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Mahmoud Abbas; Another U-Turn ?

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Sami Jamil Jadallah, 14 June 2011

 

Mahmoud Abbas like his predecessor Arafat and the entire PLO leadership, never held accountable to any one or by any one, will for sure disregard all the advice and the momentum leading to September and announce a U-Turn at the UN in favor of sitting at the table with Bib Netanyahu.

Mahmoud Abbas made his preference of sitting with Bibi Netanyahu over a UN vote for full admission of Palestine in a meeting in Ramallah, this past weekend with a delegation from Socialist International.

According to Haaretz that carried the news “ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared over the weekend in Ramallah that he prefers to returning to negotiations with Israel over demanding that the United Nation vote on recognizing a Palestinian state”. It seems 20 years of wasteful useless negotiations with Israel and the US are not enough; perhaps there will be another 100 years of “peace process”.

Mahmoud Abbas wavering under pressure from the US and Israel, sent his chief negotiator Saeb Erekat (you remember he resigned in disgrace over his roll in the Palestine Paper) together with Nabil Abu Rudeineh to the White House and State to meet with Obama’s team, not to push for the case of going to the UN seeking full recognition of the Palestinian State along the June 4th borders with East Jerusalem, but to find and negotiate a “secret” deal “ fist full of dollars” that will keep the Palestinian Authority and the Ramallah boys in business, in exchange for aborting the plans to go to the UN.

This is not the first, certainly will not be the last time that Mahmoud Abbas and the PLO leadership makes a U-Turn and proceed in manner and on track that is totally against the interests of the people of Palestine and in favor of their own selfish interests.

Abbas, Arafat and Qurai did it when they went to Oslo and negotiated the deal that gave Israel total and unconditional control not only over 58% of the land known as Area C, but they gave Israel a “veto” over any of the key and “final status issues”, such as the borders, the return of the refugees and of course East Jerusalem without having a way out in event of failed or dead end negotiations. Any thing the PLO or the PA undertake without having Israel’s approval is deemed “unilateral action” and in violations of Oslo. That same rule of course does not apply to Israel.

The PLO leadership went even further, it gave Israeli and its partner the US a total and additional “veto” in accordance with the Road Map, devised by non other than the leading American Jewish Zionist Elliot Abrams, which made it impossible for the Palestinian Authority to meet any of the conditions of the Quartet, while allowing Israel to take “unilateral “ actions in Area C including continued and uninterrupted and expanded settlement buildings, ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from East Jerusalem, expanding house demolition and of course maintaining and increasing security checkpoints. Obama and Netanyahu called these “facts on the ground”.

President Obama beholding to his benefactors and looking for a second term threatened the Palestinians with a certain “veto” if they go to the UN, terming the steps toward seeking full recognition as “delegitimizing” the State of Israel, as if admitting Palestine to the UN means expelling Israel from it. Barack Obama is bullying the Palestinian leadership knowing well they will scum to unfulfilled promises as they did in the Goldstone Report.

Professor Francis Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign, in a widely distributed and circulated article The Case for Palestine’s membership in the United Nation strongly argues for a Palestinian membership in the United Nation. According to Professor Boyle, “the State of Palestine is bilaterally recognized de jure by about 130 states and a de facto diplomatic recognition from most countries” including some European countries.

Professor Boyle further argues the case that “Palestine is already a member of the Arab League and a member of the Organization of Islamic Conference”, mentioning the case of the World Court when conducting its proceedings over the “Apartheid Wall” invited the State of Palestine to participate in the proceedings, concluding “in other words, the International Court of Justice recognized the State of Palestine. With the Palestine having an “Observer State Status” with all the basic rights except the ‘vote” in the General Assembly “effectively Palestine has a de facto UN Membership”.

However the threatened “veto” by President Obama is “clearly illegal because it would violate a solemn and binding pledge given by the United States not to veto States applying for UN membership” argues Francis Boyle. Threatening a veto, President Obama proves one more time; he is not the master of his White House.

Every one, least of all Mahmoud Abbas and his boys in Ramallah should know the US was never a fair and honest broker in the Middle East conflict with decisions and policies formulated in Tel-Aviv and carried out in Washington by the “Israeli Team” with in the State Department and the White House and could not honor any thing it promises.

Going to the UN is also strongly argued by HRH Prince Turki Al-Faisal of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in an Op-Ed published this Sunday June 12, 2011 in the Washington Post Why the Palestinians need the UN. Prince Turki Al-Faisal when he speaks he speaks with authority and power of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Arab and Islamic states.

Prince Turki argued that “ One conclusion can be drawn from recent events: that any peace plans co-authored by the United States and Israel would be untenable and that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will remain intractable as long as UN policy is unduly beholden to Israel”.

So true, but for the fact the US is always siding with Israel “right and wrong”, the entire Middle East conflict would have been solved long, long time ago. Entrusting the US as the “honest broker” proved time and time again, the futility of entrusting any thing or any promise even one coming from the President of the United State. When it comes to the Middle East, and Israel, it is not the words of the US that count; it is the masters in Tel-Aviv and AIPAC that count.

Mahmoud Abbas will be making another fatal mistake if he trust Washington fulfilling any promise and should heed the calls of the people of Palestine, friends of the Palestinian people around the Arab and the world and seek formal recognition of Palestine as a full member of the United Nation and hell with the US “veto”.

Time for Abbas to do something right to mend for all the sins and wrongs he committed since Oslo continuing with 20 years of futile negotiations with the US and Israel while Israel stole and stole, built and built “facts on the ground”. Time to take the US out of the equation and out of the sham called “peace process”. If it is question of money, let Israel take over and pay the PA directly to manage its occupation. When the US and Europe contribute to the Palestinian Authority, they are not doing the Palestinians a favor, they are doing Israel the favor. I hope I am wrong about President Mahmoud Abbas this time around.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner). His articles are also featured on PalestineNote and Veterans Today.

