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It takes a special kind of retardation

to train "Palestinian" Islamic terrorists.  Now Bush and Rice are going to give “professional” training to the terrorists? hat tip geoff

Palestinian forces enter Jordan for training under U.S. program 

Palestinian forces enter Jordan for training under U.S. program 
he first battalion of Palestinian security forces crossed into Jordan on
Thursday to begin training under a U.S. program after nearly a year-long delay.

The first battalion of nearly 700 U.S.-screened recruits to serve in an overhauled National Security Force crossed the Israeli-controlled Allenby Bridge, in the West Bank, into Jordan for what officials called "law and order" training.

The eventual plan is for a nearly 50,000-member gendarmerie in the West Bank.

Bush, Stay out of it

Scroll contents here (hat tip Shirley)

It ain't your country, stay out of it. Better yet, read your bible. It seems to me the purpose of this visit is to shore up support for the traitorous Olmert. Bush was invited to but won't speak to the knesset. Seems to me he is sending a very definite message to the people of Israel.

Bush Snubs Netanyahu on Israel Visit

U.S. President George W. Bush is refusing to meet with Likud Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu, or anyone else opposed to the Annapolis process.

UPDATE: Brand sent me this amusing play on words

"Annapolis Brutality"

[New lexicon]: Bushsnubbed (like Bushwhacked)
Bush is now a Bibishitter

Now read these lyrics and and play the song -- just substitute "Bibi" for "Baby"

UPDATE:  Caroline Glick's advice to Bush:Bush's historical parallels

In his last year in office, Bush's central challenge is to clarify what he himself has allowed to become muddled about the nature of the current generational struggle. Unfortunately, though his commitment to Palestinian statehood, and his refusal to assert his own foreign policy against the wishes of a hostile bureaucracy, he calls to mind not Truman, but another American president who led his country at the cusp of another formative crisis. Like Bush, James Buchanan - the last president to serve before the Civil War - understood the nature of the gathering storm; yet rather than confront the dangers, he was overwhelmed by them.

Read it all.

 

Abbas Responsible for Hurling Rockets Give 'em a State!"

There are no voids. Just more screaming into the void. Condi go home. Olmert resign! Israel, wake up! America, stay out of it!

Give 'em a state! 7.4 billion in Humanitarian aid! Munitions! Guns! Rockets! Training! Respect of the international communitay!

Moderate terrorist (chaste ho). Olmert is most assuredly deserving of the 2007's Most Self Hating Jews

Debka Report: Abbas Responsible for Negev Rockets

About a year ago, Aaron Klein of WND reported that many of the rockets fired from Gaza into the Negev were fired by the fatah controlled Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigade under the express orders of "moderate peace partner Mahmoud Abbas. (see Gaza "Rocket Man": Abbas Tells Us What to Do)

Today Debkafiles is confirming that report confirming that up to 1/3 of Gaza missiles are under Abbas' orders..now THAT is an impediment to peace.

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DEBKAfile Exclusive: Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah terror cells in Gaza are responsible for every third missile and second mortar shell fired at Israel

Read it all at Yid with Lid

• As Bush Heads to Mideast, Renewed Questions on Iran
• Bush: Iran Could Easily Have Another Nuclear Weapons Program
• Bush: NIE Means Iran Is a Threat
  
  
• Al-Qaeda Calls for Attacks on President Bush During Mideast Trip
• Hamas Calls Bush Visit "Unwelcome"
  

• Fatah Disarmed? Not in Nablus

Photo Essay: IDF Inside Hidden Shechem Rocket and Bomb Labs

by Ezra HaLevi, Israel National News

(IsraelNN.com) A four-day counter-terror operation in Shechem (Nablus) has come to a close. Explosives and rocket labs were located and destroyed in the Shomron city.

An IDF statement reported that a weapons cache and an explosives laboratory, as well as various types of weaponry, were found and confiscated with help from the Shabak (General Security Service).

