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		Yasser pulled a gun on Jibril once and called him a Zionist spy
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas may be the last PA leader who believes in two states, warns potential successor

2025-03-14

[IsraelTimes] Senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub praises Abbas and urges US to engage with him, looking to remain in the Palestinian Authority chief’s good graces while no new election is slated

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 be the last Paleostinian leader who believes in a two-state solution and opposes violence as a means for bringing it about, a potential successor to the PA president told The Times of Israel in a recent interview.

And thank goodness for that. It’s not going to happen for at least another generation or two, and it had become tiresome to listen to everyone going on about it.

Abbas "is the last founding pillar of the Paleostinian national movement who believes in two things: making historic reconciliation [with Israel] based on the two-state solution [and] that blood-shedding should not be a choice to achieve [that goal]," said Jibril Rajoub, the secretary-general of Abbas’s Fatah party and a former head of the PA’s security forces.

Rajoub said that Fatah and most of the factions in the Paleostine Liberation Organization still back a two-state solution, "but I don’t think anyone after Abu Mazen (Abbas) could have the courage... to lead [toward a] peace treaty."

Accordingly, Rajoub urged the Trump administration to engage with the PA leader without delay. "Whether we like him or not, [Abbas] is still legitimate, and his baby remains settling this conflict through peaceful means."

It is rare for PLO officials to criticize Abbas, but Rajoub’s decision to go out of his way to hail the PA president in a rare interview with an English-language news outlet pointed to his desire to remain in good standing with him.

While no elections are in the offing and the nearly 90-year-old Abbas has not named a successor, the 71-year-old Rajoub is often listed among those who could replace the PA president, given his strong positioning within Fatah along with other Paleostinian factions.

Those factions include Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
, which Rajoub said could be part of the Paleostinian leadership if it accepts PLO obligations, including recognition of Israel and accepting "non-violence as a strategic choice."

Implying an equivalence, he suggested those questioning whether Hamas should be included in Paleostinian politics — particularly after the terror group’s atrocities on October 7, 2023 — were not treating Israeli hardliners with the same skepticism.

"What about the same crazy groups inside Israel? No one is asking about [Itamar] Ben Gvir and [Bezalel] Smotrich," he claimed, referring to the two far-right party leaders whom Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu partnered with two years ago to form the government.

Still, Rajoub denounced Hamas’s actions on October 7.

"I know that innocent people, including peace activists, along with women and kiddies were killed that day. No one can support something like that," said Rajoub, who is also the chairman of the Paleostinian Football Association.

"However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the conflict did not start that day," Rajoub argued, pointing to decades of "home demolitions, settlement building, humiliations and killing" of Paleostinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and 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 a rusty iron fist by Hamas with 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.

He claimed that the uptick in these actions under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rule has led to an uptick in antisemitism outside of Israel, which has hit record levels in some Western countries following the October 7 attack and subsequent war in Gaza.

"Israelis are now instructed to remove their kippa when abroad," Rajoub said. "Is this what they want?"

Pressed on calls for Paleostinian political reform, given that the entire West Bank-based PA system is dominated by Abbas, Rajoub acknowledged that doing so was necessary and "in our national interest."

The PA has not held elections in nearly 20 years, and Rajoub said such a step would be essential, adding that a future Paleostinian state must uphold the values of "democracy and political pluralism under the principle of one authority, one law and one gun."

"I think that we do need to make reforms... But the corruption in the PA is kindergarten compared to Mr. Bibi and his mafia," he claimed, referencing the Israeli premier’s ongoing criminal trial.

"Still, we should not lose hope, and we should not give up" on the goal of mutual recognition, Rajoub maintained.

"Trust between us is zero. They have their reasons, and we have ours," he continued, arguing that a third party is needed to move the parties in the right direction.

"The third party is the international community, but it should be led by the Americans," Rajoub said. "The Americans are the only ones who can exert pressure on these Israelis."

There was initial optimism in Ramallah that the US would be willing to play such a role in the lead-up to President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
’s return to office when his Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff, managed to coax Netanyahu into agreeing to a ceasefire and hostage release deal with Hamas after months of deadlock.

But that feeling dissipated rather quickly, with Trump declaring his desire last month for the US to take over Gaza and permanently relocate all of its residents.

"It’s a shame for this administration to abuse the suffering of innocent people," Rajoub said.

In the more immediate term, though, Washington is more focused on extending the ceasefire in Gaza through additional hostage-prisoner swaps between Israel and Hamas.

Rajoub has a unique perspective on this issue, as he once was released from an Israeli prison during the 1980s through such a deal.

