[JPost] As an eventual ceasefire deal in Gaza draws closer, the media speculate whether Mohammed Dahlan’s moment is about to arrive.
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| [JPost] As an eventual ceasefire deal in Gaza draws closer, the media speculate whether Mohammed Dahlan’s moment is about to arrive. |
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| Exiled Palestinian strongman Dahlan touts Gazan future without Hamas or Abbas |
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Pay attention to Meeeee!!! [IsraelTimes] An independent Paleostinian leader backed by Arab peacekeepers could oversee the reconstruction of 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... after the war between Israel and Hamas  ...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,..., a prominent Paleostinian exile says. Mohammed Dahlan, the former Paleostinian Authority Gaza security chief, tells The New York Times  ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... that in his vision, "the leaders of Egypt, Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the Emirates are open to supporting processes that are part of efforts leading to a Paleostinian state." The new Paleostinian leader would push 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.... aside to a ceremonial role, and could invite countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia to send in troops and pay for a reconstruction of the Strip, says Dahlan, who many think may be eyeing the job for himself. But Israel would have to agree to a Paleostinian state: "The main Arab countries are really very keen to settle this conflict. Not the war, the whole conflict." "No Abbas, no Hamas," says the former Fatah strongman. "New people in charge of the Paleostinian Authority." As he has been for decades, Dahlan is openly critical of Hamas: "Relying on people suffering isn’t leadership. The Paleostinian people want to live." Dahlan’s security force operated in Gaza with an iron first after the Oslo Accords. A Gaza native, he was abroad when Hamas took over by force in 2007, and after moving to the West Bank he was expelled from Fatah in 2011 over accusations that he murdered Yasser Arafat. His potential popularity as an alternative to Abbas has led to tensions with the Paleostinian leader. In 2014, Dahlan was convicted in absentia by the PA for defamation and embezzlement. In the UAE, where he moved after being pushed out of Fatah, he has been a top adviser to President Mohammed Bin Zayed, and has also stayed somewhat active in Paleostinian politics. In 2017, he brokered a deal between Egypt and Hamas to keep fuel flowing to Gaza’s power plant, flexing his diplomatic muscle. Representatives from six Arab countries met last week in Saudi Arabia to discuss a ceasefire and the future of Gaza. Dahlan tells the New York Times that he is trying convince Hamas to step aside to let new Paleostinian leadership take over. |
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| Hamas's deception‐and our self-deception | |
| 2023-10-15 | |
| (JNS) Last Sunday, senior Hamas terrorist Ali Baraka told the tale of how Hamas duped Israel and the U.S. into complacency. In an interview with RT (formerly Russia Today), Baraka said, "In the past couple of years, Hamas has adopted a ’rational’ approach. It did not go into any war and did not join Islamic Jihad in its recent battle, [i.e., its missile assault on Israel in August 2022]. "We made them think Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [there] and had abandoned the resistance altogether. All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack." In other words, Hamas pretended it was a credible partner for negotiations, and that the only problem was Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its Iranian-founded spin-off. One of the frustrating aspects of Baraka’s admission is that there was nothing new about Hamas’s deception. Deception is an integral part of the jihadist doctrine, going back to the days of Muhammad. Just as important, and frustratingly, even those who are unaware of—or willfully blind to—the centrality of Islamic jihadist doctrine and beliefs for Hamas, should still have been familiar with Hamas’s tactic. It comes right out of the PLO’s playbook. Five days after Hamas’s slaughter of more than 1,300 Jews in southern Israel, and on the eve of his meeting Friday in Amman with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, P.A. chairman and PLO/Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas released a statement. "We reject the practices of killing civilians or abusing them on both sides because they contravene morals, religion and international law." Abbas’s statement is notable for many reasons. It doesn’t name Hamas. It draws a moral equivalence between Israel’s counterattack in Gaza and Hamas’s orgiastic rape, torture, murder, immolation and kidnapping of babies, children, women and men. And it came after five days in which Abbas and the rest of Palestinian Arab society did nothing but celebrate and defend Hamas’s atrocities while blaming Israel for the crimes against humanity Hamas conducted