil war, trying to paint a happy face on the internecine conflict by eulogizing Yasser Arafat, who in truth is the man most responsible for his people’s misery. The civil war is largely between the terrorist group Hamas and Arafat’s Fatah, a group the AP considers a “moderate” (terrorist) organization. Just a few days ago, the AP was implying that these Palestinian factions were playing nice with each other. Palestinian “President” Mahmoud Abbas, the inheritor of Yasser Arafat’s “legacy,” today raised the stakes in the conflict, declaring Hamas’ gunmen in the Gaza Strip as “illegal.” The AP is now pinning for the good old days of Arafat: Myriad — and overlapping — forces were formed more than a decade ago by the late Yasser Arafat to help ensure law and order in the Palestinian areas, but after years of corruption and fighting with Israel, the forces have become largely ineffective, fueling widespread lawlessness in Gaza. When Hamas formed its new unit after defeating Fatah, it said the move was needed to impose order. […]