He spent 17 years in jug for violence against Israel. Rajoub said he used the time to study the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict.

"My conclusion was that without making space for Israelis’ rational concerns... I can’t achieve my national aspirations," Rajoub said.

"The Israelis — like the Paleostinians — have the right to live in peace, in security, with normalizations... but within the internationally recognized borders," he added, referring to the armistice lines prior to the 1967 Six-Day War.

Speaking to the kind of hostage deal that he would support, Rajoub said, "It should be everybody for everybody, so we can open a new chapter."

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International-UN-NGOs

Palestinian athletes set to take 'resistance' to Olympics

2024-07-15

[GEO.TV] Eight Paleostinian athletes taking part in the Gay Paree Olympics will be symbols of "resistance" during the Israel-Hamas
Hamas

..one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
war in 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 Hamas with 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...
, a Paleostinian minister said Sunday as the official delegation left the occupied West Bank.

This will be the eighth time Paleostinian athletes have taken part in the Olympics since 1996, but Olympic committee head Jibril Rajoub said the athletes had never felt so much attention.

The athletes are preparing for the start of the Gay Paree Games on July 26 in a "very dark moment in our history", said Paleostinian authority minister of state for foreign affairs Varsen Aghabekian Shahin.

"You are not just athletes, you are also ... symbols of Paleostinian resistance," Aghabekian added.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Netanyahu: PA and Hamas both reject Israel’s existence; I won’t let PA govern Gaza

2023-12-03

[IsraelTimes] Answering a few final questions at his presser, Prime Minister Netanyahu unleashes a devastating critique of the Paleostinian Authority and the process that led to its establishment.

He is asked about the PA’s potential role in a post-war 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 Hamas with 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...
, as sought by the US and opposed by him.

The Paleostinian Authority "pays murderers.... They educate their children to hate Israel and, to my sorrow, to murder Jews, and ultimately for the disappearance of the State of Israel," he says.

He says PA President Mahmoud "Abbas still hasn’t apologized" for the October 7 onslaught. (He apparently meant to say that Abbas hasn’t condemned the assault.) And he says that senior PA official Jibril Rajoub has said "the same should be done in Judea and Samaria from Judea and Samaria."

"I’m not prepared to delude myself and say that this defective thing, established under the Oslo Accords in a terrible mistake," should be allowed to govern Gaza. "It was a terrible mistake to return the most hostile thing in the Arab world and the Paleostinian world into the center of the Land of Israel, the heart of the land," he says.

Apparently referring to Fatah and Hamas
Hamas

...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
, he says it then "split into two, but the ideology, to my sorrow, that rejects the existence of Israel is common to both those factions. So I won’t repeat the mistake and put that entity into Gaza, because we’ll get the same thing."

He adds: "We would be putting the same element — utterly unreformed, utterly unchanged — into Gaza, and that’s what even the best of our friends suggest. I think differently. I oppose it. I think we need to build something else. Of course, [there must be] Israeli security control in the whole area... to ensure no rise of a terror entity for years to come. And the internal governance must undergo a totally different process.

"The PA has failed in this — it doesn’t fight terror, it finances terror; it doesn’t educate for peace, it educates for the disappearance of the State of Israel. That is not the group that should enter now," he says.

Asked how he will keep Paleostinian civilians safe in the now hugely crowded south of the Gaza Strip, he says Israel is coordinating with the US and that Israel "wants to avoid harm to the civilian populace."

When it is put to him that some critics say he strengthened Hamas over the years, he responds: "It’s a lie." Under his leadership, he says, Hamas was hit in four rounds of conflict. "We killed thousands of terrorists."

At the same time, his and other governments rightly sought to prevent a humanitarian collapse in Gaza. That’s why money was allowed to flow into Gaza.

"We have to finish the job" against Hamas, he says.

Previously, "we didn’t have either the internal national consensus or the international consensus" to destroy Hamas. Now, the internal support is very strong, he says, and he is working to preserve international support. "Now, we will finish the job."

From the same Q & A: Netanyahu says Hamas refusing to let Red Cross visit hostages

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Senior Fatah official justifies Oct. 7 massacre as ‘defensive war’ against Israel; Ramallah crowd cheers released prisoner with Hamas slogans

2023-11-27

[IsraelTimes] Jibril Rajoub, secretary general of Fatah’s Central Committee, says Hamas
Hamas

...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
terror group that carried out onslaught is part of Paleostinian ’political and social fabric’.

