PA opposes contacts with EU

The PA has warned against attempts by EU members to make contact with Hamas!

This follows a meeting last week between British Jewish businessman, David Abraham, acting as an informal representative of the British Government, and Abdul Dwaik, Hamas leader on the West Bank. This is an important response from the PA spokesman. that echoes Israel's position, that meeting with Hamas serves to legitimize a recognized terrorist organization that seeks the destruction of both the PA and Israel.

Now when Israel voices these sentiments, that Hamas is a terrorist organization that places its rockets and munitions among the Palestinian people in Gaza, and deliberately seeks civilian casualties in order to use them as PR against Israel, Western liberals shake their heads and say Israel is again excusing its "collective punishment" and its "blockade" of Gaza.

But, in fact Israel is the main supplier of all humanitarian commodities to Gaza, including water, electricity, food and medicine, as well as allowing medical cases to cross from Gaza into Israel for treatment. This apparently earns Israel no points. By contrast, Egypt, an Arab country that has a common border with Gaza does not allow any humanitarian goods into Gaza. Further Egypt is building a metal barrier to prevent Gazans tunneling into Egypt to smuggle food and arms into Gaza.

In fact, there were several demonstrations of Gazans, no doubt organized by Hamas, against Egypt, and yesterday there was a large demonstration in Beirut outside the Egyptian Embassy. So if you "support" the poor suffering Palestinians, which side are you on, the side of the "moderate" Egyptians and Pres. Abbas of the PA, or the side of Hamas and the other rejectionists who seek to use extreme violence to overthrow the legitimate governments of not only Israel and the other Arab States (witness the current war in Yemen), but also the destruction of your own society.