Looks like the Palestinans are fed up with Hamas.

“Hamas could have prevented the “massacre” in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday in Cairo.

PA President Abbas said Hamas could’ve prevented current escalation in violence if it did not end truce

“We spoke to them and told them ‘Please, we ask you not to end the cease-fire. Let it continue,’” Abbas said during a joint press conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. “We want to protect the Gaza Strip. We don’t want it to be destroyed.”

Abbas called on Hamas to renew the cease-fire with Israel to avoid further bloodshed in Gaza.

Aboul Gheit also attacked Hamas, saying the group had prevented people wounded in the Israeli offensive from passing into Egypt to receive medical attention.”

This incident more than anything else might be the beginning of the end of Hamas’s pull in Gaza and elsewhere. Just as the people of Iraq got fed up with Al Qaeda and then helped to eradicate them from their neighborhoods, this might just do the same for the Palestinian people, as well as other neighbors in the region.

Powerline has a good read on this from Dan Diker, a analyst from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

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