Poor ol' Abbas. He is fast becoming the jihadi version of Rodney Dangerfied, who gets no respect.
Rather than hang out at the terror squats back home, Abbas usually spends his time in 5 star hotels overseas, nuzzling up to EU Palestinian groupies and enablers, playing at diplomacy and making financial deals on an `if and when' basis.
Today, hanging out in Rome with his old buddy Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, Abbas implied that he had engineered the imminent release of kidnapped Israeli hostage Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
"I told the prime minister that as far as the question of the abducted Israeli soldier is concerned efforts are undergoing continuously that lead us to believe that the solution will be imminent," he said.
Except Hamas had a different take on their conversation. They claimed not to know what Abbas was talking about, and that Shalit would go free only after all the demands of the kidnappers were met.
“Nothing has changed in the case of the Israeli soldier,” said Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' so-called armed wing.
“The file remains in the hands of the resistance factions and not in the hands of any politician, even if that politician is Abu Mazen,” Ubaida said. `Abu Mazen' is what some of the wiseguys at home call Abbas sometimes..kinda like calling certain mobsters Bugsy, or Scarface.
Abbas had to blame the `miscommunication' on a faulty translation.
Whoopsie.
Actually, Hamas and the Palestinians are kind of caught in the middle, the way I see it. Given the fact that the Hamas government has suffered serious damage, I have a feeling that Haniyeh and some of the other gang members would actually be willing to consider turning Shalit over to the Israelis at this point...but doing so would anger their buddies in Hezbollah and Hamas' patrons in Iran. And Hamas capo del tutti Khalid Meshaal in Damascus and his allies are adamant about hanging on to the Israeli hostage.
Stay tuned...
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