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Palestine quits Arab League role in protest over Israel deals
al Jazeera ^ | 9-22-20

Posted on 09/22/2020 11:50:55 AM PDT by SJackson


'There is no honour in seeing Arabs rush towards normalisation during its presidency,' Maliki said [File: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]

Palestine was meant to chair Arab League meetings for next six months, but FM Riyad al-Maliki has declined the position.

Palestine has quit its current chairmanship of Arab League meetings, the Palestinian foreign minister said on Tuesday, condemning as dishonourable any Arab agreement to establish formal ties with Israel.

Palestinians see the deals that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed with Israel in Washington a week ago as a betrayal of their cause and a blow to their quest for an independent state in Israeli-occupied territory.

Earlier this month, the Palestinians failed to persuade the Arab League to condemn nations breaking ranks and normalising relations with Israel.

Palestine was supposed to chair Arab League meetings for the next six months, but Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told a news conference in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah that it no longer wanted the position.

"Palestine has decided to concede its right to chair the League's council [of foreign ministers] at its current session. There is no honour in seeing Arabs rush towards normalisation during its presidency," Maliki said.

In his remarks, he did not specifically name the UAE and Bahrain, Gulf Arab countries that share with Israel concern over Iran. He said Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit had been informed of the Palestinian decision.

The Palestinian leadership wants an independent state based on the de facto borders before the 1967 war, in which Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and annexed East Jerusalem.

Arab countries have long called for Israel's withdrawal from illegally occupied land, a just solution for Palestinian refugees and a settlement that leads to the establishment of a viable, independent Palestinian state, in exchange for establishing ties with it.

In a new move addressing internal Palestinian divisions, officials from West Bank-based President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction and the Gaza-based Hamas movement were due to hold reconciliation talks in Turkey on Tuesday.

Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 from Fatah forces during a brief round of fighting. Differences over power-sharing have delayed implementation of unity deals agreed since then.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abrahamaccords; ahmedaboulgheit; arableague; bahrain; israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; mahmoudabbas; mohammedbinzayed; palestine; riyadalmaliki; uae; unitedarabemirates; waronterror; whoops
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To: nickcarraway; Fungi

Just Arabs, Jordanians and Egyptians. But a great many South Syrians, which are Syrian Arabs. Syrians who came to work, after the Sykes–Picot Agreement in 1920 France took over administration of Syria, created a new state, Syria and refused to let the Syrians who worked in Palestine, the future Jewish State, return. Thus South Syrians.


21 posted on 09/22/2020 12:16:59 PM PDT by SJackson (wondered...what 10 Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through..Congress, RR)
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To: SJackson
Smart move.
Alienate the group of countries that could really help you in your goals without resorting to Iran becoming involved.
All you are doing is precursor to the Arab states and Israel aligned against Iran, and then you will definitely become a non-entity in the Middle East.
After the regime in Iran is changed for the better, the Arab states will wash their hands of you and give the green light for Israel to deal with you as needed.
You'll be back to throwing rocks in the street.
22 posted on 09/22/2020 12:19:26 PM PDT by Wizdum
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To: SJackson

There is no Palestine. Let the terrorist murder gangs rot.


23 posted on 09/22/2020 12:23:51 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SJackson

Bye bye.


24 posted on 09/22/2020 12:31:04 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?my)
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To: SJackson

Can we finally stop calling these Arab squatters on Israelite lands “palestinians”?


25 posted on 09/22/2020 12:32:35 PM PDT by montag813 (Nonsenze)
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To: SJackson

Israel could take their seat and represent them - even better.


26 posted on 09/22/2020 12:36:26 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
As Bill Murray's character said in the original "Ghostbusters" -- "I'm gonna *miss him*." Ironically...

27 posted on 09/22/2020 12:38:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SJackson

“Palestine quits Arab League role in protest over Israel deals”

well, it just gets better and better ... the Palestinians just made themselves even more isolated and even more irrelevant ...


28 posted on 09/22/2020 12:39:43 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Does our rep have to enter through the parking garage disguised as an old woman?


29 posted on 09/22/2020 12:49:29 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (JOBS NOT MOBS!)
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To: SJackson

How sad./s


30 posted on 09/22/2020 12:50:05 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (JOBS NOT MOBS!)
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To: SJackson

Que, “I’m Mr Lonely...”

Arab League to the Arab Leadership on the West Bank and in
Gaza... “...What, you were a member?”


31 posted on 09/22/2020 1:09:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: SJackson

32 posted on 09/22/2020 1:11:30 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SJackson

From the WiKi entry on the Arab League.

“The first major action was the joint intervention, allegedly on behalf of the majority Arab population being uprooted as the state of Israel emerged in 1948 (and in response to popular protest in the Arab world), but a major participant in this intervention, Transjordan, had agreed with the Israelis to divide up the Arab Palestinian state proposed by the United Nations General Assembly, and Egypt intervened primarily to prevent its rival in Amman from accomplishing its objective.”

The PA leaving the Arab League - the first and most major Middle East “champion” of the “Palestinian” cause - is a much bigger deal than most now realize.


33 posted on 09/22/2020 1:20:33 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: SJackson; Fungi

It’s sad, because these Palestinian leaders are harming their own people, who they should be helping.


34 posted on 09/22/2020 1:30:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: SJackson

Is Roger Waters suicidal over these developments yet?


35 posted on 09/22/2020 1:31:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: mylife
حسنا وداعا

(According to Google translate, this is arabic for "well, bye")

36 posted on 09/22/2020 1:34:23 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Navy Patriot

[[Excellent, no one wants the Palestinians anyway.]]

Noone but America Hating liberals here in the US


37 posted on 09/22/2020 1:37:35 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Eleutheria5
Man, and I'm 37, and muh name's Dennis. ;^)

38 posted on 09/22/2020 2:31:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SJackson

This is a “Good Thing!”


39 posted on 09/22/2020 2:58:32 PM PDT by Taxman (MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN!)
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

Thanks, Inshalla


40 posted on 09/22/2020 2:59:15 PM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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