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Abbas’ Palestine State

I graduated from Stupid to PLEASEGODSHUTMEUPNOW

I graduated from Stupid to PLEASEGODSHUTMEUPNOW

I graduated from Stupid to PLEASEGODSHUTMEUPNOW



Arabiat, Blogging from Birzeit Univeristy Campus, Palestine, 22 May 2011
All we can ever hear whenever Abbashole opens his mouth is a lot of Frankensteinian grunts and growls and slurring. In his speeches he freezes his whole facial expression like a bullfrog about to breathe (or whatever it is that they do with that engorging flap of skin under their chins-attract mates?) and delivers a growling, slurry monotone punctuated by grunts and possible flatulence.

So what has this self-titled president been up to since the baseless unity talks with Hamas? Who cares and who knows. He spends more than half of his time outside the country trying to find an evil inventor with a shock of white hair and a lightning bolt scar on his forehead to make him a flying carpet out of the millions of dollars he stole from the Palestinian people.

Even this article, which we strongly suspect was ghost-ridden by one of Max Clifford’s protégés has done very little to boost his popularity or thankfully the fascist mentality of “Our Father”. But let’s take a closer look…

The article starts off in the third person, a feature befitting all thieving authoritarian megalomaniacs. Back when he was known as Mahmoud, he was ethnically cleansed at the age of thirteen from his town Safad in north Palestine. Then the article delves into the pros of how recognizing a Palestine state is beneficial to everyone. He points out that the last time Palestinian statehood was addressed was back in 1947 when the UN graciously decided to cut the land up and give the majority to some white alien settler population. The Zionist trolls accuse Palestinians of being an inherently war-mongering people because they rejected this partition, thereby rejecting peace. It’s a bit overwhelming how readily people can form their opinions without ever opening up a history book or reading some basic information. Copies of Herzl’s diary are available, there’s an endless plethora of Ben Gurion quotes and sadistic intentions formalized into action, and yet all of this readily accessible evidence that show what the true purpose of Israel on Palestinian land gets swallowed up in favor of justifying it through religious discourse and plain self-righteousness. But we digress.

We can’t help from wandering off topic though. This article makes for some hot and steamy bullshit. Take this excerpt for example:

Our quest for recognition as a state should not be seen as a stunt; too many of our men and women have been lost for us to engage in such political theater. We go to the United Nations now to secure the right to live free in the remaining 22 percent of our historic homeland because we have been negotiating with the State of Israel for 20 years without coming any closer to realizing a state of our own. We cannot wait indefinitely while Israel continues to send more settlers to the occupied West Bank and denies Palestinians access to most of our land and holy places, particularly in Jerusalem. Neither political pressure nor promises of rewards by the United States have stopped Israel’s settlement program.

Too many of our men and women have lost their lives….with the blessing of your little collaborative incumbency. Was Arafat seriously drugged when he signed the Oslo Accords? There is no other explanation. The resultant PA is in charge of key cities and towns in the West Bank but Israel controls the surrounding areas, meaning that Palestinians need permits to get from one area to the next. A blueprint disaster. Oh we can go on and on about the Oslo agreement…and guess what? We don’t want to “secure the right to live in 22 percent of our historic homeland”. The term “historical Palestine” is a verbally political trap. STOP USING IT. It implies that oh, its historic so what’s past is past, let us talk about the modern day homeland. The same way that historically Syria was part of the Ottoman empire. The same way that historically the French owned the state of Louisiana. Palestine homeland is the whole land, not just 22 percent of its historicity. Sheesh. Also, Israel sending more settlers in the West Bank and denying Palestinians their right to access their lands is something that Abbashole colluded in.

Onwards, ye patient ones.

The State of Palestine intends to be a peace-loving nation, committed to human rights, democracy, the rule of law and the principles of the United Nations Charter. Once admitted to the United Nations, our state stands ready to negotiate all core issues of the conflict with Israel. A key focus of negotiations will be reaching a just solution for Palestinian refugees based on Resolution 194, which the General Assembly passed in 1948.

Sorry, committed to human rights, democracy, etc based on what standards exactly? The PA’s brutal crackdown on dissenters? Discriminate targeting of people with the wrong political affiliation? Banning any supporter of Hamas from working in its ministries? The jailing and torturing of those who dared to speak out against the police state the West Bank under Abbashole’s regime became? And we are to believe that getting a decent job won’t involve any kind of nepotism? And that USaid projects will run its course throughout the country, trading smooth roads for a more subservient state to Israel? CAN WE HAVE THE LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS ALREADY!

And then, the self-aggrandizing windbag goes on in the same breath to mention the Right of Return. The fact that he’s in his 70′s and therefore more vulnerable to senility than the average Palestinian definitely doesn’t excuse his rambling. But how can he even think to assume that Palestinians are a forgetful lot? Hello, Palestine Papers! Saeb Erekat and his band of negotiators acknowledged that granting refugees their right of return is out of the question. Olmert proposed that over a five year span ten thousand refugees will be allowed back in but they won’t have voting rights. Ten thousand out of 6 million. Take it or leave it. And then the GALL, the absolute nerve of him to even mention negotiations.

What is sheer pissing ironic is that this bloated article is still seen as simply unacceptable and indigestible.

Lord, deliver your faithful servants from this absurdity.

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Hamas, Fatah; unfit to lead, unfit to manage liberation and freedom.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah, 4 May 2011

In few hours in Cairo and in the presence of Arab and international guests, both Mahmoud Abbas as head of Fatah and Khaled Mishal as head of Hamas will sign and execute the “ Cairo reconciliation agreement” ending the feudal feud between the two brothers, they will kiss, shake hand and forget all the crimes both committed against Palestine and the people. Not so sure if Oslo Abbas and Ramallah PA can survive till September without funding from Israel, the US and EC!

