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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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PA leader's son accused of aiding terrorism released from Egyptian jail

2022-01-08

Much more about this story from a few days ago.

[Jpost] Ramy Shaath, 50, was arrested in 2019 together with several Egyptian activists and businessmen on suspicion of assisting a terrorist group: the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.

Egyptian authorities have freed Egyptian-Palestinian rights activist Ramy Shaath after more than 900 days of arbitrary detention, a statement from Shaath's family said on Saturday.

Shaath, who was a member of several secular political groups in Egypt and a co-founder of Egypt's pro-Palestinian BDS movement, had been forced to renounce his Egyptian citizenship and was on his way to France, his family said.

"If we are glad that the Egyptian authorities heard our call for freedom, we regret that they forced Ramy to renounce his Egyptian citizenship as a precondition for his release that should have been unconditional," the family statement said.

"No one should have to choose between their freedom and their citizenship."

Shaath, 50, a co-founder of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Egypt, is the son of Nabil Shaath, a former Palestinian Authority foreign minister and veteran member of the Palestinian leadership.

He was arrested in 2019 together with several Egyptian activists and businessmen on suspicion of assisting a terrorist group, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, in the case known as Al-Amal (Hope) Cell.

He also faced charges of disseminating false news about political and economic conditions in Egypt.

The younger Shaath is on his way to France, where he will join his wife, French national Celine Lebrun, who was deported from Egypt after her husband’s arrest, according to Palestinian and Egyptian sources.

An Egyptian court had added Shaath and 12 defendants linked to Al-Amal Cell to Egypt’s terrorism list for a period of five years.

“[Muslim] Brotherhood fugitive leaders, including Mahmoud Fathi, Ahmed Mohammed Abdel Hadi and Ali al-Sayed Ahmed, plotted to provide financial support [to the defendants] for their hostile actions against the Egyptian state with the aim of harming national interest and economic security and carrying out aggressive actions against the army and the police,” the court ruled.

The Brotherhood leaders allegedly recruited Shaath and other activists and provided them with weapons and firearms to carry out schemes against the Egyptian authorities, according to the court.

Shaath, who was born in Lebanon, moved to Cairo with his family in 1977, his family said in a statement after his arrest.

“He dedicated his entire life to the defense of Palestinian rights and to freedom and justice in the region,” the statement said.

“He served as a political and strategic consultant to former PA president Yasser Arafat,” it said. “From Cairo, he played an active role in the negotiations for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state; after the negotiations failed, he withdrew from politics in the late 1990s.

“Much later, in 2010 as a movement for democracy and social justice was growing in Egypt, Ramy joined the coalition of activists who led the popular uprising that led to the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011.”

The family accused the Egyptian authorities of “persecuting Ramy for many years for his public positions against all forms of political repression in Egypt, as well as his defense of Palestinian rights against Israeli occupation and apartheid.”

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Egypt releases Palestinian activist Ramy Shaath; set to deport him

2022-01-04

[AlAhram] Egypt has released Paleostinian-Egyptian activist Ramy Shaath, after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison, and will deport him within hours, member of Egypt's Human Rights Council Mohammed Anwar El-Sadat said on Monday Night.

Shaath, the son of former Paleostinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath, were tossed into the calaboose since 2019 over charges of assisting a terrorist group in the case known as the "Hope Cell."

Shaath, along with 12 other defendants in the case, also faced charges of disseminating false news about the political and economic conditions in the country in order to destabilise public peace and undermine trust in state institutions.

Shaath is a co-founder of Egypt's pro-Paleostinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

In November, the state security misdemeanour court sentenced lawyer and former MP Ziad El-Eleimy, another defendant in the case, to five years in prison.

El-Eleimy served as an MP representing the Egyptian Social Democratic Party in the 2012 parliament.

The court also sentenced journalists Hossam Mones and Hisham Fouad to four years in prison in the same case.

Activists Mohammed Bahnasy and Hossam Nasser received three years in the same case, and labour activist Fatma Abul-Maaty received a three-year sentence in absentia.

The ruling is final and cannot be appealed.

In July of this year, the Court of Cassation upheld a ruling placing the 13 defendants in the case on the country's terrorism list for five years.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Palestinian Officials Pressure Abbas to Postpone Elections

2021-04-25

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] More and more Paleostinian officials have stated that 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....
may postpone the upcoming parliamentary elections, a move increasingly opposed by the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, movement and other electoral lists.

Nabil Shaath, an advisor Abbas, was among the latest officials to warn that elections are "very likely" to be delayed if Israel continues to bar voting in East Jerusalem.

