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PA would give up US aid for Unity Government

by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines at March 28th, 2011 - 4:15 pm

If this report is accurate, it would be some good news for US taxpayers and ultimately Israel. Anadviser to PA President Mahmoud Abbas has said that the Palestinian Authority would give up US tax dollars in exchange for a unity government with Hamas. The so called Moderate Palis would team up with the Muslim Brotherhood offshoot. This clearly shows the real agenda of Abbas and his ilk.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is making a heavy push for reconciliation with Hamas and is willing to give up hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid if that’s what it takes to forge a Palestinian unity deal, his adviser said on Monday.

“The Palestinians need American money, but if they use it as a way of pressuring us, we are ready to relinquish that aid,” aide Azzam Ahmad said.

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Israel Radio reported on Monday that Abbas has also ordered lawmakers in the Palestinian Authority to complete draft legislation for a future state within six months, to present to the international community and win United Nations recognition of independent statehood according to the 1967 borders.

If the Fatah wants a unity government with hamas, the US should cut off all aid. Israel should cut off all electricity and water to the PA. Let them know there are consequnces for having Hamas in as a ruling partner.

(Hat Tip: Nevergiveup)

The Washington Post: “Abbas proves he prefers posturing to a peace process”

by Eliana ( 157 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Israel, Muslim Brotherhood, Palestinians at February 22nd, 2011 - 6:30 pm

In May of 2009, The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl wrote a scathing assessment of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his disingenuous approach to the peace process called Abbas’s Waiting Game:

Abbas and his team fully expect that Netanyahu will never agree to the full settlement freeze — if he did, his center-right coalition would almost certainly collapse. So they plan to sit back and watch while U.S. pressure slowly squeezes the Israeli prime minister from office. “It will take a couple of years,” one official breezily predicted. Abbas rejects the notion that he should make any comparable concession — such as recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, which would imply renunciation of any large-scale resettlement of refugees.

Instead, he says, he will remain passive. “I will wait for Hamas to accept international commitments. I will wait for Israel to freeze settlements,” he said. “Until then, in the West Bank we have a good reality . . . the people are living a normal life.” In the Obama administration, so far, it’s easy being Palestinian.

On Friday (February 18th), the Washington Post published an unsigned editorial with another scathing assessment of Mahmoud Abbas called “Abbas proves he prefers posturing to a peace process”:

PALESTINIAN PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas claims to be interested in negotiating a two-state peace settlement with Israel. For two years he has enjoyed the support of a U.S. president more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause than most, if not all, of his predecessors. Yet Mr. Abbas has mostly refused to participate in the direct peace talks that Barack Obama made one of his top foreign policy priorities – and now he has shown himself to be bent on embarrassing and antagonizing the U.S. administration.

Mahmoud Abbas has treated Barack Obama worse than the “Palestinians” have treated any U.S. President except for Bill Clinton who was also embarrassed by the outcome of the peace talks he tried to push through in late 2000.

Barack Obama didn’t learn anything from Bill Clinton’s experience and neither did Bill Clinton, judging by his insistence this past year that a peace deal like the failed offer in 2000 could still be the answer to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The “Palestinians” are once again doing what would clearly be counter-productive for people who actually want a state.

Mr. Abbas’s stubbornness might seem spectacularly self-defeating – but only if one assumes that he is genuinely interested in a peace deal. In fact, the U.N. gambit allows him to posture as a champion of the Palestinian cause without having to consider any of the hard choices that would be needed to found a Palestinian state. It enables him to deflect criticism from the rival Hamas movement about his friendly relations with the United States. It might even allow him to head off a popular Palestinian rebellion against his own autocratic behavior – Mr. Abbas has failed to schedule overdue elections, including for his own post as president.

Obama is banging his head against the same wall as Bill Clinton:

The Obama administration has all along insisted that Mr. Abbas is willing and able to make peace with Israel – despite considerable evidence to the contrary. If the U.N. resolution veto has one good effect, perhaps it will be to prompt a reevaluation of a leader who has repeatedly proved both weak and intransigent.

It would nice to think that Obama’s Middle East policy advisers are reading op-ed pieces like this and doing some more realistic reassessments of the “peace process” while watching the Arab nations collapsing one by one into what is likely to become a 21st Century Muslim Brotherhood Hell.

While I certainly agree that Obama has made the world a more dangerous place on purpose, I don’t think he was expecting to be embarrassed by the “Palestinians” and I think his head may be spinning over it a bit.

It’s good to see The Washington Post slap them both around in an unsigned editorial.

Andrew Sullivan Is an Anti-Semite

by Eliana ( 135 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Barack Obama, Israel, Progressives at February 12th, 2010 - 2:30 pm

His recent protests to the contrary prove it.

Andrew Sullivan is incapable of seeing 500,000 Jewish men, women and children as human beings. He’s incapable of empathizing with them, certainly, but he can’t even see them as actual air-breathing people with beating hearts.

