"Obama tells Israel to halt expansion; Backs Abbas, gets quick rejection" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | May 29, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have also emphasized the need for Arab governments to do more to support the peace process, including giving economic aid to the Palestinian government and formally recognizing the Jewish state....
Yeah, yeah, the whole world knows Fatah and Abbas are Zionist collaborators.
Btw, wasn't his term up in January? So what's he still doing there?
And will ISRAEL ever recognize Palestine (although I must admit, it is hard for me to recognize it; no wonder Hamas is holding onto Gaza)?
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stunned the Israeli government by issuing one of the most comprehensive US warnings on settlements in recent memory, saying that Obama "wants to see a stop to settlements - not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions."
Her comments sparked joy among the Palestinian delegation. "The Palestinians actually got their major ask before they even arrived in Washington," said Gaith al-Omari, a former aide to Abbas who now works for the American Task Force on Palestine, a Washington-based advocacy group.
Omari said that Abbas has been exploring the possibility of giving Israel incentives to take steps toward peace by offering warmer relations with Arab neighbors. Abbas outlined his proposal before a small group of policy analysts at a hotel on Wednesday evening. Obama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, already appears to have been working behind the scenes along these lines.
Netanyahu has agreed to dismantle some settlement outposts built illegally in the West Bank. But the Israeli government insists that it has a right to continue to issue building permits in major settlements to accommodate new births of settlers, commonly referred to as "natural growth."
The Bush administration offered tacit allowances for natural growth during its eight years in office. Elliott Abrams, Bush's point man on Israel, said in a recent interview with the Globe that he agreed with the Israeli government that natural growth cannot be stopped.
What is it with the "liberal" Boston Globe using Bush neo-cons as "experts" now?
Why not walk across town and talk to Z Magazine?
Jig is up on the Zionist AmeriKan MSM and the Boston Globe, 'eh?
"A democratic government cannot enforce a settlement freeze. It is impossible to say to a city of 38,000 that there will be no new units here and if you would like to add to your house because you just had twins, you can't," he said. But yesterday some US officials said natural growth has to stop because it has become a cover for a broader Israeli policy of encouraging settlements as a way to control more land.
And THAT, my friends, is what ISRAEL'S LYING, LAND-STEALING, GENOCIDAL MASS-MURDER of Palestinians has been ALL ABOUT! LAND!
Statistics from the Israeli government's census bureau, compiled by the pro-peace group Americans for Peace Now, suggest that about 40 percent of the increase in settler population is from migration rather than births....
Translation: Israel's NaZionist leaders LIED AGAIN!
An Israeli official acknowledged yesterday that both births and migration are increasing the populations in settlements, but.... housing is cheaper there, and some settlers move out of a religious belief that the land has been given to them by God....
Yeah, somehow the JEWISH SUPREMACISM, ZIONIST RACISM, and SETTLER TERRORISM hardly garners a harrumph in my Zionist War Daily.
Instead, I am fed an unending diarrhea stream of Muslim suiciders and agenda-pushing, war-promoting garbage!
Even if Israel dramatically halts settlement activity, Abbas still faces an uphill battle to create a Palestinian state, not least of which is persuading Hamas to stop opposing peace talks and launching attacks on Israel.
You know, I am so sick of the lies about Hamas I'm not even going to go into it. All I can tell you is I no longer believe the accuracy of the reporting of Muslim-hating Zionist War Propagandists. Too many lies for too long.
Abbas has been fighting for his own political survival, as the popularity of Hamas grows. But Obama tried to give him a boost yesterday....
Oh, HAMAS is GROWING in POPULARITY, huh, Zionist crappers?
Yeah, give me a late-breaking sentence on that one!
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Anyway, Abbas went back and CARRIED OUT his ORDERS!
Hamas supporters rallied in Gaza City after Palestinian forces stormed a Hamas hideout in the West Bank in the bloodiest factional violence in nearly two years. (Hatem Moussa/ Associated Press)
There is that popularity you heard so much about.