Ramallah crowd chants Hamas slogans as it celebrates return of Palestinian prisoner

[IsrelTimes] A crowd in Ramallah welcomes one of the 39 Paleostinian prisoners released today as part of the truce deal between Israel and the terror group Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
In a video of the street celebrations that erupt when the prisoner arrives in the city, the young man is filmed among the crowd hugging his mother, a green Hamas flag wrapped around his head. The mother shouts, "With our soul, with our blood, we will redeem you Hamas," prompting the crowd to chant the same slogan.

The phrase is a common Paleostinian chant, usually applied to the redemption of the al-Aqsa mosque.

Another video from the mass gathering shows a woman shouting, "We did not come here to celebrate, but rather to cheer and show our loyalty to the resistance [i.e., Hamas] and 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 Hamas with 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...
The green banner of the terror group is not commonly displayed in Ramallah, seat of the Paleostinian Authority under the control of Fatah, a rival group to Hamas, but has frequently appeared in images released over the past three nights from celebrations for released prisoners.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas succession battle could ‘collapse’ Palestinian Authority, think tank says

2023-02-02

[IsraelTimes] International Crisis Group warns aging and unpopular Paleostinian leader has no successor, has hollowed out government institutions, setting stage for chaos when he vacates office

The future battle to succeed 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....
could trigger "mass protest, repression" and the outright collapse of the Paleostinian Authority, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said Wednesday.

The think tank released its forecast a day after the aging and increasingly unpopular 87-year-old Abbas met in Ramallah with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who urged calm amid a spike in Israeli-Paleostinian violence.

Given Abbas’s age and persistent rumors about his health, speculation on his successor is common in the West Bank, where the Paleostinian Authority (PA) is based.

The Brussels-based ICG predicted in its report that "elections based on legal procedures" were "the least likely" outcome when Abbas vacates the presidency.

Abbas heads the PA, the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Fatah, the secular political movement founded by the late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Abbas was elected president after Arafat died in 2004. Paleostinians have had no presidential elections since despite Abbas’s term officially expiring in 2009.

The think tank’s report said Abbas, who has been unwilling to designate a successor, has also "hollowed out or disabled the institutions and procedures that would otherwise decide who will take his place."

It is therefore "unclear who will succeed him, and by what process," ICG said, warning of a possible "descent into mass protest, repression, violence and even the PA’s collapse."

According to the report, any last-ditch effort to name a successor to ease a transition process "would go awry."

Abbas has repeatedly called off plans to hold presidential polls, as recently as 2021 when he scrapped scheduled elections, blaming Israel’s refusal to allow voting in east Jerusalem, which Paleostinians claim as their future capital.

Paleostinian experts widely suspected Abbas backed away from the polls over fears Fatah would be trounced by Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, the terrorist group that controls 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.

While Abbas has not named a successor, he has elevated PA civil affairs minister Hussein al-Sheikh, whom he tapped for the number two spot in the PLO.

The ICG report named Sheikh and PA intelligence chief Majid Faraj as possible successors.

Though the two men hold significant power within the PA and are seen as able to work with the international community, the report noted "neither has been able to win much support in Paleostinian society."

It identified second-tier "would-be successors," among them Paleostinian Football Association chief Jibril Rajoub, prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh and Mohammed Dahlan, a former Fatah chief and security minister exiled to the United Arab Emirates after falling out with Abbas.

"Each of these men has his own network," the report said, but none "could stand on his own."

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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

Palestinians mock Abbas ‘ultimatum' to Israel

2021-09-26

[JPost] Even the Paleos know he's a bag of Fail. Follow-up to yesterday's story
PA President Mahmoud Abbas called on Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines in one year

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s call on Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines in one year has elicited jeers from several Palestinians, who renewed their appeal to him to resign.

Abbas issued his ultimatum to Israel on Friday in a pre-recorded speech before the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session in New York.

Referring to his plan to convene an international peace conference under the auspices of the Quartet members — the US, European Union, Russia and the UN — Abbas said: "To ensure our initiative is not open-ended, we must state that Israel, the occupying power, has one year to withdraw from the Palestinian territory it occupied in 1967, including east Jerusalem, and we are ready to work throughout this year on the delineation of borders and solving all final status issues under the auspices of the international Quartet and in accordance with United Nations resolutions."

Abbas warned that if the demand is not met, the Palestinians will revoke their recognition of Israel and go to the International Court of Justice.

Addressing Israeli leaders, Abbas said: "Do not oppress and corner the Palestinian people and deprive them of dignity and the right to their land and state, as you will destroy everything. Our patience and the patience of our people have limits. This is our land, our Jerusalem, our Palestinian identity, and we shall defend it until the occupier leaves."

