Abbas Hailed as Hero

That was over two months ago; I must admit the luster is now as lost as the UN vote.

"Abbas welcomed home as a hero; Emerges from Arafat’s shadow with bid at UN" September 26, 2011|By Dalia Nammari, Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank - President Mahmoud Abbas received a hero’s welcome yesterday from thousands of cheering Palestinians, having made a bid for United Nations recognition that appears destined to fail but has allowed him to finally step out of the shadow of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.

The crowd, many of them holding flags and posters of Abbas, repeatedly chanted his name as he spoke. Abbas was uncharacteristically animated, shaking his hands, waving to the audience, and charming the crowd with references to “my brothers and sisters.’’

Abbas’s call Friday for the UN to recognize Palestinian independence has transformed him in the eyes of many Palestinians from gray bureaucrat to champion of their rights....  

Have they so quickly forgotten his role as USraeli stooge and enforcer?

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I just kept that in there to show you who was paying for this news report I read in my paper.

Related: Six Zionist Companies Own 96% of the World's Media

Declassified: Massive Israeli manipulation of US media exposed

Now my newspaper really makes sense.

In a brief address outside his headquarters in Ramallah, Abbas told the crowd that a “Palestinian Spring’’ had been born, similar to the mass demonstrations sweeping the region in what has become known as the Arab Spring.

“We have told the world that there is the Arab Spring, but the Palestinian Spring is here,’’ he said. “A popular spring, a populist spring, a spring of peaceful struggle that will reach its goal.’’  

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The dynamic public appearance was a noticeable change for the 76-year-old Abbas....

In seeking UN recognition, Abbas “moved the feelings and emotions of the ordinary Palestinian,’’ said Mahdi Abdul-Hadi, a respected Palestinian academic in Jerusalem. “He gave the people national pride after they were denied it.’’  

If that is the way Palestinians feel, far me it from me to ruin their happiness.

Abbas’s calls for nonviolence and his successes in restoring law and order to the West Bank have won him respect in Israel and abroad.  

The call for nonviolence from a guy who pleased his masters by imprisoning and torturing fellow Palestinians is somewhat hollow. 

But at home, he is often seen as weak and ineffectual in his dealings with Israel and the rival Hamas movement, which seized control of the Gaza Strip from his forces in 2007....  

I'm just wondering HOW MANY TIMES THAT LIE is going to be REPEATED when the media knows Hamas WON an ELECTION!!  

Related: 

"Hamas overwhelmingly won Palestinian Parliament elections in 2006....  Hamas won Palestinian parliamentary elections in early 2006....  In 2006, Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections.... Hamas won the last parliamentary elections in 2006....  Hamas won parliamentary elections in 2006.... Hamas won a majority in 2006 elections" 

I'm sure there are a couple more links I missed; however, hasn't my point been made? 

The links are FROM THEIR OWN MOUTHS and yet we STILL GET  REPETITIVE DISTORTION as "news."


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Oh, right, all of a sudden the print makes sense in a certain supremacist context.

It is unclear what the UN application will accomplish. The United States, as a member of the Security Council, has promised to veto the request if the Palestinians can muster the nine votes needed for passage, which itself is far from certain. If that happens, the Palestinians say they will seek enhanced observer status from the General Assembly, as a “nonmember state.’’ Passage is virtually guaranteed, but this would be largely symbolic.  

I'm sick of symbolism.

The Palestinians acknowledge that any victory at the UN will not change the situation on the ground....

And that is what is the real concern here.

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"Palestinians push for UN vote Nov. 11" October 21, 2011|Associated Press

GENEVA - Palestinian diplomats are trying to muster support for a UN Security Council vote in New York Nov. 11 on their bid for membership in the global body, a senior Palestinian official said yesterday.

UN diplomats said earlier this week that a Security Council committee considering the membership bid would deliver a report on that day, and that ambassadors would then decide on the next steps.

