Israel Matzav

Abu Bluff: 'The only difference between Fatah and Hamas is....'

'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen told the Fatah Revolutionary Council on Sunday that the only difference between Fatah and Hamas is that 'we're in power and they're not.'

Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech Sunday that his party’s being in power is the only difference between it and the rival Hamas terrorist faction. “The Palestinian Authority is the legitimate authority and that is the difference,” he told a party conference.

In a particularly hard-line speech, he boasted that the Arab leaders in Judea, Samaria and Gaza “has not offered any concessions from May 1988 until today.” In a further eradication of the American roadmap, he claimed that Israel and not the PA proposed temporary borders for a future PA state.

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In his speech to the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Abbas maintained that he will continue to hunt down and persecute Arabs who violate the PA law against selling property to Jews. Several Arabs have been executed without trial for land deals with Jews.

He also reiterated that he will not agree to resume talks with Israel for a new PA state until Jerusalem halts all building for Jews in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

For once in his life, Abu Bluff has actually spoken the truth. I doubt anyone in the White House or State Department will notice or care.

What could go wrong?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:10 PM