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Mohammad Dahlan

Palestinian Authority

Middle East

20030420

Israel-Palestine-Jordan

‘Cosmetic’ PA reshuffle seen as bid by Abbas to hold power, avoid demanded reforms

2024-02-28

[IsraelTimes] Ramallah’s new prime minister is likely to be another loyalist to the PA president, who appears to be trying to preempt US pressure for structural changes to revitalize the body.

The resignation of the Palestinian Authority’s government on Monday — formally accepted by PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday — was meant to mark a major step toward the revitalization of the administrative body, a move demanded by the US and the international community if it is to have a role ruling post-war Gaza.

But some Palestinians are less than optimistic that the plan to replace PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and others with a group of technocrats will be enough to salvage the ailing authority.

“It’s mostly a superficial change, not a significant one,” said veteran Ramallah-based journalist Mohammed Daraghmeh, a correspondent for the Saudi-owned Asharq TV news channel.

“This move was expected. Abbas was under international and local pressure to have a new government to get ready for the ‘day after’, so he had his cabinet resign to appease the international community,” Daraghmeh said.

Shtayyeh is to remain as a caretaker prime minister until a new technocratic government is formed, likely under the leadership of Mohammad Mustafa, the current head of the government’s investment fund and a former deputy prime minister and economy minister.

But as before, the overall authority will still reside with Abbas.

Seeking more radical reforms within the PA, Washington has reportedly been pushing for a genuine transfer of power from the president to the prime minister, while letting Abbas retain a ceremonial role. The octogenarian leader, in office since 2005, however, seems to have turned a deaf ear to calls to loosen his grip.

“The change is purely cosmetic, but Abbas is not able to understand that nobody will buy his cosmetics,” quipped Samer Sinijlawi, a Palestinian political activist from East Jerusalem and head of the Jerusalem Development Fund, which specializes in Palestinian humanitarian affairs.

Outside Ramallah’s halls of power, some influential Palestinian political figures have been seeking to formulate a vision for a reformed PA, chief among them Mohammad Dahlan. The former PA security head in Gaza, ousted from the Strip by Hamas in 2007 and exiled by Abbas to the UAE in 2011, has repeatedly called for fresh leadership.

The PA’s move to announce a new government was ostensibly designed to neuter calls by Abbas’s critics for him to empower an independent government, with a mission and a timetable for carrying it out.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Who Will Succeed Mahmoud Abbas as the Palestinian President?

2022-08-15

Thought-provoking. Key bits:

[AM Thinker] Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, is 86 years old. Against all odds, Abbas has been able to control the PLO and the Palestinian Authority with an iron fist. To this day, he remains "El kol fil kol," an Arabic term for a man in control of everything. Nonetheless, Abbas's health has been failing more rapidly lately.

In addition, Abbas's demeanor has changed. He seems distant from the Palestinian Authority areas. He spends most of his time in Amman, Jordan, under the pretext of receiving medical treatment.

Abbas is on his last legs. Yet he is not preparing any of his sons to be his successor, not even his well educated millionaire businessman son, Mazen, who is also a Canadian citizen.

So the question is, who will replace him?

A number of names come to mind, but there is no one who is a natural, who would command the support of the power brokers or the Palestinians.

Suggested names, with details at the link:

Hussein Al-Sheikh, 62, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the PLO

General Majid Farraj, in his 50s, the head of Palestinian Intelligence.

Jibril Rajoub, the former head of the Palestinian FBI, the Preventive Security Force, and a member of the PLO's Central Committee

Mohammad Dahlan served as Arafat's security chief and remains influential to this day

Other names such as Abbas Zaki, Salam Fayyad, Ahmad Qurai, Nabil Shaath, and Nasser Al Qudwa, Arafat's nephew, come to mind, but none of them has the power, influence, muscle, or popularity to keep the P.A. intact

When Abbas goes, since there is no acceptable heir apparent, chaos will ensue. The P.A. areas will fall into disarray. Hamas will to try to infiltrate the West Bank further, as it has been doing slowly but surely.

To avoid such an outcome, Israel will have to take full control of Oslo-delineated Areas A, B and C. That will mean the end of the Palestinian Authority.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas rival Dahlan banned from running in Palestinian election — Fatah official

2021-01-28

[IsraelTimes] Former PA security chief doesn’t have a ’clean record,’ says Azzam al-Ahmad, referring to past conviction; Dahlan spokesperson vows to take ’message to the streets’.

Abbas issued a decree ordering the first national Paleostinian elections in more than 14 years earlier this month. Observers remain skeptical that the elections will actually take place.

Former Gazoo security chief Mohammad Dahlan — widely seen as a key rival of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
— will not be allowed to run in the upcoming Paleostinian presidential elections, a senior Paleostinian official told The Times of Israel.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Dahlan pans decision to resume security ties, says PA gave up ‘negotiation card’

2020-11-20

[IsraelTimes] Exiled Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan criticizes Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
’s decision to resume security coordination with Israel at the present moment, saying that the PA gave up a "valuable negotiation card" in dealings with the new US administration.

The Paleostinian Authority ended security coordination with Israel in May in protest of an Israeli plan to annex parts of the West Bank. Although the plan was suspended following a normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates in August, the PA did not resume coordination with Israel until last night.

Dahlan, a bitter rival of Abbas who has resided in exile in Abu Dhabi since 2011, says that the real reason that the PA chose to return to coordinate with Israel is financial. As part of ending coordination, the PA refused over $100 million in tax revenues which Israel collects on its behalf. The so-called "clearance revenues" constitute over 60 percent of the Paleostinian budget.

With a gaping hole in the Paleostinian budget, hundreds of thousands of civil servants did not receive full salaries for months.

"If the financial, administrative and personal needs were the real motive, as it seems, then we can ask why the Authority originally stopped receiving clearance funds, which are funds belonging purely to the Paleostinian people," Dahlan says.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

The Dahlan enigma: One Palestinian leader isn’t condemning the Israel-UAE deal

2020-08-18

[IsraelTimes] Some Paleostinian officials believe Emirates-backed Mohammad Dahlan, a former top security official to PA President Abbas, was involved in the move to normalize ties.

Prominent figures in Paleostinian politics condemned the normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a betrayal. The PA itself called the deal "despicable" and demanded it be reversed. Said 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...
, the veteran Paleostinian negotiator, "I never expected this poison dagger to come from an Arab country."

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas denies commander arrested for collaborating with Israel

2020-07-14

“Wudn’t us. And it never happened, anyway.”

[IsraelTimes] Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-based terror group dismisses report by Paleostinian media outlet close to its rival Mohammad Dahlan as ’rumors and lies’

The Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, interior ministry on Sunday denied a report

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas naval commander, suspected ‘collaborator,’ flees Gaza to Israel – report

2020-07-12

Wheeee! Are we having too much fun yet?

[IsraelTimes] Unsourced Paleostinian media report claims official escaped Strip on Israeli military vessel with a laptop, cash, and classified documents.
"Tonight, on NCIS Gazoo..."
Paleostinian terror group Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, said on Saturday that a senior naval commander in its armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, had fled the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip to Israel after suspicions arose that he was working for Israel as a so-called "collaborator."

The term is used to indicate a person who is suspected of sharing information or intelligence with Israel.

The official, said to have overseen the group’s divers unit, fled the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on an Israeli military boat with a laptop, cash, surveillance equipment, and "classified, dangerous documents," according to a media report citing "sources" on Paleostinian news site Amad media, an organization reportedly close to exiled Fatah commander Mohammad Dahlan. The report was picked up by Israel’s Channel 12 and Channel 13 news.

The report said the discovery sent Hamas big turbans into a "state of hysteria" as the group launched an investigation and made dozens of arrests in search of additional suspects in the alleged spy network. Some half a million dollars and extensive equipment were seized in an unspecified raid, according to the report.

This was the second senior Hamas commander suspected recently of aiding the Jewish state, the report said. A previous suspect, dubbed "Mahmoud," is said to have been in charge of communications networks for the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya and is believed by Hamas to have been working for Israel since 2009.

The report said "Mahmoud," 32, arrested by Hamas and charged with spying for Israel.

Hamas routinely announces arrests of suspected "collaborators" in the Paleostinian enclave, many of whom are sentenced to death.

