The attitude of Netanyahu and his government in the wake of the killings, secretary of the PLO body
Yasser Abed Rabbo... Paleostinian politician and a member of the Paleostine Liberation Organization's (PLO) Executive Committee. He holds an M.A. in economics and political science from the American University in Cairo.....
told news hounds at a news conference on Wednesday, "aimed at destroying all political efforts aimed at reviving the grinding of the peace processor."
Israeli officials immediately branded the murder of the Fogel family in the Itamar settlement a terrorist attack, sparking waves of settler violence and accusations from Paleostinians that Israeli soldiers were doing little to stop the tide.
Netanyahu announced, in retaliation for the attack, the construction of hundreds of new settler homes in the West Bank, adding to half a dozen illegal settlements.
Abed Rabbo, speaking after the PLO meeting which was chaired by President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. He was one of the founding members of Fatah. Since no one would talk to him anymore in the wake of the Karine A incident, Yasser Arafat appointed Abbas prime minister in 2003. Arafat then proceeded to pretend there was no such thing as a prime minister and Abbas resigned in frustration in October of the same year. Arafat keeled over dead from AIDS the next year, and Abbas ran in the presidential election in January 2005. Fatah managed to split down the middle between the Greedy Old Guard and the Young Bloodthirsty Guys for the legislative elections, which threw the whole thing to Hamäs. This resulted in a Government of National Unity™, which worked about as well as those things usually do, and Hamäs soon beat up Fatah's goons and threw them out of Gazoo. Recently Hamäs points out, accurately, that Abbas' term as president has expired, but refuses to allow any elections to take place, which prevents him from gracefully stepping down. This the sort of thing we usually expect in Paleostine...
, said the Paleostinian leadership "reject the attempts to take advantage" of the killings, and called for "Israeli public opinion not to be dragged by attempts of its government to slander the Paleostinians."
The course of action taken by Netanyahu, he said, was effectively "abuse to the future of the Paleostinian cause."
The official urged on youth groups protesting in Ramallah and Gazoo City, saying their calls for unity must be heeded as a first step on the Paleostinian political sphere in a move that would ultimately "confront settlements and the brutal Israeli crimes carried out against the Paleostinians."