Tel-Chai Nation

Israel Our Home, the political party of Avigdor Lieberman, is calling for something plenty would like to see done by now:

Netanyahu’s largest coalition partner, Israel Beiteinu (Israel Our Home), announced it would demand Israel's government cease all contact between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, Israel's Hebrew-language Maariv reported Wednesday.

“It is impossible to expect the State of Israel to transfer money to Hamas and thereby fund terror activities against Israel’s citizens,” a party spokesman said. “Those who declared bin Laden to be a Muslim freedom fighter, as Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh did, and those who refuse to allow the Red Cross to visit Gilad Schalit, cannot be partners in negotiations, either directly or indirectly.”

The cessation of contact would include all inter-ministerial initiatives and security cooperation in addition to the transfer of tax revenues according to the report.

In a separate statement, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon who is in Eastern Europe called on the European Union to threaten the PA with financial consequences, should they fail to comply with the Quartet’s principles.

Interestingly enough, this pact between the two terrorist groups has also drawn the ire of both the US and UK. Well, almost from the latter, as you'll soon see:

Hamas has managed to infuriate the United States and Britain for mourning Bin Laden – while at the same time Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas ties the knot with the terrorist organization and tries to gain Western support for declaring a PA a state.

As Hamas and Fatah leaders arrived in Cairo Monday to sign a unity agreement, Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh said, responding to Bin Laden's elimination, "We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.

“We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and martyrs. If these [sic] news are true, then this makes it part of the American policy based on oppression and bloodshed in the Muslim and Arab world,” the official Hamas website stated in Haniyeh's name.

The United States swiftly and angrily responded to what U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said were ”outrageous” remarks. Bin Laden “ordered the killings of thousands of innocent men, women and children... many of whom were Muslim. He did not die a martyr. He died hiding in a mansion, or a compound, far away from the violence that was carried out in his name,” Toner stated.

In Britain, Foreign Secretary William Hague used much softer language. He said that the new Fatah-Hamas unity would help promote peace with Israel “if it was possible to show across many different divides in the world a good deal of unity about what happened on Sunday night and the removal of the author of some of the world's greatest terrorist acts from the scene.

"It would have been better for Hamas to join the welcome to that. That would have been a boost in itself to the peace process."

I think the only thing they're really angry at is how this undermines their wish to divide the land of Israel. And the UK has only succeeded in telling why they're so obsolete.

Update: Barry Rubin has more about the UK's disgraceful standings on the issue.

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