Thursday, September 22, 2005
JTA: Abbas firm on no crackdown (no permalink)
Mahmoud Abbas rejected an international call for the Palestinian Authority to fulfill its commitments to crack down on terrorists.
“With regard to dealing with the Palestinian organizations, this is our affair,” the P.A. president told reporters Thursday, when asked about the demand leveled this week by mediators from the “Quartet” — the United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia — driving the “road map” peace plan.
Despite the requirements of the road map, Abbas has refused to disarm and dismantle Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, preferring to coax them into a cease-fire.
So, the Foreign Minister of France understands the deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps to have been undertaken voluntarily by European nations never conquered by Nazi Germany?
Sacre bleu!
I suppose that it follows that he would understand the often announced Arab intention to drive the Jews into the sea as the sort of action that can properly be voluntarily countenanced by European nations not yet conquered by Al Qaeda.