A senior Paleostinian Authority (PA) official told Kan 11 News on Wednesday that he believes there is a high probability that the elections, which are scheduled for May 22, will be delayed.

"Currently, there is a 90 percent chance that the election will be postponed," the source said.

According to the report, Abbas has not yet decided on whether to postpone the polls, even after a series of discussions on the issue that took place this week in Ramallah.

Kan 11 News reported that the pressure on Abbas has increased in recent days.

Among other things, Fatah officials fear that the internal divisions within the party ahead of the polls may allow Hamas to gain a foothold that would adversely affect relations between the PA and Israel and the administration in Washington.

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Abbas adviser says Palestinian elections ‘very likely’ to be postponed

2021-04-21

[IsraelTimes] Nabil Shaath, an adviser to 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....
, says in a statement that the Paleostinian national elections scheduled for next month are "very likely" to be postponed in light of Israel’s refusal to allow the vote to go forward in East Jerusalem.

A plausible excuse. But really it’s because the Palestinian/PLO/Fatah vote will be split, leading to Hamas winning the presidency for the second time.

Shaath says that if Israel continues to ignore the PA’s request to hold the elections in East Jerusalem, "the electoral process will be postponed."

He adds that PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has been sent to Europa
Europa

...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
to push for international pressure on Israel on the matter.

The Paleostinians view East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, while Israel considers the entire city its undivided capital and bars any PA activity from taking place in the city.

Shaath’s comments came a day after the Paleostinian Elections Commission said most Paleostinians in East Jerusalem will be able to vote in next month’s elections, regardless if Israel permits voting in the city.

The commission said some 150,000 residents will be able to vote in what Paleostinians call the "Jerusalem suburbs" — towns and villages that ring the capital. Israel defines these areas as lying in the West Bank, while the Paleostinian Authority see them as part of its "Jerusalem Governorate."

Abbas announced in mid-January that the Paleostinians would hold their first elections in over 15 years. Paleostinians last went to the ballot box in the 2006 legislative elections, which led Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, to a landslide victory over Abbas’s Fatah movement.

Paleostinians are scheduled to head to legislative elections next month and then to presidential elections on July 31.

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Egypt arrests son of PA official, a BDS activist, for aiding ‘terror group’

2019-08-22

[IsraelTimes] Family says Ramy Shaath detained for his criticism of Cairo’s ties with Israel, denies charges against him.

The family of prominent Paleostinian politician Nabil Shaath accused Egyptian authorities on Wednesday of arresting Shaath’s son Ramy last month.

He has been charged with allegedly aiding a terrorist group, but the family says Ramy was targeted because he criticized the Egyptian government’s ties with Israel and the US as part of his role in the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

"Ramy was arrested on Friday July 5th at 12:45 AM, from his home in Cairo," the family said in a statement on Facebook.

"At least a dozen heavily armed security agents stormed and searched his residence without presenting any legal document," they added.

The son of a senior Paleostinian politician and Oslo grinding of the peace processor negotiator, Ramy also entered politics and served as an adviser to Paleostinian Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat. The 48-year-old has lived since 1977 in Egypt, where he ~~has~~ had citizenship.

His arrest came 10 days after authorities raided 19 businesses allegedly tied to the banned Moslem Brüderbund, accusing them of funding a plot to overthrow the state. Among those also arrested were several prominent secular activists including former politician Zyad el-Elaimy.

After disappearing for 36 hours, Shaath appeared before prosecutors and was charged with aiding a "terrorist group" connected to the same plot, the family said.

"His arrest is a disaster," said his wife Celine Lebrun-Shaath, a French national, who was deported from Cairo shortly after his arrest.
"GTFO"
Speaking to AFP from Gay Paree, where she is working for his release, she said negotiations with Egyptian authorities had not yielded any results, prompting the family to publicize his case.

Shaath has been detained in Tora prison, one of Egypt’s most notorious jails, for around six weeks. His family said they have been able to visit him regularly but are concerned about his health, as he suffers from ~~halitosis~~ high cholesterol.

Shaath is Egypt coordinator of BDS movement against Israel. He has been critical of Egypt’s participation in Washington’s not-yet released Israeli-Paleostinian peace plan. Most recently, he criticized Cairo for sending a mid-level official to a June conference in Bahrain where US President Donald Trump

...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
’s son-in-law Jared Kushner launched the initiative.

His wife Celine said she felt "powerless... not knowing when I will see him again".

"We want [Egypt] to release Ramy. He has not done anything that he is accused of," she said. "He is being arrested for his peaceful activities."

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PA to stop operating Gaza-Egypt crossing over spat with Hamas

2019-01-07

[IsraelTimes] Ramalla government demands release of hundreds of Fatah members it says were placed in durance vile
You have the right to remain silent...
by terror group in coastal enclave.

