Apparently The Guardian readers can’t handle too much truth.

I’m one of those old-school “liberals” who believes that people should fight their battles out in the ballot box instead of killing each other visciously in a civil war. So I believe the situation in Iraq is vastly superior to the thugocracy developing in Gaza. Silly me.

Abbas, in a refreshing moment of candor, is acknowledging that the Palestinians have gotten what they asked for, and Israeli withdrawl. Now they have to make do with only themselves. And standing on the field with the linebackers bearing down on you is far different than sitting in a lounger calling the plays.

He may be right–why should the Palestinians be given their own major league team when they cannot handle a farm club?

Come on seriously do you even think there is a chance in hell that Abbas is going to disarm Hamas? He’ll just disarm the ones that don’t play ball with him or a competing clan to his mafia enterprise…. just like Arafat and the Mafia Don Ereket.

Even if he wanted to disarm them he couldn’t do it….

He’s even afraid to make it look like he’s doing it..

ALL HE WANTS is the idiots to declare a Taquiyah (spelling who cares) or Hudna so can squeeze Israel and pretend like he did something….

Then he can release the chains on the EU guys like Solana who are chomping at the bit to pretend like they have a purpose in life and squeeze Israel…. plus the Guardian – AFP – NY Times etc… are waiting with baited breath to christen the “next phase” of unilateral Israeli concessions.

Mike

This is the toughest pick I’ve had since the Iran-Iraq War.

What a shock! Abbas has no control of Hamas. I will agree to sending Abbas arms the moment he comes out and bans all armed militia’s and has one police force and one military. The luxury of claiming to be the representitive government of the Palestinian people while ignoring the numerous autonomous militia’s that attacked Israel is over. If Hamas is the elected government of Gaza or Palestine then we should make our foreign policy choices on that basis. If Abbas comes out and states that any non-Fatah military force is illegal and the goal is to disarm and deligitimize non governmental militia’s then I would agree with helping them. If they try to have both an offical and non offical militia’s then forget it. He can’t just ask them to calm down. He has to say it is illegal and put hamas members in jail and try them. No more looking the other way and allowing militia’s to act with impunity.

Kevin Peters

The US told Europe you want a,b and c… ok let’s see the guy get control of Gaza and maintain some kind of oder there….

Abbas only cares about 2 things -

1) Maintaining power and wealth by doing the absolute minimum for it.

2) Forcing concessions from Israel by doing the absolute minimum to get them.

He’s perhaps a little nervous because Britain also gave him the heads up that he’s got to put up at this point.

Now excuse me if I don’t find anything remarkable about this. Israel uprooted thousands of peoples from their homes to get a temporary sensible turnabout from 1 maybe 2 European countries.

I’ll refer back to this in about a month if it takes that long for the usual hyperbole to ensue.

Mike

The US told Europe you want a,b and c… ok let’s see the guy get control of Gaza and maintain some kind of oder there….

Abbas only cares about 2 things -

1) Maintaining power and wealth by doing the absolute minimum for it.

2) Forcing concessions from Israel by doing the absolute minimum to get them.

He’s perhaps a little nervous because Britain also gave him the heads up that he’s got to put up at this point.

Now excuse me if I don’t find anything remarkable about this. Israel uprooted thousands of peoples from their homes to get a temporary sensible turnabout from 1 maybe 2 European countries.

I’ll refer back to this in about a month if it takes that long for the usual hyperbole to ensue.

Mike