Israel Matzav

Canceled!

In the aftermath of the Hamas-Fatah unity deal, Israel has canceled 'peace talks' that were scheduled for Wednesday evening.

Deputy Foreign Minister Ze'ev Elkin (Likud-Beytenu) said that the PA “once again has exposed the true unity of purpose between the hamas terrorists and the Fatah leaders – the annihilation of the Jewish state.”

"One should not be surprised that those who refuse to even discuss recognition of the Jewish state in any borders whatsoever, and pays huge salaries to Palestinian terrorists who murdered Israelis and are doing time in Israeli jails, finally found his natural place in the warm embrace of the Hamas murderers.”

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Likud-Beytenu) said that PA head Mahmoud Abbas “needs to decide if he wants to make peace, and if so – with whom. One cannot make peace both with Israel and Hamas, a terror organization that calls for the annihilation of Israel.

"The signing of an agreement on a unity government of Fatah and Hamas is also the signing of the end of negotiations between Israel and the PA,” he declared.

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Jewish Home chairman, Economics Minister Naftali Bennett, stated that “Hamas will continue to send terrorists to murder Jews and Abu Mazen [Abbas] willl continue to demand their release. Whoever thought of Abu Mazen as a partner needs to recalculate his route.”

“The agreement joining Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad puts the Middle East in a new era,” Bennett added. “The PA has become the largest terror body in the world, just 20 minutes from Tel Aviv. Just as the US does not talk to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Al Qaeda, Israel has to state clearly: no talks with terrorists.”

Does Bennett mean to imply that the 'Palestinian Authority' was anything but a terror organization  before this happened?

In the meantime, one of our useful idiots is more bothered by the fact that the IAF responded to rocket strikes while shortly after the agreement was being signed.

MK Nachman Shai (Labor) said that it was a “serious mistake, in time and location,” to send the IAF to strike in Gaza while fatah and Hamas were signing an agreement. “Any action of this nature will be seen as an attempt to torpedo the Palestinian reconciliation and will present Israel again as tripping up any chance of an accord.”

Why shouldn't Israel try to trip up a reconciliation between terror organizations? 

JPost has comments from another useful idiot.

On the left, Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On said Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pushed Abbas toward Hamas and then asked the PA president to choose between Hamas and Israel.

"This request goes against Israeli interests. Any reconciliation between Gaza and the West Bank is necessary, as long as any agreement between Abbas and Israel includes Hamas, which would include the end of violence [from Gaza]," she explained.

What could go wrong? 

Labels: Avigdor Lieberman, Hamas-Fatah reconciliation, Nachman Shai, Naftali Bennett, Palestinian Authority, Zeev Elkin, Zehava Gal-On

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:45 PM