Hostile "militants" tried to kill Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) on Sunday night. Watch as the mainstream media pay scant attention to this outrage, pretending that it's no big deal.
Abu Mazen is hated by the "militants" because he advocates a negotiated peace with Israel and has condemned suicide bombings and other violence in a 4-year-old Palestinian uprising.
The spin doctors are already trying to play the event down, saying that "it was not an assassination attempt." Amazing really given some of the facts.
Members of Arafat's presidential guard hustled Abbas, 69, into the tent and threw him to the ground for his safety as the militants burst in. Chaos ensued as gunmen and bodyguards began shooting at each other. In the end, two bodyguards lay dead and four other Palestinians were wounded, medics said.
Abbas has been chosen as the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the highest Palestinian decision-making body, and is tipped as the presidential candidate of Fatah.
He may be a Holocaust denier but Israel has always been willing to negotiate with him.
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