Palestinians Crack Down on Islamic Jihad

Well, if you're a palestinian terrorist(s) pretending to get elected to office so that the world will accept you more then they already do, what else are you to do in order to insure your election but "remove" the other palestinian terrorist(s) running against you?

NABLUS, West Bank — Masked Palestinian security forces have arrested dozens of Islamic Jihad activists in a series of overnight raids across the West Bank in recent days — an operation the Palestinian Authority says is aimed at bringing those behind attacks on Israel to justice.
However, the biggest crackdown on militants since Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas took office a year ago has netted only low-level operatives, and some suspect the goal is to appease the United States and Israel rather than crush the militant group.

Oh I see, the only thing they're taking out is the "muscle" of the organization (which can be easily replaced from the pali jihad indoctrination, I mean summer, youth camps). The "brains" of the organization are allowed to come and go just like they always have, free to plan the deaths of more innocent Israelis.

At the same time, analysts and Israeli security officials said the arrests have sent an important message to the Palestinians — and Israelis — that militant groups can no longer operate with impunity.
"It is a symbolic way to tell everybody, 'I am serious,'" said Israeli security analyst Boaz Ganor.
The last major Palestinian crackdown on militant groups took place four years ago when former leader Yasser Arafat, under intense pressure from Israel to stop attacks, ordered his security forces to arrest more than 200 Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, placed Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin under house arrest and closed down many Hamas offices in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Since Abbas took office in January following Arafat's death, he has resisted calls by Israel and the United States to dismantle the armed groups, fearing it would touch off a civil war. Others are concerned that his myriad and competing security forces, devastated after five years of fighting with Israel, would be unable or unwilling to take on the militants.

OK, so he fears a civil war if he does the right thing. Do we know of any countries today who braved civil war to do the right thing? Hummm...think about it. I'll give you a couple of hints; taxation without representation and abolishment of slavery.

Instead, Abbas negotiated a shaky cease-fire with the militants to end attacks on Israel. It greatly reduced violence but has been repeatedly violated by Islamic Jihad.
After Islamic Jihad carried out its fifth suicide bombing since the truce took effect in February, killing five Israelis outside a mall in the Israeli city of Netanya last week, Abbas suddenly promised to take action.
"The Palestinian Authority will not go easy on whoever is proved to be responsible for this operation," Abbas said in a statement.
In the following days, Palestinian security forces, many of them masked to protect themselves from reprisals, fanned out across the West Bank, surprising Islamic Jihad members at their houses in the middle of the night and arresting about 100 people.
Islamic Jihad has demanded an end to the raids. "These fighters were arrested to appease Israel," said an Islamic Jihad leader known only as Abu Majd, who implied that more arrests could spark retaliation from the militants.

See how twisted their minds are? They agreed not to attack Israel and then, after numerous violations of the agreement, get mad when someone starts to hold them accountable for their actions. Appease Israel? How about "doing what is right"? And these people are going to get their own country one day? Oh boy, I can hardly wait!! (sarcasm)

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