HAMAS AND FATAH STILL UNITED IN TERROR AGAINST ISRAEL. Surprisingly, it seems that Olmert's amnesty offer in July to 178 Fatah fighters, on condition that they refrain from attacks against Israel--was not taken seriously.

Hamas and members of the so-called military wing of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization took responsibility for an attack against the Israeli army yesterday, stating a recently formed new terror group will be used to conduct joint operations against the Jewish state.

Top leaders of Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group told WND their organization has recently carried out a series of joint attacks with Hamas against Israeli soldiers operating in the northern West Bank.

The leaders said the Brigades and Hamas formed a new organization called the Fire Belt to attack Israel, and that yesterday the new Fire Belt group worked together to lob grenades at Israeli forces operating in the vicinity of the Balata refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

...According to Abu Nasser, a leader of the Brigades in Nablus and a self-declared top commander of the Fire Belt group with Hamas, among the militants that attacked the jeep yesterday was a member of the Brigades who is on Israel's official list of amnesty.

Apparently the funding for this joint venture is from Iran via Hamas, while Abbas himself is rumored to be looking for a way to get together with Hamas--all this while the US is offering money and training to Fatah.

At a time when the US finally looks like they know what they are doing in Iraq, they continue a proven failed policy with Israel and the PA.

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