PA blames Israel for terror slaying

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By Ryan Jones
October 17, 2005

The Palestinian Authority Monday had the audacity to suggest that Sunday?s merciless killing of three young Israelis by Arab gunmen was a justified response to Israel's war on terror.

?A spokesman for the Palestinian leadership called for an end to the Israeli policy of assassinations [of known terrorists] which only leads to the kinds of reactions we saw yesterday in Bethlehem,? reported Voice of Palestine Radio. (Translation provided by Michael Widlanski)

Two young female cousins and a 14-year-old boy, all of whom the PA unsympathetically referred to as ?settlers,? were gunned down at a bus stop just south of the town of Jesus' birth Sunday afternoon. One of the girls had been married just two months before.

Another six people were wounded.

The PA, first under Yasser Arafat and now under Mahmoud Abbas, has refused for more than a decade to honor its peace commitments to disarm and dismantle the terrorist organizations operating out of territories surrendered to it by Israel.

In the absence of PA compliance, Israel has been left with little choice but to launch preemptive and retaliatory military strikes against the terrorists.

Sunday's attack was carried out by gunmen affiliated with Abbas' ruling Fatah faction.

As Arafat did before him, Abbas and all other ?Palestinian? leaders regularly venerate as ?martyrs? men like Sunday?s cowardly killers.

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