World Is Headed for BIG TROUBLE in the Middle East!
Fatah Delivers a Double Death Blow to Middle East Peace!
Can an Intifada be Waiting in the Wings Prior to a False Hudna,
That Brings Brief False Peace Before 1260 Days Of Great Tribulation?
August 8, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Intifada is an Arabic word which literally means “shaking off”, though it is usually translated into English as “rebellion” or “uprising”. According to a 2007 article in the Washington Post, the word “crystallized in its current Arabic meaning during the first Palestinian uprising in the late 1980s and early 1990s”.
A hudna [also known as a hudibiyya or khudaibiya] is a tactical cease-fire that allows the Arabs to rebuild their terrorist infrastructure in order to be more effective when the “cease-fire” is called off.”
DEATH BLOW NUIMBER 1
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Fatah: All of Jerusalem must be returned before negotiations
August 8, 2009
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
The sixth Fatah General Assembly decreed on Saturday that the return of both east and west Jerusalem to Palestinian control was a “red line” which was non-negotiable, and would need to be fulfilled before any peace talks with Israel could renew, Israel Radio reported.
According to the report, a document adopted by the Fatah delegates of the assembly declared that Palestinians would “continue to be sacrificed until residents of Jerusalem are free of settlements and settlers.” The document went on to state that all of Jerusalem, including the surrounding villages, belonged to the Palestinians, and lands conquered following the Six Day War shared the same status as those located within the Green Line.
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz blasted the statement Saturday, saying that the declaration was a clear message to all those who maintained the “illusion that the Palestinians were prepared for compromise,” Israel Radio reported.
Israel should take legal steps in response to the decree, Israel Radio quoted the minister as saying. According to the report, he urged the government to expand the municipal authority of Jerusalem to include Ma’aleh Adumim, Givat Ze’ev, Gush Etzion, and Beitar. In addition, Katz encouraged further construction in surrounding neighborhoods so as to increase Jewish presence in the city.
Also at the conference on Saturday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was named head of Fatah.
“This convention must be a new beginning for the Fatah movement,” said Abbas to thunderous applause.
“In our history we’ve had many launches and setbacks. Sometimes we have reached the edge of the abyss – but we have always returned stronger,” he said.
Hundreds of delegates cheered and clapped as senior Fatah official Tayib Abdul Rahim announced that Abbas was chosen to lead the party. There was no vote because no other candidate came forward to challenge Abbas’ five-year rule.
Technically Abbas can only lead the party for five years, until a new conference is announced, but this is the first time Fatah members have met in 20 years and it is not clear when they will convene again.
AP contributed to this report
DEATH BLOW NUMBER 2
Begin Excerpt 2 from Jerusalem Post
‘No talks unless Israel frees prisoners’
August 6, 2009
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST
Fatah delegates meeting here Thursday resolved not to renew peace negotiations with Israel until all Palestinian prisoners are released from Israeli jails, all settlement-building is frozen and the Gaza blockade is lifted.
Nabil Sha’ath, a Fatah Central Committee said these were some of 14 preconditions for a resumption of peace talks.
Analysts noted that the conditions are not binding on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, but also that they broadly accorded with the positions had Abbas had himself set out in an address to the gathering on Tuesday.
Amid mounting tensions between rival camps, meanwhile, the Fatah delegates are scheduled to vote on Friday for new members of the faction’s two most significant bodies, the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council.
At least 500 Fatah members have presented their candidacy for the Central Committee (21 seats) and the Revolutionary Council (120 seats).
Many delegates participating in the faction’s sixth General Assembly here on Thursday expressed fear that the infighting will eventually result in a permanent split in Fatah.
The conference, which opened on Tuesday, is the first meeting of its kind in two decades.
The key vote had been supposed to take place earlier, but was delayed after sharp differences erupted at Wednesday’s session between scores of rival delegates.
Eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post that at least two delegates, Tawfik Tirawi and Husam Khader, were beaten by security officers for allegedly disrupting the discussions.
Scenes of chaos erupted when the 2,200 delegates attending the conference learned that the Fatah leadership was not planning to present them with a detailed report about the faction’s financial, administrative and political performance over the past 20 years.
Tayeb Abdel Rahim, a senior aide to Abbas, enraged many delegates when he announced that they should consider Abbas’s opening speech a substitute for the report.
Khader, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and an outspoken critic of financial corruption in Fatah, said he and many of his colleagues had managed to foil Abbas’s “plot” to market his speech as a comprehensive report.
Khader, who was released from Israeli prison less than a year ago, also said that Abbas and his old-guard friends in Fatah were continuing their efforts to block the emergence of new leaders.
Similar charges were leveled against Abbas and the old guard by Fatah operatives from the Gaza Strip, headed by Muhammad Dahlan, and supporters of jailed West Bank operative Marwan Barghouti.
Both Dahlan and Barghouti are viewed as representatives of the young guard in Fatah.
Dahlan and scores of Fatah delegates from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday had threatened to pull out of the conference under the pretext that Abbas and veteran leaders were seeking to keep them away from the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council.
Hundreds of Fatah representatives from the Gaza Strip were unable to attend the conference because Hamas refused to allow them to travel to the West Bank.
“The old guard of Fatah is trying to exploit the absence of the Gaza Strip to tighten their grip on Fatah institutions,” said a young-guard Fatah representative. “If they succeed in their scheme, we will withdraw from the conference and form our own Fatah faction in the Gaza Strip.”
As the conference entered its third day Thursday, it became evident that three major camps were competing for control of Fatah.
The first camp consists of old-guard leaders such as Abb
as, Ahmed Qurei, Ahmed Ghnaim and Saeb Erekat. The second, which represents the young guard of Fatah, is headed by Barghouti, Jamal Shobaki, Kadoura Fares and Muhammed Hourani.
The third camp belongs to Dahlan and many of his supporters, especially those living in the Gaza Strip.
Delegates said it was obvious by now that the old-guard leaders had prepared well for the conference by appointing hundreds of their loyalists as delegates to the General Assembly of Fatah.
They pointed out that Barghouti’s name was hardly being mentioned at the conference, whose leaders refused to distribute a letter Barghouti had sent to the assembly from his prison cell. The delegates also noted that many of the key speakers at the parley had refrained from mentioning Barghouti by name.
Other delegates told the Post that Dahlan was also facing an “organized campaign” to distort his image and distance him from Fatah’ s main in
stitutions. Many delegates have gone as far as demanding Dahlan’s expulsion from Fatah, holding him responsible for the faction’s defeat at the hands of Hamas in
the summer of 2007.
Conference spokesman Nabil Amr said that unlike Wednesday’s stormy session, the atmosphere at Thursday’s meetings had been “relatively calm.”
He attributed the quiet to 18 committees, established a day earlier to look into various issues concerning Fatah, starting their work.
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