against its people. In his speech on Oct. 10, President Joe Biden intimated that Hamas isn’t representative of the aspirations of the Palestinian Arabs. In his words, "Hamas does not stand for the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and self-determination." The subtext was clear. Hamas is the bad guy. The Palestinian Authority is the good guy. And if that weren’t apparent as Biden spoke, Blinken’s decision to meet with Abbas made the point explicit. FATAH AND HAMAS For five days, Abbas had nothing but praise for Hamas and condemnations for Israel. As Palestinian Media Watch reported, the day after Biden’s speech, Abbas issued a statement of solidarity with Hamas. On Oct. 11, Abbas promised that the P.A. will "stand by our people, the Gaza Strip will not be alone." The PLO’s ruling Fatah faction (which Abbas also leads) gave gushing praise to Hamas. As MEMRI reported, on Oct. 9, Fatah’s Central Committee praised Hamas for its slaughter and called for national unity—that is, unity between the P.A. and Hamas. The goal, Fatah stated, is "to rally in a real and conscious fashion around the possibility of national unity, unity in the struggle on the ground, political and diplomatic unity with all means possible to us in order to wage this campaign in a united fashion." Fatah also called for all Palestinian Arabs to join Hamas’s jihad against Israel. "The public must answer calls to confront and stand up to the aggression and crimes in Gaza and the West Bank and to escalate all the conflict zones with the occupier [Israel] throughout our homeland Palestine, in order to defend our people and stand with our residents in the Gaza Strip." Fatah’s terror franchise, the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, posted Koranic calls to jihad on its Telegram pages that are indistinguishable from Hamas’s propaganda. Quoting the verse from the Koran calling for the annihilation of all Jews that Hamas uses in its charter, Fatah exhorted, "Strike the sons of apes and pigs ... slaughter everyone who is Israeli." Following along the lines of "diplomatic unity" that the Fatah Central Committee called for, the P.A. is serving as Hamas’s foreign ministry. On Tuesday, its U.N. ambassador Riyad Mansour wrote a letter to the Security Council accusing Israel of carrying out "war crimes," and called its decision to stop providing Gaza with free water and electricity "nothing less than genocidal." On the ground in the Palestinian Authority, the crowds greeted the news of Hamas’s atrocities with jubilation. Celebrations, victory marches and public parties were held from northern Samaria to the South Hebron Hills. Palestinianb Aras mocked the Jewish victims on their social media accounts and celebrated their mass murder. In Huwara in Samaria, a pizzeria posted an advertisement featuring a Holocaust survivor grandmother who is now a hostage in Gaza, holding a pizza. (It was destroyed by the IDF, ed.) SUFFICIENT TO CONVINCE BLINKEN The fakery of Abbas’s milquetoast condemnation of Hamas’s atrocities is self-evident when seen in the context of his actions and statements and those of the P.A., PLO, Fatah and the Palestinian Arab public. But it was clearly sufficient to convince Blinken that it is reasonable to meet with him and continue to base U.S. policy on the fiction that the P.A. represents a moderate force within Palestinian Arab society that is willing to peacefully coexist with the Jewish state. Abbas’s lies and deceptions are his modus operandi just as they were the modus operandi of his predecessor Yassir Arafat and their comrades in the PLO and Hamas. It is a testament to Abbas’s confidence, and his contempt for the U.S., that he felt strong enough not to bother with a full-throated fake condemnation of Hamas. In the P.A.’s early days in the 1990s, Arafat would routinely condemn Hamas terror attacks against Israel in English and then call for the Palestinian Arabs to slaughter the Jews through jihad in Arabic. Just months after the P.A. was formed in Gaza and Jericho in 1994, Arafat sent his security chief Mohammed Dahlan to negotiate a cooperation pact with Hamas. The deal that was forged gave Hamas a free hand to slaughter Jews so long as the PLO wasn’t implicated. At the same time, Dahlan was the head of the PLO’s negotiations team on military affairs with Israel. He charmed his Israeli interlocutors by speaking to them in the pigeon Hebrew he learned in Israeli prison, where he was jailed on terrorism convictions in the 1980s. They viewed Dahlan as a moderate, as the tough guy who would take out Hamas for Israel. Dahlan smoked cigarettes with IDF generals at the same time that he closed a cooperation deal with Hamas terror master Mohammed Deif. In times of calm, Hamas and the P.A. operated separately. And U.S.-funded and trained P.A. security services gave Israel valuable intelligence that led to the break-up of many Hamas cells. But in times of terror offensives, they worked together. The most murderous terror group that operated during the 2000-2004 Palestinian terror war (aka the Second Intifada) was the so-called "Popular Resistance Committees." It was composed of terrorists from Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