One only need to remember February 2007, the solemn place and location in Mecca when after eight days of intensive negotiations both Hamas and Fatah signed a similar deal. Will Cairo prove different from Mecca I doubt it? Because Hamas and Fatah will never change their “spots” and put the interests of the nation and people first.

One has to question of why now? I think it is obvious, Hosni Mubarak and Omar Suleiman discredited, shamed and out of power and no longer provide the political cover for Fatah. Bachar Assad is on the verge of collapse and is no good any more for Hamas. It is clear both are desperate to save their skin and interests.

Did Hamas and Fatah woke up after all these years to discover there is a Palestinian interests and needs to reconcile? Why they failed to do it after Mecca? And why they failed to do it just before Israel ‘s War on Gaza? And why they did not do it immediately after the total destruction of Gaza? And why they did not do it immediately after the Sharm el-Sheik conference on rebuilding Gaza? And why they did not agree to reconcile and help end the siege of Gaza that was choking and killing people and their hope? And why they did not do it all these years and months? What changed for the people and their needs for the two parties to all of sudden discover there is a need to reconcile, nothing?

Now we are told Mahmoud Abbas and his brilliant negotiating team will continue to lead the negotiations with Israel. One has to question the ability and the competency of Mahmoud Abbas and his team to lead the negotiations? And question their mental fitness and qualification to make a difference this time around. People forget that Mahmoud Abbas was the main architect of Oslo, which legitimized the Jewish Occupation, gave full and unqualified recognition to Israel, accepted the continued expansion of Jewish settlements as part of the deal and turned the PLO and Fatah to management and security contractors for the Jewish Occupation.

The people need to remember Abbas and his team were the same one who has been negotiating with Israel for the last 20 years, negotiating while Israel was quadruple its settlements, build the Apartheid Wall, ethnically cleansing 80,000 from East Jerusalem, and of course maintaining more than 600 security check. We know what he got for the leadership and his cronies, but we do not know what he got the people, nothing.

I know there is lots of hype about the PLO going to the UN this September to seek full recognition and full admission to the UN as if this will make a change on the ground or change the agreed to status of the “territories” as negotiated in Oslo. UN recognitions in and of itself will not bring the Palestinians the freedom nor the independence they need, certainly it will not end the Jewish Occupation and it will not bring back the refugees to Palestine. Yes, it is an attempt by the PLO leadership to buy time for itself and its failed leadership. The US will for sure exercise its veto power and Israel will tell the world to take a hike.

Over the last 45 years both the PLO and Fatah proved over and over again, they are unfit to lead, unfit to manage and unqualified to build a nation, let alone liberate. One can see it on the ground, no need to make believe. The PLO and Fatah only manage to build corrupt police canton to serve Israel, never made efforts to build national institutions, and any thing coming out of Ramallah to the contrary is a lie.

Hamas should have stayed a social service organization and its leadership and ideology are not fit to build a modern nation state with a rule of law. Hamas used ‘resistance” and blew it and it de-legitimize whatever remaining rights the people have to fight the Jewish Occupation specially after Arafat referred to “ Palestinians armed resistance” as “terrorism” in his letter of exchange with Rabin. Of course suicide bombing ended all of that and it proved fatal for Hamas and the cause of liberation and armed resistance.

Both Hamas and Fatah are simply unfit to manage and lead forward in building a nation state. Hamas and Fatah only showed incompetence, lack of the rule of law, no respect for citizens rights and liberty with no constitutional guarantees of right to life, liberty and property. Both use security forces in total violations of basic human rights. Both failed to make significant improvement in education, health care, transportation, agriculture and sound transparent and accountable financial management. In the case of Fatah is it riddle with corruptions to the core and if Egypt is an example of corruption, then people should come to Ramallah to see real corruption and nepotism first hand. In the end, we all need to keep in mind, Hamas and Fatah do not represent all of the Palestinians and at best represent small fraction of the total Palestinian population worldwide. Perhaps the UN will consider placing the Palestinian Territories under its trusteeship for an interim period until a new leadership emerges to take over.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner). His articles are also featured on PalestineNote and Veterans Today.

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Mahmoud Abbas and his “Magic Kingdom”

Sami Jamil Jadallah

 

Sami Jamil Jadallah, 24 April 2011

It seems Mahmoud Abbas is perpetuating the same lies, the same fraud his predecessor did for over 30 years as the leader of the PLO and Fatah. Of course there was never liberation, there was never institution building, there was never a plan for the return of the refugees. The only plan Arafat had up his sleeve is to perpetuate the lies that is the PLO and perpetuate a “revolution” that never was, and of course we know the true and real achievement of Arafat and the PLO, Oslo, with Arafat and his PLO becoming the manager of the Jewish Occupation. Arafat was only too happy to have his “red carpet” his “honor guards” to salute his arrival and departure in Ramallah, of course after obtaining permission from a “private in the Israeli Army. The PLO never considered or cared about the millions remaining under Jewish Occupation and the millions in the Diaspora as refugees.

Now Mahmoud Abbas is continuing with his lies, his make believe and his “Magic Kingdom” in Ramallah. For some one whose elected terms expired sometimes a go, he continues to act as head of the Palestinian Authority and he continues to present himself as the Chairman of the PLO, a defunct organization that seized to exist long time ago, and if it exists only on paper and in the minds and pockets of a make believe Executive Committee. There is simply nothing legitimate or real about the PLO, not the “selected” Palestine National Council certainly not the Executive Committee, not the liberation either. There is nothing “Palestinian” about it.

Mahmoud Abbas is traveling all over the world earning millions of travel miles, trying to convince the world, the Palestinians are ready by September to announce their state seeking support and formal resolution from the UN General Assembly avoiding a sure US” Veto”.  Salam Fayyad is also part of this lie and make believe, he is doing his best to convince the world the Palestinians have the necessary “institutions” to declare a state, as if the presence of “institutions” was ever a preconditions for declaration of a state.