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Tension between Palestinian factions exploded in their worst violence in nearly two years as a paramilitary police raid in the West Bank left six people dead yesterday. The clash underscored the risks for the Palestinian Authority as it moves forcefully, with fresh encouragement from President Obama, to disarm militants intent on attacking Israel.
Not only is the bias obvious, but I told ya!
Hamas, the Islamic group that governs the Gaza Strip, said the clampdown on one of its armed cells would bring "tough and harsh reprisal" against the US-backed administration in the West Bank. The warning by Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida indicated that the group's tactic of lying low and passively weathering police sweeps in the West Bank was over.
(Blog editor not only astonished and astounded, but speechless.
So HAMAS TRIED to COOPERATE and LOOK WHAT it GOT THEM!)
An aggressive Hamas response, if sustained, would test Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's hold on power and further complicate prospects for Middle East peace.
And CUI BONO? Who WANTS LAND, not peace?
The Israeli-Palestinian talks Obama is trying to revive had already been undermined by Hamas's rise to power in 2006 elections, its refusal to renounce violence against Israel, and its armed expulsion of Abbas's secular Fatah forces from Gaza in June 2007.
Just wondering when ISRAEL is going to RENOUNCE VIOLENCE.
And that "expulsion" of forces was the FOILING of a COUP!
The weekend clash was the deadliest between the Palestinian rivals since then. It began late Saturday when police in Qalqiliya, a northern West Bank city with an elected Hamas mayor, spotted armed members of a Hamas cell they had been tracking for weeks.
The police followed them to a two-story house stocked with automatic rifles and grenades and demanded their surrender. Hussein Sheikh, an official in Abbas's Cabinet, said 30 grenades and hundreds of rounds of ammunition were fired from the house during an eight-hour battle.
It ended at dawn when police and paramilitary reinforcements from Abbas's Presidential Guard, National Security Force, and Preventive Security Service stormed the house. Mohammed Samman, a leader of Hamas's military wing, and his assistant, Mohammed Yassin, were killed, along with a Hamas supporter who owned the house and three Palestinian policemen.
Hamas mobilized thousands of demonstrators yesterday in Gaza to protest the raid, accusing Abbas of collaborating with Israel to betray Palestinians who resist occupation by the Jewish state.
See? THEY KNOW!!!!!!!
Israeli officials declined to comment on the raid or their degree of involvement. Samman and Yassin had been wanted by Israel for six years. The scores of Palestinian reinforcements could not have reached Qalqiliya from other parts of the West Bank during the night without clearance though Israeli checkpoints.
Translation: Abbas was CARRYING OUT ISRAELI BIDDING!
Sheikh, the Cabinet official who serves as Abbas's day-to-day liaison with Israel, said the raid was not coordinated with Israel. He called it "a 100 percent Palestinian operation" aimed at disarming unauthorized militias and squelching illegal challenges to Abbas's administration.
And just why should we believe him?
HOW DID you GET THROUGH the CHECKPOINTS with the WEAPONS, 'eh?
The operation began two days after Abbas met at the White House with Obama and renewed a pledge to rein in militants. Obama commended Abbas for "great progress in terms of security in the West Bank" under a US-supervised program to train elite Palestinian Authority security battalions to police the territory's cities.
Yup, Abbas has U.S-TRAINED DEATH SQUADS!
Some involved in the operation in Qalqiliya were graduates of the Jordan-based program.
Sort of a Middle Eastern School of the Americas' huh?
Israeli officials have also praised the program for reducing lawlessness in cities under Palestinian control....
Pretty much all you need to know right there. Israel praises the thing, huh?
Abbas's forces have clamped down on Hamas in the past two years, arresting hundreds of militants. The Qalqiliya raid stemmed from a fire caused by an electrical short circuit in a mosque in the same neighborhood on April 9. As civil defense forces were dousing the flames, they stumbled upon what police called a Hamas weapons laboratory in the basement.
