Israel/Palestine
Related: About this forumAhead of Nakba Day, Palestinians take measures to avoid confrontation with Israel
Hamas is pitching in to prevent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority is working hard to ensure that protests will be confined to Palestinian cities and won't assume a violent character.
By Avi Issacharoff
The political storm that swept across the country this week obscured the huge dramas that are continuing to roll across the Middle East. The Arab Spring refuses to end. This week, too, the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad continued to kill civilians and opposition activists who are trying to drive out the regime. In Egypt, preparations for the presidential election, which will take place on May 23 and 24 (with a possible run-off in June) are at their height. At the same time, many fear that the Supreme Military Council will try to postpone the elections at the last minute. Amid all the unrest, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are emerging as islands of political and security stability. The question, of course, is how long that situation will last.
Next week, on May 14, the Palestinians will mark Nakba Day, recalling what they refer to as the "catastrophe" of 1948: Israel's establishment and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land. The day's events will dovetail with the ongoing hunger strike of about 2,000 security prisoners in Israeli jails - which could make for a volatile mix. Still, this week the leaders of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority worked hard to ensure that the demonstrations will be confined to the Palestinian cities of the West Bank and will not assume a violent character. Even the tournament that Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestinian Football Association, is planning for Nakba Day will be held in West Bank cities.
"My legacy? I have one thing, security," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday in an interview with Reuters. "Ask anyone if we are going to the third intifada. They will say no, they want peace. That has never happened before. People realized that through peaceful means we can achieve our goals."
In the past, declarations of that sort drew harsh condemnations from Hamas, as did comments related to cooperation with Israel and to measures taken by the PA against armed and wanted Palestinians. But at a time when the head of Hamas' political bureau, Khaled Meshal, is making it clear that the organization will focus on nonviolent public activities, it's hard to see how the Islamic movement can criticize Abbas, even implicitly.
in full: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/ahead-of-nakba-day-palestinians-take-measures-to-avoid-confrontation-with-israel-1.429682
smehgol
(1 post)Now, 64 years after Nabka, America's entire electoral system has been corrupted by Netanyahu's Israel, AIPAC, Israel Firsters and ingenious distribution of enormous amounts of Jewish money. Our representative democracy is nearly defeated and the destruction of America as we know it well underway. Many other countries are being similarly occupied by AIPAC like organizations. The Jewish State has best technology ICBM nukes with land and submarine launch systems as well as defense systems. The whole world is increasingly vulnerable to its aspirations of invulnerability and apartheid supremacist empire.
shira
(30,109 posts)Forgery my ass!
jimmie
(318 posts)And even better.."apartied supremacist empire".
That's not even thinly veiled.
I know... Some of your best friends are...
shira
(30,109 posts)I mean if it's just fine to call israelis "Nazis" , then the poster is just fine apparently.
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)This isn't Stormfront.
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)good way of derailing a thread?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Well said.
jimmie
(318 posts)Those words from Abbas are for the western media.
You can almost see the wink-wink.
shira
(30,109 posts)...is nothing more than the peace of the grave.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/11343829#post90
Since all that's in Arabic, it's as though it doesn't count.
Imagine Netanyahu getting away with the same if only that same type of incitement were in hebrew. It's as if that wouldn't exist either....
Maybe bringing the subject up would be bigoted incitement, as it is when PMW brings it up WRT Abbas.
Perhaps Netanyahu wouldn't be held accountable if that were happening in reverse. Abbas isn't.
jimmie
(318 posts)It's a running joke..
turn east..death to the Zionist entity
turn west.... We want peace
What a joke.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)I don't see any of Abbas making any of those sorts of statements.
shira
(30,109 posts)Check out the links on the left side of the page.
http://www.palwatch.org/
Abbas is the PA/PLO/Fatah. He could stop most of that if he wanted to. The problem is that he has no reason to do so, knowing the western press won't expose him and his cronies for who they really are.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)Response to azurnoir (Reply #17)
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