Abbas announces dismantling of the Palestinian Authority

From Kareem Khadder, CNN

March 31, 2011 2:26 p.m. EDT

Palestinians demonstrated for unity between Fatah and Hamas in Nablus in the northern West Bank on Tuesday.

Palestinians in Nablus celebrate an end to the Palestinian Authority.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Abbas says he is willing to go to Gaza for talks about reconciling Fatah and Hamas
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh had extended an invitation to Abbas
The moves came after protesters, mainly young people, called for reconciliation

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(CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced today that it is no longer possible for his cabinet to continue governing the Palestinian people in the face of obstacles imposed by the Israeli occupation, as well as the changes sweeping across the Arab world.

Abbas said that he has tried everything possible to accomodate the Israeli government's demands, and has tried to please the Obama administration, but concluded that "they are not genuinely interested in peace; it has become clear that they are buying time to enable Israel's continuing expansion into Palestinian territories and the continued ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people."

In an address broadcast from his presidential compound in Ramallah in the West Bank, Abbas told a meeting of the Palestinian Central Council that the division and conflict between Fateh and Hamas has been mainly orchestrated by the U.S. and Israel in their attempts to further weaken the Palestinian struggle. He issued an official apology to the Palestinian people in Gaza for not taking the necessary actions to oppose the ongoing siege of that territory.

"I am ready to go to Gaza tomorrow for the sake of ending the division and uniting in our struggle against the Israeli occupation of our lands," Abbas said. "We will no longer negotiate with Israel until it immediately ceases settlement construction, withdraws all its troops from the West Bank and ends its siege of Gaza," he affirmed.

In Gaza, Haniyeh welcomed Abbas' response and called on the Hamas government to follow up with the appropriate arrangements for a united struggle for the liberation of Palestine and for democratic reform.

If only Abbas wasn't a U.S. quisling, and the leaders of Fateh and Hamas weren't power-hungry politicians, this is what could happen. Unfortunately, that is not the case, and this here is just an April fool's joke... happy April fool's day! But more seriously, the first step towards liberation, is to get Abbas & Co. (who are nothing more than subcontractors for Israel's occupation) impeached, and to reform the PLO so that it is a genuine, democratic, and united representive for all the Palestinian people (in the West Bank, Gaza, '48 territories, and the diaspora). Support the Palestinian revolution!

Termination Notice served to Palestinian Mission in DC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsH0oKxwfyM&feature=player_embedded

Termination Notice served to Palestinian Mission in New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqmP5noQcGo

Protest at Palestinian Mission in London
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtNFt0YzuvM

Protestors urge Palestinian Authority termination (Press TV)
http://presstv.com/detail/167607.html

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nambi2
cnn censoring again?

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DrSpaceman
I bet in the next elections Hamas will take over all of the PA

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Mycology

A certain ignorant person's quotes and idea of Israel deserves to be reposted, if only to see his blatant lies, I will respost his Original thread post, and then my posts as I posted them in response. Goingby20's anti-jew said "goingby20s I am Israel. I came to a land without a people for a people ... more

A certain ignorant person's quotes and idea of Israel deserves to be reposted, if only to see his blatant lies, I will respost his Original thread post, and then my posts as I posted them in response.

Goingby20's anti-jew said

"goingby20s I am Israel. I came to a land without a people for a people without a land. Those people who happened to be here, had no right to be here, and my people showed them they had to leave or die, razing 480 Palestinian villages to the ground, erasing their history.

I am Israel. Some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Menachem Begin was in charge of the unit that slaughtered the inhabitants of Deir Yassin, including 100 men, women, and children. In 1953, Ariel Sharon led the slaughter of the inhabitants of Qibya, and in 1982 arranged for our allies to butcher around 2,000 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila.

I am Israel. Carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine, dispossessing its inhabitants and replacing them with Jews from Europe and other parts of the world. While the natives whose families lived on this land for thousands of years are not allowed to return, Jews from all over the world are welcome to instant citizenship.

