Fatah, Like Hamas, Condemns U.S. For Killing Osama Bin Laden

The Fatah group the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has released the following statement, condemning the U.S. for killing Osama bin Laden:

"The [military wing of Fatah] Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades announced the death of Sheikh Osama bin Laden (Abu Abdallah), and said that if bin Laden had indeed died as a Shahid (Martyr), this would not deter the resistance fighters from the path of Jihad against injustice, oppression and occupation in the world.

In their announcement, a copy of which reached MAAN [private Palestinian news agency], the [Al-Aqsa Martyrs'] Brigades said: 'The Islamic nation awoke to a catastrophe the reports of the Shahid - (Martyr-) death of the Sheikh, Jihad-fighter Osama bin Laden, in a treacherous manner, by the gangs of the heretics and those who stray.'

They continued: 'The path irrigated with the blood of its leaders is the path of victory, Allah willing. If Abu Abdallah [Bin Laden] was killed, then he merited the Shahada (Death for Allah) which he had sought, and inscribed with his blood the landmarks of Jihad, leaving behind an entire generation that follows the path of Sheikh Osama.'

They said: 'The military wings of the Jihad fighters in Palestine and outside of it, who have in the past lost many of their commanders and their men, will not stop. This has only strengthened their determination, their resolve and their loyalty to theirShahids (Martyrs), who have turned their words into a reality testifying to their honesty, and which in fact bolsters the drive and the strength of their brothers on the path to victory or Shahdada (Death for Allah)'.

Good to know the Islamoterrorists on the West Bank have joined their Hamas brothers from Gaza in condemning the killing of Osama Bin Laden and praising him as a great jihad warrior and martyr.

But only if Israel would make further concessions to the Palestinians there would surely be peace, right? Meanwhile, Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah has allied itself with Hamas under a new "unity government" deal. And these are the folks Israel is pressured on a constant basis to deal with.

Israel should take this opportunity to conduct some of its own targeted assassinations against these terrorists leaders that are bent on Israel's destruction. Call the world's bluff and expose their own hypocrisy when the condemnations would pour in for Israel taking the same action taken by the United States against Bin Laden. See http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4064079,00.html for more on the clear double standard evident by the world's reaction to the targeted assassination of Hamas leader Ahmed Yassin and the reaction from the same countries to the targeted assassination of Osama Bin Laden. Tweet