The Fatah Facebook page published this today:
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The caption says "The decision came from Fatah for revolt, revolution, O free."
This comes after an announcement from the same group claiming that they carried out a shooting attack against the IDF south of Hebron last night.
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And the Al Aqsa Brigades claimed that during the massive demonstration/riot at Kalandia yesterday that they shot weapons at the checkpoint.
Khaled Abu Toameh tweeted this:
Putting this all together, plus the march itself which was clearly organized and hardly "spontaneous," it appears that Fatah - not Hamas, but the "moderate" Fatah - is trying to start a third intifada. Explicitly.
Fatah, of course, has a leader, Mahmoud Abbas, the darling of the West for his peaceful ways. And he is not stopping his own people from declaring a new violent uprising.On the contrary - he is essentially supporting Hamas rockets, as we've seen.
I'd be surprised if Abbas explicitly lends support for a new uprising. More likely he is encouraging it more quietly to use as leverage to threaten Israel to get his demands.
That's what his hero Yasir Arafat would have done.
The caption says "The decision came from Fatah for revolt, revolution, O free."
This comes after an announcement from the same group claiming that they carried out a shooting attack against the IDF south of Hebron last night.
And the Al Aqsa Brigades claimed that during the massive demonstration/riot at Kalandia yesterday that they shot weapons at the checkpoint.
Khaled Abu Toameh tweeted this:
Fatah's armed wing, Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, says its men carried out 3 shooting attacks in West Bank in past 48 hours.
— Khaled Abu Toameh (@KhaledAbuToameh) July 25, 2014Putting this all together, plus the march itself which was clearly organized and hardly "spontaneous," it appears that Fatah - not Hamas, but the "moderate" Fatah - is trying to start a third intifada. Explicitly.
Fatah, of course, has a leader, Mahmoud Abbas, the darling of the West for his peaceful ways. And he is not stopping his own people from declaring a new violent uprising.On the contrary - he is essentially supporting Hamas rockets, as we've seen.
I'd be surprised if Abbas explicitly lends support for a new uprising. More likely he is encouraging it more quietly to use as leverage to threaten Israel to get his demands.
That's what his hero Yasir Arafat would have done.