European diplomatic sources are claiming that during his meeting with President Obama last week, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas expressed opposition to ending the Gaza blockade.
The report claims that Abbas was concerned that the lifting of the crippling blockade would “bolster Hamas,” his chief political rival and said there needed to be a way to increase goods to Gaza without boosting Hamas.
The report stands in stark opposition to the public comments of Abbas, in which he insists that the blockade must be immediately lifted. The blockade is enormously unpopular among Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority insisted media reports that Abbas took such a contrary position were “irresponsible” and designed to help Israel.
Yet the PA does seem inordinately concerned with the rising support for opposition factions in the wake of the attack on a Gaza-bound aid ship, including an announcement that they are delaying next month’s elections indefinitely, without any official explanation.
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As I remember he was one of the last visitors of Arafat.
From his dealings (not from what he says) I always suspected him to work for Israel.
W.
This nasty little quisling has earned millions of dollars for his corrupt association with Israel and the US. The Palestinians should bring him down any way they can, he's part of their problem.
A postural analysis is interesting.
Also look closely at Obama's left hand.
Is this a White House photo (i.e.approved by the WH)
Emanuel is very studied visually but he likely has not read Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant essay on Freud, Morelli, and Sherlock Holmes.
Could be Israeli disinfo. Like the story about how Saudi Arabia will let Israel use its airspace to attack Iran. Get the Palestinians to assassinate Abbas, or the Iranians to stage a 'preemptive' attack on the Saudis. Create chaos. Reap the benefits.
The problem is, this fits with a very long pattern of Abbas actions.
This is the man who took US/Israeli weapons and support to try to stage a coup against the popularly elected government. It succeed in the west bank, where Abbas, the loser of the last election is the official 'ruler'. It didn't succeed in Gaza, which is why the Gaza blockage exists in the first place. The people of Gaza not only refused to vote for this corrupt fool, but they resisted when this corrupt fool tried to overthrow their government. That's why they are being bombed and starved in an attempt to force them into submission.
The problem with your 'disinfo' theory is that this fits exactly the way Abbas has ruled and run the PLO from the beginning … which is as an Israeli/US stooge.
it's all propoganda and lies.
I've gotten to the point where I do not trust Abbas; And I at one time did, but I no longer believe a word coming out of Israel, especially anything said by Netanyahu. In fact Israel has placed so much media attention on the Holocaust, and the illegal things they do, that they have become very transpparent.
Israel promies they will "let in" 'junk food', soda, cookies and shaving cream. !!!
Please. Why not REAL food, or is it that they just want to feed these people into obesity?
Quisling, Bendict Arnold, Judas are names that seem to fit.
And if WI thinks that, you can imagine what his own people think of him? Thus, no big wonder that elections are 'delayed'.
And remember, Abbas lost the last elections. And he's likely less popular today than he was then, since by now everyone in Palestine has seen him act as an Israeli/US stooge. Likely the only ones who vote for him are the ones who get money from him. Which can be a sizeable number in a corrupt government that funnels money out to its friends.
Just ask any politician from Chicago.
But I suspect its not enough for Abbas to win, which is why elections will be repeatedly 'delayed'.
Actually this is the fact that corrupt PLO leaders are by heart with Israel to get financial benefits and the only crimw what Hamas do is they don,t accept dictations like Abbas and he is not only one culptrit but so many the whole middle east rulers are agents ot the west. As a pakistani we know how Pakistan has been destroyed to get Muslims killed. On the one hand train Pakhtuns for suicide bombs and on the other hand drone attacks and is being done by so called civilised country. Now every effort in the US by neo-cones is that Obama fails in his policy of reconcialtion but every thing is not in our hands God has also watching and planning to destroy america a curse for the whole humanity.
God needn't bother. America is destroying itself quite nicely, thank you, and ahead of schedule.
If you went to vote, and if the only two choices on the ballot were a bunch of officials who were known to be both corrupt and also working quite closely with your enemy, or a bunch of religious zealots, who would you vote for?
Do you think you might take a chance that the religious zealots might just be honest and might just actually work to defend the nation against the enemy? And, even if you were wrong, would corrupt, traitorous religious zealots be that much worse than corrupt, traitorous secular officials? Seems like a voter might be willing to take a chance.
In the US, the official line is that they can't understand why anyone would support Hamas? But then again, since today's PLO is largely a US creation, have we given them any other choice? Last time I checked, most of the peaceful and secular opponents to the corrupt PLO were in Israeli prisons.
The ultimate Uncle Tom.
Wow. What a little snake in the grass, Abbas has become. But it all makes sense now. Since Hamas was democratically-elected, Abbas has been supplied with tons of weapons by Israel in order to destabilize the Hamas government and promote internecine warfare. So Abbas is double dipping. Here he is trying to pretend that he is the Palestinian leader. Wanting Israel to be held accountable. But on filp side of that coin, he is doing Israel's dirty work. What a snake.
You know its a really good democracy when elections can be 'delayed' because of rising support of a rival.
Democracy, Chicago-style, being spread around the world.
Not captured in the photo is Obama handing Abbas an autographed copy of Obama's latest book "Success in Politics: How to do say one thing and do another?"
This very latest edition contains the thrilling new chapter where Obama criticizes BP officials in public and then hits them up for political contributions in private. This is sure to be a hit, since the earlier chapters where Obama criticizes Goldman Sachs while taking millions from them in political contributions was such a huge success.
If Mahmoud Abbas has indeed gone on record as having opposed the lifting of the inhuman blockade on Gaza, he has merely exposed himself for the quisling was always suspected of being. Hamas may not be palatable to the Zionist regime and their lackeys in the US and elsewhere, but it was democratically elected by the Palestinians. If Abbas were able to win back the bare 20% of Palestine the 1967 borders would have delivered, he might have hoped for some legitimacy from his own people. As matters stand, it now seems that the only course open to Palestinians is to rally behind those who have refused to sell-out their constituency for petty personal gains. No wonder Hamas emerges as the uncompromising champion of Palestnian interest. The collective punishment of a hapless people, dispossesed of their ancestral homes, cannot be perpetrated indefinitely. Perhaps no one knows this better than the victims of the Holocaust, quislings notwithstanding!
when abbass said he wanted to quit, way back when, the voices of objection came from where? Oh thats right, Isreal and US, not a word form his??? people. Karma will kick him in the empty sack between his legs.