"Abbas admits error over Gaza report; UN should take action, official says" by Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press | October 8, 2009
Demonstrators in Gaza threw shoes at a poster of Mahmoud Abbas yesterday, protesting the Palestinian president’s request that the UN suspend action on a report detailing war crimes. (Hatem Moussa/ Associated Press)
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian leadership made a mistake by suspending action on a UN report on Gaza war crimes, a member of President Mahmoud Abbas’s inner circle said yesterday - the first such acknowledgment after days of protests in the West Bank and Gaza.
Related: The Death Throes of the PLO
In Gaza, a group of university professors hurled shoes at an Abbas poster in a particularly harsh show of contempt.
And deserved!
At issue is a 575-page UN report that alleged both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes during Israel’s offensive against the Islamic militants in Gaza last winter. Last week, Abbas withdrew Palestinian support for a vote in the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council to have the report sent to the General Assembly for possible action. Such a vote would have been a first of many steps toward possible war crimes tribunals. With the Palestinians out of the picture, the Human Rights Council set the report aside for six months.
Abbas made the decision under heavy US pressure, Palestinian and Israeli officials have said. US officials told Palestinian leaders that a war crimes debate would complicate efforts to restart peace talks, according to participants in such meetings. Abbas defended the step, saying the Palestinians needed more time to win international support for the report....
He's such a liar.
Related: Abbas must go
US Strategy in Doubt as Abbas Loses Popular Support
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But Abbas apparently underestimated the angry response at home. With every day, there were more protests, marches, and statements of condemnation from human rights groups and intellectuals, as well as from his Hamas rivals, who have rejected the war crimes charges leveled against themselves but want them pursued against Israel.
Yeah, because there is NO ACTUAL EVIDENCE to support ISRAEL'S CHARGE!
See: War Criminals' Whine
And notice the SUBTLE DIG at HAMAS, as if they are all illiterate?
Once again, we are VICTIMS of ZIONIST BIAS and Muslim-hating insults because I am aware of a very intelligent young man, and he has friends like him.
Yesterday, Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior adviser to Abbas, told Voice of Palestine radio that the Palestinian leadership had erred. “What happened is a mistake, but [it] can be repaired,’’ said Abed Rabbo, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization. “We have the courage to admit there was a mistake.’’
So WHAT the heck is THIS GUY SMOKING, 'eh?
In Gaza, hundreds of posters criticizing the Palestinian president were plastered on walls yesterday. Abbas and Hamas have been bitter rivals since the Islamic group violently seized control of Gaza from pro-Abbas forces in June 2007.
Yeah EXCEPT THEY WIN ELECTIONS, and the AGENDA-PUSHING, Zionist AmeriKan knows that damn well!!!!!!!
"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006"
But somehow they ALWAYS MANAGE to F*** IT UP time after time!
One poster showed a photo of Abbas with a black X across his face and the words: “To the trash heap of history, you traitor, Mahmoud Abbas.’’
A crew dressed in civilian clothes was seen putting up the posters yesterday morning. The posters were signed “university professors and intellectuals.’’
Later, about 30 professors and protesters concluded a press conference condemning Abbas by hurling shoes at a large version of the poster. Throwing a shoe at someone is considered a severe insult in Arab culture.
And DESERVED!
In an apparent attempt at damage control, Abbas’s government backed a request by Libya to convene the UN Security Council for an emergency session on the report....
So the US can veto it?
The United States, Israel’s closest ally, has said the report is unfair to Israel and is expected to argue that the Security Council should not take up the document until the Human Rights Council considers it. The United States, along with four other permanent members of the Security Council, can veto any resolution before the council.
The Goldstone report accuses Israel of using disproportionate force and intentionally harming civilians and says Hamas fired rockets indiscriminately at civilians in southern Israel.
Related:
The removed Israeli government graph: 'Monthly distribution of rockets hits.'
On the 4th November, the day when Americans were watching the results of the Presidential election, the Israeli army broke the ceasefire by raiding the strip.
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Yeah, and in Hamas' case it is the truth.
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UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict Goldstone
"Obama envoy in an uphill struggle to broker Mideast peace; Israeli official says agreement still years away" by Steve Weizman, Associated Press | October 9, 2009
A Palestinian family watched Israeli security forces during a patrol in east Jerusalem earlier this week.(Bernat Armangue/Associated Press)
Yeah, the Glob sure has kept a lid on that.
Also see: Jews Take Over Jerusalem
Yup, one-day wonders as compared with the endless war bull-bleep.
JERUSALEM - President Obama’s Mideast envoy finds himself increasingly hamstrung, with Israel’s foreign minister yesterday all but ruling out a peace deal for years to come and the Palestinian leader weakened by his decision not to push for a Gaza war crimes tribunal against Israel.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II added a gloomy warning that prospects for peace are “sliding into darkness.’’
