Israel Matzav

Abu Mazen threatens

And we start the new year pretty much where the old one left off....

'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen  is threatening to take Israel to the International Criminal Court, to the UN General Assembly, and to just about anyplace else he thinks he can get a sympathetic hearing, to stop the 'settlement construction cancer.'

"We will not remain patient as the settlement cancer spreads, especially in (eastern) Jerusalem, and we will use our right as a UN observer state by taking political, diplomatic and legal action to stop it," declared Abbas.

The PA Chairman went on to accuse Israel of "escalation on all fronts," which he claimed "threaten to destroy the two-state solution." His statement refers to IAF responses to the fatal shooting of an IDF civilian worker outside Gaza last Tuesday, and to ongoing rocket attacks.

If Netanyahu's calculation in agreeing to release terrorists to get the 'Palestinians' to 'negotiate' was that he'd rather give an incentive that doesn't go to the heart of the negotiations, Abu Mazen's seems to have been to take what he could get  in the form of a terrorist release, and then to pretend - to applause from the 'international community' - that Israel also agreed to freeze 'settlement construction.'

What could go wrong?

Labels: Abu Mazen, East Jerusalem, Jerusalem construction, Judea and Samaria construction, Middle East peace process, Palestinian terrorists, settlement freeze

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:30 AM