Abbas Survives His Own Winograd Report

No word yet if Abbas knows how to hold a pair of binoculars:

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his security chiefs had detailed evidence of Hamas’ plans to seize Gaza, yet did not mobilize to stop the Islamic militants, an investigation concluded Saturday.

The 76-page report, which was ordered by Abbas, did not hold him, security adviser Mohammed Dahlan or any other political leaders responsible for the takeover in June.

Noah Pollak notes the implications:

So this is the crew that the U.S. government is currently dumping hundreds of millions of dollars on? This is the gang of buffoons and incompetents that the world demands Israel trust to deal with terrorists in the West Bank? According to the very report Abbas commissioned, when he received information that his own government was going to be usurped in Gaza, he shrugged his shoulders and did nothing — but we expect that he is going to leap into action like a superhero to stop the same terrorists from killing Jews in Israel?

You can see how Olmert and Abbas tend to balance each out each other--the biggest difference being that there is not nearly as much coverage of Abbas' blunder.

Of course, in both cases the big losers are the people who elected their leaders.

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