Mahmoud
Abbas is
A TRAITOR
On February 28,
2006,
The Independent
reported:
"Mr
Abbas, who will hold talks with Tony Blair and Jack Straw, before
tomorrow's conference to bolster support for the Palestinian
Authority (PA), confirmed Israel has shared information with it in
the hunt for the organisers of the bombing, which was claimed by
Islamic Jihad." "Mr Abbas, who will hold talks with Tony Blair and
Jack Straw, before tomorrow's conference to bolster support for
the Palestinian Authority (PA), confirmed Israel has shared
information with it in the hunt for the organisers of the bombing,
which was claimed by Islamic Jihad."
Although Israel is involved in a
racial war against his own people, this doesn't stop Abbas from
co-operating with the Zionist terror army to hunt down armed
Palestinians. Had the circumstances been better, and Israel had been
attempting to fight terror against Palestinian civilians, this might
have been acceptable. But as it is now, this just makes Abbas look
like a traitor.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=719885
Israeli paper Haaretz reported:
Defense
official:
Arms
transfer to help Abbas take on Hamas
By Amos Harel
Ha'aretz Correspondent, Ha'aretz
Service and News Agencies
26/05/2006
Israel's transfer of a limited amount of
weapons and ammunition to the Palestinian Authority's presidential
guard will enable PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to "contend with Hamas,"
senior Defense Ministry official Amos Gilad said Friday.
The transfer, which was recommended by defense officials and
approved by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir
Peretz, will allow Abbas to "carry out the courageous decision he
made and contend with Hamas," said Gilad, who heads the Defense
Ministry's political-security division.
Gilad was referring to Abbas' statement Thursday that he would hold a
national referendum on a
document calling for a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders,
should the ruling Hamas party fail to agree to the proposal within 10
days.
Gilad told Israel Radio the weapons are meant to allow Abbas to
preserve order in the chaotic West Bank and Gaza Strip.
"I can't tell you the exact amount of weapons, but it is a limited
amount intended for the purpose of securing Abbas' ability to protect
himself on the backdrop of the important decisions he makes," he
said, dismissing reports that the decision was made because of
threats to Abbas' life by Islamic militants.
"I'm not saying the chairman's life is in danger," he said. "This is
a wide policy intended to allow him to cope with those who are
disrupting order and turning the Palestinian Authority into a violent
entity," he said.
Over the past week, 10 people have been killed in clashes in the Gaza
Strip between Abbas' Fatah movement and the Islamic Hamas group. A
top commander loyal to Abbas was among the dead, and two other
security chiefs narrowly escaped assassination.
Olmert and Peretz decided to transfer the arms prior to the prime
minister's departure for the United States earlier this week, Channel
2 reported Thursday.
Senior defense sources said Thursday that the arms will be delivered
to the guard by way of a third-party state (all indications are
either Egypt or Jordan) solely for the purposes of protecting
Abbas.
The move is seen as a response to the continued strengthening of
Islamic organizations, which have managed to smuggle weapons into the
Gaza Strip.
"In the Gaza Strip, an industry of weapons and ammunition smuggling
continues to expand, most of which is reaching the Islamic
organizations," said a defense source who took part in consultations
with Peretz. "We need to enable Abu Mazen [Abbas] to deal
with [the groups]."
A similar proposal to transfer arms to Abbas has been on the agenda
for months, however it was not given the green light by Peretz's
predecessor, Shaul Mofaz.
Two weeks ago, Haaretz reported that the Islamic Jihad had
formulated a plan to assassinate the PA chairman
by placing a car bomb alongside the road on which Abbas' convoy is
believed to frequently travel.
Islamic Jihad dismissed the report as an attempt by Israel to sow
dissension among the Palestinian factions.
Abbas's security detail has been greatly expanded. The presidential
guard, an elite force among the various PA security agencies whose
members undergo relatively thorough training in VIP security, is
exclusively in charge of protecting the chairman's offices in
Ramallah and Gaza.
Likud MK Yuval Steinitz said Israel's acquiescence to the arms
transfer is a "wretched" decision.
"Whoever transfers weapons to the PA gives legitimacy to the world to
transfer money to the PA," Steinitz said. "What Abu Mazen is missing
is not weapons, but determination and will for a war against
terrorism."
Western diplomats had told Reuters earlier this month that European
donors had pledged funds to boost Abbas's security forces, while his
aides said Egypt and Jordan had pledged arms and ammunition to help
his presidential guard protect him.
Is Abbas a
Traitor?
By Mike Whitney
Information
Clearing House, 06/28/2006
“Any Palestinian that is
not focused first and foremost on defending the land and people
against Israel's escalating aggression and colonialism, and
prefers instead to fight for scraps from the master's table, is
truly working against Palestinian interests, and against any
possibility of a peaceful
settlement.”
- Hasan Abu
Nimah, former representative of Jordan
at the United Nations.
Israel has launched a full-blown assault on the Hamas-led
government. It has allied itself with co-conspirator George Bush to
cut off food, medical supplies and financial aid to the PA which is
creating a humanitarian crisis in the occupied territories. Israel
has also stepped up its daily assassinations, air-raids and other
incitements in order to destabilize the new government.
It’s clear now, that annihilating Hamas is at the very top of
Israel’s political-agenda and that they won’t be deterred
by the enormous suffering they are causing to the civilians of the
West Bank and Gaza.