I am Israel. In 1967, I swallowed the remaining lands of Palestine - the West Bank and Gaza - and placed their inhabitants under an oppressive military rule, controlling and humiliating every aspect of their daily lives. Eventually, they should get the message that they are not welcome to stay, and join the millions of Palestinian refugees in the shanty camps of Lebanon and Jordan." less

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Mycology

But of course, I can simplify my response to your lies in one line, which you will never be able to answer without contradicting yourself and your own lies. Its really quite perfect,How did 1.5 million arab muslims come to be in Israel. I mean, if Israel "kicked them all out, slaughters them regular... more

But of course, I can simplify my response to your lies in one line, which you will never be able to answer without contradicting yourself and your own lies. Its really quite perfect,

How did 1.5 million arab muslims come to be in Israel.

I mean, if Israel "kicked them all out, slaughters them regularly, is attempting genocide / ethnic cleansing, and arabs have no rights" as islamists and fools regularly claim... how did 1.5 million arab muslims get to live in Israel as citizens. less

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Mycology

"Carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine"LIAR. Israel is less than 20% of Palestine, 80% of Palestine is now JORDAN, the people of Jordan call themselves PALESTINIANS. LIAR- "I am Israel. Some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Mena... more

"Carved in 1948 out of 78% of the land of Palestine"

LIAR. Israel is less than 20% of Palestine, 80% of Palestine is now JORDAN, the people of Jordan call themselves PALESTINIANS.

LIAR- "I am Israel. Some of my people committed massacres and later became Prime Ministers to represent me. In 1948, Menachem Begin was in charge of the unit that slaughtered the inhabitants of Deir Yassin, including 100 men, women, and children. In 1953, Ariel Sharon led the slaughter of the inhabitants of Qibya, and in 1982 arranged for our allies to butcher around 2,000 in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila"

Making up dates and numbers and who is responsible is just symbolic of your propaganda, yet you are -SILENT- about the 2 million black christians / animists killed in Sudan by muslims. TWO MILLION.

"While the natives whose families lived on this land for thousands of years are not allowed to return" - LIAR, most arabs living in Israel were recent immigrants JUST LIKE THE EUROPEAN JEWS, they came because they were the underclass, the poor, the unwelcome arabs of their societies, and the jews coming from europe brought with them resources, opportunities, and JOBS.

"I am Israel. In 1967, I swallowed the remaining lands of Palestine - the West Bank and Gaza - and placed their inhabitants under an oppressive military rule, controlling and humiliating every aspect of their daily lives."

LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR!

Israel didn't "swallow up", though your choice of words makes your racism clear. Israel defended itself from DESTRUCTION by arab muslims, and in doing so was able to capture some territory , because generally speaking forces at war dont maintain positions, positions MOVE and territory is gained / loss. Military occupation didn't begin to occur- j ust like the embargo did not begin to occur, until Fakestinians decided it was time to start committing terrorism against innocent israeli civilians as part of their political and "religious" goals.

the only reason there are "millions of palestinian refugees" in lebanon and jordan, is because lebanon and jordan literally keep them in squalid, pathetic camps, and deny them citizenship or rights that Israel gave to the arabs who stayed in Israel.

You are such a ridiculous liar and racist goingby20s, what is your agenda? what do you gain from lying to the world less

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Mycology

You are -FILLING- this place with lies, heres some quotes on why arabs left Israel- and it was NOT because jews were killing / kicking anyone out of their homes, THUS why there are 1.5 million arab muslims living in Israel today (or did Israel for some reason import them? that would contradict your ... more

You are -FILLING- this place with lies, heres some quotes on why arabs left Israel- and it was NOT because jews were killing / kicking anyone out of their homes, THUS why there are 1.5 million arab muslims living in Israel today (or did Israel for some reason import them? that would contradict your frequent statements that somehow Israel is racist and non-jews can't move there)

ON APRIL 23, 1948 Jamal Husseini, acting chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee (AHC), told the UN Security Council: "The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce ... They preferred to abandon their homes, belongings and everything they possessed."

ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1948, the Beirut Daily Telegraph quoted Emil Ghory, secretary of the AHC, as saying: "The fact that there are those refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agreed upon this policy unanimously..."

ON JUNE 8, 1951, Habib Issa, secretary-general of the Arab League, wrote in the New York Lebanese daily al-Hoda that in 1948, Azzam Pasha, then League secretary, had "assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade ... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property, and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states."

IN THE MARCH 1976 issue of Falastin a-Thaura, then the official journal of the Beirut-based PLO, Mahmud Abbas ("Abu Mazen"), PLO spokesman, wrote: "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live."

ON APRIL 9, 1953, the Jordanian daily al-Urdun quoted a refugee, Yunes Ahmed Assad, formerly of Deir Yassin, as saying: "For the flight and fall of the other villages, it is our leaders who are responsible, because of the dissemination of rumours exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs ... they instilled fear and terror into the hearts of the Arabs of Palestine until they fled, leaving their homes and property to the enemy."

ANOTHER refugee told the Jordanian daily a-Difaa on September 6, 1954: "The Arab governments told us, 'Get out so that we can get in.' So we got out, but they did not get in."

THE JORDANIAN daily Falastin wrote on February 19, 1949: "The Arab states... encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."

ON OCTOBER 2, 1948, the London Economist reported, in an eyewitness account of the flight of Haifa's Arabs: "There is little doubt that the most potent of the factors [in the flight] were the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit ... And it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades."

THE PRIME Minister of Syria in 1948, Khaled al-Azem, in his memoirs, published in 1973, listed what he thought were the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948: " ... the fifth factor was the call by the Arab governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and leave for the bordering Arab countries ... We brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees by calling on them and pleading with them to leave their land." less

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astim

Without the Iranian weapons expected for delivery right about now, Hamas faces increasing pressure to get political and work with the PA. Perhaps they will agree to halt rocket launching until after a peace deal is reached. Sad thing is that sounds like a bad joke. The idea of peace with Hamas... more

Without the Iranian weapons expected for delivery right about now, Hamas faces increasing pressure to get political and work with the PA. Perhaps they will agree to halt rocket launching until after a peace deal is reached. Sad thing is that sounds like a bad joke. The idea of peace with Hamas is a joke. less

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Mycology

There is no peace with hamas, we know they dont want it, and they know they dont want it, only the gullible parts of the rest of the world (or the lying parts) say they want it. As such, we will continue to tear apart their prospects for a terrorist state, as is the only rational solution to the con... more

There is no peace with hamas, we know they dont want it, and they know they dont want it, only the gullible parts of the rest of the world (or the lying parts) say they want it.

As such, we will continue to tear apart their prospects for a terrorist state, as is the only rational solution to the conflict. Better to keep their population a welfare state than provide them their own country with which to export terror. less

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ukrjew

Why Arab think that they are “legal”, but Jews are “illegal”. They should better learn history of Arab conquest of Egypt, Syria, Persia and how brutally they convert in to Islam local population. Unfortunately real Egyptians cannot comeback, like Jews comeback and kick Arab from their Land. Jews are... more

Why Arab think that they are “legal”, but Jews are “illegal”. They should better learn history of Arab conquest of Egypt, Syria, Persia and how brutally they convert in to Islam local population. Unfortunately real Egyptians cannot comeback, like Jews comeback and kick Arab from their Land. Jews are the real owners of Holy Land. The best prove is that they fight with courage and sacrifices to defeat Arab armies in bloody wars 1948, 1956, 1967& 1973. less

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ILoveIDF
I hope cowardly Abbas convinces blood thirsty rabid Hamas to join him. This way, Operation Cast Lead II will include parts of the West Bank as well as Gaza. I hope so.

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Harrycarry
Like I said earlier it sucks to be sami.

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Fu9l
nambi while i dont support this and think the people involved should and probably will do jail time your sami is still alive ..... think about it ......