An IDF commander plans the entry points he and his soldiers will take into the narrow, winding alleys of Shechem's Casbah.

IDF soldiers are briefed on the mission and the intelligence information made available by the Shabak (GSS).

“Shechem contains some of the most advanced and dangerous terrorist infrastructures,” an IDF official told reporters. “The highest amount of terrorist attacks from Judea and Samaria originate from the Shechem region.”

The weapons cache contained materials for rocket manufacturing, explosive substances and military equipment.

Intelligence information alerts the soldiers to the fact that this bedroom is not what it seems.

Beneath the beds is a hidden entrance to a cellar.

The soldiers enter the hidden room carefully, unsure of what awaits.

A cache of weapons is found hidden.

The bomb laboratory that was discovered contained materials and chemicals used in manufacturing explosives, gunpowder, metal pellets for use as shrapnel to maximize casualties, electric cables and other materials for preparing working bombs.

In another private residence, a ready-to-use bomb-belt was discovered, along with ammunition for grenade launchers and assault rifles.

A similar hidden room in another home holds ready-to-use suicide-bomb vests.

A seemingly abandoned room below a private home is actually a rocket-manufacturing factory.

 

The rockets are being manufactured with the hope of placing central Israel and Ben Gurion airport within range.

The rockets and explosive materials are handed over to IDF sappers, who destroy them.

All of the weaponry uncovered was detonated in a controlled environment by IDF sappers. In addition, twenty-three wanted terrorists were arrested during the Shechem operation.

In two separate incidents, armed PA Arabs opened fire and hurled improvised hand grenades at IDF forces. In both incidents no injuries or damage were reported.

“The IDF is operating in order to protect the lives and ensure the security of Israeli citizens,” said a dispatch from the IDF Spokesman. “We will continue to operate against terrorist infrastructure in the Judea and Samaria region.”

 

Jewish Hikers' killers Were Fatah

Bush and Olmert's partner in their peace conspiracy are murdering Jews. PEACE IN OUR TIME, I TELL YA!'\The killers were from Fatah, and one was Palestinian police.

'Hikers' killers were from Fatah' Jerusalem Post hat tip Rut

The terrorists who gunned down two off-duty soldiers hiking near Hebron on Friday are both Palestinian Authority workers, and one of them is even a member of the official PA security forces, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Service) revealed Tuesday night.

Since the attack on Friday, the PA has claimed that the murderers of David Rubin and Ahikam Amihai were unaffiliated terrorists. On Sunday, The Jerusalem Post reported that at least two of them were Fatah operatives.

According to details of the attack released Tuesday, the gunmen - Ali Dandis, 24, and Amar Taha, 26, both residents of Hebron - surrendered on the day of the attack to the Palestinian security forces in Hebron out of fear that they would be caught by the IDF. They also handed over the soldiers' weapons.

Dandis, a Fatah operative, worked as a clerk at the Sharia courts in the city, and Taha was a member of the PA National Security Force.

More here. Photo: Ahikam Amihai (left) and Yehuda Rubin, who were killed in Friday's terror attack near Kiryat Arba.

This woman is sick, morally ill

Two Palestinain police men, National Security Force officers and an accomplice murdered Jewish father,  Ido Zoldan. And Condi the coward ups the aid. WTF is Bush hiding.?We didn't elect him to carry Condi's water.

US aims to up Palestinian economic aid to 400 mln dollars: Rice

The United States plans to boost its economic development aid to the Palestinians in this year's budget to around 400 million dollars, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Monday.

Banner week for the Pali Arab coffers: Pali Blackmail: Demand 5.5 Billion More

And if that were't enough, the Palestinian "authority" demanded the release of Pali Arab terrorists.

In light of the publication on Sunday that the terrorists who murdered Shavei Shomron resident Ido Zoldan, 29, last week are members of the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority security forces, the Independent Media Review & Analysis (IMRA) organization has distributed an interview it conducted on November 27, 2007, with Saleh Nazal, Director of the PA Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs. In the brief interview, Nazal clarified, in English, that all Arabs who commit anti-Jewish acts of terrorism, even during the period of PA-Israel negotiations following the Annapolis Summit, must be released from jail before an any agreement is signed. 

