Posted on 09/27/2003 8:45:30 AM PDT by Stultis
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:05 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Yasser Arafat's Fatah party on Saturday put together a new Palestinian Cabinet, replacing a U.S.-backed security chief with an Arafat loyalist and bringing in nearly a dozen new faces from Fatah and smaller factions.
With the ouster of security chief Mohammed Dahlan, it appears even less likely that the Palestinian security forces will begin dismantling militant groups, as required by the U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan. Israel has said it will not move on the plan unless such action is taken.
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| US wants Dahlan, Amr in PA cabinet ^ |
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| Posted by yonif On 09/20/2003 11:45 PM CDT with 6 comments Jerusalem Post ^ | Sep. 20, 2003 | KHALED ABU TOAMEH The US is putting pressure on the Palestinian Authority to include outgoing Security Minister Muhammad Dahlan and Information Minister Nabil Amr in the new cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Qurei. PA officials said the Americans have made it clear that they would like to see Dahlan and Amr serving in key positions in Qurei's cabinet. Last week, US special envoy to the Middle East John Wolf warned that Washington would not deal with a cabinet that is fully controlled by PA Chairman Yasser Arafat. Dahlan and Amr are closely associated with former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas, who resigned earlier this... |
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| US says it won't deal with 'Arafat cabinet' ^ |
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| Posted by veronica On 09/19/2003 6:47 AM CDT with 17 comments JPost ^ | 9-19-03 | KHALED ABU TOAMEH The US has warned the Palestinian Authority that it will not deal with a new cabinet controlled by Chairman Yasser Arafat and that is not committed to the implementation of the road map. The warning was delivered by US special envoy John Wolf to PA Prime Minister-designate Ahmed Qurei (Abu Ala), who is expected to announce his cabinet sometime next week. PA officials said Washington also made it clear that its policy on Arafat remains unchanged and that he is not a partner to any peace talks. "The Americans insist on boycotting President Arafat," said a top PA official in... |
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| Arafat, Fatah pick new Cabinet ^ |
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| Posted by JohnHuang2 On 09/19/2003 2:11 AM CDT Washington Times ^ | Friday, September 19, 2003 | Lara Sukhtian The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com Arafat, Fatah pick new Cabinet By Lara SukhtianPublished September 19, 2003 RAMALLAH, West Bank — Yasser Arafat and leaders of his Fatah movement met yesterday to choose ministers in the new Palestinian government, and he reported progress in truce talks with Islamic militant groups. Israel has rebuffed Mr. Arafat's recent cease-fire offers, saying it will press ahead with its campaign against terror suspects until Palestinian forces begin dismantling the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups. In the Gaza Strip, Israel staged its first major incursion in several months, killing Jihad Abu Shwairah, 34, a leader of... |
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| Bush: Palestinians need leaders who'll fight terror-Arafat meets to pick new Cabinet ministers ^ |
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| Posted by SJackson On 09/18/2003 10:01 AM CDT with 3 comments AP/albawaba ^ | 9-18-03 Bush says Palestinians need to choose leaders who'll fight terrorCamp David, Maryland-AP -- Some words of advice to the Palestinians today from President Bush -- who says if they want peace, they need to have a leader who fights terror. Bush made the comments at Camp David in Maryland, where he met with Jordan's King Abdullah. The president told reporters that Yasser Arafat has "failed as a leader." And he accuses Arafat of forcing the resignation of the Palestinian prime minister -- someone Bush says had been working for peace. He said he hopes that "at some point in time,"... |
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| Dahlan: Some militant groups have gone too far (ex-security minister slams tactics of intifada) ^ |
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| Posted by Stultis On 09/27/2003 10:58 AM CDT The DAILY STAR (Lebanon) ^ | 27 September 2003 | Fadi Chahine & Rana Khoury Dahlan: Some militant groups have gone too farFormer security minister slams tactics of Al-Aqsa intifada Fadi Chahine and Rana KhouryDaily Star Staff BEIRUT: The Palestinians might not have had another option, but to take up arms in their independence war. But according to a top security lieutenant, Mohammed Dahlan, some groups went too far, dealing a severe blow to the Palestinian image abroad. “Resorting to armed violence in certain phases of the Palestinian intifada the way it was done in the past three years proved to be detrimental for our national struggle,” Dahlan, former minister of state for security affairs... |
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Actually he would have, but only if Arafat publicly supported it. (Fat chance.)
