by Bassam Tawil 30-6-2017
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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 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.
Instead of accepting
responsibility for their punitive actions against Hamas and the Palestinians in
the Gaza Strip, Abbas and his PA are falsely trying to put the blame on Israel.
They are telling their people and the rest of the world that Israel bears the
full and sole responsibility for the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.
This, of course, is a wide-eyed lie as well as another blood libel against
Israel.
The attempt to put the blame on
Israel should be seen in the context of Abbas's ongoing incitement against
Israel.
Moreover, Abbas is trying to drag
Israel into his continuing conflict with Hamas, which is a purely internal
Palestinian affair. Israel had nothing to do with Hamas's violent takeover of
the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007. Two years earlier, Israel had totally
withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, leaving Abbas's PA fully in control of the area.
Within two years, Hamas had overthrown the PA and seized control of the Gaza
Strip, including Abbas's house.
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