CANCEL JEW HATING CONFERENCE

Fuck off.

Erekat: We won't accept Jewish Israel J Post hat tip wolf

Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Monday rejected Israel's demand that the Palestinians acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state.

"There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined," Erekat told Radio Palestine.

Say what? NO?   Just every Islamic country. SHARIA is Islamic law. They lie like we breathe.

Additionally, Erekat said, when agreements are signed, the Palestinians would demand that Israel make a commitment in writing to releasing all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.

Of course, who wouldn't spring assassins and killers so that they can complete their mission to achieve 72 raisins.

UPDATE: YidwithLid has posted 6 good examples proving what a liar Erekat is including the Palestinian Draft Constitiution.

CONDI, PUT DOWN THE BONG

UPDATED: Several Killed in Clash at Gaza Rally NY Times

A mass rally to mark the third anniversary of the death of Yasir Arafat ended in armed clashes today.  

It speaks for itself. I don't think she is smoking, I think she is drinking the bong water. Hardwired for delusion I tell ya. Peace partners? Sick.

Rice again calls Hamas 'resistance' movement 4th time in recent months
Condi avoids terrorist label in unscripted remarks

Aaron Klein JERUSALEM – U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has again referred to Hamas as a "resistance" movement during a meeting with reporters from the Dallas Morning News, WND has learned.

Dhimmi. Real dhimmi.

Rice's remarks, transcribed in full on the State Department website, mark at least the fourth time in recent months America's top diplomat has used that terminology for Hamas during unscripted remarks with reporters.

Meeting with his paper's editorial board Friday, a Dallas reporter asked Rice whether supporting democracy in the Middle East was really in U.S. interests, citing Palestinian elections last year which Hamas dominated.

Rice replied: " ... And what you've at least got now in Palestine and what you've at least got in Iraq now is contestation between healthy political forces and more radical forces.

"Hamas loved it when it could run the streets, faces covered, toting a few guns, and no responsibility for what happened to the Palestinian people. They were the great resistance force, and their only purpose in life was to threaten Israel."

Rick Richman nails in the New York Sun (hat tip Ed Lasky);

What Most Palestinians Believe

Speaking earlier this month at the Saban Forum in Jerusalem, Secretary of State Rice expressed her fear that if "Palestinian reformers" could not "deliver on the hope of an independent state," the "moderate center could collapse forever." She spoke about the need to take "great chances for the sake of peace" in light of "the opportunity that now exists."

"Most Palestinians," Ms. Rice said, "believe that Israel will always be their neighbor and most believe that no Palestinian state will ever be born through violence." It is unlikely that there have been any Palestinian public opinion polls asking the question, "Do you believe Israel will always be your neighbor?" or "Do you believe a Palestinian state will ever be born through violence?"

But there have been several public opinion polls over the last few months asking other questions. The answers cast doubt on whether there is in fact a "moderate center" or whether it would be satisfied with an "independent state" — or, for that matter, whether Fatah and its leaders constitute "Palestinian reformers."

In a joint Palestinian-Israeli public opinion poll in June, the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace found that only 60% of Palestinians agreed that, after reaching a permanent agreement on all issues of the conflict, there should be recognition of Israel as the state for the Jewish people.

UPDATE: DEBKAfile Exclusive: Israeli leaders dismayed to learn Washington is secretly lifting its boycott of Syria. Palestinians want more concessions too

Although the US promised Israel that its renewed contacts with Syria would be confined to the Lebanon controversy, DEBKAfile’s sources report that a Washington-Damascus rapprochement is in full flight. The US ambassador will soon return to Damascus and Syrian officials are made warmly welcome in the US capital these days.

