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STUDY IN CONTRASTS: THE MUSLIM REACTION TO PARIS MASSACRE

Hamas, Hezbollah condemn ISIS attacks, Palestinian Authority blames Israel

Editor’s note: WND founder Joseph Farah returned home Sunday from a two-week trip to Israel where he led an annual tour of Americans, Canadians, Europeans and others. He filed this dispatch on the contrasting Muslim reaction to the Paris massacre.

While Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic Jihad officially condemned the coordinated attacks on French civilians, the Palestinian Authority blamed Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, for the bombings and shootings claimed by ISIS.

The PA is the organization deemed by much of the western world to be worthy of leading a new Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and parts of Jerusalem, historically Jewish lands from which the fledgling government demands be ethnically cleansed of all Jews.

The world’s media and elite leadership tend to portray the PA as a “moderate” Islamic coalition willing and able to co-exist peacefully with Israel if only it gets its own state.

On Sunday, the official PA daily newspaper published a report blaming Israel’s Mossad and its “octopus arms,” for the attacks in Paris that killed at least 132 people and injured over 350. The article claimed it’s no coincidence that “human blood was exploded in Paris” at the same time that “certain European sanctions” are being implemented. The reporter was referring to the European Union’s recent decision to approve guidelines that require member states to stop carrying the “Made in Israel” label for products made in Palestinian areas of Judea and Samaria, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

The report claimed Israel will benefit from the Paris attacks, which serve the “goals” of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who “hides in his soul enough evil to burn the world.”

Palestinian National Council member Bassam Abu Sharif also blamed Israel for the attacks in Paris. He criticized U.S. and Western leaders for not taking a stand against Israel and the “Zionists,” and implied that the West had a hand in the attacks, because it has “used terror organizations before” to carry out Israel’s and their own “schemes” in the Middle East.

Even more significant was an incident that occurred near Hebron just as the Paris attacks were taking place Friday.

A distress call by a 16-year-old teen whose father and brother were murdered by a Palestinian gunman was ignored by a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance near the shooting. It did not stop to administer first aid.

Ya’akov Litman and his son, Natanel, were pronounced dead at the scene by Israeli ambulance crews after they were shot by unidentified assailants on a highway.

Israeli security officials told Channel 10 that it was their understanding that the Red Crescent is responsible for treating Palestinians in areas that are under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.

Friday’s attack took place in an area under Israeli control, yet Red Crescent personnel are still required to administer first aid to injured civilians irrespective of their nationality.

Other Middle East Islamic groups, often considered more radical in their embrace of jihad, condemned the Paris attacks without reservation.

The leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad all issued statements Saturday denouncing the attacks.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah condemned the attacks as “barbaric,” and said in a televised speech that “our people in this region know very well this terrorism the ‘Islamic State’ has carried out in the French capital.” He went on to say that “the ‘Islamic State’ will not last long.”

Nasrallah stressed further that the recent attacks in a Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut’s southern suburbs, in which 43 people were killed in a double suicide attack on Thursday, will only increase Hezbollah’s determination to fight the jihadist movement in Syria.

Hezbollah has been backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s five-year civil war.

Hamas, considered a terrorist organization by the European Union and the United States, also condemned the gun and bomb attacks.

Hamas official Bassem Na’eem said in an email statement that Hamas “strongly condemned the series of attacks and hostile actions that were carried out in Paris.”

“We pay our deep condolences to the families of the victims and we wish France safety and security,” he added.

Likewise, the Paris attacks were condemned unequivocally by Pakistani Information Minister Pervez Rashid as “an attack on mankind.”

Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body also condemned the Paris attacks: “Terrorists are not sanctioned by Islam and these acts are contrary to values of mercy it brought to the world,” said a statement by the Council of Senior Scholars.

But the condemnation was not universal in the Arab world.

Syrian television broadcast a report that blamed the French attacks on the West’s refusal to take on ISIS, which is the most powerful group trying to topple Syrian President Hafez Assad.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/study-in-contrasts-the-muslim-reaction-to-paris-massacre/#Fjm3cDGz5AmOWGqc.99

My comments: These reactions are indicative of a World in Confusion.