Not only Mahmoud Abbas, and Salam Fayyad are partners to this fraud and lie, but also people like Dr. Nabil Sa’ath who told the NYT that by having the UN General Assembly recognizing a Palestinian state will put pressure on Israel to come to peace. It seems someone who is as intelligent as Dr. Sha’ath forgot that Israel continued to occupy South Lebanon from 1978-2000 and never gave a damn and never cared if Lebanon was a member of the UN, and never gave a damn about the many UNGA and UNSC resolutions. Does Dr. Sha’ath think Israel gives a damn about a Palestinian state recognized by the UN? If this is the strategy of the PLO, then why not go back to an already existing UNGA for the partition of Palestine, it is already on the books, why waste the time and efforts?

Dr. Sa’ath forgot Israel bombed the hell out of Lebanon and never cared if Lebanon is a member of the UN. Israel bombed Syria, bombed Tunisia, invaded Lebanon, bombed Iraq even though all of these states are members of the UN and never cared.

Not so sure what Abbas and the PLO leadership plan to do with this recognition? Given the fact the PLO declared a Palestinian state in 1988 and hundreds of countries recognized the PLO and of course nothing happened. Even Israel recognized the PLO and signed an agreement with the PLO and instead of the Jewish Occupation coming to an end, Israel made sure that 50 % of what remained of historic Palestinian is under total control were Israel continued to build its settler’s colonies with the number of colonialist thieves and trespassers increasing since Oslo from 200,000 to 500,000 now.

Moreover, the Palestinian leaders are unable to make any use of the International Court of Justice ruling on the Israeli Apartheid Wall and calling for dismantling it, how they plan to make use of the UNGA recognition of a Palestinian state no one knows, not even Abbas and Sha’ath.

The entire history of the PLO and Palestinian leadership have been nothing but total failure, total incompetence, not to mention corruption, theft and running a criminal mafia with thugs masquerading as Security Agencies.  I think 20 years of PLO rule should give us indications of things to come. A future Palestinians state if an when it comes will be nothing but a corrupt criminal police state not different from Bin Ali’s Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt and Bachar Assad Syria.

Both Youssef Munayer in his essay “Palestinian Autumn” and Ali Abunimeh “Recognizing Palestine” reached the same conclusion, recognizing Palestine will not end the Jewish Occupation, and I add this game plan is one of the tricks being perpetuate upon the Palestinian people by a Palestinian leadership past and present that failed at every thing, and lived the lies and the fraud all these years.

That is why Mahmoud Abbas as reported in Haaretz is against a Third Intifada? (Next essay) and that is why so far the PLO and PA failed to stand behind and support the world wide campaign of Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions “ BDS”? A Third Intifada and support of BDS will be deemed in violation of the PLO contract with Israel under Oslo and the PLO and PA will for sure lose the money and income and support from international donors and the PA and PLO will go out of business, and Israel will then have to step in and take over from the PA and start paying the costs of its Occupation.

 

PS. No need to speak here of Hamas. I think its management of Gaza speaks of itself and Hamas like Fatah for sure is unfit and unqualified to manage let alone to lead.

 

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner). His articles are also featured on PalestineNote and Veterans Today.

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Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines

Long Lives the Will of the People
Long Lives the Will of the People

Long Lives the Will of the People

Ramzy Baroud 26 Feb 2011

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occupied Palestinian territories.

This is part of a strategy intended to offset any public dissatisfaction with the self-designated Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. The PA hopes the ‘news’ will create enough distraction to help it survive the current climate of major public-regime showdowns engulfing the Middle East.

Anticipating a potential popular uprising in the occupied territories – which could result in a major revamping of the current power, to the disadvantage of Abbas – the PA is now taking preventive measures.

First, there was the resignation of the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Ereka on February 12. Erekat was clearly implicated in negotiating, if not squandering, Palestinian rights in successive meetings with Israeli and American officials. This was revealed through nearly 1,600 leaked documents, which Aljazeera and the Guardian termed the ‘Palestine Papers’.

Erekat was hardly representing himself, as he readily gave away much territory, including most of Jerusalem. He also agreed to a symbolic return of Palestinian refugees to their land, now part of today’s Israel. By keeping his post, the entire PA ‘peace process’ apparatus would have remained ineffective at best, and at worst entirely self-seeking, showing no regard whatsoever for Palestinian rights.

With Erekat’s exit, the PA hopes to retain a margin of credibility among Palestinians.

Erekat, who made his entrance to the world of ‘peace process’ at the Madrid peace conference in 1991, opted out in a way that conceded no guilt. He claimed to have left merely because the leak happened through his office. The PA expects us to believe that, unlike other Arab governments, it functions in a transparent and self-correcting manner. Erekat wants to be seen as an “example of accountability”, according to the Washington Post (February 16). He claimed: “I’m making myself pay the price for the mistake I committed, my negligence. These are the ethics and the standards. Palestinian officials need to start putting them in their minds.”

The message is neatly coined, although it belittles the real issue at stake. This has caused much outrage in Palestinian intellectual, political and public circles. Negligence is one thing, and relinquishing a people’s rights is another entirely.

Two days after Erekat’s departure, the PA cabinet in the West Bank also suddenly resigned. The cabinet had met earlier that day, and its Prime Minister Salam Fayyad then submitted his resignation to President Abbas. The latter, in turn, accepted the resignation and immediately reappointed Fayyad to form a new government. An exercise in futility? Of course, but for a good reason.

The resignation was merely tactical. It aimed at quelling the current popular discontent and preventing it from spilling over into street protests. But it was also tactless, for it reintroduced the very man who formed the old government to assemble a new one. If indeed Fayyad’s political performance was lacking – and thus deserving of rebuke and mass resignation – then what is the point of putting the same man in charge of yet another phase of inefficiency and ineffectiveness?

