Israel cut communications with newly elected Palestinian President Abbas a day after militants broke with Abbas and bombed a Gaza Strip crossing, killing six Israelis.
What is Israel doing?
They should be helping Abbas deal with the terrorists, not cutting ties with him and telling him to get a handle on the Palestinian territories as a precondition of resuming relations with him.
Has Israel forgotten that Arafat isn’t around anymore and that Abbas is the democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people? They should treat him as the leader of a nation and not like Arafat. Isolating Abbas will only insure his downfall and failure; it will not motivate him.
Abbas represents the best chance that the Israelis have in making peace in the occupied territories so they should work with him instead of against him.
Israel needs to confront its own behavior in dealing with the Palestinian leadership and begin to realize that Abbas cannot control all of the terrorist groups. Some of those groups are dedicated to destroying Israel and do not care about what Abbas says.
Get with the program, Sharon.
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