Abbas Versus Hamas

In an extremely late but necessary move, Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas has shown that he may have found his "cajounes", as he harshly criticized Hamas for taking over Gaza last week and even going so far as to call the group, murderous terrorists. He also accused Hamas of trying to assassinate him last month, with an under the road bomb which was to go off as his auto passed over it.

Hamas denied that they tried to kill him, but it sure looked as though they would have assisted him off the top of a building if he had not left for the West Bank, before they could get ahold of him.

President Abbas has appealed for international help in convening a peace conference and has asked Israel to resume the peace talks directly. Wow, quite a turnabout in just one week, maybe the fear of Hamas is enough to keep him moving forward with a peace process that in the end would benefit his people as well as the Israeli's, who are already feeling the rocket attacks by Hamas again.

Israel is making some border raids into Gaza with tanks and have killed 4 Palestinian's so far, and have also fired missiles at Hamas strongholds. The majority of Israeli tanks are at the border, waiting, at the Ready, in case of further Hamas attacks. They also have helicopter's which they use with precision and deadliness, but as of this writing they have not yet been deployed.

Even though I have been very critical of President Abbas in the past, I hope that finding his "cajounes" will finally give him the courage to fight Hamas for control of all Palestinian territories down the road. I hope that for this current situation it will keep him strong enough to follow through on commitments it makes to acquire independence for his fellow Palestinian brother's and sister's.

There was time in the past for a brief couple of minutes when Yassar Arafat had the opportunity to give his people an independent homeland, but he was such a worm that he threw it away, by pretending to be for peace and then sanctioning the terrorist's who killed innocent Israeli's at random. Hopefully, Arafat is burning in Hell for the misuse of his authority and keeping his people in chains.

I wish for President Abbas the best and now use your anger and contempt for Hamas to move the peace process to a successful conclusion, and start by getting your people an independent West Bank, which could set the example for Gaza to follow suit!!
May God assist these men to do the right thing this time! Peace now and always, as this whole area needs a long deserved Rest!