That took all of two minutes

Israel has cut ties with Abbas in light of a Palestinian terrorist attack that killed six Israelis:

“Israel is severing all planned contacts with the Palestinians on all levels, from security to government leadership,” spokesman Assaf Shariv said, a day after the assault that defied Abbas’s calls for non-violence.

“Everything is canceled until they take steps against terror, so we can see there is not only talk but also action. Abbas knows who carried out the attack, so he will be the one to stop them. It’s very easy,” he said.

Sharon has known all along that Abbas is no “moderate”. He had to give it the old college try for the record, but it certainly didn’t last long for Abbas to muck it up.

As far as mideast politics is concerned, looks like we’re back to regularly-scheduled programming.