Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak isn't mincing any words. Barak has stated that if the Palestinian Authority allows the murderers of Israelis, Ahijam Amihai and David Rubin, to walk...that Israel will track them down.
I think everyone in palestine first of all, believes what Barak is saying. And secondly, the killers of the two Israelis know they WILL be found by the Israeli forces.
The Palestinian Authority has tried its best to cover up the fact that two of the killers are part of Fatah and specifically part of Abbas' security team - to the point where the PA even asked one of the attackers' family to ask Hamas to claim responsibility for the attack.
Unbelievable. This will test how serious Abbas is about peace - does he convict these killers of murder or does he let them off. Either way, it's my view that the killers are either facing a prison in palestine or a death at the hands of an Israeli aircraft.
Here's the full story from DEBKA.
I think everyone in palestine first of all, believes what Barak is saying. And secondly, the killers of the two Israelis know they WILL be found by the Israeli forces.
The Palestinian Authority has tried its best to cover up the fact that two of the killers are part of Fatah and specifically part of Abbas' security team - to the point where the PA even asked one of the attackers' family to ask Hamas to claim responsibility for the attack.
Unbelievable. This will test how serious Abbas is about peace - does he convict these killers of murder or does he let them off. Either way, it's my view that the killers are either facing a prison in palestine or a death at the hands of an Israeli aircraft.
Here's the full story from DEBKA.
Barak: Palestinian killers of Ahijam Amihai and David Rubin last Friday should rot in prison for the rest of their days
January 2, 2008, 1:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday, Jan. 2: If the Palestinian Authority lets them walk, Israel will track them down. DEBKAfile Reported that two of the Fatah murderers were members of Mahmoud Abbas’ security services.
Amihai and Rubin were on a hike when they were stalked and shot in cold blood by Ali Dandanes, 24, a Shariya court clerk with ties to Palestinian General Intelligence, and Amar Taha, 26, full-time member of the Palestinian National Security service. Both were from Hebron. They then turned themselves in to the Palestinian Authority to elude Israeli military pursuit. The wounded soldiers fought back and killed a third member of the band. The third hiker, a girl, escaped and phoned for help.
The PA and its heads, Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad secretly protected the two killers from Israeli capture to the point of putting out a false tale that the three Israelis had rendezvoused with the Palestinians for an illegal drug deal and fallen out.
The PA then asked the family of the dead Palestinian gunman, Bassal Natshe to ask Hamas in the Gaza Strip to take responsibility for the attack in order to get Abbas’ Fatah and PA off the hook. Hamas’ ally Jihad Islami consented and issued a statement.
Saturday, Fayyad paid a visit to Israeli president Shimon Peres. Pretending innocence, he promised that the Palestinian Authority would catch the killers and in future combat terror.
Only after the Shin Bet discovered the terrorists’ whereabouts and confronted the PA, did Palestinian officials admit that the two men they were harboring had plotted the attack and even posted a lookout to track their victims.
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