Hamas-Fatah reconciliation derails
Well, that didn’t take long: 
Hamas on Thursday accused Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of backtracking on the Egyptian-sponsored reconciliation agreement between the two sides.
The PA, in response, said that Iran, which supports Hamas financially, has instructed the movement to pull out of the agreement with Fatah.
“Hamas is nothing but a tool in the hands of Iran,” a PA official said. “There can be no agreement with a movement that serves the agenda of a regime like Iran, which is a threat to Arab national security.”
While it’s no surprise that the Hamas-Fatah arrangement didn’t work — did anyone think it would? — the public admission by the PA that Hamas is a tool of Iran is instructive. In fact, it’s what Israel has been saying for a long time.
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 at 1:13 PM | David Kuner
Red Cross: No humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Photo: Yaakov Lappin
As Fatah officials announce their plans to be part of the Gaza flotilla scheduled for the end of May – marking the one-year anniversary of the Mavi Marmara incident – a Red Cross official in the region brings into question the need for any humanitarian aid in Gaza:
Comments (3) »“There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.” So states categorically Mathilde Redmatn, the deputy director of the Red Cross in the Gaza Strip.
“If you go to the supermarket, there are products,” she said, as reported on the IDF website. “There are restaurants and a nice beach. The problem is mainly in maintenance of infrastructure and in access to certain goods such as concrete. Israel has the legitimate right to protect [its] civilian population, this right should be balanced with the right of 1.5 million people living in the Gaza Strip.”
Thursday, April 21st, 2011 at 2:07 PM | David Kuner
Israeli family stabbed to death in West Bank
A terrorist broke into a West Bank home Friday night and killed five family members. The victims were identified as the Fogel family: Udi, 36, his wife Ruth, 35, and their children Yoav, 11, Elad, 4 and Hadas, 3 months:
Five family members were found murdered in their residence in the West Bank Itamar settlement Friday overnight, after a suspected terrorist broke and entered the house and stabbed the five to death. Two children managed to escape and survived the attack, Army Radio reported.
An emergency team that arrived at the scene at 1:00 a.m. announced a couple, their 11-year old child, 3-year-old toddler, and a one-month baby girl dead from stabbing wounds.
Palestinian media on Saturday reported that a faction of Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the stabbing incident.
Residents of the settlement reported that shots were heard in the area and that the terrorist succeeded in fleeing from the scene.
May God be with all those near and dear to the Fogel family. And may their murderers be brought to justice.
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Hamas vows to foil Holocaust lessons in U.N. schools
Leaders of Hamas and Fatah protested teaching about the Holocaust at schools run by UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, calling these lessons a “provocative act”:
Comments (10) »The Hamas government said that the UN group’s intention to include the Holocaust in school text books was a “challenge to the feelings of the Palestinians.” It accused UNRWA of carrying out a political agenda that did not serve the interests of the Palestinians and “violates their culture and unchangeable values.”
Hamas said it was also opposed to the move because it would pave the way for normalization with Israel.
“This is an attempt to impose on us the culture of normalization with the occupation,” said a statement issued by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Culture in the Gaza Strip. “They want us to accept the tales and lies to win sympathy.”
The ministry described the Holocaust as a lie, saying it had been exaggerated to garner sympathy for the “usurping entity” at the expense of the rights and interests of the Palestinians.
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