Senior PA officials and the ruling Fatah faction heaped praise on Abbas, describing his speech as "courageous, unprecedented and historic" and saying it represented a "milestone" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh hailed the speech and said it "placed the international community in front of its responsibilities to end the Israeli occupation."

Shtayyeh described the speech as a "road map to end the occupation within a year," adding that it should lead to "either a [Palestinian] state on the borders of 1967 or a state on the borders of 1947 in accordance with [UN] Partition Resolution 181."

He was referring to the UN General Assembly resolution that called for the partition of the British-ruled Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The resolution was accepted by the Jews in Palestine, but rejected by the Arabs.

Several Fatah officials, including Jibril Rajoub, also praised Abbas’s address and said that his statements expressed the wishes of all Palestinians.

Many Palestinians, however, scoffed at Abbas’s speech, especially his one-year ultimatum to Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines, including east Jerusalem.

The PA president did not say anything new in his address to the UN General Assembly, they argued.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Abbas announces agreement with Hamas to hold elections. Hamas says: "Whut?"

2021-01-02

[JPost] Hamas did not immediately comment on Abbas’s announcement.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced on Saturday that he had reached agreement with the rival Hamas movement to hold presidential and parliamentary elections. Hamas did not immediately comment on Abbas's announcement.

Abbas's announcement came after he received a letter from Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh about ending the dispute between Hamas and Abbas's Fatah faction. Since 2007, Fatah and Hamas have reached several "reconciliation" agreements but plans since then to hold elections have never materialized.
And still won't
Palestinians said on Saturday they believe the announcement is intended as a message to the incoming US administration of President-elect Joe Biden that the PA is serious about holding new elections.

Abbas and senior Palestinian officials have indicated their desire to deal with the Biden administration. The PA leadership has boycotted the administration of US President Donald Trump since December 2017.

The last presidential election was held in January 2005, when Abbas was elected to a four-year term. A year later, the Palestinians held parliamentary election that resulted in a Hamas victory. In 2007, Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip after overthrowing the PA regime there.

The letter was relayed to Abbas by senior Fatah official Jibril Rajoub, who has been negotiating with Hamas in recent months about ways to end the rivalry between the two parties.

"After reviewing Haniyeh's letter, Abbas gave his instructions to Rajoub to inform Hamas that he [Abbas] welcomes what was mentioned in the letter regarding ending the division [between Fatah and Hamas], establishing partnership and achieving national unity through democratic elections with full proportional representation," a statement issued by the PA president's office said. "Fatah is committed to the path of building partnership and national unity."

Abbas has decided to invite Hanna Naser, Chairman of the Palestinian Central Elections Committee, to discuss the procedures required to issue a decree for holding the elections in accordance with the law, the statement read.

Abbas thanked Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, Russia and Jordan for their efforts to reach the agreement with Fatah to hold the elections.

Last year, Rajoub announced that he had reached agreement with Hamas on holding elections following a series of meetings between Fatah and Hamas officials in Turkey, Qatar and Egypt. Hamas, however, did not confirm the agreement.

Fatah and Hamas launched unity talks in July 2020 and said they agreed to work together to thwart US and Israeli "conspiracies" against the Palestinians.

Their efforts to end the dispute ended last October after the PA announced its decision to restore civil and security relations with Israel.

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Africa North

Fatah, Hamas to hold reconciliation talks in Cairo

2020-11-16

Wasted time, but it gets them all out of the Territories and to a big city with shopping, dancing girls, and fine restaurants.

[IsraelTimes] Senior officials from rival Paleostinian movements Fatah and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, will meet tomorrow in Cairo to continue reconciliation talks, the Hamas terror group says.

Hamas deputies Saleh al-Arouri and Khalil al-Hayya will be part of the delegation, according to reports in Hamas-linked Paleostinian media.

According to Ma’an, a news source rumored to be close to the Paleostinian Authority security services, Fatah Secretary-General Jibril Rajoub will attend the talks as well.

The two major Paleostinian movements have been at odds since 2007, when Hamas expelled Fatah from 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 following a bloody struggle for supremacy in the coastal enclave.

Several attempts to bridge the differences between the two groups have been unsuccessful. A round of talks which began earlier this summer amid talk of Israeli plans to annex parts of the West Bank prompted positive rhetoric between the two sides, but little movement on the ground toward Paleostinian national unity.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Fatah, Islamic Jihad leaders meet to talk Palestinian reconciliation

2020-10-09

[IsraelTimes] Fatah Secretary General Jibril Rajoub meets Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
chief Ziyad al-Nakhaleh in Beirut to discuss "mechanisms for achieving [Paleostinian] reconciliation," according to the official Paleostinian Authority WAFA news agency.

