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October 12, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=18429

Hamas, Abbas, and the Goldstone Report

[Asharq Alawsat-UK] Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed - The funny thing is that Hamas, which used the dirtiest expressions against Mahmoud Abbas because he agreed to postpone the discussion of the Goldstone report, is itself the party that rejected and attacked the report, considering it a Jewish conspiracy by Jewish Goldstone. Hamas stepped up the campaigns against Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad because it knows very well that the PA's performance in the West Bank is the best in the history of the Palestinian leadership in terms of its fairness and commitments toward its Palestinian citizens. The Goldstone report is not worth the ink in which it was written. At best, if the report is discussed, which is unlikely, it will be submitted to the UN Security Council where it will be revoked by a veto. Besides, the report itself incriminates Hamas in the recent war and says it too committed war crimes. Very regrettably, what we see is a serious decline in Palestinian politicians' ethics. The writer is general manager of Al-Arabiya television.

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