Coup in the works against Fayad?
DEBKA is claiming that a movement is afoot among the 'moderate' Fatah leadership to depose suit and tie-clad 'Prime Minister' Salam Fayad. Our sources report the revolt is led by ousted Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan, jailed terrorist Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Qureia, chief Palestinian negotiator with Israel. If Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas stands in their way, the Fatah leaders propose cutting Fayyad off from exercising his authority on the West Bank. The revolt was sparked, DEBKAfile’s Palestinian sources reveal, by the international donors’ allocation of $7.4 bn for state-building at their Paris conference five days ago. Dahlan and Co. are determined not to let this bonanza fall into the hands of a Fatah outsider, whose appointment was forced on them by Washington.
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They are especially dismayed to discover that Dahlan, long a close associate of Rice, champion of relations with Washington and friend of Israelis in high places, has taken up the cudgels against the “Americanization” of the Palestinian Authority.
And listen to the calls for peace:
Al-Aqsa calls for assassinating 'collaborator' Fayad
Now, if you've read this far see what Carl in Jerusalem has to say today (but I hope you are sitting down):
Bush gives green light to invade Gaza - with conditions
Sounds good, but check out the conditions.
Does the adminstration know what it is doing? Maybe, in which case it is like a poker player betting everything on a pair of sixes.
Finally, the Bush-Olmert policy of placing all their bets for a Middle East breakthrough on the inept Mahmoud Abbas condemns their plan to failure.
For those of you who think Bush doesn't understand what he's doing, unfortunately, he does:
At the dinner Olmert hosted in honor of the US president Thursday night, several ministers pointed out these hard facts to Bush and told him bluntly that he is gambling all his hopes for peace on a non-existent entity called the Palestinian Authority.
The US president answered: “I agree. That really is a problem.”
Ping!
The “new and charismatic” Fatah youth...lol
Ask Clinton, not the Fatah party. You’d think he’d know what happened to all the cash he gave to his buddy Arafat.
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Estranged Fatah leader Farouk Kaddoumi is demanding an inquiry into the fate of $2b. that allegedly went missing after the death of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat