Showing posts with label "Peace Process". Show all posts
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Saturday, April 30, 2011

Hamas-Fatah ‘Unity Government’!

Posted on April 30, 2011 by rehmat1

Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal will meet Fatah leader and acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo to sign the deal, AFP reported on Friday.

American Jewish organization, Americans for Peace Now, which works to help the Zionist regime achieve a secure peace with Arab states and the native Muslim and Christian Palestinians – has welcomed the Hamas-Fatah deal with the hope that Islamic Resistance Hamas will eventually disapear, leaving secularist Fatah, an Israel-friendly Palestinian faction, in power.

“Clearly, it would be preferable if Hamas – a US-designated foreign terrorist organization with a long history of bloody attacks on Israel – could be completely wished away. However, five years of U.S., Israeli, and international efforts to sideline Hamas have failed. The reality today is that the Gaza-West Bank split is a hurdle to peace efforts, raising questions about the capacity of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to implement an agreement,”APN President and CEO Debra DeLee stated.

The reaction from the Zionist-regime and its poodles in the western capitals was typical knee-jerk. From Shimon Peres to the White House, they’re all irked by Abbas’ making peace with the elected government of PA (Hamas) than the terrorist regime in Tel Aviv.

Elliott Abrams, was the most hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Reagan Administration’s State Department. He is US-Israel dual citizen. Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to a year’s probation and 100 hours of community service. A year later, former President Bush Sr. granted Abrams a full pardon. On April 27, 2011 Abrams wrote a column in CFR magazine, entitled ‘A Hamas-Fatah Coalition?’.

“It is hard to see how Israel could negotiate with a Palestinian government half or more of which represents a terrorist group dedicated to attacking the Jewish State (sic). ……. Will Congress vote aid funds for this new half-Hamas government? What will lawyers at the Treasury and State Departments say about the participation of a terrorist group in the PA government?  Will it even be legal to give funds to the PA?” wrote Abrams. Indirectly, the warmongering Jew is advising Obama government to slam sanctions on PA even though similar sanctions have failed to turn Palestinians against Hamas.

Personally, I am least optimistic about any deal with the double agent Abbas. However, a unity government’s unilaterally declaration of an independent Palestinian state (Gaza, West Bank with East Jerusalem its capital) would carry more weight under international laws.

Under US-Israel-EU pressure through funding, Fatah parted away from the other PA member, Islamist Hamas resistance after the later came into power in 2006. Last week both groups reached an initial agreement on all controversial issues including the elections within a year and the formation of the interim unity government. The scheduled elections were postponed by Abbas in January 2009.

Hamas official from Gaza Mahmud Zahar said although the movement was committed to its strategy of “no recognition and no negotiations” with Israel, it would not insist that Fatah stop negotiating with Tel Aviv.
“If Fatah wants to bear the responsibility for negotiating on nonsense, let it. If it manages to get a state, good for them,” Zahar said. “We didn’t view what was happening as a peace process, so we didn’t take part in it,” he said.
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Friday, April 29, 2011

IOA says no negotiation with PA unity government

[ 29/04/2011 - 11:03 AM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation government has decided Thursday not to negotiate with any Palestinian unity government after Hamas and Fatah Movements inked the Palestinian reconciliation paper in Cairo a couple of days ago.

According to the Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the mini ministerial council chaired by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Thursday and took that decision but refrained from taking any additional decisions in this regard.

The IOA also decided to closely monitor developments in the occupied Palestinian territories, and to abort any attempt to revive negotiations with the PA leadership in Ramallah, the paper added.

Netanyahu had earlier asked PA leader Mahmoud Abbas to choose between making peace with "Israel" or reconcile with Hamas after both Palestinian Movements decided to restore Palestinian unity.

For his part, rightist Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman warned Abbas that Israel possesses "big arsenal" of measures that could be taken by the Zionist entity to punish the Palestinian Authority for reconciling with Hamas.

"The PA has crossed the redline, and we have big arsenal of measures to punish them like denying them the VIP cards that would restrict their movement in the West Bank, and we could freeze the money of taxes due to them among other measures," Lieberman said in an interview with the Israeli army radio.