The dramatic move was meant to show the people that the PA did not need a popular uprising to initiate reforms and change. Fayyad was reappointed because he is valuable to the current political structure of the PA, and he’s also the most trusted Palestinian official as far as the US is concerned.

Then, on top of all this, the PA cleverly set September as a deadline for elections in the occupied territories. This date acquired a compounded value when Western officials began assigning other great expectations to September as well. One such call was made by EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, who expressed her hopes – along with those of the ‘international community’ – that a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians would be reached by September.

Based on the current political reality – a rejectionist Israeli front, a Palestinian front that is polarized and largely self-seeking, and a US-led Western front that is incapable of doing much more than pressing the Palestinians for more concessions – we know only too well that no peace will come in September.

Abbas, a pragmatic man by his own admission, knows this as well. The September deadline is largely aimed at creating further distraction. If all eyes are focused on that date, there will be no need to worry about the here and now.

But September is also not too far off, a reality that calls for some early steps. Hamas expectedly rejected the call for elections without a platform of political and territorial unity. Why should Hamas get involved in another election if any unfavorable outcome will only bring further punishment to the Palestinian people? A sound concern, of course, but that rejection allowed Abbas, on February 17, to condition the elections based on Hamas’ participation. In other words, Hamas is once more positioned as the hurdle that stands between the Palestinians and unity, political normalcy and democracy. Now Hamas will be continually derided for delaying the ‘Palestinian national project’, until September leisurely arrives and disappears, leaving behind no mark of meaningful change.

Abbas and his trusted men already know the outcome of this endeavor. In their defense, the strategy also has little to do with September, elections or Hamas’ position. It is aimed at deepening the divide among Palestinians, and distract from the main problem, which is the fact that the PA serves no purpose other than managing the administrative side of the Israeli military occupation. The PA is devoid of any national value to the Palestinian people, and only serves the interests of those involved in subjugating them. The Palestinians are now required to move past this dismal political moment and seek an alternative – an all-inclusive, representative and truly democratic institution to lead the next stage in their fight for freedom.

The PA wants to stall until September. But will Palestinians wait that long?

- Ramzy Baroud (www.ramzybaroud.net) is an internationally-syndicated columnist and the editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His latest book is My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story (Pluto Press, LondonS), available on Amazon.com.

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Mahmoud Abbas should throw the keys of the “Occupation” at the White House.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah, 21 Feb 2011

The message from President Obama and Secretary Clinton to Mahmoud Abbas and Ramallah leadership is very clear. Mahmoud Abbas message to the US should also be equally clear. Mahmoud Abbas should travel to New York address the UN General Assembly and Security Council and announce the disbanding of the PLO/PA and declaring Oslo Accord as “null and void”, and throw the keys of the Occupation at the White House. The US casting its standard “Veto” at the UN Security Council should not come as a big surprise to the Ramallah leadership and other Arab countries long advocates and supporters of the US sponsored “no-peace” process. There is no peace, there is no process there is only Occupation and the ever present US “Veto”. For God sake disband the PLO/PA as enablers of the Occupation and as the legal and contractual party with the Israeli Occupation.

Oslo as envisioned by both the Israeli and Palestinian leadership has nothing to do with ending the Jewish Occupation that began in 67, let alone the return of the refugees. Oslo in simple and plain language is a security and civil administration contract between the PLO on the one hand and the Israeli Occupation on the other hand and paid for by donor countries. While Israel kept its occupation, in fact expanding it and solidifying it hold on the Occupied Territories through its settlement policies, Oslo enabled Israel to shift the financial burdens, all of it, to the PLO. Of course the PLO leadership was only too happy to do just that as a way to revive the financial fortunes of the leadership and the PLO. As such the PLO/PA became beggars and looters at the same time serving the Jewish Occupation.

The US, Europe and some countries in the Middle East were too happy to cooperate in this mission and were too happy to relieve Israel of its financial and legal obligations as an “occupying power” and fund the operations of the Palestinian Authority. As such funding the Palestinian Authority is enabling the Jewish Occupation and allows it to continue, as Israel’s wants it and the US sees it.

If one is to make a simple calculation of the average annual costs of running the civil affairs of the Occupied Territories including health, education, roads and infrastructures, civil servants etc, the figures should not be less than $1.5 billions a year. As such and since Oslo, donor countries, the PLO/PA all were able to save Israel some $ 27 billion, which Israel put to good use.

Safety and security for Israel, its military and settlers occupation is of paramount importance to the US, the EU and certainly to the PLO/PA as the” civil and security” contractor for the Jewish Occupation. That is why the US with the help of Mubarak/Suleiman were too keen on generously funding the Palestinian Security Forces to the tune of several hundred millions a year and to fund the training of a “presidential security forces” to protect the Ramallah regime not different from Hafiz Assad “Saraya Eddifa’a/ Defense Brigades” and Saddam Husain’s Republican Guards.

Contrary to the marketed belief, that the Palestinian Security Forces as the source of law and order, the main objective and almost exclusive purpose of the Palestinian Security Forces is to act as an “auxiliary” security forces to the Israeli Defense Forces and the armed Jewish settlers running all over the place. That is why whenever the IDF wants to run a major operation of targeted killings or house demolition; it gives notice to the command of the Palestinian Security Forces with command to simply disappear from the scene. Once the IDF complete the operation, the Palestinian Security Forces re-appear just like a rainbow. Over the years, the US pledged billions to the Palestinian Security Forces and to Abbas’s own “Presidential Guards”. Not for the love of the Palestinians who die almost on a daily basis at the hands of the IDF and armed Jewish Settlers but for the love of Israel and its occupation.

