"Memo could weaken Abbas; Cooperation with Israel revealed" by Amy Teibel, Associated Press / December 21, 2010
JERUSALEM — A diplomatic message released by WikiLeaks yesterday suggested there was close cooperation between Israel and forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas when rival Hamas militants overran the Gaza Strip three years ago....
Well, they won an election and were thus the legitimate government, but....
The June 13, 2007, memo from the US Embassy in Tel Aviv, citing a conversation that took place during the civil war in Gaza that ended with the Hamas takeover, cites Yuval Diskin, chief of the Israel Security Agency, as saying Israel had “established a very good working relationship’’ with two branches of the Palestinian security service.
Abbas’s internal security agency, he said, “shares with ISA almost all the intelligence that it collects.’’
Everyone knows Abass is an USraeli servant. I've been typing it for years.
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The Israel Security Agency, also known as the Shin Bet, is reviled by Palestinians for deadly raids on militant targets and harsh treatment of Palestinian suspects.
A fancy way of saying assassinations and torture.
Although Israeli and Palestinian security forces are known to cooperate, the tight coordination described by Diskin could further weaken Abbas.
And thus the Israelis can claim there is no one to talk peace, right?
Cui bono from the Wikileak?
In the memo, Diskin also said some leaders of Fatah — which he described as “desperate, disorganized, and demoralized’’ — urged Israel to intervene in the infighting in Gaza.
Without identifying the leaders by name, he said they were in an urgent situation. “They are approaching a zero-sum situation, and yet they ask us to attack Hamas,’’ Diskin said. “This is a new development. We have never seen this before. They are desperate.’’
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An official with Abbas’s government played down the leaked memo, saying “information-sharing between us and Israel is limited to field information that serves our security and the interest of our people.’’ He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter with reporters....
What a weak and lame non-denial.
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And seeing as Wikileaks has been outed as an Israeli intelligence outfit:
"Report on concessions riles Palestinians" by Ben Hubbard, Associated Press / January 25, 2011
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A senior Palestinian official condemned Qatar-based Al-Jazeera yesterday and a crowd of protesters vandalized the satellite channel’s West Bank offices after it reported on leaked documents that purportedly said Palestinian leaders offered large concessions in peace talks with Israel in 2008.
The angry outburst followed the airing late Sunday of what Al-Jazeera said were internal Palestinian documents showing that Palestinian leaders had offered broad concessions on two of the thorniest issues in negotiations with Israel: Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told reporters the news network engaged in “media games . . . to trick and mislead the simple citizen.’’ He angrily accused the gulf state of Qatar, which bankrolls the station, of damaging Palestinian interests.
Once you get used to it and see it for what it is it's easy to decode and decipher.
“What Al-Jazeera is doing today is an attempt to distort the national position of the Palestinian leadership,’’ he said.
Abed Rabbo said the report relied on out-of-context quotes, insinuations, and outright fabrications.
Could be. Depends where they got 'em.
He also took aim at the emir of Qatar, calling the Al-Jazeera report “a political campaign of the first degree’’ coming from “a political decision at the highest level from our brother in Qatar.’’
Ultimate authority in Qatar — and at Al-Jazeera — rests with the hereditary emir, Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. However, Al-Jazeera has long operated with considerable editorial freedom compared with other government-run media outlets in the Arab world.
The show’s assertions were embraced by the rival Hamas, the Islamist movement that seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, leaving Abbas governing only in the West Bank.
Related:
"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006.... Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in early 2006.... In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections"
That's a SEIZURE, huh?
Btw, Hamas foiled a COUP ATTEMPT!!!!
Hamas refuses all negotiation with Israel.
Not true. They authorized Abbas to negotiate, and said any deal should be put to a Palestinian referendum. If approved, Hamas says it would abide by the decision.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri yesterday said the documents “reveal the close collaboration with [Israel], and reflects its role in trying to kill off the Palestinian cause.’’
In Ramallah, about 250 Abbas loyalists rallied in support of the president in front of the building housing Al-Jazeera office.
A small group climbed the stairs to the station’s offices, where they broke security cameras, glass door panels, and station logos.
These are the guys the U.S. supports?
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Why do we love thugs, dear Americans?
