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Weekly Commentary
22 September '11
Palestinian terrorists kidnap and hold Israelis as hostages.
A legitimate Palestinian governing body doesn’t.
This is nothing new.
Even at the most strained points of relations, the Ramallah PA never traded Israelis.
That’s not to say that they didn’t murder Israelis. But it was never an official policy that they openly adopted and implemented.
That’s why I was frankly stunned last 25 May when Senior Palestinian (Fatah/PA) official Nabil Sha'ath told me in a telephone interview [ http://youtu.be/ppziLJTuaCA for the audio ] that after unification the PA will be responsible for GIlad Shalit and will continue negotiating a trade with Israel. In fact, he didn’t expect the PA to be any easier in its demands than Hamas has been to date.
Mahmoud Abbas apparently hasn’t taken an official position on this issue yet.
It is time to put him on the spot.
Because the response to this question regarding Shalit serves is a simple intuitive litmus test of the true nature and intentions of the respondent.
There are scores – if not hundreds - of journalists who will have the opportunity in the coming hours and days in New York to ask Mahmoud Abbas if he intends to free Shalit if he succeeds in unifying PA authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
And they even have Nabil Sha’ath’s response to the same question available at the click of a mouse for background.
This is a story available on a silver platter.
Will there be any takers?
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