The US threats to cut of and withhold funding from the PLO/PA after the US “Veto” is meant as a political and financial blackmail of the Ramallah leadership since funding is its “life line” and without funding the Ramallah leadership loses all its local support as “employer” in support of the Occupation. That is why the Ramallah leadership will do all it can to make sure it continues to get the needed fund to meet its legal and contractual commitments to the Jewish Occupation. I will go further and bet that if the PLO/PA stop security cooperation with Israel funding from the US and Europe will stop immediately including funding for “developmental” projects. Keeping in mind American consultants and contractors are the primary beneficiaries of all USAID funded projects.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Born in the Palestinian city of El-Bireh ( presently under Israeli Military Occupation, Armed Jewish thugs and settlers). Immigrated to the US in 62. After graduating from high school in Gary, Indiana was drafted into the US Army ( 66-68) received the Leadership Award from the US 6th Army NCO Academy in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Five of us brothers where in US military service about the same time. Graduated from Indiana University with BA-72, Master of Public Affairs-74 and Juris Doctor-77, and in senior year at IU,was elected Chairman of the Indiana Student Association. Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner)

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Take the US out of the “no peace” process.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah, 20 Feb 2011

“ We had some success, at least for the moment, in not having that (resolution) arise there. And we will continue to employ the tools we have to make sure that continues to not happen” with these words Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg assured Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, perhaps the most anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and staunchest supporter of Israel and Zionist causes in Congress. Steinberg was referring to the Ramallah leadership efforts to bring the issue of Jewish settlements before the UN Security Council.

For weeks Mahmoud Abbas and his entourage been traveling the world (Oh too bad they lost Mubarak-Suleiman and Sharm el-Sheik) in private jets enjoying 5 stars hotels and lavish expense accounts, seeking support for their plans to bring such a resolution before the UN Security Council knowing well that any resolution that addresses Israel, it occupation or its activities in the Occupied Territories whether it is East Jerusalem, settlements, house demolition, targeted killings, land theft, ethnic cleansing or continuation of the Apartheid Wall will meet with a certain US veto. Never understood why the waste of time and money.

It seems Saeb Eurekat before he was shamed to resign forgot to tell his boss that the US has always supported Israel from day one of the 67 War with the likes of Walter W. Rostow and Arthur Goldberg to Henry Kissinger all of whom played key role in the formulation of US policy and in favor of Israel and its continued armed and settlers occupation of the Palestinian territories. The same pro-Israeli policy continued with Dennis Ross under the Bush 1 and Clinton and now as key member of the Obama-Clinton team and of course not to mention Jeffery Feldman Assistant Secretary of State and James Steinberg Deputy Assistant of State. Whether it is Barack Obama or Hilary Clinton or their team all will not do any thing to offend their friends and mentors at AIPAC and within the American Jewish leadership or community and specially now that Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Somehow Abbas and his Ramallah team forgot that it was the US State and White House team that shifted the classifications of Jewish Settlements from “illegal” to “obstacle” to “not helpful” to lets go around it and leave it as is and see what can be done with what is left of the “territories”. The US was never serious about solving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the US is a party and a partner to the Israeli Occupation, it funds it, it arms it, it gives legal and political protection and covers for it and it even defend it. Not to mention it also grant American Jewish/Zionist organizations tax exemption status to arms and support Jewish Settlers and it allows not only individuals to fund the illegal settlements and fund the forced and armed take over of Palestinian homes through fraud, it even allow Jewish synagogues to engage in selling and marketing Jewish settlement houses built on stolen properties and it allows special status for products and services of these illegal settlements to be sold within the US even contract with key sensitive US governments such as Home Land Security among other agencies and departments.

Only fools and there are so many of them around specially in Ramallah and its allies in Washington continue to believe the US can deliver peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis. The US will do all it can with the support of its allies in Europe and Middle East to continue funding the Jewish Occupation by funding the Palestinian Authority as manager of the Jewish Occupation. The Palestinian leadership sitting in Ramallah is only too happy to seek funding for its continued operation and of course will not be too disappointed if this “no-peace” process continues for ever.

What is needed now is to disband the PLO as the “legal and contractual” party with the Israeli Occupation since the continued legal existence of the PLO is a key impediment to ending the Jewish Occupation. Keeping in mind it is the PLO that gave full recognition to Israel with its open borders, East Jerusalem and its Jewish Settlements without getting full recognition of a “Palestinian State” on land Israel occupied in 67. The Palestinian Trio of Arafat, Abbas and Qurai were all too happy to simply get Israel to recognize the PLO as “representative of the Palestinian people” and to fund the PLO, a key provision that puts the PLO in the driver seat as far as Israel and its ally the United States. Keeping in mind the PLO will also continue to be cash cow for civil claims by American Jews and Israelis for wrongful deaths just like Germany is the cash cow for the Holocaust. The only way forward is to take the US out of the game, disband the PLO and PA and let the people under Occupation and in the Diaspora take on Israel and the Jewish Occupation face to face. It can be done.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Born in the Palestinian city of El-Bireh ( presently under Israeli Military Occupation, Armed Jewish thugs and settlers). Immigrated to the US in 62. After graduating from high school in Gary, Indiana was drafted into the US Army ( 66-68) received the Leadership Award from the US 6th Army NCO Academy in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Five of us brothers where in US military service about the same time. Graduated from Indiana University with BA-72, Master of Public Affairs-74 and Juris Doctor-77, and in senior year at IU,was elected Chairman of the Indiana Student Association. Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner)

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What about Arafat and PLO Billions?

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah, 19 Feb 2011

These days every one is obsessed with Hosni Mubarak and his billions and no one bother specially among the Palestinians to ask and wonder what ever happened to the tens of billions of the PLO money and whatever happened to the billions that Arafat controlled? Money that simply disappeared and vanished and so far no credible accounting were ever published and no credible and thorough investigation was conducted of the billions looted from the PLO and PA treasuries.

