Abbas's Lies and Palestinian Child Victims
by Bassam Tawil • June 30, 2017 at 5:00 am
- Hamas and human rights groups hold Abbas personally responsible for the deaths of the children and the possible deaths of other patients in need of urgent medical treatment not available in Gaza Strip hospitals. One human rights group went so far as to call for the International Criminal Court in The Hague to launch an investigation against Abbas.
- In a move of mind-bending irony, we are witnessing a Palestinian president waging war not only against Hamas, but also against the two million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip -- while Israel continues to provide the Palestinians living under Hamas with humanitarian aid.
- That is the standard operating procedure of the man who lied straight to the face of President Donald Trump, by claiming that he had stopped incitement against Israel and was promoting a "culture of peace" among his people. Will the last sick Palestinian child please stand up?
Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is apparently deeply worried that his
political rival, Mohamed Dahlan, and Hamas are close to forming an
alliance against him. Pictured above: Abbas (left) and Dahlan (right) in
Jericho on June 20, 2003. (Photo by Awad Awad-Pool/Getty)
Palestinian children are the
latest victims of the power struggle between the two rival Palestinian
factions, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas.
PA
President Mahmoud Abbas has declared war on the Gaza Strip as part of
his effort to prompt Palestinians living there to revolt against the
ruling Hamas administration. It appears that Abbas and Hamas are
determined to fight to the last ill Palestinian child.
Abbas
is hoping that a series of punitive measures he has taken, which
include reducing electricity and medical supplies and cutting off
salaries to many Palestinians, will lead to the collapse of Hamas,
paving the way for the return of his PA to the Gaza Strip. Abbas has had
a grudge against Hamas ever since the Islamist movement expelled his PA
and loyalists from the Gaza Strip ten years ago.
Abbas's
war on the Hamas may seem justified. Nonetheless, it smacks of
hypocrisy and is accompanied by a smear campaign against Israel.
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