French Get Tough

French President Jacques Chirac has threatened to cut off all financial and humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Authority unless French journalist Muhammad Ouathi is freed.

It's not just foreign journalists being targeted by terrorists in Gaza.

In a related development, three Palestinian journalists were attacked on Monday night by unidentified assailants north of Khan Yunis.

According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, the three suffered moderate stab wounds. It identified the three as Shams Odeh and his brother, Muhammad, who work for Reuters, and Fayez Abu Halaweh, a TV technician from east Jerusalem. Jerusalem Post

Since the press seems largely more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than to the Israeli cause, it would stand to reason that the terrorists would have enough sense not to kidnap or stab journalists. But when did the acts of these terrorist thugs ever make sense.