I Agree with Mahmud Abbas

This indeed is quite terrible. Without if, ands & buts.

Abbas condemns killing of children of PA official

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned as an "ugly and inhuman crime" the killing of three young children of a senior PA intelligence official outside their school in Gaza City Monday morning.

A bystander, 25, was also killed in the drive-by shooting, in which Palestinian gunmen opened fire in a street crowded with hundreds of school children. It was an unprecedented attack that could ignite widespread factional fighting.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

In the attack, the gunmen pumped dozens of bullets into a car carrying the children of intelligence officer Baha Balousheh, a loyalist of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement.

Still, I have a queasy feeling that some Arab, somewhere, is going to try to blame this on Israel.