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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Moderate Fatah group says "Death to Israel"

I spent a bit of time during the Gaza war pointing out that Fatah was shooting rockets at Israel just as enthusiastically as Hamas.

This is apparently a completely taboo subject. The Israelis don't want to embarrass Fatah leader Abbas, the media doesn't want to complicate their twin memes of "Israel vs. Hamas" and "Hamas bad, Fatah good."

But just in case you thought that there might be a slight difference between Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah members, here is what the cover image on the Fatah Abu Rish Battalions Facebook page was exactly one month ago, August 23:



"Death to Israel" in Arabic and Hebrew.

It doesn't quite sound like this moderate Fatah group accepts a two-state solution.