"Hamas assails Abbas on refugees" by Karin Laub and Ben Hubbard, Associated Press / January 26, 2011
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Revelations that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his aides were willing to scale back longstanding demands for the return of millions of Palestinian refugees in talks with Israel brought accusations of treason from his Hamas rivals yesterday.
The apparent concession, never stated publicly, could prove to be the most politically damaging disclosure yet from documents leaked to the Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. The channel has been releasing secrets from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in nightly broadcasts this week, based on what it said are more than 1,600 transcripts and notes.
Why can't we get good news like this?
Abbas, who has support from the West, dismissed Al-Jazeera’s broadcasts yesterday as “soap operas’’ and told hundreds of supporters at a carefully orchestrated rally in the West Bank that he will not compromise on Palestinian rights.
And you know how those things can hook you!
Yesterday’s segment illustrated a high level of coordination between Abbas’s security forces and Israel’s military against a joint enemy, Hamas. The Islamic militants wrested control of Gaza from Abbas by force in 2007.
Even thought they WON ELECTIONS, huh?
Thanks again for the REPEATED OMISSIONS and DISTORTIONS, AmeriKan media.
Thus they are NOT TO BE BELIEVED on any matter -- especially ALL THINGS ISRAEL!!!
However, it was recent revelations on the refugee issue that resounded yesterday.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were displaced during the war surrounding Israel’s establishment in 1948.
They call it NAKBA, or the CATASTROPHE!
Today, refugees and their descendants number several million, scattered across the Middle East.
The 21st-century Jews?
Israel rejects a mass resettlement, saying it would be the end of the nation as a Jewish state.
Maybe that would be a good thing. The world no longer needs apartheid states.
The traditional Palestinian demand is that Israel recognize the refugees’ “right of return’‘ to Israel, with details left up to negotiations. Documents presented by Al-Jazeera, however, suggested Abbas and other negotiators were willing to accept an Israeli proposal for only a nominal return.
Abbas’s political rivals seized the opportunity for attack....
In Jordan, home to the bulk of the refugees, the opposition Muslim Brotherhood urged the government yesterday to reconsider its relations with Abbas’s Palestinian Authority over the refugee issue.
I think the entire Arab and Muslim world should.
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"Thousands march against Abbas; Hamas-led protest calls Palestinian leaders traitors" by Ibrahim Barzak, Associated Press / January 27, 2011
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Thousands of cheering Hamas supporters in Gaza burned effigies yesterday of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his senior aides in the rival Palestinian leadership in the West Bank, denouncing them as traitors.
The protests were a response to reports by Al-Jazeera satellite TV about leaked documents from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Al-Jazeera, which has been releasing the documents gradually this week, says they show that Abbas made far-reaching concessions on Jerusalem and the fate of Palestinian refugees.
Two-thirds of Gaza’s 1.5 million people are refugees from the 1948-49 war that followed Israel’s creation, or descendants of those refugees.
A coffin draped with the photos of Abbas, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat also went up in flames during the march in the southern town of Rafah in Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Abbas has said he has been the victim of a smear campaign and Al-Jazeera is distorting his positions. The Islamic militant group Hamas has seized the opportunity to drive home allegations that he has no mandate from the Palestinian people to make concessions.
Abbas’s term expired a year ago, but he has not scheduled elections because Hamas is in control of Gaza and has said it would not cooperate. Also, Hamas won the last parliamentary elections in 2006, but Abbas dismissed the Hamas-led government after Hamas overran Gaza....
They WON ELECTIONS!
Abbas had no authority to dismiss anyone!
Hamas and Abbas have been bitter rivals since the Islamic militants wrested Gaza from the Palestinian president by force in 2007. Yesterday’s spectacle and tough language marked one of the harshest public assaults on Abbas by his rivals yet.
Yes, the endless AmeriKan media distortion is a spectacle.
Before the marches, Erekat accused Al-Jazeera of incitement and putting his life at risk. Many of the leaked documents feature Erekat.
“If you see Al-Jazeera, the style is telling people, ‘Saeb is guilty, execute him, and then after you execute him, give him an unfair trial,’ ’’ he said.
Erekat said he has not received death threats but is concerned nonetheless....
Just get your ass outta here, will ya?
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