AFP, Abbas and The ‘Radical Path’

Has Mahmoud Abbas gone radical? AFP suggests so:

To break the stalemate, Abbas took the more radical path of calling early elections, and the political showdown quickly degenerated into a spate of assassinations, tit-for-tat kidnappings and deadly clashes between Hamas militants and Fatah supporters.

A truly “radical” step would have been to clamp down on Hamas instead of inviting them to participate in the last elections. How would AFP have described that?