TWO UPDATES ON PALESTINE’S TWO CRISES

One being the siege of Gaza, the other being the division of Palestine (and Palestinians)…. both brought about jointly by Israel and the USA…

Israel ignores peace

Despite offers of a ceasefire from Hamas, Israel looks set on a full-blown attack on Gaza that could seriously backfire, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

Hamas has been sending definitive signals of its willingness to sign a dignified truce with Israel in return for its lifting its harsh blockade on the Gaza Strip as well as ending bloody and unrelenting Israeli attacks which wreak death and havoc on the coastal territory’s civilian inhabitants.

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Recipe for disaster

Fatah’s much-heralded, long-awaited and long-delayed sixth General Conference, slated for March, has fallen victim to Fatah’s chronic internal contradictions, reports Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah

According to insiders in the movement’s higher echelons, the conference has been postponed “until further notice”. In Fatah-speak, this probably means “never”.

Many of Fatah’s younger leaders and activists had hoped and probably still hope that the organisation of the conference would provide a rare opportunity to put Fatah’s house in order and introduce badly-needed democratic reforms to a movement that is increasingly suffering from a host of ailments, including corruption, rampant factionalism and demoralisation.

However, Fatah’s veteran leaders, especially at the national level, have been resisting and effectively opposing internal elections because of the impossible situation on all fronts; namely, the enduring rift between Fatah and Hamas, the precariousness of the “peace process” with Israel, and the widespread malaise in Palestine and the region as a whole. Still, Fatah’s internal disunity remains the most serious factor hampering the convening of the conference at this time.

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5 Comments

  1. kim smith said,

    February 22, 2008 at 10:15 pm

    What is it now? something like 190+ in the last week who have died in hospital because of the blockade of the Gaza Ghetto? The sale of trusting and destitute female Russian Jews, who emigrate to Nazi Israel, for a “better life”, into the Asian sex slave markets; murdering children and harvesting their internal organs for profit is bestiality at it’s zenith. The level of cowardice has further deepened with the outright denial of basic medicine that is readily available in the most deprived 3rd world countries. This stone age mentality is amazingly far beyond the limits of fascism at its’ worst possible imagining.

    I pray there be no sense of compassion or empathy for the Nazi Zionist enclave should their situation become another “Ghetto”.

  2. Bob Marl said,

    February 23, 2008 at 12:17 am

    Is it truly the destiny of the Jewish people of Israel to be an occupying power?
    It saddens me to see and hear this news almost daily/weekly.

    For a people who had to face Nazi Germany, I’m afraid to say it “looks” like they’re slowly turning themselves into an even worse villain then Nazi Germany.
    Why do I say this?

    Because everything they do is “legal” , no one questions it.
    No country is standing up to help this slow genocide of the Palestinians ON THEIR OWN LAND!!

    The bias in this world especially in the western media sickens me.
    Israeli forces can kill and maim Palestinians freely, and its legitimate and legal. Yet some Palestinians fight back they’re automatically labeled “terrorists”

    Whats the bloody difference? Why is a bombing by an Israeli F-16 or Helicopter gunship NOT terrorism? Does it not cause terror in the hearts of Palestinians?
    It seems like Israel has almost copyrighted the word “terrorism” so they can freely slap it on anyone they wish, excluding their own actions.

    It’s amazing what is happening to the holy land, its sad and appalling.
    This is the holy land for all of us, for jews, for muslims and for christians alike. Why can there not be peace on this “holy” land, it is afterall the same god we pray to. God must be frowning down at us all because of what is happening in this holy land.

  3. j.c. said,

    February 23, 2008 at 2:00 am

    The iSRAELis’ “False” claims of wanting peace is contradicted by their leaders themselves.
    http://www.monbaker.com/quotes.htm

    The Only Peace they want is the WHOLE “PIECE” of Palestine.
    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/mapstellstory.html
    And, Palestine is just the beginning !!
    http://www.nogw.com/warforisrael.html

  4. j.c. said,

    February 23, 2008 at 3:45 am

    iSRAEL’s leaders are have NO desire for REAL peace.
    http://www.monabaker.com/quotes.htm

    iSRAEL has NO written constitution, NO Bill of Rights, or a defined border…
    Here is their REAL borders…
    http://www.nogw.com/images/greater_israel.gif

  5. kim smith said,

    February 23, 2008 at 5:18 pm

    The site below contains verified facts and statements made by the ZioNazi leadership. I copied just a few for the benefit of those with limited time. Nazi Israeli policy is an abomination on humankind. The U.S. should have never sent them one dime in welfare, nor vetoed any of the innumerable UN sanctions. LET THE BOMBING BEGIN!

    http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/palestinians.html

    “[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs.”
    Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon
    Kapeliouk, “Begin and the Beasts”. New Statesman, 25 June 1982

    “The Palestinians” would be crushed like grasshoppers ..
    heads smashed against the boulders and walls.” ” Isreali Prime
    Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York
    Times April 1, 1988

    “When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able
    to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged
    cockroaches in a bottle.” Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the
    Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.

    The days of this Nazi junta are numbered. If my country is dumb enough to support or participate in any attack on Iran. Such an attack will be viewed by Russia as an attack on them. They will not stand by. Russia will be the one who wipes Nazi Israel “off the map”. Any tears I shed will be tears of joy.

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