The rumors circulating Monday, Nov. 12, asserting that Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak was pushing prime minister Ehud Olmert hard to enter into peace talks with Syria were put about by Olmert’s own office. The PM is weaving and feinting to avoid admitting that he was manipulated by Washington into attending the Annapolis peace conference alongside Syria, in breach of the American promise to Jerusalem.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has gone so far as to offer the Syrian delegate the conference floor to press his case for Israel to return the Golan which Syria lost in the 1967 War. The Golan issue will even be incorporated in the closing document.

Have mercy on us.

Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work!

Oops! They pressed the wrong button again. -- Carl in Jerusalem

'Palestinian Authority' pays Hamas salaries again

Blood money folks. So remember, when you can't afford that private school you need, or that college tuition ............. remember where your hard earned money goes. Great.

Hamas ...Fatah... whats the difference?

I mean, really. Just because they think we're fookin' stoopid, doesn't mean we have to go out of our way to prove them right.

GIVE EM' A STATE! BILLIONS! RESPECT! INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION!

Abbas meets with three Hamas officials in West Bank J Post hat tip Wolf

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Hamas officials on Friday for the first time since the organization's violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in June of this year.

Related: Hamas: Fattah Police Defecting to Al-Qaida's Army of Islam.......Tundra Tabloids

Pali leader:"Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers"

Can someone forward this post about Bush's partner in "peace" to the President and State department Arabist (or as Hamas like to call her "the Black Snake") Condarasha. Billions in aid and munitions to those that are determined to conquer us. WTF?

Abbas appointee: "Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this."  Palestinian Media Watch

They are masters alright. Masters of blood lust, murder, subjugation and the murder of the human heart.

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

One of the defining principles of Hamas and the Islamic Brotherhood is their insistence that the only truth is Islam and that the world is destined to be enlightened only when ruled by Islam. A similar Islamic supremacist ideology was expressed recently in an article by a Palestinian Authority religious leader who was appointed last year by Mahmoud Abbas as member of the Supreme Fatwa Council: "Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this."

"The Muslims and their societies are more advanced and more sublime than the West and its societies… are more perfect in value system and humanity. The fact that there are those who believe that these are Western values – it is a delusion and false, since the Muslims are masters of the world, its leaders and teachers, even if the West rejects this."

Read the disgusting diatribe here.

Kamikaze=Jihadi

Jeff says this, "Hamas is well entrenched in Judea/Samaria and is growing stronger by the day in this region. Fatah, the weak sister, is on her last legs. If Bush, Olmert, Livni, Peres and Rice are successful, they will create a Gaza like community in Judea and Samaria - with Jerusalem as a split Capital between Israel and Nazi Palestine. Does this sound like Kosovo?.......with, perhaps much worse implications? Israel is the modern day Czechoslovakia. As for ANSA, the Italian news service, they are a typical pusillanimous outfit."

Hamas: We have 400 jihad martyrdom attackers ready

"Kamikaze," says the ANSA headline. "We have 400 Kamikaze Ready, Hamas Warns." Really? Kamikaze? _•—? Hamas has 400 men ready to die for the Japanese Empire? 400 men ready to kill themselves and others for the divine emperor?

ANSA, an Italian news service, uses -- three times -- a word out of another conflict and another aid, probably so as to avoid having to refer to these attackers by any term that is remotely Islamic. They'd rather pretend it's 1943 and Gaza is an outpost of Imperial Nippon than say anything about jihad martyrdom, or the blessing promised to those who "kill and are killed for Allah" in Qur'an 9:111.

"Gaza: We Have 400 Kamikaze Ready, Hamas Warrns," from ANSAmed (thanks to Insubria):

(ANSAmed) - GAZA, SEPTEMBER 28 - If Israel decided to return to occupy the Gaza Strip, it would find 400 kamikaze in expectation ready to die for their cause, and 50,000 combatants: Hamas member Nizar Rayan issued the threat to Arab journalists today. Rayan said that "the most surprising thing" is that among the 400 kamikaze ready to self-explode "against the armed tanks of Israel" there are 200 women. Already in the past Hamas had utilised women to commit suicide attacks, but until now there had been no confirmation that others had been trained to act....