THE LIE OF PALESTINIAN MODERATION Israel and the U.S. have refused to acknowledge that they have been played by the P.A. the same way they were played by Hamas for the past two years, and Hamas was able to deceive Israel and the U.S. for two years because they wanted to be deceived. Israel’s generals wanted to believe that the Palestinian Arabs aren’t implacable foes. They can be appeased. We don’t have to defeat them. And the Biden administration, like most of its predecessors, wanted to believe the deception—and to still believe it in the P.A.’s case—because they want to believe that Israel is to blame for the violence waged against it. The lie of Israeli culpability is the foundation of 50 years of U.S. Middle East peacemaking efforts. The lie of Palestinian Arab moderation is the rationale for 50 years of near-continuous U.S. pressure on Israel to concede territory to the Palestinian Arabs. It has been the justification and rationale for the U.S. opposition to any effort by Israel to defeat the PLO on the battlefield. The constant assertion "There is no military solution to the Palestinian conflict with Israel" is predicated on the notion that there is a political solution. There IS a political solution - Arab countries should take their own back. | |
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| 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 oppressionand 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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| Shin Bet reveals Hamas attempts to recruit West Bank Palestinians for terror |
| 2023-01-26 |
| [IsraelTimes] Security agency says most suspects questioned in recent weeks unaware terror group using them; Israel revokes entry permits for 230 relatives of members involved in operation The Shin Bet security agency on Wednesday said Israel was revoking the entry permits to Israel from 230 Paleostinians in 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip, relatives of Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, members who allegedly worked to recruit West Bank Paleostinians to help commit attacks. In a statement, the Shin Bet said in recent weeks dozens of West Bank Paleostinians had been arrested and questioned over their alleged ties with Hamas operatives in Gaza. The agency said many of the young suspects were unaware that Hamas was using them to prepare attacks against Israeli targets. According to the Shin Bet, the Hamas operatives hid their real identities by masquerading as companies and other entities, while recruiting West Bank Paleostinians for paid work. The Paleostinians in the West Bank would be tasked with transferring funds intended for purchasing weapons or delivering packages of weapons and ammunition to Hamas operatives, it said. "All this is without the couriers being aware, in most cases, that they are transferring weapons or are involved in terror activity," the Shin Bet said. The agency says the operation was led by Farah Hamed, 45, a Hamas member from the West Bank town of Silwad who was deported to Gaza as part of the 2011 Shalit deal. The Shin Bet said Hamed was a member of the Gaza-based terror group’s so-called "West Bank headquarters," a unit involved in advancing terror attacks against Israel from the West Bank. Several of the suspects have been indicted at a military court for various security offenses, including illegal arms dealing. The Shin Bet detailed the cases of two of the suspects. The first, Salam Ziad, 27, from the Jalazone refugee camp was contacted on Facebook in July by an account under the name Haled Taleb, offering work for a Ziad was first tasked with transferring thousands of dollars between different areas in the West Bank, without knowing their intended use. The Haled Taleb account then presented himself as someone who works for Mohammed Dahlan, a senior Paleostinian Authority politician, and instructed Ziad to purchase several firearms, the Shin Bet said. Ziad purchased three assault rifles, two handguns, and ammunition with the help of his cousin, Ahmed Ziad, also from Jalazone, and was tasked with delivering them to a Hamas operative in Huwara, according to the statement. The weapons were given to brothers Mohammed and Mahmoud Ghazi, who were accused of opening fire at Israeli vehicles on the Route 60 highway, near Huwara on September 9, 2022. The second suspect detained by the Shin Bet, Mohammed Yazen Jabar, 21, from a-Ram in East Jerusalem, responded to an ad on Facebook seeking workers for a restaurant. Jabar was then contacted by an account going by the name Abu Alaa, who said he was seeking deliverymen to transfer packages of perfume to the West Bank. In August, Abu Alaa instructed Jabar to purchase and deliver assault rifles and handguns to two Hamas operatives in the West Bank, who were both also arrested. "The Shin Bet’s investigations revealed that some of the money reached those recruits through digital currency traders, who were also deceived by Hamas members," the agency said. In response to the attempts by the Hamas operatives to set up attacks, Israel