Abbas Says He Won’t Talk to Hamas – The Biggest Bunch of Bull that ever came down the Pike!
August 8, 2007
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It is absolute insanity to believe that Fatah and Hamas will not get back together.
As soon as Fatah has milked all it can out of Prime Minister Olmert, it will reunite with Hamas so fast it will make one’s head swim.
It amazes me that many people believe diplomacy and dialog can solve any problem. There is no way under heaven Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, or al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades can be trusted.
They are habitual liars. It is a way of life to them.
Israel has no one to negotiate with such that there is the slightest hope of a true peace – false peace, yes – true peace, no. On August 6 while Abbas was pledging not to talk to Hamas, he knew full well that secret talks were being held with Hamas on reuniting.
The Palestinian Authority will never be satisfied until Islamic forces have conquered the city of Jerusalem and driven Israel out of the land from Dan to Beersheba. The U.S. and Israel are continuing to supply them with the military hardware they need to accomplish this task.
The only solution to the Middle East problem is a three and one-half year war ending with the battle of Armageddon and return of the Messiah to demolish the forces trying to destroy his people. He is the only solution to the mess that mankind has made on this planet.
I am combining two Blogs on what is going on in Israel today, because I am sickened by the rank insanity currently being practiced by some leaders, who have no excuse to be so naïve in their dealings with Fatah.
Blog Number 1
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Abbas to PM: I won’t talk to Hamas
Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST
August 6, 2007
Concerned that a Fatah-Hamas reconciliation could end fledgling Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic momentum, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received a commitment from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Jericho on Monday that Abbas will not talk with Hamas, “despite the pressure,” sources in Olmert’s office said.
Olmert, according to officials in his office, told Abbas he should not hold reconciliation talks with Hamas.
A number of Arab countries – including Egypt and Saudi Arabia – as well as Russia have been trying to bring the two sides to negotiations. Abbas’s response, according to Israeli officials, was that he had no intention of renewing a dialogue with Hamas.
Begin DEBKAfile Exclusive Article 2
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Fatah leader in secret talks with Hamas ahead of Abbas’ Jericho meeting with Olmert Monday – and behind his back
August 6, 2007, 1:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile’s Middle East sources reveal that Mahmoud Abbas’ close adviser, Jibril Rajoub, is holding secret talks with the Gazan Hamas government spokesman Ghazi Hamad.
Broad influential circles in Fatah, led by Jibril and Hanni al-Hassan, criticize as shortsighted and destined to be short-lived Abbas’ policy of separating the West Bank from Gaza and boycotting Hamas.
This falling away of support for Abbas in his own movement throws further in doubt the US-Israeli strategy of putting all their Palestinian apples in his West Bank basket, as manifested in American dollars and Israeli concessions on security.
At his meeting with the Israeli prime minister Monday, Abbas planned to demand further gestures of support, such as the release of more Palestinian prisoners, the removal of roadblocks and progress on fundamental issues.
Realistically, their positions were too far apart for an agreed agenda.
DEBKAfile learns that Olmert too faces opposition within his government. Defense minister Ehud Barak has distanced himself from his pro-Fatah Palestinian track. At meetings with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week, the defense minister was noncommittal on this issue, commenting that it was in the prime minister’s hands. Privately, Barak believes Olmert is overplaying his association with Abbas – most of all to shore up his own flagging leadership at home. The minister is therefore biding his time until the tactic breaks down.
The dim view of the process held in the defense ministry and IDF command found expression in the briefing military intelligence research chief Brig. Gen. Yossi Baidatz gave the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Sunday, Aug. 5. The West Bank was the next Fatah-Hamas arena of conflict, he said, and Fatah has no chance of standing up to Hamas there, any more than it did in Gaza. Abbas’ forces are completely dependent on the Israeli army to keep Hamas in check, he said.
This estimate was confirmed by Fayyad. It flatly contradicts Olmert’s presentation of Abbas as a popular, robust leader and worthy partner for final settlement negotiations and is belied by four major trends on the ground.
1. Hamas’ West Bank leaders are languishing either in Israeli jails or the prison run by the Palestinian intelligence chief Tawfiq Tirawi. But, according to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the field guns of Hamas’ terror networks are at large and busy creating new commands. They enjoy considerable popularity on the Palestinian street, whereas Abbas and his prime minister are seen as American-Israeli puppets.
2. Egyptian leaders promised Rice last week to go along with the US boycott of Hamas for now, but plan to resume relations in November.
3. Saudi leaders were tougher. They informed the US Secretary that as long as Washington backed Fatah against Hamas, it need not look to Riyadh for support on the Palestinian question. Abdullah stood by his policy of Palestinian reconciliation and power-sharing and made no promises regarding President Bush’s international conference next autumn in Washington.
4. The Europeans agree with the Bush administration that Hamas must be made to recognize Israel and accept previous agreements, but warn against discounting the Islamic movement’s political clout. They also point out that Hamas was voted in through a free and democratic election.
Begin Blog Number 2
Israel is digging its own Grave while Abbas Milks it for all He can Get!
