The Palestinian Liberation Organization is rumoured to be extending Mahmoud Abbas’ term as the Palestinian President…as in ‘indefinitely’. Ha’aretz:
Mahmoud Abbas’ term as Palestinian president will be extended by the supreme body of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it meets in December, senior officials said on Tuesday. Abbas, the Western-backed leader committed to negotiating peace with Israel, will stay in office, the PLO officials said.
(…)”The Central Council has only one solution and it is to entrust the president, as head of the PLO, with continuing as president of the Palestinian Authority until it is able to hold presidential and legislative elections,” said Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior official in the Fatah movement, also led by Abbas.
His view was reflected by other members of the Central Council including representatives of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Front.
I have been waiting for this announcement ever since Mahmoud Abbas’ legislative term/mandate as the head of the Palestinian Authority expired last year. Better later than never and it is hardly surprising given the Fatah-Hamas divide but I am racking my brain trying to remember a single Arab leader who gave up a political power willingly without either a revolution or an assassination taking place…. I am drawing a complete blank. Help me out.
I have to admit I haven’t been paying a great deal of attention to threatened unilateral declarations of statehood from the Palestinian camp because it’s far too outlandish a notion at this stage to take seriously – unless there was already an agreement in place with the Israelis about such common everyday basics like air, land or water rights, electricity and a plan to deal with the ‘settlers’. Not to mention the PLO has unilaterally declared statehood before, and nothing much came of it. As far as the ‘threat value’ goes it is kind of lame; especially when you cannot even get the Euroweanies or Hamas to support you. Now declarations of war are another matter entirely. Arutz Sheva:
(IsraelNN.com) A senior official of Fatah, the ruling faction of the Palestinian Authority, has openly called for a return to an “armed struggle” against Israel to establish a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders. He stated that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) approved an “armed struggle” in a meeting this past August.
Nabil Sha’ath, who was the PA’s first foreign minister when the late PLO chief Yasser Arafat was in power, told an Arabic-language newspaper, “We tried for 18 years through negotiations despite Israel’s aggressiveness against us and attempts to destroy our rights,” he asserted.
Alas, the one thing the Palestinians just cannot quite seem to grasp is that wars against the Jews never seem to go according to plan.
There is a great gut-wrenching human tragedy occurring rather regularly now at the Israeli-Egyptian border which has to be one of the most under discussed issues from the Mid-east. If I was cynical, I would suggest the reason there is so little international awareness or concern is because the Jews have very little to do with creating this scenario (unless you ask Gaddafi). But hey wait – I am cynical – so I would also add the fact that Jews exist at all, and of all things, in a place called the Land of Israel which contributes more to the cause of freedom and human dignity than any of its neighbors. Reuters;
EL-ARISH, Egypt, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot dead four African migrants as they tried to slip across the sensitive Sinai desert border into Israel on Wednesday, security sources said. The shootings were believed to be the deadliest single border incident involving primarily African migrants, and came days before Egyptian and Israeli leaders are due to hold political talks in Cairo.
Security sources said two more migrants, both Ethiopians, were shot and wounded, and one was in a critical condition. The nationalities of the dead were not immediately known, because they carried no identification papers. Egyptian police have killed at least 12 African migrants at the frontier since May, ending a six-month lull in known fatalities as police responded to what security sources have said was an increased flow of human traffic through Egypt.
Egypt, which for years tolerated tens of thousands of African migrants on its territory, fears the unfettered flow of migrants at its strategic Sinai border could pose a security threat in an area where it already fears inroads by Islamist militants who sometimes find refuge in remote craggy mountains. Its border with the Jewish state is a main transit route for generally unarmed migrants and refugees seeking work or asylum in Israel. Egypt has faced Israeli pressure to halt the flow.
While Israel has been putting pressure on the Egyptian authorities to control their side of the border for years; I defy anyone to find any Israeli government official which has sanctioned or suggested the Egyptian government use cold-blooded murder of these unarmed migrants seeking to find a place at the Eretz Yisrael.
