Regression – The Prisoner’s Covenant – Roll Back Time to 1967
May 28, 2006
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a wonderful deal!
You give us back all the land we lost to you in the 1967 War and we might let you live.
We won’t recognize your right to exist in the Middle East, and reserve the right to continue to wage the routine terror attacks against you if we deem it appropriate, but maybe, just maybe, we will let you live in your pre-1967 land for awhile.
Begin DEBKAfile Report
Hamas-Damascus spokesman Mohammed Nazzal says his movement will not be blackmailed into bowing to Abbas’ program by a referendum ultimatum
May 26, 2006, 3:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile notes that the Abbas program does not provide for peace with, or direct recognition of, Israel or an end to the Palestinian war of terror. Mahmoud Abbas gave Hamas 10 days to endorse the Prisoners Covenant, which offers to accept a full Israeli withdrawal to pre-1967 lines, the foundation of a Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem and claims the Palestinian refugees’ right of return.
Hamas is required to honor all previous Palestinian-Israeli accords.
However Palestinian “resistance” (terror) will be allowed to continue – albeit in a different guise. It must be restricted to Israelis present on the West Bank – and the terrorists must refrain from attacking the Jewish state within its pre-1967 borders.
If the ruling Hamas turns this program down,
Abu Mazen threatens to call a referendum in 40 days to obtain popular ratification of the Prisoners Covenant as the declared and agreed policy of the Palestinian Authority . He slapped the ultimatum down at a National Discourse among the Palestinian factions Thursday, May 25.
Hamas-Damascus turned it out down Friday.
DEBKAfile’s political analysts add: On the face of it, the Abbas initiative looks like a step towards boxing Hamas in to a position that will release the flow of frozen international funds to the Palestinian Authority – or bring its fledgling government down. This tactic might have worked had it been put forward three months ago before the rivalry between Abbas’ Fatah loyalists and a new Hamas militia had come to blows exchanged by gunmen on the streets of the Gaza Strip. But three weeks ago, Hamas launched its new militia with a pledge to wrest control of the Palestinian street from Abu Mazen and his cohorts – even if it came to an armed confrontation – which it already has.
Abu Mazen’ s bid now to put hi
s foot down and declare himself the boss comes too late. The Hamas in government can easily torpedo his referendum by deploying its militiamen with orders to fire on the polling booths.
Hamas and Fatah gunmen resp onded to the Abbas ultimatum by engaging each other in exchanges of fire
on the streets of Gaza, seizing on it as the cue for further escalating inter-factional violence.
DEBKAfile’s Palestinian sources report that both sides are set for civil war. Hamas holds the better cards ahead of the big showdown expected to flare before even the 10-day ultimatum runs out.
Hamas troops are fully mobilized, augmented by hundreds of freshly-trained recruits and ready for action, while Fatah and the pro-Abbas security forces are being depleted by dropouts and not in any shape to force the PA chairman’s will on Hamas.
End DEBKAfile Report
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