He has no trouble empathizing with “Palestinians” although up to 80% of the “Palestinians” have expressed support in polls for the murders of random Jews via suicide bombings at times. He feels their pain. His stone heart bleeds for the “Palestinians” and how they must feel to live near Israel. Poor babies and poor Andrew Sullivan who can only empathize with people in this conflict if their strategy is firing rockets into civilian towns in Israel and blowing up buses filled with dozens of random and purely innocent Israeli Jewish civilians whose lives are ended for the crimes of being Jewish and riding a bus.

Andrew Sullivan doesn’t care about Jewish lives.

In his February 10 blog post, he included a number of gushy, weepy descriptions of “Palestinians.” He described them as people “whose suffering and constant humiliation is indisputable.” He offered no empathetic descriptions of Israeli Jews in his blog post at all, of course.

He wrote about himself: “There will be times in which the emotion of the moment overwhelms me.”

Andrew, let your emotions get overblown somewhere other than on the internet.

In his post, he tried to justify his total lack of empathy and recognition of Jews as human beings by complaining about how he has been treated and explaining why he thinks he’s been reasonable about Israel in the last year:

I do not think it was unreasonable for the new president, with a unique chance to reset relations with the Muslim world, to ask an ally to make a gesture to freeze all settlement construction in order to bring credibility back to the US as an honest broker in the Middle East.

Does he know that he’s talking about interfering in the lives of 500,000 Jewish men, women and children in Judea and Samaria and in eastern, southern and northern Jerusalem? Who does he think lives in these areas? Blades of grass?

“Freezing all settlement construction” would mean that neighborhoods under construction would be abandoned to rot in the sun while the buyers (families) would lose their down payments and the approved mortgages for these homes would go into default. It would mean that a family with a new baby on the way would be prohibited from adding a room to their home for the new arrival. It would mean that families with balconies on their apartments couldn’t enclose them from the wind by turning them into sun rooms (which are very common in some communities).

It would mean that new schools couldn’t be built so that kindergartners would have to sit on each others laps with 60 children trying to learn in rooms designed for 30 children.

Hillary Clinton spoke directly about what President Obama was asking Israel to do. She said that “natural growth” must be stopped in these communities. As the Washington Times pointed out in a June 1, 2009 editorial, “The euphemism ‘natural growth’ refers to children.” Even old time Labor Party liberal Shimon Peres once asked if America expected Israel to put birth control medication in the water to prevent pregnancies and births in these communities.

Andrew Sullivan thinks it’s “reasonable” for a man who lives like a billionaire in Washington DC to be able to harm the lives of 500,000 Jewish men, women and children as if they don’t even exist. What would Obama get out of this? He would look good to the Arab world.

Of course! Harming half a million Jews is a good fit with the Arab world’s mindset.

Andrew Sullivan went on to say this:

I also believe for good measure that this is in the interests of Israel, if I am allowed to offer an opinion on the matter without being called out as a false friend of “the Jews”. I do believe that what Wieseltier himself delicately concedes were “blunt tactics” in Gaza, followed by a humiliation of president Obama in his first year of office were not the acts of a truly helpful ally of the US, especially when suspension of the settlement construction would have had zero effect on Israel’s security.

The 500,000 Jews in these communities don’t exist for this man (Sullivan) at all.

He goes on:

And I strongly disagree that when a struggle between a foreign country’s government and the newly elected president of the United States cripples the peace process, it is somehow the president of the United States’ fault.

It was the fault of the President of the United States to make impossible demands on the sovereign nation of Israel and announce them to the world without consulting Israel first. It was a colossally stupid thing to do. Obama changed the dynamics of the peace process by raising the bar on what the “Palestinian” negotiators believed they could demand from Israel before they ever set foot in a negotiating room with Israel again.

Obama’s demand also implied to the “Palestinians” that they can expect to have all their non-starter demands met by this President. They became so convinced of this that Mahmoud Abbas immediately settled into a stance where he was simply waiting for Obama to deliver Israel to him.

In a May 2009 interview with the Washington Post, Abbas explained:

Mahmoud Abbas says there is nothing for him to do…

Abbas and his team fully expect that Netanyahu will never agree to the full settlement freeze — if he did, his center-right coalition would almost certainly collapse. So they plan to sit back and watch while U.S. pressure slowly squeezes the Israeli prime minister from office. “It will take a couple of years,” one official breezily predicted. Abbas rejects the notion that he should make any comparable concession — such as recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, which would imply renunciation of any large-scale resettlement of refugees.

Instead, he says, he will remain passive. “I will wait for Hamas to accept international commitments. I will wait for Israel to freeze settlements,” he said. “Until then, in the West Bank we have a good reality . . . the people are living a normal life.” In the Obama administration, so far, it’s easy being Palestinian.

