Armed With “Statehood,” Abbas Threatens to Dismantle PA
December 23, 2012 17:18 by Pesach Benson• Writing at the Huffington Post, my HonestReporting Canada colleague Michelle Whiteman hits the nail on the head:
Whatever one’s opinion about the wisdom of building in disputed areas, the Oslo Accords do not prohibit Israel from building homes or “settlements.” According to international law, the status of the settlements is “disputed,” though the media routinely defines it as “occupied Palestinian territory.” Abbas recently acknowledged the disputed status when he admitted going the UN route was meant to transform the Palestinian territories from the status of disputed lands to a state under occupation. Abbas has also acknowledged that settlements take up approximately 1.1 per cent of the pre-1967 West Bank territory. Yet, as Abbas flagrantly violated the Oslo Accords with his UN bid, the media reinforced the fable that settlements “eat away at land meant for a future Palestinian state.”
Miriam Leedor dissents with Whiteman, but Yisrael Medad knocks down her argument.
• Christiains United for Israel is pushing Twitter hard to remove Hamas’ account. He makes an articulate case at Roll Call:
If a Mexican drug cartel used the site to brag about its latest mass beheadings, I suspect that Twitter would shut them down. And if a pedophile took to Twitter to describe his latest conquests, I’d pray that Twitter would stop him cold.
So why is Twitter allowing a terrorist group with American blood on its hands to operate freely on its service?. . .
Let me be clear. The account we are seeking to take down is not one operated by law-abiding citizens who sympathize with Hamas. Such independent advocacy is clearly and completely protected by the First Amendment. What we are talking about here is a page run by the terrorists themselves . . . .
By allowing Hamas to have an account, Twitter is providing it with an important “service” and extremely effective “communications equipment,” which are central to its primary mission of terrorizing the Israeli people and using civilian deaths to score political points.
• For more commentary on the settlement issue, see Clifford May, Yochanan Visser, and Mustafa Barghouti.
Arab Spring Winter
• Two Israeli journalists entered Syria to broadcast from rebel-held areas in Idlib. Afterwards, Channel 2 reporters Itay Angel and Amir Tivon told France 24 they didn’t reveal their nationality to their interviewees; the Assad regime says their video is “proof” that the rebels are siding with the evil Zionists. Judge for yourself.
• Arab media is reporting that a Hezbollah arms depot destroyed in a mysterious explosion held missiles capable of being loaded with chemical weapons.
Two days after a mysterious explosion at a Hezbollah weapons depot in southern Lebanon, the Kuwaiti website Al Jarida is reporting that Israel bombed the site because Syria had transferred missiles there that were capable of being equipped with chemical warheads . . .
The report also claimed that Hezbollah has many additional warehouses across Lebanon that are used for the same purpose.
• The bad news: A Syrian army plane dropped cluster bombs on the Syrian town of Marea. The good news: Two NY Times journalists were in the vicinity to document the attack and the damage it caused.
The munitions in question — Soviet-era PTAB-2.5Ms — were designed decades ago by Communist engineers to destroy battlefield formations of Western armored vehicles and tanks. They are ejected in dense bunches from free-falling dispensers dropped from aircraft. The bomblets then scatter and descend nose-down to land and explode almost at once over a wide area, often hundreds of yards across.
Marea stands along an agricultural plain, surrounded for miles by empty fields. Even at night, or in bad weather, it cannot be mistaken for anything but what it is — the densely packed collection of small businesses, offices and homes that together form a town.
• The UN security Council slapped sanctions on two Iranian firms for shipping arms to the Syrian regime. More at Reuters.
• Worth reading: Hezbollah Doubles Down as Its Allies in Syria Collapse
For more, see the previous Israel Daily News Stream.
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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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