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Not knowing what to do after his fiasco that showed his true nature. Before, even though everyone including Palestinians knew he was corrupted and was collaborating with the Israelis he was able to get by with the support of Arab rulers and others, strong backing from Fatah, and feeding people the illusion that the road to Palestine is through peace negotiations. I doubt Abbas and his aides knew the backlash to their despicable actions by deferring the Goldstone report would be this large.
After the huge wave of anger that poured over Abbas and the PA like molten lava he is scrambling around to find a way out. I didn’t think he lacked intelligence before but now I’m contemplating it because of his methods to maneuver out of the act of treason (I’m not really afraid to use this word like others because when you stab your own people in the back and aid their enemy, it is treason period). A few days ago reports surfaced that the Israelis might lend a helping hand (cracks me up every time) out of his debacle but then he noticed (duh!) that the idea would only make things worse so he is rethinking it.
Abbas wary of ‘kiss of death’ from “Israel”
Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Press TV
Israel faces growing US pressure to make more sweeping concessions to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
But some of the possible concessions Israel had reportedly been considering, such as approving a second mobile-phone network in the West Bank or plans to build a new Palestinian city north of Ramallah, would now likely only do further damage, Palestinian government spokesman Ghassan Khatib said.
“This will be the kiss of death for Abbas,” Khatib said.
“It would give the impression that the Palestinian Authority dropped their support for the UN report in exchange for financial gains,” he added.
Hamas made a good move by delaying the reconciliation for the moment and left it open for other Fatah members singling out Abbas. They also included other Palestinian factions in the decision making it a well-rounded decision in the favor of the Palestinian people rather than Hamas (even though we all know that Hamas would not have even dreamed of such an opportunity).
Mishaal: Ramallah authority no longer eligible to lead the Palestinian people
12/10/2009
DAMASCUS, (PIC)– Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chairman of Hamas, has accused the Ramallah authority led by Mahmoud Abbas of lying and of not being fit to rule the Palestinian people.
Mishaal, addressing the concluding session of the international Golan forum attended by 1,428 delegates from 55 countries on Sunday evening, said that all those responsible for delaying the voting on Goldstone report should be brought to account.
He noted that for the first time an international report is condemning Israeli for its aggression on the Palestinians but a Palestinian group stood up to this report, protected Israel and saved it from international condemnation.
The Hamas leader said that there would be no reconciliation at the expense of Palestinian constants, stressing that this Movement wanted to organize the Palestinian home within the PLO and the PA in accordance with democratic rules and free elections.
The reconciliation project is still there but suitable mechanism and timing were being discussed for concluding it, Mishaal elaborated.
The Hamas leader lashed out at American president Barack Obama saying, “He gives us words and gives our enemy deeds,” charging that Obama had blessed the aggression on Gaza before swearing in as president of the USA.
Now Abbas is taking a new strategy backing of his decision without really addressing the anger towards him. The least he can do is admit his actions and beg for forgiveness but no he insists on an “investigation” into who made the decision! His audacity even brought him to claim other countries are to blame. The man seems to be lax in following the news since even the EU supported the report, all his claims are but hot air.
Shall I address his absurd claims about Hamas? For the love of sanity, didn’t he remember Gaza is under siege? Irony plays here in which Hamas wanted the reconciliation to end the siege but now Abbas wants it to get out of his troubles. Even though the siege will continue it was impossible for Hamas to throw away the suffering and blood of the Palestinians in Gaza.
Abbas makes U-turn on anti-Israeli resolution
Mon, 12 Oct 2009, Press TV
The Acting Palestinian Authority chief says he will push for a vote on a recently released UN report about Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip…
“I instructed our ambassador [to the UN in Geneva] to call for another extraordinary meeting of the Human Rights Council in order to vote on the report, seeking to punish all who committed the most grotesque crimes against women and children in Gaza,” The Wall Street Journal quoted Abbas as saying in a televised speech late on Sunday, addressing the controversy publicly for the first time.
Facing an unprecedented wave of condemnation and accusations of treason from other Palestinian factions including his own party, Abbas had said he ordered the establishment of a commission of inquiry into finding those responsible for dropping a UN resolution against Israel…
Abbas however defended his earlier backing of a deferment, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“The decision to postpone the vote was a result of a consensus among the different parties at the Human Rights Council…and in order to secure the largest number of supporters for any resolution in the future,” he said.
Aljazeera.net, October 11, 2009
Abbas argument
The vote would have been one of many steps to bring Israeli officials before a war crimes tribunal, something many Palestinians want to see.
About 1,300 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died as a result of the 22-day conflict between last December and January.
Abbas said that there had not been significant enough support for the resolution at the UN Human Rights Council: “The draft resolution was either totally rejected, partially rejected or some countries expressed their reservations.
“We wanted to reach mechanisms that would ensure the implimentation of the decision and punish the perpertrators of crimes against our people.
“We have been lobbying and pushing for the issuance of a draft resolution that will be submitted to the UNHCR [the UN Refugee Agency] through some friendly countries … in order to gather greater support for this resolution.
“We have …. held numerous contacts in order to gather the greatest level of support from African groups, Arab groups, Islamic groups, as well as the non-alligned movement and other countries.
“We wanted to ensure an international environment that would provide a better environment to protect our people.”Hamas criticised
Abbas said that Hamas’s criticism of the postponement was aimed at bolstering its own position.
“This campaign of Hamas aims to serve their interests which is to postpone the signing of the reconciliation deal,” Abbas said, referring to efforts to bring about unity between his own Fatah group and Hamas.
“They want to consecrate their rule and regime in Gaza. They want to ensure the continuity of the division. They aim at weakening the national Palestinian Authority.”
Commenting on Abbas’s speech, Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst, said it was partisan.
“If someone was expecting an apology or an explanation of a mistake we certainly haven’t heard it today.
“He spoke more as the head of the Fatah faction than the president of all the Palestinian people.
“In the sense that he locked himself in, in aggressive tones with Hamas leaders rather than come as the great reconciliator … and that is not good politics for a Palestinian president.”
Aymen Moheldyn, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Gaza, said many Palestinians would find Abbas’s speech “very disturbing”.
“It was a very disturbing tone for those hoping for national reconciliation. There is certainly no love lost between the two factions [Hamas and Fatah],” he said.
Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, meanwhile, slammed the Palestinian leadership over the decision and said “the timing is not right” for a reconciliation deal between his movement and Abbas’s Fatah party. But Mashaal, in a speech in Damascus shortly after Abbas’s address, said the atmosphere was not right for a deal between the rival factions.
“The Goldstone report was the final straw … We cannot accept any more mistakes,” Mashaal said in a speech in Damascus, shortly after Abbas’s address. “This is not a leadership which deserves our trust.” He said resistance is the only strategic option to restore the land and rights of Palestinian people. The decision to ask for a delay was a “scandal,” he said. “The timing is now not right” for a reconciliation deal.
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