Jews continue to tolerate a virulently anti-Israeli Fatah conference in Bethlehem. The participants, who enjoy Israel’s benevolence in allowing their assembly, rejected peace talks with Israel until she frees 11,000 Palestinian terrorists held in her jails.
Fatah’s hard stance is excellent PR for Abbas. Compared to these big-mouthed terrorists he looks a dove. Fatah’s rejectionist stance also provides Abbas with a way out: he can sign anything, and Fatah can claim later that it did not subscribe to the agreement, just as it now refuses to acknowledge the Oslo Accords.
Abbas is on a crash course with Dahlan and Barghouti, whose loyalists were forced out of the conference. Abbas thus is not supported even by his own party, but Israel insists on negotiating with this empty man, who won’t be able to implement any treaty.
