Third Intifada --Not Peace Planned By Abbas and Mashaal

Nadene Goldfoot
Palestinian leaders from Fatah and Hamas have decided to begin a "popular" uprising to further erode international support for Israel.  Abbas, of Fatah, who has taken over Arafat's position, and Hamas, a terrorist organization as listed in the USA, see things alike.  They feel that the latest war in the Gaza Strip  and the UN vote as their "historic achievements" and that they were military and political victories over Israel.

Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal just recently reached a secret agreement in Ramallah to launch this popular intifada against Israel in the "West Bank" (Judea and Samaria)  and the Gaza Strip.

They think this would cause isolation of Israel and give them even more sympathy in the international arena. Just what is an intifada?  It is a shaking off, uprising, resistance or rebellion. The first intifada was  a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories from December 1987 to 1993.    The so called 'Palestinian Territories" are the Judea-Samaria and East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.  In 1993 the Oslo Accords put them under the Palestinian National Authority.  By 2007 Hamas and Fatah warred against each other with Hamas kicking Fatah out of Gaza.  These areas had been under Jordanian rule when they took them illegally, of course in 1922.  In 1967's war against Israel, Israel won in 6 days, gaining the land.  Their relationship since then has been on and off, dickering over who is the ruler and in recognizing Israel.

I'm beginning to think that the Palestinians just enjoy the fighting for land and the act of taking it away from someone else.  They really don't want peace with Israel and haven't abided being given any land for a state . The first thought of theirs in having a state was in 1948 when it was offered.  Then again in 1967 they were tasting it with all the other Arab states at their side.   The thrill is in the taking, as empires of old.  Their relationship with each other is like hot and cold water, on and off quickly.  That's the way of the Middle East.  Everyone covets what the other has.  Iran and Iraq had a bloody war.  Syria is fighting against its own citizens now.  Egypt is just about doing the same thing.

Never in all the world history has there ever been a state of Palestine.  It was simply under-occupied and under-used land belonging for the past 400 years to the Ottoman Empire containing Jews and Arabs.  It had the history of once being Israel.   The British with the mandate decided to give the land to Jews for a Jewish Homeland.

These Arab Palestinians for the most part were originally leading nomadic lives coming in  from the surrounding states who wanted jobs from the Jews that were there, building.  Arafat, born in Cairo, Egypt on August 24, 1929, as Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini, was a terrorist.  He had no desire to become a state builder.

Khaled Mashaal was born on May 28, 1956 in Silwad, "West Bank", which is only a few miles away from Ramallah, part of  Judea.  It became a military camp before 1967's Six Day War by the Jordanians.  In 2002, during the 2nd Intifada, a sniper from Silwad, Thaer Hamad, killed 10 soldiers and one man living in Ofra, a Jewish village. Mashaal attended Kuwait U. and has lived in Doha, Qatar and Cairo, Egypt.

  Mahmoud Abbas was born in Safed on March 26, 1935 when Palestine was under British control.  Safed has always been a large Jewish city where I lived for 5 years in Israel.  It is the home of many important Jewish religious leaders.  Abbas graduated from Damascus U in Syria  and then went to Egypt to study law.

If they want peace, they must deal with Benjamin Netanyahu, born October 21, 1949 in Tel Aviv, Israel.  He graduated from MIT in architecture in Massachusetts, USA.  He was first educated in Jerusalem, and is the son of a professor Benzion Netanyahu.  They lived in Pennsylvania where he graduated from high school.   "Yonatan Netanyahu. Yonatan was serving as the commander of Benjamin's former unit, the Sayeret Matkal, and was killed in action during the counter-terrorism hostage-rescue mission Operation Entebbe in which his unit rescued more than 100 Israeli hostages hijacked by terrorists and flown to the Entebbe Airport in Uganda."
(1929-08-24)
Resource:  Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian journalist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intifada
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_territories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Mashal
http://mondoweiss.net/2010/09/the-legend-of-the-silwad-sniper.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas
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USA Funding Palestinians: Abbas and Mashaal Meet with Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani

Nadene Goldfoot
Hamas is a terrorist group in Gaza.  Both the West and Israel consider it so.  That Mahmoud Abbas wanted to reconcile  Fatah with them was spelling disaster.  Netanyahu of Israel said to Abbas that "It is either peace with Hamas or peace with Israel.  You can't have them both."