revoked the entry permits to Israel from 230 of their relatives. A security bigshot said "the actions of Hamas and the other terror groups in the Gaza Strip will lead to a reduction in the number of entry permits for workers from Gaza to Israel." The service warned that the Gaza-based terrorist group was increasingly trying to carry out attacks in the West Bank and Israel. Related: Silwad: 2023-01-16 Palestinian shot dead by troops in West Bank scuffle; IDF says he tried to grab gun Silwad: 2022-12-02 Military court convicts Palestinian of murdering Israeli man in 2015 terror attack Silwad: 2022-09-12 'Israeli security forces arrest 12 Palestinian terrorism suspects Related: Jalazone: 2022-10-04 IDF: Two Palestinians killed trying to ram troops during West Bank arrest raid Jalazone: 2022-09-12 'Israeli security forces arrest 12 Palestinian terrorism suspects Jalazone: 2022-06-29 IDF soldiers arrest 17 wanted Palestinians, seize guns in overnight West Bank raids Related: Huwara: 2022-12-04 UN Mideast envoy ‘horrified’ by killing of Palestinian stabber who wounded officer Huwara: 2022-10-28 Palestinians open fire on troops near Nablus as closure on city eased — IDF Huwara: 2022-10-27 After Israeli raid, at least 4 Lion’s Den members turn themselves into PA custody |
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| Palestinians Approve 36 Candidate Groups to Run in May Vote | |
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The vote, which precedes a presidential election called for July 31, is part of an effort by the dominant Paleostinian movements -- Fatah secularists and Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, Islamists -- to boost international support for Paleostinian governance, AFP reported. Groups had until Wednesday to submit their lists of candidates to contest in the May 22 legislative polls. Individual names on each list are due to be published Tuesday, but the Paleostinian electoral commission announced on its website that it had approved all 36 applications. 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 Fatah movement, which controls the Paleostinian Authority in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, is contesting the polls, as is Hamas, which has run the Israeli-blockaded 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip since 2007. Fatah is facing challenges from dissident factions including the Freedom list, led by a nephew of the late Paleostinian icon Yasser Arafat, Nasser al-Kidwa. Freedom has been endorsed by Marwan Barghouti, a popular leader whom supporters have described as the Paleostinian Mandela. Barghouti is serving multiple life sentences in Israel for allegedly organizing deadly attacks during the second Paleostinian intifada (uprising) from 2000-2005. Abbas’s former Gaza security chief, Mohammed Dahlan, is also backing a list of challengers. Former Paleostinian prime minister Salam Fayyad ...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either... , an ex-World Bank official with a track record of fighting corruption, is supporting another. While Fatah and Hamas have reached an agreement for voting to take place in the West Bank and Gaza, the ability of Paleostinians in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem to vote remains uncertain. Israel bans all Paleostinian political activity in Jerusalem, but Paleostinian leaders insist voting be held in the city’s east, which they claim as the capital of a future Paleostinian state. | |
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| Barghouti Forms Separate Electoral List in Blow to Palestinian President |
| 2021-04-01 |
| [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Prominent Fatah member, Marwan al-Barghouti, who is imprisoned by Israel, announced the formation of a separate electoral list that will run in the upcoming parliamentary elections. The move is a major blow to Paleostinian 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....and the movement’s leadership. Barghouti instructed his close associates to form a list consisting of Fatah-based figures who were excluded from the movement’s official list, a Fatah source told Asharq al-Awsat. Fatah supporters and members were surprised by the extent of the rift within the movement during the list formation process, with several figures venting their outrage on social media. In theory, no one in Fatah could pose a challenge to Abbas, except Barghouti, who is widely popular in the movement, especially among the youth. Upon the announcement, Barghouti’s name dominated the debate among decision-makers in Ramallah, within Fatah and Paleostinian and Israeli media, in the streets and on social media. Minister of Civilian Affairs and member of the Fatah Central Committee, Hussein al-Sheikh, who is close to Abbas, was earlier granted approval to visit Barghouti in jail to discuss the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections. Barghouti had previously bid for the presidency in 2005, running against Abbas, before withdrawing from the race. Barghouti, 63, hails from the village of Kobar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. He has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002, serving five life sentences for leading Fatah’s military wing and killing Israelis during the Second Intifada that erupted in 2000. The new list limits the movement’s chances of winning the elections, especially after some former Fatah members, including Nasser al-Kidwa, the 67-year-old nephew of late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat, and Mohammed Dahlan, a former senior Fatah official, have already announced that they would be fielding separate lists. |