But ask yourself this; why do these Africans, who have already made it safely out of their often war-torn home countries choose to continue to make the trek to the Land of Israel rather than remain in relative obscurity with their Muslim brethren in countries like Egypt? Obviously, the Israeli Apartheid branding campaign needs to go back to creative.
According to the Jordan Times, Jordanian legislators have decided to pursue options to sue Israel for alleged ‘war crimes’ committed in Operation Cast Lead.
AMMAN – Lawmakers on Wednesday approved recommendations submitted by the House Legal Committee on several options to sue Israeli “war criminals”, following the three-week devastating attack on Gaza that killed more than 1,300 people.
Let us backtrack to September 1970 in Jordan’s own rather colourful history with ‘militant’ Palestinians.
Estimates of the number of the people killed in the ten days of Black September range from three thousand to more than five thousand, although exact numbers are unknown. The Palestinian death toll in 11 days of fighting was estimated by Jordan at 3,400, though Arafat claimed that 20,000 had been killed.[12] The Western reporters were concentrated at the Intercontinental Hotel, away from the action. Nasser’s state-controlled Voice of the Arabs from Cairo reported genocide.
Let me guess it’s a case of – no genocide for me but of course for thee.
Gadhafi… to say the most outrageous things possible. Ha’aretz:
Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi said on Wednesday that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s expressed support for Israel stems from his fear that the Mossad would assassinate him, just as it did President John F. Kennedy.
“We suspect he may fear being killed by Israeli agents and meet the same fate as Kennedy when he promised to look into Israel’s nuclear program,” Gadhafi said.
While the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons is widely assumed, Israeli officials have never admitted their existence and U.S. officials have stuck to that line in public. Gadhafi saw a dark motive behind a recent speech by Obama in support of Israel. “Obama offered $300 billion in aid to Israel and more military support. He avoided talking about Israel’s nuclear weapons,” he said.
Okay, I am just having a little trouble getting my mind wrapped around Lee Harvey Oswald as Mossad agent but once I get over all the obvious deficiencies in my imagination I marvel at the ingenuity of the Elders. If you think suggesting the Mossad killed J.F.K and will probably take out Obama should he become president of the United States isn’t outrageous enough there is always this:
Gadhafi said Obama would have an “inferiority complex” because he is black and if elected he might “behave worse than whites.”
“We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites,” Gadhafi told a rally at a former U.S. military base on the outskirts of the Libyan capital Tripoli.
“This will be a tragedy,” Gadhafi said. “We tell him to be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him because if he sticks to this inferiority complex he will have a worse foreign policy than the whites had in the past.”
Okkkaay – Fine.
What do the Israeli Defense Minister, the Chief of the Mossad and the head of military intelligence for the IDF all have in common? There is a price on their heads put there by an Iranian group calling themselves the ‘Islamic Student Justice Seekers’ reports Ynet News:
According to the organization’s announcement, the financial prizes are to be given to those who take out the three most senior members of the Israeli security establishment: Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad Chief Meir Dagan and Head of Military Intelligence Amos Yaron.
“The prizes will be given to those who succeed in killing these three international terrorists in any place in the world,” the statement read. According to the claims made by the Iranian student organization, Dagan, Barak and Yadlin are responsible for much more than merely Palestinian suffering. The group blamed the trio for the killing of senior Hizbullah military commander Mugniyah, who was killed in a car bomb in Damascus last month.
And just how does the Iranian student group propose to finance the pay-out?
The Justice Seekers also called for volunteers to donate a kidney in order to offer the money acquired via the act to increase the financial prize. The organizers claim that a number of civil groups agreed to take part in the ceremony in order to contribute to the amount of money offered for the heads of the Israeli threesome. The students in the extremist group are connected to another radical organization in Tehran called The Martyrs’ Commemoration Headquarters, which organized the establishment of a monument for Imad Mugniyah in the Iranian capital.
No matter what you can make up, it is never as strange, as what your average anti-Semite can come up with. I suppose this can be considered progress as the group is not using student loan money.
