Palestinians Threaten US And Europe
The al Aksa Martyrs Brigade - the fancy name for the terrorist wing of the terrorist party Fatah, is threatening US and European economic and civilian interests.
The threat, the first of its kind, came as PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was scheduled to hold talks in Moscow with President Vladimir Putin on the severe financial crisis in the PA territories. Moreover, the threat by Abbas's Fatah party came as Palestinians marked the 58th anniversary of the nakba, or catastrophe (the secular anniversary of Israel's independence).
"We won't remain idle in the face of the siege imposed on the Palestinian people by Israel, the US and other countries," said a leaflet issued by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in the Gaza Strip. "We will strike at the economic and civilian interests of these countries, here and abroad."
Another faction gets even more extreme:
Another armed group affiliated with Fatah, the Abu Rish Brigades, threatened to launch a new intifada unless the international community agreed to fund the PA. "This will be a merciless intifada that will destroy everything," said Abu Haroon, a spokesman for the group in the Gaza Strip.
"We will plan and carry out more martyrdom attacks inside the Green Line regardless of the price and effort," he warned. "Those who are imposing the sanctions on the Palestinians will soon regret their decision."
This whole thing could have been settled while Arafat was still alive, but the chances have been squandered time after time after time. Maybe the world finally turning it's collective back on the Palestinians will finally bring them to reach a settlement and get on with life instead of worshiping death.
One can hope.
War, World news | Gaius Wednesday, 17 May , 2006
By Dan, Wednesday, 17 May , 2006 @ 11:03 am
Arafat was useless in the last years. Not because he was unwilling - which is debatable - but b/c he was irrelevant. He couldn’t reign in extremists any more than Abbas is able to.