BUSH PUSH: Give em a CALIPHSTATE!

“The Caliphate…one nation…one state…one ruler…” From hizb-ut-tahrir 

The Islamic Liberation Party recently held mass rallies in Al-Bireh and other cities in the Palestinian Authority. It has no military wing, but, its radical Islamic ideology and global deployment make it a source for the potential recruitment for Islamic terrorist organizations in the PA-administered territories and around the world.  More here

Islamic Liberation Party (HuT1) rallies in the PA-administered territories and around the world.

1. On August 10 and 11, 2007, the Islamic Liberation Party (Hibz ut-Tahrir in Arabic) held a series of mass rallies in Al-Bireh, Hebron , Tulkarm and Gaza City . The rallies are held annually by the HuT during the first half of August throughout the Arab-Muslim world. 2

2. The largest and most impressive rally in the PA-administered territories was held in Al-Bireh. Chartered buses brought 10,000 people from all over Judea and Samaria and even some Israeli Arabs . During the rally in Tulkarm the HuT announced that it was beginning a youth movement in Judea and Samaria called Ashbal al- Khilafah (“Lion Cubs of the Caliphate”) 3. According to the media, the HuT also held a book fair (possibly also in Al-Bireh) at which the party's ideological material was distributed.

3. The slogan of the rally in Al-Bireh on August 10 was “ The Caliphate is the rising force .” Telephone speeches given by party leaders in several countries (including Turkey and Pakistan ) were relayed by loudspeaker. A recorded speech was also broadcast, given by Ata' Khalil Abu al-Rushtah , the party's leader (“Amir”), currently in Lebanon after having been released from a Jordanian prison. Abu al-Rashta is Jordanian but his family came from Hebron . In 2003, when party leader Abd al-Kadim Zallum died, Abu al-Rashta replaced him. Zallum was also from Hebron and was one of the party's founders.

Caroline Glick calls those hardwired for self denial "fantasists." in her latest must read column. I call them pathetic, dangerous and deadly.

the fantasists ignored completely Osama bin Laden's declarations that his goal is to conquer the world in the name of Islam. They disregarded the political and cultural milieus marked by inexhaustible envy towards the West and the US that gave rise to al-Qaida and its sister organizations. Rather than acknowledge the reality of real war with real enemies, both camps of fantasists argued that instead of slaying these twin dragons, the US should appease them by serving them Israel for lunch.

[...]

A BRIEF look at recent statements by Iran's leaders and its terrorist vassals suffice to show how cut off these views are from reality. Last Saturday, Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei said, "America and its followers are stuck in a whirlpool and they sink deeper as time passes. A dangerous future is predicted for them." Wednesday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signaled that Iran will share its nuclear know-how with others saying, "If nuclear energy is something good, all nations should enjoy it on the basis of law."

In an interview with Britain's Independent, Iraqi Shiite terror boss Muqtada al Sadr admitted that his group trains with Hizbullah. Sadr said, "We have formal links with Hizbullah…. We copy Hizbullah in the way they fight and their tactics, we teach each other and we are getting better through this."

On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of last year's war against Israel, Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah told Iranian television that Hizbullah acts at Teheran's pleasure. "I am a lowly soldier of the Imam Khamenei. Hizbullah youths acted on behalf of the Imam Khomeini… and sent their blessings to the Iranian people," Nasrallah said.

On August 6, Osama Hamdan, Hamas's representative in Lebanon, told al-Kawthar television that Hamas is preparing for war not because expects it Israel to attack, "but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity [Israel] off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out."

Glick kindly cautions;

FANTASIES ARE alluring. Peddling them can even get you elected. But the majority of Americans who reject fantasy as a basis for making real world decisions should take heed of Israel's example.

