Rocket diplomacy with UN backing

Palestinians firing daily rocket barrages into Israel must be practising some kind of parallel diplomacy that they’ve managed to keep secret from the civilized world.

How else to explain Hamas and Fatah outrage at Israel’s decision to consider – merely consider – axing power supplies to Gaza factories making rockets that rain death on Israeli cities? According to Hamas and Fatah, the fact that Israel is considering cutting power is “a declaration of war”. Palestinian rockets on Sderot – the direct and sole cause of Israel’s proposed countermeasure – must therefore be acts of peace.

Palestinian Arab logic at its best.

UN chief Ban Ki-Moon, meanwhile, says Israel should not cut power to Gaza because this “would be contrary to Israel's obligations towards the civilian population under international humanitarian and human rights law.” Google Ban Ki-Moon and count how many times he has urged Hamas and Fatah to uphold the Palestinian Arabs’ obligations to Israeli civilians under international humanitarian and human rights law; in plain English, Israeli civilians’ right to live without daily rocket salvoes.

There’s a serious disconnect here between reality and fantasy. But not between the UN and Hamas.