August 8, 2007
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
As a distinguished graduate of a Military Academy, finishing second in my class, I will freely admit I am a very mediocre military strategist, perhaps even lousy or pitiful would be more accurate. But as crummy as I am in this discipline, I have been shocked to the tip of my toes at the disaster Israel has been preparing for itself in the last 12 months. They are setting themselves up for a defeat of major proportions. These hoards of terrorist leaders they are in the process of releasing to shore up the PA forces in the West Bank, were the worst of the worst in Fatah, forming a militant wing with the same stated objectives as Hamas.
This same initial first group of 178 thugs made up most the senior leadership of the al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades. As far as radical extremism is concerned, I have seen no difference in the stated and practiced objectives of Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, and al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades. They have no interest in making peace with Israel, only in destroying them.
In the initial Islamic attack against Israel, that starts the last three and one-half years of the tribulation period, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades will be united as one to viciously attack Israel from within, while Syria and Hizbullah attack her from the north merged with a confederation of Iraqi and Iranian military personnel.
YNET NEWS
Wanted men ‘dupe Israel on weapons deal’
Al-Aqsa operatives who were granted amnesty have not turned in all weapons, some have not even signed pledge to renounce terror
Aaron Klein, WND
Most members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades group granted amnesty last month by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have not turned in all their weapons despite of media reports to the contrary, while some haven’t even signed their amnesty contracts, WND has learned.
Part of the amnesty deal required the 178 terrorists – all of whom are members of the Brigades, the declared “military wing” of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization – to disarm and to sign a document stating they would not carry out terror attacks
Meanwhile, Palestinian diplomatic officials yesterday said Olmert officials told them the prime minister would strongly consider granting amnesty to 208 more al-Aqsa Brigades members and would study allowing the return to the West Bank of senior terrorist leaders deported in 2002 after they barricaded themselves in Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity five years ago.
The al-Aqsa Brigades took responsibility for every suicide bombing in Israel the past three years.
Last month, Olmert granted amnesty to a list of 178 Fatah militants who comprise much of the senior leadership of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. Israel issued documents for the Fatah fugitives to sign, pledging their resignation from any so-called paramilitary organizations and promising to refrain from terrorism.
The wanted militants also were required to turn in their weapons, spend a week in a PA holding area and restrict their movements to the area in which they reside for three months. After a three-month period, they would be allowed to move freely throughout the West Bank.
Since most wanted militants have been confined to their residential areas the past few years anyway due to the threat of Israeli operations, the deal effectively grants them freedom of movement for the first time. In exchange, Israel pledged it would not conduct anti-terror operations to capture the wanted militants.
Operatives turned in one weapon, kept others
According to statements by Palestinian officials and reports by the media, most terrorists turned in their weapons in line with the deal. A widely circulated AP article quoted a senior Palestinian security official stating “all but three al-Aqsa members have surrendered their weapons and sworn off violence, as part of the arrangement.”
But calls Monday to the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades members granted amnesty yielded a much different story.
Abu Yousuf, a senior leader of the Brigades in Ramallah, told WND most Brigades members turned in one of several pieces of weaponry they possess. He said most Brigades members have two to three guns, including one to two personal weapons and one assault rifle issued by the PA, since the majority of Brigades members are also members of Fatah’s security forces.
“It’s true Brigades members turned in one of their weapons as a symbolic act, but they kept the others,” he said.
Yousuf is suspected of shooting at Israeli forces operating in Ramallah. He carried out a shooting attack in northern Samaria in December 2000 that killed Benyamin Kahane, leader of the nationalist Kahane Chai organization.
Ala Senakreh, overall chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank and one of the terrorists granted amnesty, said he turned in one of his three weapons. He said the one weapon he turned in to the PA is “easily accessible.”
“It’s close by and available to me anytime I need an additional weapon,” he said.
Senakreh said aside from “protecting” himself from Israel, weapons were also needed for protection from rival clans and members of Palestinian families of suspected “Israeli collaborators” killed in recen t ye
ars by the Brigades.
“We killed several collaborators, so now I am a walking target. What if one of the family members tries to take revenge?” he asked. Kamal Ranam, chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah, said he turned in one of his weapons.
Not all amnesty deals signed
Not all Brigades members signed their amnesty deals. Nasser Abu Aziz, the No. 2 leader of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Senakreh’s main deputy, told WND he will not sign the agreement, calling the deal “an Israeli trick.”
“I am sure this is part of an Israeli conspiracy against our fighters,” Aziz said.
The Brigades’ admitted failure to keep their side of the amnesty deal is well-known to the Israeli security apparatus. According to security sources, members of the Israel Defense Forces military intelligence unit explained to diplomats most of the Brigades members did not disarm.
But according to senior Palestinian officials, Olmert officials said the prime minister would strongly consider granting amnesty to 206 Fatah fighters, mostly Brigades members, who haven’t yet officially received amnesty. Some of the 206 are senior Brigades commanders, but most are mid-level militants.
During yesterday’s meeting between Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas , Olmert promised to consider Abbas’ request for the return to the West Bank of dozens of senior terrorists who took refuge in the Church of the Nativity to avoid a pending Israeli anti-terror operation in the city.
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