by Daniel Greenfield
The Hamas-PLO unity thing is going about as well as expected. Which is to say both sides are threatening each other and maneuvering to stab each other in the back first.
And some dirty laundry is coming out.
Another point Abbas touched on was the death toll in Operation Protective Edge. Hamas has been busily pushing an inflated civilian death toll to world media outlets that rely on it for figures given the lack of objective investigation in the Hamas stronghold of Gaza, and in doing so Hamas uses a variety of tactics to skew the numbers.Abbas’ figure includes family members who were around Hamas terrorists whom some would count as civilians, others as human shields. It’s also a likely incomplete figure, but gives us a bigger picture.
Abbas burst the claims, saying “Hamas says the number of dead from their ranks didn’t go past 50, when in actuality over 850 Hamas members and their family members were killed.”
Hamas’s health ministry has claimed just slightly over 2,000 Gazans dead in the operation. Given that, Abbas’s figure, which didn’t include the number of killed terrorists from other groups such as Islamic Jihad, would support Israeli reports placing the ratio of civilian to terrorist casualties at roughly 1:1, an almost unprecedented achievement in urban warfare.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the international challenges America faces in the 21st century.
Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/palestinian-authority-pres-850-hamas-members-killed-in-gaza-war/
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