The Paleostinian Authority announced Sunday that it will its stop operations at the only border crossing between the Gazoo Strip and Egypt, in protest of Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,’s arrest of what it says are hundreds of members of the PA-affiliated Fatah party.

The PA said that, until further notification, it will withdraw its staff from the Rafah border terminal, which is used by travelers moving to and from Egypt, raising the possibility that the crossing will shut.

Under the terms of a November agreement, the Hamas terror group handed over control of the border crossing to the PA.

As a result of the PA announcement, Egypt is expected to close its side of the crossing, effectively shutting off traffic.

Hamas condemned the decision.

It was the latest development in the rapidly deteriorating ties between the two main Paleostinian groups, which have been at loggerheads since 2007, when Hamas ousted the PA from Gazoo.

Last Monday, Fatah said Hamas had rounded up 500 party activists to prevent them from organizing events to mark the 54th anniversary of their party’s founding, scheduled for the following day.

The Hamas-run interior ministry in Gazoo denied the accusations, saying it had only summoned 38 local Fatah leaders "to maintain order."

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
appeared to call Hamas authorities "spies" over the incident.

"Shame on those who prevented the torch from being lit today in Gazoo," he said in a speech at the PA presidential headquarters in Ramallah. "Unfortunately, whoever does that is a spy."

On Thursday, Nabil Shaath, Abbas’s adviser for foreign affairs, told The Times of Israel that Abbas will meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in Egypt to discuss reconciliation efforts between Hamas and Fatah.

The last publicly known time Abbas and Sissi met was November 3, in Sharm al-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city.

In another incident, gunnies trashed the headquarters of the Paleostinian Authority’s television station in Gazoo on Friday. Fatah blamed Hamas for the incident, but Hamas later arrested five men it said were former PA employees whose salaries were recently suspended.

While the rival parties have signed a number of agreements to advance reconciliation, they have failed to implement them.

Most recently, Fatah and Hamas signed an Egyptian-sponsored reconciliation agreement in October 2017, but did not succeed in executing it on the ground.

Since a bomb went kaboom! adjacent to PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s motorcade in March 2018, in Gazoo, Ramallah-based ministers have not visited the coastal enclave.

Abbas has accused Hamas of carrying out the bombing; the terror group has vehemently denied the charge.

In the recent past, Egypt has been the primary mediator between Hamas and Fatah.

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Palestinian Authority demands Hamas hand over Gaza Strip

2018-03-21

[ALMASDARNEWS] The Paleostinian National Authority (PNA) has demanded from the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement to hand over full control over the Gazoo Strip, the Paleostinian government said in a statement obtained by Sputnik.

"The council of ministers demands from the Hamas movement to immediately cede control over the Gazoo Strip," the statement said.

According to the document, the government is ready to take responsibility for Gazoo in order to save it from the dangers that surround it and prevent Israel from splitting Paleostine.

The statement was issued after Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
had directly accused Hamas of the kaboom on Paleostinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s motorcade during his visit to Gazoo last week and threatened to impose sanctions against the enclave.

On March 13, an kaboom hit a site near Hamdallah’s motorcade in the Gazoo Strip. Hamdallah himself was not injured in the blast. The Paleostinian National Authority placed the blame for the attack on the Hamas movement, which has been governing the Gazoo Strip. Hamas, in turn, condemned the attack on Hamdallah’s convoy and called on law enforcement agencies to find the perpetrators as soon as possible.

In October 2017, Hamas and its rival Fatah faction, headed by Abbas, signed a reconciliation agreement, prior to which Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of the Gazoo Strip and start talks with Fatah in order to hold a general election in Paleostine. In late November, the two sides agreed to hold parliamentary and presidential elections in Paleostine before the end of 2018.

Nabil Shaath, the foreign affairs adviser of Abbas, told Sputnik in February that the intra-Paleostinian reconciliation process had been put on hold, because the Hamas movement had not yet relinquished administrative control over the Gazoo Strip.

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Palestinians won’t meet with Kushner, Greenblatt or any US officials on peace

2017-12-18

It looks like the intifada has petered out, so they have to get attention in other ways.

In wake of US administration's Jerusalem stance, Abbas aide says, PA adamant in boycotting entire Trump team; PA also says Greenblatt, due this week, hasn't sought Ramallah meet

Why should the American ambassador bother?

The Paleostinians will not meet with any United States officials regarding the grinding of the peace processor in the future, in response to US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a senior diplomatic adviser to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas

... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
told The Times of Israel on Sunday.

