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| Abbas Prepares To Get Tough On Hamas, And On Israel | ||
| 2014-09-03 | ||
| [IsraelTimes] On Sunday, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... gathered his advisers at his Muqata'a headquarters in Ramallah ahead of a planned visit by his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... and intelligence chief Majed Faraj to the US. The negotiators are set to meet next week with US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... and present him with Abbas's new diplomatic proposal. However, the hip bone's connected to the leg bone... the meeting also reviewed the tense relations between the PA and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, strains that have most certainly continued even after the cessation of the 50-day conflict in the Gazoo Strip. It has become clear to the Paleostinian leader and those close to him that, despite the pleasantries heard from Hamas leaders praising Paleostinian unity and reconciliation, words and actions are two different things. Even at the height of the Israel-Hamas conflict, Hamas security forces continued to crack down on Fatah activists in Gazoo. There were arrests, knee-cappings of Fatah members, and even executions of "suspected collaborators" -- at least some of whom were Fatah people who had been languishing in Hamas prisons for the past six years. In addition, over the weekend, Hamas members prevented the planned opening of offices for five Abbas "governors" who had been appointed on the eve of the conflict as part of an effort by the PA leader to show that he has some authority in the coastal enclave. The PA hasn't been idle either. In the past two days, the PA security services, the general intelligence service, and the preventative security force, have carried out a wave of arrests of Hamas operatives across the West Bank. In other words, it's business as usual between Fatah and Hamas: The Gazoo conflict against Israel may have ended, but the conflict between the two Paleostinian organizations rolls on. And this rivalry now threatens to paralyze rehabilitation efforts in the Gazoo Strip. Those close to Abbas say that he is not prepared to play along with Hamas's duplicitous games. He's not prepared to tolerate Hamas's talk of unity on the one hand and its efforts to hinder the work of the PA unity government on the other. The Paleostinian leader has appointed a committee, composed of five Fatah leaders, that is supposed to negotiate with Hamas leaders on the next steps for Gazoo. One of the principles that the committee will demand is freedom of activity for PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah's ostensibly Fatah- and Hamas-backed government to operate in Gazoo, and an end to the attacks on Fatah personnel there. The Abbas representatives will make it clear that if those conditions are not met there will be no wages paid to Hamas officials and responsibility for rehabilitation of Gazoo will fall on Hamas's shoulders alone.
While grappling with the tensions with Hamas, the Paleostinian leader simultaneously intends to renew the diplomatic pressure on Israel. His peace plan, which he is set to submit for Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... approval by the end of this week, envisions filing a request with the Americans in the coming days to pressure Israel to present a map of a future Paleostinian state as the basis for substantive negotiations. After Israel presents the map, Abbas's plan calls for a firm timetable to be laid down for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and the establishment of a Paleostinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. If Israel refuses his plan, or refrains from responding, the Paleostine Liberation Organization intends, within three months, to seek a UN Security Council resolution that recognizes the establishment of a Paleostinian state on the 1967 lines. The Paleostinians, expecting the US to veto any such resolution, intend to then approach the General Assembly with the same request. After that, the PLO will seek to join international bodies and organizations, and then to campaign to have Paleostine recognized as a nation under occupation according to the Geneva Conventions. The final phase of Abbas's ambitious plan is to halt joint security operations with Israel, so central to the recent relative calm in the West Bank, and hand over all responsibility for rule in Paleostinian cities to the IDF.
Ending joint security operations is still a long way off and, at this stage, there could yet be changes, developments, and restructuring of the Abbas plan. But, for Abbas and his close confidants, matters are clear: Israel has until the end of the calendar year to decide whether or not it intends to present a map of the future Paleostine. If the answer is negative, a diplomatic confrontation between the PA and Israel will be unavoidable, and will also lead to the cessation of the joint security apparatus. | ||
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