22-08-2010, 05:56 PM
Jan Klimkowski Wrote:Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, is nominally President of the Palestinian Authority. However, his Presidential term ran out in January 2010 and, as I understand it, the PLO unilaterally extended his term of office without any elections.As a matter of fact his term of office expired on 9th January 2009 - right in the middle of operation Cast Lead, so he has now complete over 18 months of illegitimately 'representing the Palestinians'.
It is therefore arguable that Abbas is an illegitimate President of a runt Palestinian authortiy.
Whatever - Abbas is most certainly a quisling.
A stooge who does not serve the interests of the vast mass of the Palestinian people.
Abbas is useful to the Americans and the Israelis when they need a puppet Palestinian "leader" to appear in Chapter 97 of the Great Israel-Palestine Peace Talk Farce - a charade played out for MSM consumption with earnest words, furrowed brows, and zero chance of achieving a fair and viable peace.
He heads the PLO which received just 30% of the popular vote in the 2006 elections. Hamas got 70%. The reaction of the Zionists was to Blockade Gaza; the PLO attempted a CIA sponsored coup and succeeded (with IDF help) in holding onto power in the West Bank but got their butts whipped in Gaza.
That is now popularly known in the West as 'Hamas seizing power with armed force' + variants of the same. Hamas resisted the blockade - then Wham! Operation Cats Lead and 1,500 Palestinians dead - mostly women and children, to Israel's 13 - 10 of them from 'Friendly fire'.
Like Jan says. Abbas is a Quisling and a hugely unpopular one with his own people, but right now he's all the US and Zionist Israel have got.
His illegitimacy needs shouting from the rooftops.
HE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THE PALESTINIANS and the prospect of him negotiating on their behalf is farcical
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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