"Fatah is ready to achieve reconciliation and hold elections to renew the legitimacy of the components of the Paleostinian political system," Rajoub says.

Recent weeks have seen a flurry of talks between various Paleostinian factions to mend the rifts between Fatah, Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, and other Paleostinian groups. PA 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....
led a meeting of Paleostinian faction chiefs in early September at which both Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh

...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
and al-Nakhaleh spoke.

Many Paleostinians remain skeptical that the talks will lead to national unity. Several attempts to reconcile the various Paleostinian factions since the 2007 rift between Fatah and Hamas have fizzled out.

Islamic Jihad first split from Fatah in 1994, when it left the Paleostine Liberation Organization in protest of the Oslo grinding of the peace processor between Israel and the Paleostinians.

Al-Nakhaleh has also remarked that Islamic Jihad is conditioning Paleostinian unity on joining a "PLO that does not recognize Israel," a demand unlikely to be granted.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Fatah, Palestinian terror groups to meet in Syria amid reconciliation push

2020-10-05

[IsraelTimes] A Fatah delegation is set to visit Damascus tomorrow to conduct negotiations with a number of Paleostinian factions, according to the official Paleostinian Authority WAFA news agency.

Fatah Secretary Jibril Rajoub tells Voice of Paleostine Radio that the delegation will visit the Syrian capital to meet with members of Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine. Both organizations are designated as terror groups under Israeli law.

Rajoub says that the negotiations will aim to "ripen the conditions for calling for elections."

Rajoub’s remarks come against the backdrop of what Paleostinian bigwigs say are reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,. The two movements have been at odds since 2007, when the Hamas terror group expelled Abbas’ Fatah faction from 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 after a bloody struggle for control of the coastal enclave.

Fatah and Hamas both say a recent series of negotiations led to an agreement to hold elections within six months. Several such promises have fizzled before, however.

A previous deadline for a decree calling for elections by PA 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....
was delayed until an unknown date. In his interview, Rajoub declined to specify when the next meeting of Paleostinian faction heads — at which Abbas would have issued such a decree — will take place.

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Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel arrests senior Hamas leader in West Bank

2020-10-04

[IsraelTimes] Terror group and its rival Fatah both claim arrest of Hassan Youssef for ’renewed activity’ is aimed at interfering with Paleostinian reconciliation talks.

Hassan Youssef, the leader of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in the West Bank and one of the terror group’s founding members, was arrested Friday morning at his house in Ramallah by Israeli security forces.

In response to a query by The Times of Israel, a security source confirmed the arrest and alleged that Youssef had been involved in "renewed Hamas activity." No public charges have yet been filed.

The Shin Bet domestic security service, which is responsible for counterterrorism activities in the West Bank and 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, declined to comment.

Since helping found the Hamas terror movement in the 1980s, Youssef has been arrested numerous times and spent years in Israeli prisons. While still behind bars in 2006, he was elected to the Paleostinian parliament.

Hamas has consistently claimed that Youssef is only active in its political wing, not its military wing, and has no involvement in terrorist activities. Both branches of the terror group avowedly seek to destroy Israel.

In a statement condemning Youssef’s arrest, Hamas claimed that Israel had arrested the West Bank commander for purely political reasons.

The rival Fatah and Hamas movements have been at odds since 2007, when a bloody struggle for control of Gaza led to Hamas expelling the Fatah-dominated Paleostinian Authority from the coastal enclave. Several rounds of unity talks over the past 13 years to reconcile Fatah and Hama have failed to bridge the gaps between them.

After reconciliation talks in Istanbul in late September, the two rival movements agreed to set a date for Paleostinian legislative elections within the next six months. Such announcements have fizzled out before, but this has not stopped bigwigs in both Fatah and Hamas from claiming this time is different.

"We hereby affirm that the arrest Sheikh Hassan Youssef by the occupation will not stop the path of unity for which he worked for the past two months," Hamas said in a statement.

Fatah Secretary-General Jibril Rajoub also condemned Youssef’s arrest, accusing Israeli authorities of what he called "tampering" with the ongoing Paleostinian reconciliation talks

"This arrest is a continuation of the occupation’s approach to arresting dozens of our Paleostinian people every day, and a continuation of the continuous aggression against our people for decades. It comes within the framework of attempting to tamper with Paleostinian affairs and influence the achievement of national unity," Rajoub said.

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