Andrew Sullivan, this is what killed the peace process and it was indeed Obama’s fault. The Arabs were already demanding a long list of non-starters that Israel can never agree to do. NOW they are demanding non-starter pre-conditions so that the parties may never make it into a room together while Obama is President.

Another outrageous and anti-Semitic argument from Sullivan comes later in his recent post:

To ask that Israel freeze all its settlement construction as a way to help facilitate peace is not declaring war on Netanyahu’s government. It is simply assuming the US is capable of determining its own foreign policy in the region without a foreign government’s advance permission.

Again, the 500,000 Jewish men, women and children don’t exist to him and he reduces Israel to a “foreign government” when it comes to the lives and well-being of Israel’s own citizens.

How would Americans react if another country announced that their OWN foreign policy position was to demand a total, permanent construction and pregnancy freeze in the State of California? Does Sullivan think that the United States government would become some “foreign government” trying to interfere if the U.S. stepped up to say that this would NOT be happening?

Sullivan then went on to whine as some sort of “victim” of Israel’s moves to protect their own citizens:

But all of this is always Obama’s failure because it can never be Israel’s fault because to say that anything is Israel’s fault is anti-Semitic. Lovely piece of circular logic there, innit? Unless and until the president of the US recognizes that policy toward the Middle East must always be subject to Israel’s interests and sensitivities before anything else, it is the American president’s failure. Israel can never be blamed.

When America’s foreign policy involves the personal lives and child-bearing rights of a population of 500,000 Jews — it is indeed the American President’s failure for believing that he can get away with doing this. Sullivan, name any country that would allow Obama to freeze part of their population’s construction and pregnancies indefinitely.

Again, Sullivan is a man with a stone cold heart that can’t begin to imagine that he’s talking about people’s lives. He sees himself as a victim for being exposed as an insensitive clod.

Andrew Sullivan is also an anti-Semite.

He sees Jews as objects to be stored and then moved at will when the Man Who Lives Like a Billionaire in Washington DC decides that he has found a way to look cool to the people who have spent 62 years either trying or dreaming of pushing the Jews into the sea. The “Palestinian” demands are designed to end Israel’s existence as a Jewish nation. They are designed to turn Israel into an Islamic country called “Palestine.” Israel is not at fault for refusing to commit national suicide.

The Israeli Jewish population is nearly 6 million people now.

Andrew Sullivan is an anti-Semite and NOT a victim of those who have noticed that he is colder than the recent blizzards in Washington DC when it comes to Israel and the Jewish people.

Abbas Equates Naming Square for Terrorist with Israel Naming Road for Terror Victim

by Eliana ( 180 Comments › )
Filed under Fatah, Israel, Palestinians, Terrorism at January 19th, 2010 - 2:00 pm

Palestinian Media Watch has a new bulletin today about Mahmoud Abbas and his outrageous attempt to justify the glorification of a dead terrorist who did nothing substantial in her life but murder 37 random Jewish civilians in a bus hijacking in 1978:

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has defended the PA’s decision to name a square after a terrorist killer, comparing it to Israel’s decision to name a road after an Israeli victim of terror.

Last week, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu protested to the US about the PA’s continued incitement to hatred and violence. Israel’s protest was prompted by Palestinian Media Watch’s exposure of a birthday celebration sponsored by Abbas, and the naming of a square in Ramallah. Both were in honor of the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, who was responsible for the deaths of 37 Israeli civilians when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus in 1978.

The PA Minister of Culture, Siham Barghouti, subsequently defended this terrorist glorification. Now Abbas himself has defended it, comparing the PA’s naming of the square after Mughrabi to Israel’s naming a road after Rehavam Zeevi, the Israeli cabinet minister who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists. Abbas refers to Mughrabi’s bus hijacking and murder of 37 civilians as “military activities,” and compares her to Zeevi, who was an officer in the Israeli army before entering politics.

The following are Abbas’s words in defense of honoring terrorists:

“They [Israel] say about me that I carry out terrorist activities. What are those terrorist activities? That I search for those who sell land in Jerusalem and chase them. Of course I chase them, and I shall continue to do so. Is that a crime? [Israel says,] ‘Does he [Abbas] not know that they [the PA] named a square after Dalal Mughrabi and he [Abbas] personally went [to the ceremony]?’ – Of course I did not go myself, but I do not deny [the naming]. Of course we want to name a square after her. Okay, what about [murdered Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam] Zeevi? They [Israelis] named a road after him [in the Jordan Valley], near brother Saeb [Erekat, the chief Fatah negotiator], and so on. What is it [that Israel wants]? That we renounce our history? How? We… carried out military activities; can I then later renounce all that we have done? No, I don’t renounce it.”

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 17, 2010]

This article is on the PMW website here: Abbas equates PA’s naming of square after terrorist killer, with Israel’s naming road after terror victim