That example shows that despite the fantasists' fervent efforts to smother it, reality never goes away. Sooner or later, it mugs you. Sometimes, all it does is pick your pocket. But the longer you ignore it, the more dangerous it becomes.

"Mugs"? I say nukes.

Iran vows to use 'smart' bomb on enemies

Fatah & Hamas Resume Collaboration

It was all a ruse. But I told you that from the first. Fatah, armed to the teeth with American and  Israeli muntions, never picked up a gun. Francisco Gil-White discussed this very thing on my radio show last night. Just last month a long-wanted terrorist chief, captured by Israeli forces, was trained by the US, served in a senior capacity on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' US-backed security detail, and was a ranking member of a team that received and distributed American arms shipments the past two years. Khaled Shawish, an officer in Abbas' Force 17 presidential guards.
 
And that jewicidal schmuck Olmert  just forked over  $650 mil to these subhuman killers and released 250 Fatah terrorists  from prison.

Hamas' Hidden Economy

Fatah and Hamas Searching for Ways to Collaborate Again IRIS
Despite the complete Hamas takeover of Gaza and the Fatah suppression of Hamas in Judea and Samaria, including heavy violence and mutual accusations of illegitimacy, the two Palestinian Authority terrorist organizations may be moving towards a renewed cooperation. This, according to IDF analysts, can be seen in the cessation of Fatah activity against Hamas in Judea and Samaria.
Abbas seems to have ceased anti-Hamas efforts in areas still under his control.
[...]
"Despite the brutal process Gaza has gone through," Brig. Gen. Cohen told the Knesset committee, "Hamas aspires to return to a dialogue with regional Arab states, such as Egypt and Syria, as well as with [PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas]."

And in the "ya don't say? dept."

"The Saudi Plan Is Dead": Senior Saudi Officials Admit to Israel that the Initiative Is No Longer Relevant

Think Stan Laurel Olmert is standing there with his pud in his hand? Just askin.

UPDATE: July 4th: Saudis Finance Hamas in Jerusalem One Jerusalem.org

TAQIYA! aka Death to the Jews

War treaty I'd say.  Hudna baby hudna. Time for rearming, enriching, and renumerating the genocidal Islamic jihadis. d'oh.

THE WEST BANK PEACE TREATY Strategy Page hat tip chsw

June 29, 2007: Israel and Fatah are negotiating what amounts to a peace treaty. An informal deal, but perhaps one of the most effective ever worked out between the two antagonists. In return for Fatah really cracking down on Palestinian terrorists[as if - Atlas], Israel would dismantle much of its security system on the West Bank. There are 560 Israeli roadblocks and checkpoints in the West Bank, making it difficult for Palestinians to move around. There are  35 checkpoints controlling access into Israel, and 43 internal checkpoints within the West Bank. The check points require a document check and search before getting past. If there is an alert, many of  the roadblocks will stop and search as well. All this is to make it more difficult for terrorists to organize and carry out attacks inside Israel. So far this has worked. But Israel will only take down the movement restrictions inside the West Bank if they can get convincing assurances that Fatah will crack down on the terrorists, and share information on terrorist activity with Israel. In return for this, Fatah gets foreign aid restored, as well as internal freedom of movement in the West Bank, and fewer Israeli police operations (to capture terrorists). Fatah is desperate, but it's not known if Fatah is competent enough to carry out its half of the bargain. If Fatah cannot contain the terrorists, the foreign aid will continue, but the West Bank lockdown will return. There's more (bring your motion sickness bag.)

KAPO OLmert to Unleash 250 Islamic terrorists on the World

If 250 Fatah terrorists are to be freed, then Olmert ought to be locked up. Seriously.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced that Israel would release 250 Fatah prisoners “without blood on their hands” with a promise that they would not take part in terror activity.
Addressing family members of the Palestinian prisoners, Olmert said, “I understand how much you miss your loved ones. It is just as important to us to bring our boys home as it is for you to bring your boys home. We won’t give up or let go until we get them back.” (Ynetnews)

Hey Abu Dana, kish meir en tuchas.

