For the movement, this “hysterical reaction” showed that Israel had successfully “turned the Abbas-Fayyad Authority into a tool in the occupier’s hand.”246 Addressing the “ferocious campaign,” one article proclaimed, “Could anyone have imagined the reactions of these forces following the murder of four Zionists, when they did not lift a finger at the murder of 1,300 Palestinian at the hands of the occupation in Gaza?”247