You may encounter a lie circulating among Pali terror apologists that the Palestinian Authority was only one day away from initiating a crackdown on militants when the Isralies "spoiled it" all be renewing their targeted killings (after the Jerusalem bus bombing). This is a lie, but there is a grain of truth. There had been a PA meeting the day before in which Abbas tried to get Arafat to publicly support a crack-down, but Arafat refused, and there was no way Abbas would (or could) go ahead under those circumstances.
What Arafat is doing is presuming that the U.S. wouldn't dare use the military option to oust him and end PLO control in his areas.This is **precisely** the same error made by the Taliban in Afghanistan and repeated by Hussein in Iraq.
*Repeating the same behavior while expecting different results is a sign of...
Arafat guessed wrong and got kicked out of Egypt. Arafat guessed wrong and got kicked out of Jordan (Black September war of 1969).
So why would anyone think that he won't guess wrongly again and be kicked out of Israel (other than the fact that we all know that the media has a double-standard and will howl louder if either the U.S. or Israel does the same thing to him as did Arab nations)?!
Text: Abu Mazen tells PLC he avoided complying with Roadmap
Dahlan is a terrorist too
4. MOHAMMED DAHLAN Dahlan, 41, is chief of the Palestinian Security Forces in Gaza. He spent four years in Israeli prison for terrorist activities, and was a commander of operations for Arafat's Fatah terror group during the mass "intifada" violence that began in 1987. According to the Israeli government, Dahlan is one of the primary directors of the current terrorist violence against Israelis in the Gaza region.
Masterminded bombing of Israeli bus: Israel Radio reported on October 20, 2000, that "Dahlan was behind the October 18 bombing of an Israeli bus in Gush Katif." The Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported on November 16, 2000, that "members of the Preventive Security Force in Gaza, headed by Mohammed Dahlan, were involved in a series of attacks on Israelis in Gush Katif and Netzarim." Ha'aretz reported on April 17, 2001, that Yasir Arafat "takes an active part in decisions regarding the firing of mortars. The general directives in this regard are passed to Mohammed Dahlan, and from Dahlan to his deputy, Rashid Abu Shabak."
Ordered rocket attack on an Israeli bus: Dahlan is currently a defendant in a lawsuit filed by victims Arab terrorism, including an American citizen as well as three children whose legs were blown off in a Dahlan-directed rocket attack on a bus on November 20, 2000. The Israeli daily Hatzofeh has reported (April 13, 2001) that the Central Intelligence Agency has tape recordings of telephone conversations in which Dahlan can be heard ordering the November 20 rocket attack and other terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Shelters Hamas terrorists: Dahlan told the PA-sponsored newspaper Al Ayam on Oct.26, 1998 that terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad "will not be outlawed."
Hired Hamas terrorists: Dahlan said in an interview with the PA newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah on Sept.24, 1998, that 25 more Hamas terrorists have been hired by his force, specifically in order to protect them from being arrested by the Israelis.
Praised Hamas terrorists: In an interview with the Hamas newspaper Al-Risallah (cited in Ha'aretz, June 15, 1997), Dahlan said: "The presence of Hamas on Palestinian territory is very important for building the Palestinian homeland."
Threatened violence against Israel: On August 30, 1996, Dahlan said: "The Palestinian Authority does not exclude the return to the armed struggle, and it will then use its weapons." (Jerusalem Report, Nov. 28, 1996)
http://www.zoa.org/pressrel/20020212a.htm
Israel is most torn by its own civil war, between Jews who would be free, versus Jews who want everything free in the Marxist "sense" (or cents, if you will).
To wit: Socialist Jews are killing Israel because socialism is more important to them than freedom. They like being coerced and crying about it; and they need oppressors to help them daily make their case, ad nauseum.
If there is to be peace in the Middle East, then the fence that is required, is between the socialist Jews destroying Israel, and the Jews and non-Jews of Israel who will defend liberty.
The issue at hand, is whether or not Israel is to become a socialist mecca. There are more leftists and leftist Jews around the world all marching toward that, than there are people of Palestine determined to be free and live in peace.
However, as long as the quaint facade of religious differences is maintained, the quaint unrest is maintained.
We are not. In fact, Powell is trying - AGAIN - right now to convince Yasser's stubborn enablers, aka: EUropean leaders, not to deal with him.
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