Update from the Jerusalem Post at 9:45 a.m. EDT expands on Mahmoud’s adventures:

According to the sources, another senior Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, military commander was recently arrested on suspicion of collaboration with Israel.

The man, who was identified only as Mohammmed, was responsible for the group’s communication networks in the Shajjaiyeh neighborhood of Gazoo City and trained Hamas members in information gathering and anti-espionage techniques.

The sources claimed that he began working with Israeli intelligence agencies in 2009. His alleged ties with Israel were uncovered when he asked his brother to collect for him a sum of money that was left near a garbage bin. The brother was apprehended by members of the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades as he was trying to take the cash, the sources said.

The two incidents prompted Hamas to take a series of measures, including summoning several of its members for interrogation and changing its communication networks and the phone numbers of many bigwigs.

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The Grand Turk

Turkey adds exiled Palestinian strongman Dahlan to most wanted list

2019-12-15

[IsraelTimes] Ankara accuses UAE-based Abbas rival of involvement in 2016 coup attempt against Erdogan, offers $1.75 million for information leading to his capture.

Does Turkey have that kind of money to throw around, or is this just for show?

~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
said Friday it would offer up to 10 million lira ($1.75 million) for information leading to the capture of former Paleostinian strongman Mohammad Dahlan, now exiled in the United Arab Emirates, placing him on its list of most wanted runaways.

Ooooooh, scary.

Turkey accuses Dahlan of being a mercenary for the UAE and involved in the 2016 coup attempt against President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

While Israel’s Gulf ties soar, UAE and Abbas’s PA now bitterly at odds

2018-11-23

[IsraelTimes] Abu Dhabi has embraced Abbas rival Mohammad Dahlan, and its donations to Paleostinian Authority have dried up; PA officials now accuse it of backing Trump peace plan.

For at least the past decade, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have slowly cultivated ties under the radar. In 2010, an Israeli minister attended a conference in Abu Dhabi, the UAE capital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed reportedly met in New York City in 2012. Israel opened a diplomatic mission to a United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
body in the Emirati capital in 2015, and the Israeli and Emirati air forces took part in the same exercises in 2016, 2017, and 2018.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

PA stages ‘campaign of arrests’ against Fatah dissidents, critics

2018-03-29

[IsraelTimes] Loyalists of exiled leader Dahlan accuse Abbas of staging crackdown over opposition to his bid to convene the Paleostine National Council

Paleostinian Authority security forces have tossed in the clink
Please don't kill me!
several supporters of Mohammad Dahlan, a deposed senior Fatah official and arch-rival of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Mohammad Dahlan’s plan to take over Gaza—and Ramallah

2017-08-13

[Ynet] Ten years after leaving Gazoo, the former head of the Paleostinian Preventive Security Force may return to the strip a leader, as part of a move being devised by Egypt, Soddy Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, the US and Israel. The plan, an Israeli expert says, is Dahlan’s dress rehearsal, as he strives to conquer the Muqata’a and take Abbas’s seat.

It’s incredible to see how the events around the terror attack at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound actually improve the chances of implementing "the plan of the century"--a complex, ambitious plan taking shape behind the scenes, which focuses on the highly controversial figure of Mohammad Dahlan (Abu Fadi).

The leaders involved in the plan include Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and his intelligence chief Khaled Fawzy, as well as the Saudi king and crown prince, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf and his deputy, the king of Bahrain, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, and US President Donald Trump

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Ex-Gaza strongman says Hamas deal will open border

2017-07-24

[IsraelTimes] Former Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan also says UAE set to build new $100 million power plant for Paleostinian coastal enclave.

How will the Palestinians manage to miss the opportunity this time?

An exiled Paleostinian politician who quietly negotiated a power-sharing deal for Gazoo with former arch foe Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", discussed the details for the first time in an interview, saying he expects it to lead to a swift opening of the blockaded territory’s border with Egypt and an easing of crippling power outages.

The Egypt-Gazoo border crossing is expected to open by late August and funding has been secured for a $100 million power plant, Mohammad Dahlan, a former Gazoo security chief, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in a phone interview from the United Arab Emirates.

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