Reply #25: Is there a problem with that? [View All]

[Violet_Crumble]

Abbas' forces have acted against Hamas only in a "local"* fashion. That is, they've acted to prevent attacks from certain places, or at certain times

Not sure if 'pinpoint' may have been the sort of term you were looking for there, but I'm not really understanding why acting to prevent attacks from certain places or at certain times isn't a good thing. Wouldn't they be acting on intelligence they receive? They got their arses kicked doing it, which makes me wonder how much more effective any attempt to attack the infrastructure of Hamas would be. What I'm not seeing is the motivation for Abbas to not want these groups to be disarmed. I thought there was a mutual dislike between Hamas and Fatah...


Violet...

A belated thought - I remember a thread a while back about the PA offering to give jobs to militants who handed in their weapons. I thought it was an interesting and non-violent way to start disarming militants, but wasn't surprised at all that there were a number of posters who voiced outrage at it - I'm assuming out of a belief that the PA should be killing any militant it finds rather than getting them to hand in weapons and be given jobs. If I could search, I'd go looking for the thread to refresh my memory...