Palestinians have been divided between these two rival groups since 2007 when Hamas ousted forces loyal to Abbas from Gaza.  An agreement was recently brokered by Qatar.  Abbas is backed by the West and Hamas is supported by Iran, who has threatened Israel time and again with complete destruction.  Qatar's leader urged the Arab world to stand behind the Palestinian' "historical rights".  They are simply not the same as historical Jewish rights.  He wants full statehood and the return of lands "occupied" by Israel in the 1967 war.  He must be referring to taking over all of East Jerusalem which is now integrated with the whole city, as it should be.  Qatar's leader must be either the Emir Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani or his religious leader,Sheik Yusuf al- Qaradawi.

No wonder so many countries are not behind Israel with the EU being one of the major financial backers of the Palestinian authority (Fatah).  They seem to think that this backing will give us all a Palestinian government committed to nonviolence while recognizing Israel.  It isn't happening.  Hamas's leader refuses to come to the peace table let alone talk to Netanyahu.  They refuse to recognize Israel while they want the world to recognize them.

This was supposed to be a serious agreement.  The Qatari sponsorship means to them that it's accepted by the West and will be funded by this wealthy Gulf state.  Abbas of Fatah was most interested in ending the split and Khaled Mashaal was beginning  to go along with this PLO position.  Mashaal has prodded Hamas to take a pragmatic stance which is closer to the parent movement, the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood.  This gives me the shivers because in their charter, they advocate destroying Israel and all Jews.

The Fatah-Hamas relationship has been on and off again many times.  Obama has just stepped over his government's decision to not loan the Palestinians millions of dollars and did so anyway.  The West has given hundreds of millions in aid to the Palestinians who then shell southern Israel constantly.  After saying that both the USA and Europe would shun any government including members of an unreformed Hamas, what is he doing?

Resource: http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/abbas-proposed-as-pm-in-interim-unity/d816d2b5936c492c989e5f66473e4bb9
http://news.yahoo.com/palestinians-move-toward-end-political-rift-12 

Fatah and Hamas Try Again to Unite

Nadene Goldfoot
The two terrorist groups in Gaza have gone through the motions of uniting to join forces against Israel.  This time PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas met on Sunday with Hamas's Chief Khaled Mashaal in the tiny state next door to Saudi Arabia, Qatar.  They are in the act of forming their unity government.  They did have an agreement signed last May, but still can't come to an agreement to agree with it.

  Qatar has become most important as a tiny state with a lot of backing.  They have managed to ingratiate themselves in the world with their Qatar Foundation which promotes their beliefs with education, and that comes in the form of financial backing.  Qaradawi, the top religious Muslim in the world, resides in Qatar and is the best friend of the Emir.  He has called for the death of all Jews and just finished a speaking engagement in Egypt. 

This Doha, Qatar meeting comes after having 5 meetings in Jordan with the king and with Israel in which they were to discuss a peace pact, but they got nowhere. Jordan does have a peace agreement with Israel.   Now they're just meeting and need assistance to unite together as one Palestinian terrorist group again.  They plan to hold elections in the near future. 

Previously, the two men met in Cairo for meetings, but have been unable to follow up on any agreement they reached.  Fatah had been the ruling party when Hamas overpowered them and sent Abbas into exile to live in Judea/Samaria.  The West has always thought that Fatah had been more reasonable and less violent, but in reality it isn't much different.  Fatah has been supplying salaries to Gazan terrorists as well as media through children's TV programs on PA TV that glorify terrorists as heros.  They glorify terrorists by naming streets and buildings after terrorists as well.  Maps in schools do not show Israel.  Textbooks have also been hateful towards Israel. 

