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Abbas exhibits double standard on terror


By Ryan Jones
November 11, 2005

While ?Palestinian? terrorism against Israel's Jews is a tactical error that ?harms national interests,? the kind of Islamic violence that rocked Amman this week is a ?crime against humanity,? according to PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas.

Following the bombings of three crowded hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday evening, Independent Media Review and Analysis (IMRA) compared Abbas' reactions to that attack and similar atrocities perpetrated against Israelis in recent months.

According to the PLO news agency WAFA, Abbas phoned Jordan's King Abdullah II to condemn the Amman bombings as a ?crime against humanity,? convey his deepest condolences, and express the solidarity of all those living under the Palestinian Authority with the Hashemite Kingdom.

Several weeks earlier, a ?Palestinian? homicide bomber trained and armed by Islamic Jihad without PA interference slaughtered six innocent Israelis at an open air market in the town of Hadera.

WAFA reported that Abbas condemned that attack too, but only because ?such operations harm the Palestinian people's interests.?

When a Jerusalem couple were murdered on the roads of the Gaza Strip in July, the response was much the same.

A spokesman for Abbas told WAFA, ?These operations at the time of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip do not serve our national unity, threaten our national security and weaken the [PA's] credibility on an international level.?

The regime of the man Washington insists is a ?moderate? dedicated to peace has systematically refrained from extending the same sympathy and solidarity it did to Jordan to its Israeli peace partners.

Nor have Abbas or his underlings ever referred to the mass murder of Israeli Jews as a ?crime against humanity.?

Rather, the PLO chief has on numerous occasions embraced the killers as his ?brothers.?

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