Pfffffft! I'm so sick of shit propaganda!
A search turned up 37 pounds of explosives and led to eight arrests. The mosque's blind imam was absolved of any responsibility and allowed to continue religious services there, Palestinian officials said, but the investigation put police on the trail of Samman and Yassin.
So who planted the weapons and explosives?
During the standoff, relatives of both men were brought to the house in an effort to talk them into surrendering. "We wanted to arrest them without bloodshed, but they opened fire," said Sheikh, the Cabinet official.
Yeah, sure they did.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights, an independent organization, said, however, that security forces surrounding the house came under fire only after Yassin stepped outside to ask them to back off and was shot dead.
Now THAT is a CREDIBLE REPORT -- and it figures -- the LAST SENTENCE of the PIECE!!!!!
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Crackdown continues:
QALQILIYA, West Bank - Palestinian police killed two Hamas militants yesterday after the men fired at security forces who had surrounded their underground hideout, officials said.
It is always the same old story. They fired, we killed 'em!
Ever get the feeling you are being fed the same old lies day after day?
One officer was killed in the operation, part of an intensifying crackdown on Islamic militants in this West Bank town. Three gunmen had huddled in a hole dug in the courtyard of a home in this northern West Bank town, and two were killed after rejecting pleas by relatives to surrender.
Now THAT does NOT SOUND RIGHT at all!!!!
Police initially reported that they spotted three bodies in the hideout, but it turned out later that one of them - Alaa Abu Diab - was only unconscious. Palestinian security forces surrounded the home early yesterday and discovered the hideout under a large metal tray in the courtyard, said an officer with the Preventive Security Service, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to speak to the media.
The fugitives opened fire from below, killing one policeman and wounding a second. The Hamas gunmen - Abu Diab, Iyad Abitli, and Mohammed Attiyeh - are well-trained fighters and have been wanted by Israel for several years, the Preventive Security Service officer said.
Abu Diab's mother, other family members and the town's mayor urged him to surrender, but he refused and even shot toward his relatives, police said.
Well, you know, the BIGGER the LIE!!!!!!!
Police fired tear gas and water hoses into the hideout before two of the men were killed, officials said. One of the dead men was wearing an explosives vest, they said.
Yeah, sure, whatever. Those three words encapsulate the amount of faith I have in anything "they" say anymore.
The raid marked the second attack on a Hamas hideout in Qalqiliya by security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas this week. On Sunday, six people were killed in a fierce gun battle - the worst violence since the factions fought a pitched battle over Gaza two years ago and Hamas overran the territory.
Abbas's security forces have been cracking down on Hamas in the West Bank for the past two years, arresting hundreds of activists and closing down charities and other institutions.
I told you, FULFILLING ISRAEL'S WISHES like a GOOD PUPPET!!!
In Gaza, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum accused Abbas of waging war on those resisting occupation. "Our fighters have the right to defend themselves and to confront this conspiracy," he said.
You know, they DO HAVE THAT!
Abbas's Fatah movement and Hamas have made intermittent unsuccessful attempts to reconcile since the Hamas takeover of Gaza. The split has complicated Mideast peace efforts because the Palestinians cannot negotiate with Israel in a single voice and Hamas refuses to recognize the Jewish state.
Does ISRAEL RECOGNIZE PALESTINE? And CUI BONO?
And have you NOTICED that the PALESTINIANS must ACCEPT a RACIST, APARTHEID STATE?!! The JOOS-ONLY STATE!
Abbas has backed Washington's peace efforts, and yesterday's raid underscored his determination to rein in militants as part of his obligations under the US-backed "road map" peace plan.
Last week, Abbas met at the White House with President Obama and renewed a pledge to crack down on militants. The United States has been training Abbas's elite forces to help him solidify his control of the West Bank and prepare for eventual statehood.
Where?
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