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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• March 20, 2015 at 5:00 am
Abbas
has chosen to align himself with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, thus
facilitating these two organizations' dreams of taking over the West
Bank. These two radical groups seek to destroy Israel and are opposed to
any peace process in the Middle East.
These
threats are primarily aimed at getting the international community into
providing the Palestinian Authority with more financial and political support.
This
alliance could also result in renewed terrorist attacks against Israel,
because Hamas and Islamic Jihad will interpret Abbas's anti-Israel moves
and rhetoric as a green light for such actions.
Abbas's
rapprochement with Hamas and Islamic Jihad will only confirm the fears of
many Israelis that the West Bank will fall onto the hands of Islamists
once Israel withdraws from that area.
The
two-state solution started the day Hamas kicked Abbas out of the Gaza
Strip and turned it into an Islamist emirate. In the end, the
Palestinians got two states that are even at war with each other.
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Best Frenemies? Mahmoud Abbas (r) meets with the
Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal in Qatar, July 20, 2014.
(Image source: Handout from the Palestinian Authority President's
Office/Thaer Ghanem)
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Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO
leadership in the West Bank are once again threatening to halt security
coordination with Israel -- this time in protest over the victory of
Binyamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party in Israel's March 17 general
elections.
The latest threat was made during a meeting of PLO leaders, headed
by Abbas in Ramallah, to discuss the outcome of the Israeli elections.
At the meeting, the PLO leaders decided to ask the commanders of the
PA security forces in the West Bank to come up with a "detailed
plan" to stop security coordination with Israel.
Halting security coordination with Israel means that Abbas and the
PLO would be paving the way for Hamas to extend its control from the Gaza
Strip to the West Bank. With that, the Palestinians would have another
Islamist state that seeks to eliminate Israel.
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