The late Yasser Arafat who associates claimed lived the life of poor man sustaining himself on “zeit & za’ater, labaneh, and homous” amazed a fortune ranging between $ 1-4 billions (Time Nov. 14, 2004) during his tenure as head of the PLO. I remember asking two well known Palestinians with close association with Arafat and the PLO over tea at the Richmond Hotel in Geneva in April of 2005 how was it possible that Arafat was able to keep his power and authority over the PLO all these years without any one within the PLO or Palestine National Council raising any question or openly debating his failed and miscalculated policies? And their answer was quite simple” he controlled the money” and every one around him needed financial favors and he doled the money corrupting every one within Fatah and the PLO and PNC in efforts to keep control and keep himself in charge.

The PLO over the years amazed fortune in the tens of billions, money it raised from Arab countries and from levies charged by the Arab Gulf state on all Palestinian workers. The money would come to the private account of Arafat and not to the general account of the PLO as an organization; he then dispensed the money as he chose. The PLO also known to have invested billions in SAMED Industries run and managed by Ahmed Qurai, billions that simply disappeared and remains unaccounted for. There are no accounting of all the investments made by SAMED in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Most of the PLO investments were in “private” names and are lost forever.

However Arafat also made good use of the money for his own private and personal use. Oslo was a windfall for Arafat and his private fortune, with over $ 4 billions coming into the Palestinian Authority accounts, accounts under the personal control of Arafat. Israel was the largest contributor to Arafat fortune to the tune of $1 billion. It collected taxes and levies on imports and passed these directly to the private accounts of Arafat, some of which were deposited in Leumi Bank (Google Arafat billions and you will see reports from Brooking Institute, Time Magazine, Taipei Times and Israeli National News and CBS 60 Minutes).

While thousands of Palestinians in Dier Albalah were living in the open in the cold and rain, without tents after an Israeli raid, Arafat did not have the money to buy tents for these miserable people but found $200,000 a month to send to his wife Suha in Paris. Between July 2002 and July 2003, it was reported he transferred $ 11.4 millions to the private accounts of his wife Suha in Paris with Time Nov.21, 2007 claiming hundreds of millions registered in her own name.

Many Palestinians expressed fear that billions will simply disappear after Arafat death and it did. Azmi Shuaibi was reported to have told Forbes “ we are afraid if something happens to Arafat, we will not know where all the money is”. Later Salam Fayyad was quoted as saying “ there is corruption out there, there is abuse, there is impropriety and that what had to be fixed”. Jim Price an accountant, a member of the America team hired by the PA to investigate corruption was quoted “ we run into obstacles in a number of places, particularly among the old PLO type”.

Very few people know that Pierre Rizk, intelligence chief of the Lebanese Forces, the group that with the help of the Israelis who committed the mass murder of thousands in Sabra and Shatilla, became Suha’s financial advisor with a power of attorney and just before Oslo was granted by Arafat the concession to develop telecommunication infrastructure for the West Bank. His company International Technology Integrated (ITI) won $18 millions from the PA because the PA failed to award him the contract.

Mahmoud Abbas ordered tens of investigations into the corruption and abuse within the PA and so far no one ever heard or read any single and completed investigation. Arafat simply allowed himself and his cronies to loot public funds and rendered the Palestinians bunch of beggars and thieves. Question when will the Palestinian people demand and fund an independent investigation into the financing and corruption of the PLO and making full accounting of the people’s money. I publicly pledge $ 5,000 toward this end. The PLO/Fatah has so many millionaires it put to shame most politicians and “revolutionaries” around the world.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Born in the Palestinian city of El-Bireh ( presently under Israeli Military Occupation, Armed Jewish thugs and settlers). Immigrated to the US in 62. After graduating from high school in Gary, Indiana was drafted into the US Army ( 66-68) received the Leadership Award from the US 6th Army NCO Academy in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Five of us brothers where in US military service about the same time. Graduated from Indiana University with BA-72, Master of Public Affairs-74 and Juris Doctor-77, and in senior year at IU,was elected Chairman of the Indiana Student Association. Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner)

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Abbas vs Obama

Freedom Wins (Palestinians Cheer Egypt, Feb 12, 2011, Nick Marouf)

Freedom Wins (Palestinians Cheer Egypt, Feb 12, 2011, Nick Marouf)Mazin Qumsiyeh, 18 Feb 2011

Tomorrow, we were scheduled to go for a demonstration in the Nativity Square. The collective decision was to delay this for a few days to give us time to digest the changes happening (see below) and soon to happen around us and put the best strategy to achieve our collective goals.

Today/Friday (18 Feb 2011), a critical vote may or may not happen at the UN Security Council but in either case, it will create a shift in the political landscape. If there is a vote, the US will veto it (against the wishes of 14 other UNSC members). In vetoing a resolution that uses the same language as the US always says (settlements are illegitimate and an obstacle to peace), the US will have solidified its reputation for hypocrisy in the Arab world and more people will rise against the dictators beholden to US-Israeli policies. Two down, 20 to go. The Israeli-occupied US administration is thus pushing hard to get the proposed resolution withdrawn. If the US has succeeded in its threats to make Mahmoud Abbas and company cave and withdraw the resolution without a vote, then we have Goldstone II and it could be fatal to the Oslo “process.” I say Goldstone II, because the Abbas administration made the mistake of succumbing to US pressure and asked for a delay in the UN HRC consideration of the Goldstone report about Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Whatever happens today, people will come out ahead.

I just revisited a speech I wrote for President Obama and shared with those on my email lists on 11 Oct 2009. I think it is still valid and worth reading especially for US citizens in light of rapid changes around us. Notice item 7 (still pertinent for the many other dictators the US continues to support): “7- We will no longer support dictators and corrupt leaders. We will demand removal of dictators like Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak who has been in office for three decades with Western support. We will support democratic elections even when parties that get elected are not supportive of Israel or the previous US policy shaped in Tel Aviv. We will instead engage in immediate talks with groups like Hezbollah and Hamas and with countries like Venezuela and Iran to build a better future for all of us inequality and we will push for democracy and support of the will of the people even when this means resistance to Israeli hegemony. As John Kennedy stated once “If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.“ http://www.qumsiyeh.org/presidentobama/

I had read the two books of Barak Obama three years ago and was very skeptical of the rhetoric of “change” that he espoused especially when the first thing he did when deciding to run for US Senate is ditch his Arab friends and make friends with the Israel lobby. But many of my friends not only voted for him but worked hard to get him elected. I left the US three years ago because I felt change there is indeed inevitable but not because of Obama. It is coming if nothing else than the total destruction of the US economy that the Zionist lobby is inflicting on America by leading politicians to endless wars against Muslim and Arab countries. Twelve trillion in US government debt and more than that in corporate and personal debts are catching up with the U.S.

