By Stan Goodenough
Jul 10, 2007
Fatah terrorist chief Mahmoud Abbas – who is also the chairman of the Palestinian Authority – Monday accused his fellow, but more religious, terrorists in Hamas of enabling Al-Qaeda to infiltrate the Gaza Strip.
According to Israel National News, Abbas attacked Hamas for being a "defensive shield for the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda." He said Hamas "enables Al-Qaeda terrorists to enter Gaza, thus endangering Gaza and causing it to require urgent aid."
Hamas "angrily" denied the allegation and said Abbas was trying to generate more negative opinions against it.
A spokesman for Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, accused Abbas of "trying to mislead international opinion to win support for his demand to deploy international forces in Gaza.”
Hamas wrested control of the Gaza Strip from Fatah in an orgy of Arab-on-Arab violence last month, creating an apparently irreconcilable rift with Abbas and his fighters.
Egypt and other Arab states are working to try and heal that divide and have said they believe the two groups will come together again soon.
These enemies of Israel fear that the internecine strife has deeply damaged the "Palestinian" effort to destroy the Jewish state.