Armed With “Statehood,” Abbas Threatens to Dismantle PA
December 23, 2012 17:18 by Pesach Benson
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1. Mahmoud Abbas threatened to dismantle PA if Israel continues pushing E1 development. The man who just got “statehood” from the UN is now quoted in media reports saying:
Speaking at the opening session of the Fatah Advisory Council in Ramallah, Xinhua news agency reported, Abbas said that he is considering asking Israel to resume full control of the West Bank, saying it is impossible to act as a leader without being granted power.
Au contraire, PA officials told AP that if Netanyahu is re-elected, they’ll take steps to isolate Israel:
Emboldened by their newly upgraded status at the United Nations, the Palestinians are talking of filing war crimes charges against Israel, staging mass demonstrations in the West Bank, encouraging the international community to impose sanctions, and ending the security cooperation that has helped preserve quiet in recent years.
2. According to the Sunday Times, Hamas sleeper cells in the West Bank are poised to violently take over the West Bank. But Iran’s the puppetmaster behind the scenes. Uzi Mahnaimi’s report is behind a paywall; more at the Times of Israel.
This would create a third proxy force — after Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza — through which Iran could retaliate for any Israeli attack on its nuclear programme . . .
However, as Assad’s position has weakened, the relationship between Iran and Hamas has been restored. Iran regards Hamas as a strategic asset in the struggle against Israel. According to Israeli defence sources, Hamas militants are financed through Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
Iran is losing its strongest Middle East ally, Syria. It can’t afford to lose its Palestinian outposts surrounding Israel,” one defence source said.
3. Tis the season for big media to try squeezing a story out of Bethlehem.
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• The NY Times is having a difficult weekend. A Friday staff-ed criticizing E1 directly contradicted a correction the paper made a few days earlier. Then, the paper’s bureau chief, Jodi Rudoren, erroneously tweeted about Palestinian village inside Israel. Jisr a-Zarka’s an Israeli-Arab village near Haifa.
The tweet’s sloppy, but I’m more amazed at the staff-ed. Why bother making corrections when your own newsroom regrets repeats the error?
• Following up on Israel Made Me Beat My Wife, Shadi Ubeidallah pleaded guilty to murdering his wife. Maan News doesn’t indicate that anyone blamed the Zionists for the domestic violence.
• In the West Bank, the Daily Telegraph’s Nick Meo visited Itamar while the Washington Post’s Joel Greenberg visited Batir.
• Israel and Egypt are quietly putting together a new understanding on Gaza. According to the Jerusalem Post, many restrictions would be eased, but prevent Hamas from quickly re-arming.
• AP: The UN actually condemned human rights violations in Iran, Syria and North Korea. I suspect they wanted to do the right thing before the Mayan apocalypse. The world won’t come to an end, and it’ll be Israel-bashing business as usual at Turtle Bay.
Matthew Kahn
9:15 pm
Dec 23, 2012
I’m sure that if the Klu Klux Klan had a twitter account, spewing racism; Twitter would shut them down. So why doesn’t it close down sites run by terrorist organization.
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Dany
10:04 pm
Dec 23, 2012
HaShem works wonders, hardening Pharos heart again for a great Geula, B”H.
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Henry Federman
10:12 pm
Dec 23, 2012
The PA threatened to have Israel take care of the West Bank. No thanks. Israel does not accept regifted present! Christmas and Hanukah are over, too late for present. Nobody wants to take care of 3 millions Palestinian,not even Arab countries, poor Palestinians they feel like orphans that nobody wants, not even their family. Israel took hundreds of thousands of Jews from every Arab country,Jews from all over the world helped Israel. Arab countries with billions of dollars don’t want to help the Palestinians. Again Mr Abbas, thanks, but no thanks. Keep your own people that nobody wants and ask yourself why. Now that the UN recognize you as a country, you are on your own!
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Armed With “Statehood,” Abbas Threatens to Dismantle PA | Blogs about Israel aggregation
9:58 am
Dec 24, 2012
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B Beerman
1:02 pm
Dec 24, 2012
We tend to forget that so-called ‘Palestinians’ have been thrown out of nearly every Middle Eastern arab country and 30.000 ‘Palestinians’ were butchered in Jordan in 1971 for the socio-political trouble they created there. In keeping with Henry’s comments above, one has to ask why these disenfranchised Arab Palestinians cannot live peacefully anywhere, and why none of their Arabic, Muslim ‘brothers’ want them. When we observe the hatred between Sunni and Shi’ite, and the inhuman treatment Palestinian Arabs show each other, i.e. Hamas treatment of Fatah in Gaza in 2006-7, one gets an indication of the problem. But, would Arabs be honest enough to even address such a question? I think not
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Abbas Has Reached A Milestone In Threatened Resignations | Blogs about Israel aggregation
3:04 pm
Dec 24, 2012
[...] Backspin blog noted yesterday that Abbas is threatening to resign again: Mahmoud Abbas threatened to dismantle PA if Israel continues pushing E1 development. The man who [...]
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Henry Federman
4:34 pm
Dec 24, 2012
To answer my own question, if either Arafat or Abbas had had the guts to say yes to the proposals made to them in 2000,2003 and 2008 they would have have a country living in peace. Look as Sadat had the courage to say that’s enough of war,no more children killed . But those 2 individuals did not have the courage to say yes to peace and blaming the Israelis for their cowardice, they could have have peace. President Clinton blamed Arafat for refusing and even the king of Saudi Arabia told Arafat that he was wrong for refusing such an offer.
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Frank Adam
11:18 pm
Dec 28, 2012
Appropriate action for a PA collapse is to refuse entry to goods and services not already paid for.
If Jordan and Israel abrogate their peace treaties we are back to 1977, not 1948.
Breaking peace treaties removes their hostage value preventing Israeli actionas more Cast Lead/ Amud Annan type actions in the 1967 territories. Even before that: snatch raids to lock up those released for Gilad Shalit and others, and to abduct or kill leaders of disturbances – ie back to Second Intifada.
Both these Arab threats are Arab tripping on their tongues as since junking UN 181.
Iran will find it harder to smuggle arms to J & S than Gaza. A show-down with Egypt will end resealing the Rafah border.
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Frank Adam
11:21 pm
Dec 28, 2012
Editing error in the above – If Jordan and Egypt abrogate their peace treaties….
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Henry Federman
11:41 pm
Dec 28, 2012
Let the countries who voted to admit the PA at the UN support them. They wanted them let them keep them. The treated the PA like orphans, Now is you job to take care of them!
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