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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