Olmert Gov't OKs $562 Million Transfer to Fatah Terrorists

ISRAEL BRACES FOR JULY WAR WITH UP TO FIVE ENEMIES
 

Abbas is a fookin Terrorist

Read the whole bloody history of this murdering madman in a suit here at ZOA:

Mahmoud Abbas in his own words:

• On recognizing Israel:” It is not required of Hamas, or of Fatah, or of the Popular Front to recognize Israel” (Al-Arabiya [Dubai] and PA TV, October 3, 2006).
  
• Fighting Israel: “We have a legitimate right to direct our guns against Israeli occupation ... Our rifles, all our rifles are aimed at The Occupation” ( Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2007; Independent Media & Review Analysis, January 12, 2007).
  
• On Jews: “The sons of Israel are corrupting humanity on earth” ( World Net Daily, January 11, 2007).
  
• On Israel: “the Zionist enemy” (Associated Press, January 4, 2005; CNN.com, January 7, 2005).
  
• On suicide bombers: “Allah loves the martyr” ( Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2005).
  
• On wanted Palestinian terrorists: “heroes fighting for freedom” ( Age [Melbourne], January 3, 2005); ” Israel calls them murderers, we call them strugglers” (Jerusalem Post, December 25, 2004).
  
• On Palestinian terrorist leaders Yasser Arafat, Hamas’ Ahmad Yasin and Abdel Aziz Rantisi and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Fathi Shikaki: “martyrs” (Palestinian Media Center , September 9, 2005)
  
• On Hamas: “We must unite the Hamas and Fatah blood in the struggle against Israel as we did at the beginning of the intifada. We want a political partnership with Hamas” ( Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2007).
  
• On Yasser Arafat: “It is our duty to implement the principles of Yasser Arafat” ( Haaretz, January 3, 2005); “We will continue in the path of the late president until we fulfill all his dreams” (Agence France-Presse, November 11, 2005); “The Palestinian leadership won’t stray from Arafat’s path” (Yediot Ahronot, November 11, 2006)
  
• On disarming Palestinian terrorists: a “red line” that must not be crossed (Washington Times, January 3, 2005)/LI>
  
• On jailed Palestinian terrorists: “our heroes.” (Israel National News, May 26, 2006).
  
• On the so-called ‘right of return’ of Palestinian refugees and their millions of descendants which, if implemented would end Israel as a Jewish state: “The issue of the refugees is non-negotiable” ( Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2007).
  
• On the Lebanese terrorist group Hizballah: A source of pride and sets an example for the “Arab resistance” (Jerusalem Post, August 6, 2006).
  
• Saddam Hussein: ” Saddam Hussein has entered history as a symbol of Pan-Arab nationalism” (Independent Media Review and Analysis , December 31, 2006).

Mahmoud Abbas’ acts:

• Holocaust denial: He wrote a PhD thesis and published a book denying the Holocaust.
  
• Terrorist group Fatah: He co-founded with arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat the terrorist group Fatah, whose Constitution to this day calls for the destruction of Israel (Article 12) and the use of terrorism against Israelis as an indispensable part of the struggle to achieve that goal (Article 19).
  
• Funding terrorism: as senior PLO official, he funded the Munich massacre of Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972.
  
• Terror & incitement to violence: He has refused to implement the signed Oslo agreements and the 2003 Roadmap peace plan which requires him to fight, arrest, extradite and jail terrorists and confiscate their weaponry and end the incitement to hatred and murder in the PA-controlled media, mosques, schools and youth camps that feeds it.
  
• Terrorists’ plan for more violence: In May 2006, he endorsed the so-called ‘Prisoners’ Plan’, a document produced by jailed Palestinian terrorists, that endorses continued terrorism against Israel, legitimizes the murder of Jews, does not accept Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, abrogates Palestinian obligations under the signed Oslo agreements and the 2003 Roadmap peace plan, and insists on the ‘right of return.’
  
