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| Haniyeh calls on PLO to withdraw Israel recognition |
| 2011-04-30 |
| [Ma'an] Gazoo Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... on Friday called on the Paleostinian Liberation Organization to withdraw its recognition of Israel. On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to the announcement of a reconciliation deal between Hamas and Fatah by saying the Paleostinian Authority must "choose between peace with Israel or peace with Hamas." Presidential front man Nabil Abu Rudeina said Netanyahu "must choose between peace and settlements." Speaking after the Friday prayer in Gazoo City, Haniyeh said that the PLO should not only demand that Israel chose between settlements and peace, but should also withdraw its recognition of the state. In a surprise unity deal announced Wednesday, Hamas and Fatah agreed to form a transitional government ahead of elections to take place within the next year. President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said the interim government would not dictate policy when it came to negotiations with Israel, which would remain the mandate of the Paleostine Liberation Organization that he heads. On Thursday, Netanyahu met with government ministers who decided to reject negotiations with a united Paleostinian government, Israeli media reported. The Paleostinian unity deal crossed "a red line," Israel's settler Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday, warning that an array of measures could be taken against the Paleostinian Authority. Haniyeh said the unity deal would meet Paleostinian peoples' aspirations, and reflected the will of the people. He said obstacles to unity placed by Israeli "would be overcome." The reconciliation deal followed youth protests across the West Bank and in the Gazoo Strip demanding an end to the national division. Since March 15, protesters demanding Paleostinian unity have taken to the streets, camped out in public squares, and held hunger strikes. Tensions between Fatah and Hamas date back to the start of limited Paleostinian self-rule in the early 1990s. They worsened dramatically in 2007 when Hamas forces ousted Fatah from the Gazoo Strip after a week of deadly festivities, cleaving the Paleostinian territories into hostile rival camps. The disunity of the Paleostinians has prevented them from taking a common stance in peace talks with Israel, which are now off the table. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 For many years we (in Israel) have been remindedby the Israeli left wingers how valuable the peace agreement with Egypt was. It has now fully collapsed in two weeks. I expect severe problems with the Egyptians in the near future as the peace treaty disintegrates. This should be a very vasluable lesson to anyone who believes a "peace agreement" with the Paleostinians will be worth the paper it's written upon. Making any concessions to the Treacherous Paleos will only weaken Israel and is an act of sheer stupidity and wishful thinking. The entrenched paleostinian habbit is to bite the hand that feeds them. "New middle east" is indeed looming in our future, only it is not the utopia-like kind envisioned by the self-deluded Shimon Peres. Personally, I hope we have enough nukes stashed away for the coming rainy days. I also hope we have the guts to use them in the critical moment. |
| Posted by: Elder of Zion 2011-04-30 10:46 |