The open-ended boycott includes Trump’s top peace envoy Jason Greenblatt, who is due here this week, as well as the US leader’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

"No one from the American administration will be met to discuss peace between the Paleostinians and the Israelis, because the [PA] president was very clear on that," said Majdi al-Khalidi, referring to Abbas’s speech at the Organization of Islamic Countries on Wednesday in Istanbul.

Khalidi added that Greenblatt, who is expected to arrive in the region amid violent protests over Trump’s announcement, did not request a meeting with the Paleostinians, with whom he has met on numerous occasions in the past, Khalidi said.

The White House said Greenblatt would come to Israel this week and stay throughout the upcoming visit of US Vice President Mike Pence.

Abbas’s foreign affairs adviser Nabil Shaath told The Times of Israel last week that the PA would continue to communicate with the United States on affairs not connected to the grinding of the peace processor.

The US is a central source of aid for the Paleostinian Authority. In 2016, the US provided $712 million to the Paleostinians, and is the world’s largest supplier of such aid.

Just over half of that funding is given to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees (UNWRA).

In Israel, Greenblatt will meet with European Union

...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
representative to the so-called Middle East "Quartet," Fernando Gentilini, the White House official said.

"The president remains as committed to peace as ever," the official added.

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PA premier plans Gaza visit after Hamas accepts reconciliation terms

2017-09-19

Going through the motions to placate President Trump and President al Sisi. But how long will this hudna last?

[IsraelTimes] Rami Hamdallah to travel to Strip to reassert Paleostinian Authority control over ministries, adviser to Abbas says

Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is poised to visit Gazoo for talks, a bigwig said Monday, after the Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, terror group agreed to steps toward resolving a decade-long split with its West Bank-based rival Fatah.

Hamas announced Sunday it had agreed to demands by PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
’s Fatah party to dissolve what is seen as a rival administration in Gazoo, while saying it was ready for elections and negotiations toward forming a unity government.

Hamdallah plans to travel to Gazoo City to meet Hamas leaders and assert the PA government’s control over ministries, Nabil Shaath, a senior adviser to Abbas, told journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah, as a first step toward implementing a larger agreement.

"We await the first steps on the ground. We want to see Mr. Hamdallah received by Hamas, the door to all the ministries open," he said. "That really could happen in the next 24 hours."

Abbas’s internationally recognized PA’s seat of power is in the West Bank, but it has had no control in Gazoo for a decade ‐ after Hamas seized the Strip following bloody festivities with Fatah in 2007.

Hamdallah has not visited Gazoo since 2015, and a previous attempt at a unity government fell apart that year, with the two sides exchanging blame.

In recent months Abbas has sought to squeeze Hamas by reducing power supply to the Strip, with the two million residents receiving only three or four hours of mains electricity per day as a result.

He has also reduced the salaries of some employees in Gazoo, while the number of Gazooks receiving PA permits to travel for medical care has declined.

The Independent Commission for Human Rights, based in the West Bank, called Tuesday for such measures to be reversed after Hamas dissolved the so-called administrative committee, seen as a rival government and created in March.

Shaath said Abbas wanted to reverse the punitive measures, but he did not give a timetable.

"When the president supported these economic measures (against Gazoo) he said they will stop immediately once the self-rule governance of Hamas ends and the consensus government takes place. He didn’t put any other conditions whatsoever."

Abbas is due to address world leaders at the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, after meeting with US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
.

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Netanyahu vows he will never evacuate another settlement

2017-08-29

[IsraelTimes] At event celebrating 50 years of settlements in the northern West Bank, thousands cheer PM, as he speaks of the area’s strategic importance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Monday that his government will never evacuate another settlement, a promise that comes just days after meeting with a US delegation to discuss restarting the grinding of the peace processor with the Paleostinians.

At an event celebrating 50 years of Israeli settlements in Samaria -- the biblical name for the northern West Bank -- Netanyahu told a crowd of thousands, "We are here to stay forever. There will be no more uprooting of settlements in the land of Israel."

"This is the inheritance of our ancestors," he said. "This is our land.’

He also stressed the dangers Israel would face if it withdrew from the West Bank, a key demand of the Paleostinians in any future peace deal.

"Samaria is a strategic asset for the State of Israel," the prime minister said. "It is the key to our future. Because from these high hills, the heights of Mount Hatzor, we can see the entire country, from one side to the other."

He said that Israel has withdrawn from settlements in the past but received nothing in return.

"We’ve uprooted settlements. What did we get? We received missiles. It will not happen again," the prime minister said, referring to Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the Gazoo Strip. "To those who want to uproot what we’ve planted, we will deepen our roots."