Surprisingly, they have found an eager companion to their subterfuge
in the form of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. Ever since Hamas
was elected, Abbas has challenged their legitimacy and tried to
undermine their authority. In an extraordinary statement to the
press, Abbas said, “The constitution gives me clear and
definite authority to remove a government from power.”
Abbas, of course, has no such power to disband the
duly-elected government, but his attempts to thwart Hamas
shows his willingness to do Israel’s bidding. No wonder Israeli
PM Olmert praised Abbas so highly to George Bush during his recent
visit to Washington. Abbas is clearly “Israel’s man”
in the territories.
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh understands the maneuvering
that is going on behind his back, but to large extent his hands are
tied. Fatah is operating on Abbas’ orders to spread the mayhem
in Gaza while Haniyeh is frantically trying to maintain the
peace.
Israel is the only one who benefits from the current turmoil,
just as Israel is the only one who benefits from the blockade of food
and medical supplies. If their strategy succeeds, they’ll topple
Hamas and replace it with the compliant Fatah.
In his address to parliament on Thursday Haniyeh acknowledged that
Israel and the United States were
conspiring against Hamas “to suffocate and starve us” and
that Bush had given Olmert a green light to crush the new
government.
Haniyeh responded saying,
“We will fight the Israeli
plan and continue to struggle until the establishment of a
Palestinian state within the 1967 borders. Israel is trying to set up
a country with a Jewish majority, and preserve Jerusalem as its
capital. This shows the Israeli government wants to maintain the
occupation. Unfortunately, the Americans are on their
side”.
Abbas’ Ultimatum
This week Abbas set a deadline for Hamas to sign an agreement (which
was written by Palestinian prisoners) which implicitly recognizes
Israel’s right to exist. It’s astonishing that Abbas would
devote so much time to such a trivial issue while his country
is being occupied by a foreign army in violation of international
law. Never the less, the matter is of great importance to his
benefactors in Tel Aviv so Abbas is faithfully executing their
orders.
The issue of “recognizing Israel” has been given
considerable “air-time” in western media. Regrettably, the
coverage is invariably slanted to demonize Hamas and make Israel look
like the victim. As we can see from Haniyeh’s statement
above, Hamas is only asking for “the establishment of a
Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.” (which is consistent
with UN resolution 242) But, “recognizing Israel” is a
nettlesome problem and requires that Hamas retreat on one of its
core-principles. Kathleen Christinson sheds light on this point in
her recent article in Counterpunch
“Surrender vs. the Right to
Exist”:
“The insistence that the Palestinians "recognize Israel's right
to exist" does not mean, to Israel and the U.S., simply that the
Palestinians must pledge not to throw Jews into the sea. Refraining
from this drastic step is fairly easy even for the most militant of
Islamists.
It means instead
recognizing Israel's moral legitimacy. For a Palestinian this means
recognizing -- indeed, embracing as a moral imperative -- Israel's
right to have expelled the Palestinians and taken their homes and
their land.”
It is this question of “moral legitimacy” that
overshadows the struggle between Hamas and Israel.
What is the true nature of the relationship between the
occupier and the occupied? In fact, it is Israel which denies
Palestine the “right to exist” through occupation and
frustrating attempts at statehood. Hamas should not be expected to
applaud its tormenters for seizing its land, destroying its country,
and starving its people.
Abbas knows as well as anyone, that he
is asking Hamas to compromise on an issue of enormous
importance. He is demanding that Hamas concede that
Israel has a moral right to occupy the land was originally Palestine.
The referendum is simply an underhanded way of coercing
conformity to Israeli diktats.
Does Abbas enjoy carrying out Israel’s
orders?
There’s no question how Olmert feels about the issue. As
Christinson notes, the Israeli Prime Minister made himself entirely
clear in his speech to Congress,
“I believed, and to this day still
believe, in our people’s eternal and historic right to this
entire land”. It is Olmert’s
“belief” that is the threat to peace, not Hamas.
There can be no lasting accommodation
when one party feels they are entitled to “all the land”
and can subjugate the native people while ignoring United Nations
resolutions.
So why has Abbas joined forces with Israel and torpedoed the
prospects for a negotiated settlement? He’s fully aware of
Olmert’s plan to unilaterally draw Israel’s final
borders and incorporate East Jerusalem, West Bank settlements and
vast swathes of the Jordan Valley. Are the scraps from Israel’s
table so tantalizing that he would willingly sell out his own
people?
On Thursday, Israel announced that it would authorize the
delivery of light weapons to Abbas’ security forces.
For years, Israel has done everything in its power to
prevent the Palestinians from arming themselves.
They’ve even invented a special language, (“dismantling the
infrastructure of terror”) which is aimed at disarming the
Palestinian resistance. Now, they’re “transferring
hundreds of light weapons imported from foreign countries” to
their trusted ally, Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel would never provide Abbas with weapons if there was
any chance they’d be used against Israelis. These weapons have
one purpose alone; to kill Palestinians!
Abbas collaboration with Israel is
tantamount to a declaration of war against his own people.
What more evidence does one need that Abbas is a traitor?
Israel has finally found someone corrupt enough to do their
dirty-work in the territories. Meet the new cop on the beat, Mahmoud
Abbas; Palestinian
turncoat.