Any member of the Security Council can ask for a vote on the Palestinian request, but a resolution recommending membership requires a minimum of nine “yes’’ votes and no veto by one of the council’s five permanent members - Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States. Once the 15-member Security Council recommends a country’s membership, its application must be approved by a two-thirds vote in the 193-member General Assembly.

Washington, Israel’s closest ally, has already pledged to use its veto if Palestinian membership gets the support of nine or more council members.

“We still have time until Nov. 11, so there is a lot of efforts pushing certain countries to voting in favor,’’ said Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian envoy to the UN in Geneva.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said the membership bid has support so far from eight Security Council members: Russia, China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Lebanon, Nigeria, and Gabon.

Countries not yet under or being blackmailed by the Zionist yoke.

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As the U.S. proves its serves Israel over its own interests:

"US cuts funds to UNESCO after it admits Palestinians" by Colum Lynch  |  Washington Post, October 31, 2011 ET

NEW YORK - The board of UN­ESCO voted yes­ter­day to admit the Pales­tini­ans into the orga­ni­zation as its newest member, and the United States promptly responded by cutting off millions in funding for the agency....

“This is, in my opin­ion, just the be­ginning of an overall unrav­el­ing of the relation­ship be­tween the United States and the United Nations,’’ said Tim Wirth, a for­mer Demo­crat­ic sen­ator from Col­orado who heads the UN Foundation. “The US govern­ment and the Israeli govern­ment and var­ious oth­er inter­est groups are go­ing to have to get togeth­er and go to Congress and fix this.’’  

Do I really need to type a word?

Brett Schaefer, a specialist on UN affairs at the Heritage Foundation, said such fears are overblown and that a US deci­sion to enforce a funding ban on UN­ESCO would deter the boards of oth­er UN agencies from fol­lowing suit.

But he said the vote would nev­er­the­less “encour­age the Pales­tini­ans, and the Pales­tini­an Au­thor­ity, to be­lieve that it can achieve le­git­i­mate recog­nition as a state with­out having to en­gage in di­rect negotiations.’’ 

Isn't that what ANY PEOPLE WANT -- including the Israelis who had the UN vote them their land without any concern at all for the people that were living there and who had nothing to do with what happened in Europe?

Af­ter the vote, the Israeli For­eign Min­istry issued a state­ment de­nounc­ing the member­ship bid as a “unilat­eral Pales­tini­an move which will bring not change on the ground but fur­ther re­moves the pos­sibility for a peace agree­ment.’’  

If Israel wanted peace we would have had it by now. What Israel wants is piece -- as in a piece of Syria, a piece of Lebanon, and all of Palestine.

The prohi­bi­tion on US funding of UN agencies that rec­ognize a Pales­tini­an state was included in two pieces of leg­is­lation that were signed into law by George H.W. Bush in 1990 and Bill Clinton in 1994....  

The Zionist control extends back that far, huh? 

Yeah, H.W. lost himself an election because he threatened loan guarantees for Zionist expansion when he and Baker were trying to seize on the Iraq victory opportunity to create (in H.W.'s own words) a "New World Order" via their Middle East peace ideas.

UN Mideast peace envoy Tony Blair was meeting yes­ter­day with Pres­ident Obama at the White House....  

Why are we told of the meeting but not what was said? 

And why isn't that war-criminal Bliar not in a jail cell?

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"Palestinians resigned to defeat in bid for full UN membership" November 10, 2011|By Mohammed Daraghmeh, Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinians are resigned to defeat in their quest for full membership at the United Nations, officials said Tuesday, and have started work on their backup plan - seeking an upgraded observer status that would give them access to key international organizations.

Officials said they are already lobbying foreign governments, especially in Western Europe, in hopes of rallying support for this alternate strategy. The officials said this new campaign in the General Assembly, dominated by developing countries normally sympathetic to the Palestinians, could be harder than anticipated because of expected opposition by the United States....
 
Meaning AmeriKa threatens people with cut off of aid and sanctions if they sign up for the Palestinian cause.

The Palestinians have struggled to muster the nine votes needed in the 15-member Security Council to approve their bid for membership as a state....  

Proving once again that the UN really serves western governments and those that control them.

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