Moreover, the extremist minister opined that holding an election in the Palestinian territories next year would pave the way for Hamas to control the West Bank.

However, Haim Ramon, one of Kadima party leaders, suggested that the Israeli occupation government should present a peace plan to present it to the world, saying that remaining indifferent would bring political and security catastrophe to "Israel".

He also warned that Israel's reluctance to initiate a political initiative would force the Quartet committee to recognize and negotiate with Hamas.

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Palestinians too shall Witness a New Dawn…

A complete transformation has hit the Middle Eastern region to provide its people with hope to surpass difficulties that have been plaguing them for decades.

The atmosphere of revolution and change that hit various spots in the region has reached Palestine that chose to revolt against the ruling occupier that imposes his will, settlers, and settlements in arrogant and violent methods.

Despite the deep gap between their strategies, policies, plans and allies, both parties were able to put all the differences behind and reconcile, for the sake of their dispersed land, and give the people their right to choose and decide.

“The two sides focused on procedural methods in their reconciliation meeting, like methods of forming the Supreme Committee for elections, the electoral court, the Supreme Security Committee, the election’s date and the establishment of the government, Palestinian Political analyst Majed Azzam said.

In an interview with Al Manar news website, Azzam assured that “the political differences were all left behind and the focus during the meeting was over administrative approaches to ending the conflict, building the Gaza strip, and handing the final decision to the people”.

“The reconciliation stipulates two main points.
First is in Gaza, where there will be pacification that should be used to reconstruct and settle national Palestinian issues.

Second is in Ramallah, as the authority there is convinced that it has reached a dead-end with the Israelis and that there won’t be any negotiations in the near future”, Azzam told Al Manar.

He pointed out that “Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has recently expressed despair from US President Barak Obama, and considered that the United States neither puts serious pressure on Israel, nor works on ending the Palestinian crisis”.

According to the Palestinian political analyst, who seemed optimistic with this reconciliation, “the revolution in Egypt and the change of regime was one of the reasons that led to this successful step, as “now there is a serious and significant role for Egypt, as the main barrier back then was the absence of trust between Hamas and the Egyptian government”.

“Furthermore, the revolutions in the Arab world, the thought of referring to the public opinion, and the execution of free and just elections, are factors that will give further success to this reconciliation.

The Israeli and the US stances that rejected this internal agreement, and will work on obstructing it, will not affect the renewed national unity as the regional developments have proved their declined and limited influence in the region”, Azzam added.

On its part the Zionist entity received the news with shock and concern and immediately unleashed threats and condemnations.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu demanded Abbas to choose peace either with Israel or with Hamas. However, the PA responded right away favoring national unity over an occupying settlement constructer.

Azzam assured that Netanyahu’s speech was arrogant and interfered in internal Palestinian affairs.

Furthermore, he said “Netanyahu tried to portray Israel as the good and peaceful, and Hamas as well as the Palestinian people as evil, neglecting the fact that he has been in post for two years and so far failed to achieve any settlement. The entire world is aware that Netanyahu does not want peace”.

“We cannot imagine a government that has Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak to be a peaceful one; they only seek surrender from the Palestinians”, the Palestinian analyst pointed out.

Zionist newspaper Haaretz reported Thursday that this reconciliation could serve Israel in obstructing the United Nation’s declaration of a Palestinian state in September, as these “renewed relations between Hamas and Fatah could shed a different light on Abbas' intentions, and Netanyahu, who is due to speak before both houses of Congress next month, will be able to present the agreement as proof that Abbas doesn't really want peace”.

Azzam assured that any step Netanyahu would take to benefit from this new situation will fail.

“He is not capable of persuading 130 states against recognizing a Palestinian State with Al Quds as its capital. After coming out in September, this resolution could face various challenges, but let us not forget that Lebanon’s resolution 425 came out in 1978, however it was not implemented until year 2000 with the efforts of the wise resistance at the political, media and economics levels”, he said, pointing out that “the resolution in September will be the beginning of a renewed battle for Israel on various fronts”.

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