Palestinians Don’t Own Their National Movement Like They Used To
August 27, 2012 17:12 by Pesach BensonSinai-Gaza Terror Ties
• Did Mohammed Morsi negotiate a lull with Sinai jihadis?
• Did an Israeli drone kill a Sinai jihadi?
• Before the Rafah attack, did Mohammed Morsi release from prison several jihadis involved in it?
Israel and the Palestinians
Why is this man smiling?
• After the flap of calling for Mahmoud Abbas’ ouster, The Media Line asks one obvious question:
Is Avigdor Lieberman a Loose Cannon or a Bad Cop?
• The latest “flytilla” was an abject failure. Two busloads of activists tried and failed to enter the West Bank from Jordan. AFP coverage. ‘Nuff said.
Arab Spring Winter
• The latest big-name defection was a major blow to Bashar Assad’s spin doctors. Ola Abbas was a veteran news anchor for Syrian state-controlled news — and an ethnic Alawite as well. Now safe in Paris, Abbas described to Der Spiegel the Orwellian propaganda machine. I elaborated on the story earlier today.
• Syrian rebels shot down a military helicopter flying over Damascus. The Daily Telegraph has video footage.
• CNN rounds up the latest developments from Syria.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Jerusalem Post: Nitzan Chen took over as director of the Government Press Office. I think a journalism background for the position is a good idea.
Chen served recently as chairman of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Council, and before that accumulated 20 years of experience as a broadcast journalist with Channel 1, serving as a parliamentary correspondent, editor and settlements reporter.
One of the most memorable public moments involving Chen was in March 1999, when Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef kicked him out of a press conference at Arye Deri’s house because he started to ask a question about Deri’s bribery and breach of trust convictions.
• Draw your own conclusions from the farewell column of NY Times readers rep, Arthur Brisbane:
I also noted two years ago that I had taken up the public editor duties believing “there is no conspiracy” and that The Times’s output was too vast and complex to be dictated by any Wizard of Oz-like individual or cabal. I still believe that, but also see that the hive on Eighth Avenue is powerfully shaped by a culture of like minds — a phenomenon, I believe, that is more easily recognized from without than from within.
• For anyone who’s interested, The Guardian‘s readers’ editor, Chris Elliott finally comments on the Josh Trevino affair.
(Image of Lieberman via Flickr/US Embassy Tel Aviv)
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Frank Adam
8:52 pm
Aug 27, 2012
The Palestine Arabs have not owned their movement since Sept ’48.
On 15 Sep 48 (imitating Israel ?) Haj Amin el Husseini the Mufti proclaimed a Government of all Palestine in Gaza. Before the month if not the week was out, the Military Police of King Farouk’s Egypt – never mind Nasser, had escorted him to Cairo so stopping anything effective.
Nasser threw him out about 1958 and he died in Beirut about 1961.
Nasser in 1964 created the PLO to compete with Syria’s start- up Fatah; but the common aim was to subvert Jordan so their sponsors and selves could make it a puppet Palestine State.
In winter 67-8 the Arabs all agreed to merge the two under Arafart and play Garibaldi redshirts.
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Frank Adam
9:05 pm
Aug 27, 2012
OK,OK, he left for Beirut in 1959 and lingered till 1974 achieving nothing with his life.
Neverthless Arafat was entirely a put up job till the First Intifada – which also took him by surprise. Intifada is his disparaging word for his own purported constituency.
His part in Black September was another attempt to take Jordan; and his part in the Lebanese Civil War was also a Syrian move to demolish a neighbour. His equipment and training came from the USSR slush funds for trouble making in the Third World as did the diplomatic support.
When US pressure at Madrid and the Oslo pact let Arafat into Palestine he was a disapointment as every Arab compllaining about PA or Hamas justice knows.
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Frank Adam
9:05 pm
Aug 27, 2012
OK,OK, he left for Beirut in 1959 and lingered till 1974 achieving nothing with his life.
Neverthless Arafat was entirely a put up job till the First Intifada – which also took him by surprise. Intifada is his disparaging word for his own purported constituency.
His part in Black September was another attempt to take Jordan; and his part in the Lebanese Civil War was also a Syrian move to demolish a neighbour. His equipment and training came from the USSR slush funds for trouble making in the Third World as did the diplomatic support.
When US pressure at Madrid and the Oslo pact let Arafat into Palestine he was a disapointment as every Arab complaining about PA or Hamas justice knows.
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