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| Fatah Official: Two-State Solution Is Dead |
| 2014-12-10 |
| [IsraelTimes] The two-state solution is dead, a senior member of the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... ?s Fatah organization said on Monday, calling on the Paleostinian leadership to seek ?new solutions.? Speaking to Jerusalem-based TV channel Hona Al-Quds, Tawfik Tirawi, former head of the General Intelligence Agency in the West Bank and a member of Fatah?s Central Committee, accused Israel of turning the Arab-Israeli war into a ?religious war? and ignoring 67 years of UN decisions stipulating territorial withdrawals and the return of Paleostinian refugees. ?The two-state solution has ended and no longer exists after Israel abolished it completely,? Tirawi was quoted by the official Fatah website as saying. ?Therefore, we must search for other solutions. I personally do not believe that a two-state solution will materialize, and say that within approximately 50 [years] there will be no solution but one state.? Tirawi has been known not only for his hawkish statements but also for involvement in overseeing acts of terror during the Second Intifada period, according to Israeli intelligence. Former Shin Bet security agency chief Yuval Diskin described Tirawi ? who was appointed Paleostinian Authority national security adviser with the rank of minister by Abbas in 2008 ? as ?psychopathic, cruel, dangerous and prone to extreme mood swings? in leaked minutes of a meeting with the American ambassador in Tel Aviv in June 2007. Given the impossibility of a political resolution to the conflict, Tirawi said, a coordinated national strategy must be devised to oppose Israel. The strategy could either be directed from within the PLO or without it, he said, alluding to the inclusion of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... ?No Paleostinian leader can sign away our rights in Jerusalem, the refugees, water, or leave the settlements,? said Tirawi, who was filmed seated next to Abbas during a meeting with Fatah?s regional leadership on Saturday. ?Whatever Arafat didn?t sign on, no one else can sign on. The conflict will remain in force,? he concluded. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 Ok, then. So is right of return |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-12-10 19:55 |
| #2 Oh, good. A common area of agreement. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-12-10 11:20 |
| #1 We think so too. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-10 02:51 |