One point of disagreement between these two groups is who is to be Prime Minister.  Hamas is not agreeing to the present Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as the head.  They also talked about a travel ban that Hamas put on Fatah officials in Gaza and Palestinian passports to people living in Judea/Samaria.  Another disagreement they are having is over Hamas's charter which they refuse to change.  It reads like the Muslim Brotherhood calling for the destruction of Israel.  They will not recognize the State of Israel.  By hooking up with Hamas, the USA is so disgusted that they are not going to fork over anymore money to them.  Hamas also refuses to follow the directive of the Quartet,  who are Russia, UN and European Union who say they are trying to establish peace.  Hamas must give up violence and recognize Israel's right to exist and uphold previous peace pacts. 

Fatah works out of Ramallah, Samaria, which is where their government lies.  They broadcast in Arabic different things that they might say in English.  Abbas speaks in English and says to all, "support peace,' while his planned events honor bloodthirsty terrorists that murdered Israelis.  If ever there was a two-faced person, it is he. 

All the fighting going on in Syria has driven out a senior Hamas official who had decided to reside there for the past 21 years, but things have gotten out of hand.  Emad Alami came back on Sunday, not because of war there but because of growing tensions with the authorities. 

The best thing that can happen is if these two would follow the directives for peace that the  world powers are suggesting.  But Terrorists are not necessarily sane, and these two have a hard time agreeing with each other let alone come to any agreements, then they disagree anyway.  What good is a peace pact going to be with them and how long will it last?   These terrorists' agreements last about as long as some Hollywood marriages, a few days.  This is a struggle of power, and Abbas was the loser before.

Update:   Abbas was suggested to be interim government PM  till elections by Qatar. 

Resource: Arutz Sheva; Fatah-Hamas Meeting in Qatar by Chana Ya'ar
Jerusalem Post http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=256591by Khaled Abu Toameh
7:35pm update: http://news.yahoo.com/abbas-proposed-pm-interim-unity-government-232810923.html by Ibrahim Barzak

Kiss Peace Talks Goodbye: Fatah and Hamas are Uniting Again

Nadene Goldfoot
Fatah is the modern PLO, which had been run by Arafat.  Hamas was an outgrowth of that before 1987, and  had taken on the Muslim Brotherhood goals of never accepting Israel or Jews into the Middle East.  They are the extreme terrorists of the terrorists.  They had even driven Abbas out to Judaea and Samaria (West Bank). 

Thursday while in Cairo, Egypt, the two groups had a reconciliation where they announced plans for Hamas to join the umbrella group.  For twenty years Fatah has had on-and-off talks with Israel about possible peace.  Fatah has accomplished less terrorism than Hamas due to this leadership. 

The problem with this joint effort is that Hamas opposes peace talks vehemently  and rejects Israel's right to exist.  Actually, this is where the peace effort has been sitting anyway, since at least the year 2000.  There has been no hope with the raining of rockets, missiles and mortars coming into southern Israel all this time.  It's not a show of the intention of peaceful cohabitation.  What this actually means is that Hamas will be listened to more, as they will have a stronger voice in the group, which may also mean a stronger leadership.

According to this new agreement, Khaled Mashaal of Hamas will join a committee that will prepare for elections of the PLO's parliament in exile and will serve right along with Abbas.  As Fatah negotiator, Azzam al-Ahmed has said, this reconciliation has started but might take some time.  An election might be years away as the PLO group speaks for all Palestinians.  They intend to include so called Palestinians who live all over the world, including refugees in camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. 

Being there never was a state of Palestine, only the re-naming of the land that Jews had lived in, Arabs had come from all 4 corners of the Middle East to find work from the Jews who were re-building the land.  Therefore, I wonder if it isn't possible for any Arab to call themself a "Palestinian" if they have proof of living there before 1948 even for a few months. 

The goal of Hamas and Fatah is to gain a "Law of Return" for all Palestinians and thus drive all the Jews out. 
This is one of the points that Netanyahu has to be strong about not allowing to happen.  By going through with this uniting of terrorist factions, I see that there is no possible hope of ever coming to a peaceful accord between the terrorists and the Jews.  No wonder Israel has reacted with alarm to this agreement. 

Reference:  Oregonian 12/23/11 Rivals move toward reconciliation page A7.  AP
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/22/palestinian-factions-agree-unified-government
http://www.adl.org/main_israel/hamas_facts.htm