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| Abbas Suspends Funding to Yasser Arafat Foundation |
| 2021-03-17 |
| [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Paleostinian 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.... has decided to cut off funding to the Yasser Arafat Foundation, Nasser al-Kidwa, who heads the organization revealed on Monday. This came one week after Abbas dismissed Kidwa from Fatah. In a Zoom meeting on Monday, Kidwa briefed his party about Abbas’s decision and revealed a document signed by Head of the Paleostine National Fund (PNF) Ramzi Khoury instructing PA Minister of Finance Shukri Bishara to halt all direct and indirect payments to the Foundation on orders from Abbas as of March 11. The Yasser Arafat Foundation is an independent non-profit organization, established in 2008 to preserve Arafat’s heritage and legacy. It also addresses the development of charitable, humanitarian, social and academic activities that serve the Paleostinian people. Kidwa, the 67-year-old nephew of the late Paleostinian leader Yasser Arafat, had earlier announced he would run on his own electoral list, which would consist of independents, business people and youth. He also announced the establishment of the Paleostinian National Democratic Forum that would run in the elections, stressing that he was trying to put Fatah back on the right path. Sacked prominent Fatah member Mohammed Dahlan had also announced he would field a separate list. The parliamentary and presidential polls are set for May 22 and July 31, respectively, and will be the first Paleostinian elections in 15 years. |
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| Hamas won’t nominate candidate for Palestinian presidential elections |
| 2021-02-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, will not nominate a candidate in the scheduled Paleostinian presidential elections, senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouq tells al-Jazeera. 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.... issued a decree ordering the first Paleostinian national elections in 15 years in mid-January. Observers are skeptical that the elections will actually take place, as similar pledges have fallen through before. Indeed. But it’s fun watching them wriggle. The elections — should they come to pass — will happen in three rounds. First, national legislative elections have been set for May 22, a vote for the Paleostinian Authority presidency is set for July 31, and elections for the Paleostinian National Council on August 31.Marzouq’s remarks are likely to come as a relief to aging Paleostinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, who opinion polls indicate would lose in a head-to-head matchup with Hamas chief 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...Related: Paleostinian presidential election: 2021-01-28 Abbas rival Dahlan banned from running in Palestinian election — Fatah official Paleostinian presidential election: 2020-01-01 Abbas rules out Palestinian election without East Jerusalem Paleostinian presidential election: 2019-11-06 Fatah's Mohammed Dahlan indicates he will run in PA elections |
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| PA arrests Hani Abu Salloum, affiliated with Mohammed Dahlan. |
| 2020-12-29 |
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| Top Fatah militant killed during clash with PA officers |
| 2020-11-01 |
 [Jpost] Some Paleostinians claimed he was fatally shot by PA security officers during armed festivities in the camp.A senior commander of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the armed wing of the ruling Fatah faction, was killed on Saturday in the Balata refugee camp, near Nablus. Paleostinian sources said that the man, Hatem Abu Rizek, 35, was affiliated with deposed Fatah operative Mohammed Dahlan, a powerful archrival of Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas |
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| Fatah Members: ‘The Palestinian Street Has Lost Confidence in the Leadership’ |
| 2020-09-28 |
| [Jpost] Abbas orders arrest of rival Dahlan’s supporters, attempts reconciliation with Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, Paleostinian security forces detained several supporters of exiled Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan in the West Bank following Israel’s normalization agreements with the UAE and Bahrain. Those detained included brothers Firas and Haytham Halabi, and Salim Abu Safia, a senior member of Dahlan’s faction. |
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