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Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman suggested that the two sides come up with a long-term interim arrangement that would ensure stability, while at the same time putting off a final deal. He recommended leaving the toughest issues - such as the status of disputed Jerusalem and a solution for Palestinian refugees who lost homes amid war - “to a much later stage.’’
“Anyone who says that within the next few years an agreement can be reached ending the conflict . . . simply doesn’t understand the situation and spreads delusions, ultimately leading to disappointments and an all-out confrontation here,’’ Lieberman told Israel Radio.
Lieberman’s suggestion will not necessary translate into policy, which is set by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s office wouldn’t comment when asked whether Lieberman’s comments reflected his opinion. But other senior Netanyahu confidants share similarly skeptical views on peacemaking....
Hey, what do you expect a racist, genocidal, land-stealing NaZionist to say? As for peace, not as long as there is an Israel. How you get rid of that stain on humanity is another question.
On the Palestinian side, Israel’s punishing winter offensive in Gaza deepened anger toward Israel and further reduced whatever sentiment there was for concessions in a peace deal.
Yup, replete with WAR CRIMES.
It also underlined Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s powerless position in Gaza, overrun by Hamas militants in 2007.
There they go again.
Abbas is walking a tightrope, trying not to appear intransigent to the White House while seeking to retain credibility with Palestinians.
Ha-ha-ha-ha!
On Wednesday, Gaza professors threw shoes at his defaced image, and West Bank commentators called for his resignation, signs Abbas may have miscalculated in bowing to what Palestinian officials say was intense US pressure to suspend Palestinian diplomatic efforts to get Israeli officials put on trial for war crimes in Gaza.
Nearly 1,400 Palestinians were killed in the war, including hundreds of civilians. Israel, which lost 13 civilians and soldiers in the war, launched the campaign to end years of Hamas rocket fire on Israeli border towns....
Which is an ISRAELI LIE (see graph above). And F*** the POOR JOO line because WE ARE SICK of that, too!!!
And seeing as the PLO is terminal, where will they get another president?
Only ONE PLACE:
"Hamas resilience, obstinacy complicate peace bid; Analysts see no alternative to its rule in Gaza" by Howard Schneider, Washington Post | October 11, 2009
GAZA CITY - In the two years since it seized power here, the militant Hamas movement has undercut the influence of the Gaza Strip’s major clans, brought competing paramilitary groups under its control, put down an uprising by a rival Islamist group, weathered a three-week war with Israel, and worked around a strict economic embargo....
Try WAR CRIMINAL SIEGE, jewpress!
Also see: Hamas Repels Israeli Invasion
And what is it that they say about THREE STRIKES?
Whom the AmeriKan newspaper is apparently representing.
The election of President Obama and his June speech in Cairo raised expectations among Hamas officials of a dialogue with the United States, but “people are starting to lose hope. There was a glimmer, but it is fading away,’’ said Hamas Deputy Foreign Minister Ahmed Yousef....
My hopes flickered out long ago.
A top Israeli security official said there has been a frustrated acknowledgment in Israeli intelligence and military circles that, as it stands, there is no obvious alternative to continued Hamas rule in Gaza. The Palestinian Authority is not strong enough to return to power there, Israel does not want to reoccupy an area it vacated in 2005, and there is concern that any collapse of Hamas rule might increase the influence of even more militant groups.
“We don’t like them, but they have accountability,’’ said the official, adding that Hamas is struggling to reconcile running a government and staying in power without losing its credentials as a resistance movement.
What? Why not?
Flashback: Israel Helped Create Hamas
Why Would Israel Create Hamas?
Say what? Why won't you talk to them, Iz-ray-HELL a**holes?At present, he said, the group is trying to maintain a policy of what the Israeli military refers to as “industrial quiet’’ - suppressing most rocket fire into Israel as part of a pause in violence that is practical, for rearming, and strategic, to ensure its hold on power.
Of course, the NaZionist Jew is TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF!!!!!!
How, when, and whether Hamas might tip back toward fighting is uncertain.
So is the WHEN the ISRAELI FALSE FLAG is coming, too!!!!!
When diplomats, outside negotiators, and others ask for ideas about how to cope with Hamas in the long term, the Israeli official said, the answer is: “We don’t know. Good luck.’’
Listen to him! WE DON'T KNOW!! It sure seems like KILLING THEM is the option you decided upon!!!
And YOU GUYS CREATED THEM (and then LOST CONTROL, huh?), so YOU FIGURE IT OUT!
Otherwise OPEN the BORDERS and LEAVE THEM ALONE, you LAND-STEALING MONSTERS!!!!!!!
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Oh, it is HAMAS that is OBSTINATE! That is the headline!?
After what Lieberman said?
"One has to wonder just what Abbas thought he was doing (or what the Israeli/US pressure or inducement was) to cause him to support a delay in action on the report until next March. Abbas is about to become "persona non grata" among his own people, if he has not already, thanks to this, and other, completely bone-headed moves." -- Wake the Flock Up