"Imagine that on these hills were the forces of radical Islam," Netanyahu said that he tells world leaders. "It would endanger us, it would endanger you, and it would endanger the entire Middle East."

The prime minister also gave his recollections of the first time he came to Samaria, as a soldier, and said that he felt he was walking in the footsteps of the patriarchs, walking the hills with a Bible in his hand.

"I remember the excitement that gripped me when I came to Shiloh, the place where the [biblical] kingdom of Israel stood," he said.

Netanyahu’s comments come just days after the visit of a delegation from US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, who is looking to get the Israelis and the Paleostinians back to the negotiating table.

A senior Paleostinian official said Monday that the Americans last week asked for a three-to-four-month "grace period" in order to present a peace plan.

Nabil Shaath, speaking to the official Voice of Paleostine radio, said the Paleostinians had reiterated their demands that Israel end settlement construction and withdraw from the West Bank, which Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War.

Shaath, a former Paleostinian negotiator, said that the Paleostinians told the American delegation its demands are "the end of the occupation, the establishment of an independent Paleostinian state on 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, as well as the resolution of all permanent status issues, including the right return of for [Paleostinian] refugees."

Netanyahu was enthusiastically welcomed by settler leader Yossi Dagan, and the large, exclusively religious, crowd greeted the prime ministers words with loud cheers.

Mahmoud Abbas reportedly suspends further anti-Israeli measures in UN

[Ynet] Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
has decided to suspend further anti-Israeli actions in the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
Security Council and other institutions, to avoid being blamed for foiling the American peace initiative before it was ever presented, reports the A-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper.

Abbas reportedly reached this decision after consulting with other Arab leaders.

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Soviet documents ‘show Abbas was KGB agent’; Fatah decries ‘smear campaign’

2016-09-08

[IsraelTimes] Israeli researchers: Notes from USSR archivist who defected indicate PA president was ’handled’ in 1980s

Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 television reported Wednesday, citing information it said was included in an archive smuggled out of the USSR.!

According to Channel 1’s foreign news editor Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, revealed that Abbas was a Soviet mole in Damascus in 1983.

The documents -- obtained by Israeli researchers Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez -- purportedly show that Abbas, code-named Krotov (mole), worked under Mikhail Bogdanov, who was then stationed in Damascus and is today Vladimir Putin

...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
’s envoy to the Middle East.

Bogdanov was caught in a diplomatic tussle earlier this week after trying to broker a summit between Abbas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, who both claimed a willingness to meet while decrying the other for allegedly refusing.

Mitrokhin was a senior KGB archivist who defected to the UK in 1992, and his edited notes on various KGB operations were released in 2014. His handwritten notes remain classified by MI5.

The archivist’s notes on the KGB are considered among the most complete information available on Soviet intelligence operations. He claimed that the KGB recruited the then head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine, Wadi Haddad, as an agent in the 1970s.

His writings also revealed that Haddad, operating under the code name NATSIONALIST, was given Soviet assistance in funding and arming the PFLP.

According to an Eastern Soviet bloc intelligence agent who defected to the US in the 1970s, the PLO, the

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Paleostine
... a breakaway faction of the Pöpular Frönt för the Liberation of Paleostine. The are regarded as the most intellectual of Paleostinian fedayeen groups, smoking cheap cigarettes and drawing heavily on Marxist-Leninist theory to explain their crappy lives. They can occasionally be seen strutting through the streets of Paleostine, dressed up like soldiers and lugging firearms, though they seldom manage to hit anything and then usually by accident. This may be because of their habit of wearing black masks that cut off most of their vision. That would also explain their habit of occasionally walking into walls, which is a well-known attribute of those immersed in true understanding of the dialectic...
and the PFLP all received help from the KGB.

Romanian Lt. General Pacepa told US officials that in 1972 that then-PLO leader Yasser Arafat closely collaborated with the KGB and the Romanian Securitate service, and PLO guerrilla fighters were secretly trained by Soviet intelligence agents.

In response to the Channel 1 report, Fatah official Nabil Shaath denied that Abbas was ever a KGB operative, calling the claim a "smear campaign" that attempted to distract from potentially Russian-led peace talks in Moscow.

Throughout his early life, Abbas developed a network of Paleostinian political activists from across the Arab world that would eventually become Fatah and the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO).

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abbas studied at the People’s Friendship University of Russia, where he wrote his doctoral thesis, "The Secret Relationship between German Nazis and Zionists," which has been accused of denying the scope of the Holocaust.

After earning his doctorate, Abbas moved to Tunisia where he took a more active role in PLO leadership, and worked his way up to chairman of the organization. He became PA president following Arafat’s death in 2004.

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