• Money for suicide bombers’ families : In December 2005, he approved legislation mandating financial benefits to be paid to families of killed Palestinian terrorists.
  
• Mecca Agreement: In March 2007, he formed a unity government with Hamas under the Mecca Agreement that called for more violence, not peace and reconciliation with Israel.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Read it all here.  hat tip Bel

ABBAS IS NO MODERATE

But Mahmoud Abbas is no moderate.

"Have we not learned from the 1990s when Arafat and his PLO cronies, including Abbas, were imposed on the Arab Palestinians under the Oslo Accords?" asked Alastair Gordon, president of Canadian Coalition of Democracies (CCD). "Arafat the 'moderate' immediately broke the terms of the Accords by building a war machine - bringing in arms, indoctrinating hatred and setting up a corrupt, oppressive, tyrannical kleptocracy. But just as treating Arafat as a moderate ensured that no truly moderate leadership could develop, today we are repeating the mistake when we know too well what the outcome will be."

More Proof Fatah-Hamas War Fraud

The IRIS blog covers more deeply the alleged charade I pointed to in my post, "was Fatah ordered to take a dive?" Stranger still is the calls for quick aid to Fatah (more here.) In a dramatic shift, Bush is backing waiving preconditions for the funds.

FATAH-HAMAS WAR WAS A FRAUD IRIS hat tip Dr Jeff

No mainstream news source has reported the clear truth about the Fatah-Hamas 'war'--there wasn't any. Fatah never fought.

It has been common knowledge that journalists in Palestinian areas do not report on stories that gunmen do not want publicized, either because of intimidation or ideological affinity. However, one brave blogger wrote up his interviews with Fatah gunmen who were given orders not to fight at all.

Whether the cause was conspiracy or not, two facts are certain:

1) The enormous resources provided to Fatah to resist the Hamas takeover of Gaza were essentially unused and are now in the hands of Hamas to attack Israel.

2) Enormous resources are now being provided to Fatah to fight Hamas in the West Bank.

We left Gaza yesterday with a Red Cross aid convoy, but I want to post some thoughts on Fatah’s collapse. We spoke with nearly a dozen Fatah fighters and soldiers from the various branches of the security services, all of whom were around in the president’s compound, the intelligence headquarters, the Preventative Security headquarters and even in Khan Younis until the final hours of the battle. We came with a pretty damning indictment of the political and military leadership.

Fatah never fought. Gaza was essentially handed over to Hamas. Soldier after soldier said they felt betrayed and abandoned by their leadership. There was a seemingly willful lack of decision making by the senior most political leadership. Up and down the Gaza Strip from the first moments of fighting, the military leadership disintegrated while the political leadership remained eerily silent.

Ousted Fatah loyalists in Gaza widely suspect a political decision was made early on in Ramallah to surrender the Gaza Strip to Hamas in order to extricate Abbas, Israel and the US from the seeming intractable pickle they were facing as infighting spiraled, living conditions worsened, and the peace process seemed hopelessly stuck. With the Palestinian territories now split, the US, Israel and Abbas suddenly have way forward, without compromising to Hamas.

I don’t mean to sound conspiratorial, and I think the likeliest scenario is that all the parties involved simply accepted what was essentially a fait accompli some time in the course of the fighting and set about finding whatever silver lining could be salvaged.

There are of course a dozen reasons why Fatah was so ineffective. Fatah was unpopular and the vast majority of the security forces were not really Fatah loyalists. They were merely after a steady salary, not some messianic belief in Fatah or the rightness of the Palestinian Authority. They were doing it because it was their job and they hadn’t been paid more than a fraction of their salaries in 18 months. Fatah was also divided into disparate bickering factions.

All that being said, the total surrender of the security forces is striking. Keep reading.

FATAH: Putting Lies to the Myth

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