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nambi2

In todays settler attacks: While Sami was working in a settlement between Ramallah and Nablus, he was surprised by eight settlers who attacked him and beat him aggressively. Sami is 31 years old from a village called Ytima. He was moved to a hospital in Ramallah because he was beaten on his head, ar... more

In todays settler attacks: While Sami was working in a settlement between Ramallah and Nablus, he was surprised by eight settlers who attacked him and beat him aggressively. Sami is 31 years old from a village called Ytima. He was moved to a hospital in Ramallah because he was beaten on his head, arms, legs and back less

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ats999
Did you ready the article about the poor Lebonese palestinian boy that died outside of a Lebanese hospital because his family didnt have 1500 to be admitted. If this happened in israel, the world would be up in arms. Since it happened in lebanon - no once cares.

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Mycology
I guess no link to the article? Okay, my turn to make up some news.

In todays fakestinian attacks: Fakestinian terrorists sneak into house and murder family in their sleep, including a baby with its throat slit.

actually... that sounds kind of familiar...

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kakadu
Disgusting people who deserve to be in jail , and I hope they will . Some rabbi's defined such actions as blasphemy , and good they did . These attacks are being done by stupid people who have nothing in their life beside boredom and hate .

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Theta0

Check out the trend of Muslim views toward jewish community; 60% of Turks, 74% of Pakistanis, 76% of Indonesians, 88% of Moroccans, 99% of Lebanese Muslims and 100% of Jordanians checked either "somewhat unfavorable" or "very unfavorable" for Jews.http://pewglobal.org/2005/07/1...And they claimed th... more

Check out the trend of Muslim views toward jewish community; 60% of Turks, 74% of Pakistanis, 76% of Indonesians, 88% of Moroccans, 99% of Lebanese Muslims and 100% of Jordanians checked either "somewhat unfavorable" or "very unfavorable" for Jews.

http://pewglobal.org/2005/07/1...

And they claimed they are not anti-semitic but anti-zionist. Anti-zionism goes hand in hand with anti-semitism and denying jewish right for self-determination is no doubt anti-semitism. Unfortunately we have jewish traitor like Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Naomi Klein and those group called Neturei Karta - Just like Maria Pavelic who was jewish and she's the wife of Croatian Nazi Collaborator (ante-pavelic). Well in every group and race there are always traitors. less

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ats999
Why not call the anti-Semitic Muslims what they really are: Nazis.

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DrSpaceman
If Hamas wins the next elections the WB will turn to the same shithòle Gaza is today

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Catilius
Palestinian election were at 2006. 2010 election didn't take place and there is no date for new election.
Both Abbass and Haniye are now tyrants.
Two Palestinians tyrants are talking how to share their power.

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Mycology
the only "excuse" I need to bash fakestinians is the fact that most their schoolbooks teach genocide.

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Fu9l
so the world can see if the rest vote for hamas and allow this terrorists group to stay into power .......in which case i think things will be much worse then it is in the west bank now for the palestinians

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nambi2
The Palestinian Authority confirmed its plans to hold elections on July 17 2010.What your next excuse to bash the Palestineans?

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NewYorkah
interesting that the palestinians are never short on supplies of weapons, rockets or explosives. but claim they are so poor. yea? well maybe hamASS should stop trying to kill everyone and buy food, not to mention pay their utility bills to Fatah. LOL!

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Mycology

Nonzionist your agenda is clear as glass, just rename yourself anti-jew because you're not fooling anyone.Islam, with arabs as its vanguard and fakestinians as the tip of their sword, have chosen to use its "brave warriors" to slit babies throats. You people are pathetic, and you will receive the ... more

Nonzionist your agenda is clear as glass, just rename yourself anti-jew because you're not fooling anyone.

Islam, with arabs as its vanguard and fakestinians as the tip of their sword, have chosen to use its "brave warriors" to slit babies throats. You people are pathetic, and you will receive the treatment you have been teaching to your children for so long. less

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