If we study history we can learn something from it. IN 1953, the CIA toppled a democratic government in Iran that was led by a western-educated Prime Minister Mousaddak and shamefully, the US and British governments brought back a despicable regime (the Shah). His brutality led to the growth of fundamentalism which is now decried. It later also transpired that much of the fundamentalism here whether Mujahedeen in Afghanistan or many acts attributed to Al-Qaeda were supported or carried out by US backed elements (e.g. the bombing of the Church in Alexandria is now shown to have been carried out by the Egyptian interior ministry). So instead of creating and using the boogeyman of Islamic fundamentalism, it would be wiser for the US administration to actually support democracy and human rights. Stop blindly supporting the Apartheid state of Israel would go a long way to redeeming some credibility. Anything else the US does (pressuring or bribing Abbas, empty rhetoric and phone calls to aging dictators etc) will be counterproductive.

At a minimum, the US government should remove all those Zionists in its midst with loyalty to Israel (people like Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, Rahm Emanuel, and Larry Summers) and gather real independent experts of various religious backgrounds (like professors Mearsheimer and Walt, Professor Richard Falk, Professor Francis Boyle etc) who can truly give a road map to change in policy. Congress and the State Department can also start immediately to investigate its “allies” in all Arab countries for human rights violations as is required by US laws before disbursing weapons and money to brutal regimes.

I wrote last year that “there are also signs of the beginnings of a new and now perhaps global intifada (uprising) against repression characterized by spread of information virally though the internet (bypassing the controlled “mainstream media”) and by the spread of the boycotts, divestments, and sanctions movement (BDS, see bdsmovement.net).

 

People are liberating themselves from fear. Governments and the military-industrial complex of repression are panicking. Yesterday many people were killed in Libya, Bahrain, and Yemen. Repression is increasing in Algeria, Morocco, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. But all this will do is accelerate the demise of repressive regimes. If only one Arab ruler would volunteer to take the lead in ending his own repression and save himself the humiliating fate of Mubarak and Bin Ali!

ACTION: You can contact embassies and consulates of different countries here http://embassy.goabroad.com/

A review of my new book on Popular Resistance in Palestine (which is now being reprinted). Book Review: Millions of Heroes by Sally Bland, Jordan Times, 14 February 2011.

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine. He serves as chairman of the board of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour He is author of “Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle” and the forthcoming book Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope and Empowerment.

A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home
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Articles by Dr. Qumsiyeh on RamallahOnline.com.

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Salam Fayyad “state building” is not an ethnic joke!

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah, 18 Feb 2011

President Barack Obama welcomes President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in the Oval Office, Sept. 1, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama welcomes President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority in the Oval Office, Sept. 1, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Mahmoud Abbas whose tenure as elected president of the Palestinian Authority expired over two years ago, and who has no legal or constitutional legitimacy accepted and then re-commissioned Salam Fayyad to form a new government. Of course the government of Salam Fayadh never received the legitimacy it needed since it did not receive the approval of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), which the PLO and Fatah leadership rendered inoperative after Hamas won and Fatah was badly routed in the election. With the support of Egypt’s Mubarak/Suleiman, Israel, the US and of course Fatah, the PLC came to a halt and for all practical purpose ceased to exist through the concerted efforts of the PLO Executive Committee and Fatah.

Salam Fayyad, America and Israel most favorite person was appointed to run the government and implement series of changes to insure higher degree of security coordination between the Palestinian Authority and Israel and of course to ensure that Fatah and the crooks of Fatah do not have a run on the treasury. To some extent he succeeded in ensuring the donor’s money goes toward managing the Jewish Occupation for and on behalf of Israel and to an extend keep Fatah as the ‘state party” of the PLO functioning with officers and cadres on the payroll in support of the Jewish Occupation under Oslo.

 

Salam Fayyad tells us that he is doing all he can to build “Palestinian Institutions” for the magic date in September when the PLO and Mahmoud Abbas announce the free and independent City/State of Ramallah and the associated cities and towns forming the Palestinian Authority.

This of course raises the question what in the hell was the Palestinians leadership of Arafat, Abbas and Qurai has been doing all these years, since Arafat took over the leadership of the PLO. Every one knows hundreds of thousands died for Arafat failed and fraudulent revolution and every one knows tens of billions remained unaccounted for, looted by the leadership and its cronies within Fatah and the PLO. And of course we have been told by the leadership that the PLO built institutions over the years, and one has to wonder what kind of institutions was the leadership working on for all these years if not the same institutions Salam Fayyad is working on now. If Salam Fayyad is building “state” institutions now, then the PLO leadership has been lying all these years.

The institutions the Palestinian leadership was working on are nothing but “dakakeen” small types of shops that have nothing to do with a future state in service of the ruling party and leadership. However to say the PLO built “institutions” is far fetched and part of the imagination and hallucination of leadership that not only lived a lie but gave the people dreams that turned out to nightmares.

When Arafat came back to run as an agent of the Jewish Occupation, the PLO and Fatah did not even have a plan to manage traffic on “Manara Square” let alone manage and run a state. The PLO never worked on building institution for health, education, transportation, employment and labor, housing, infrastructure, nothing whatsoever. Even when the Three Musketeers of Arafat, Abbas and Qurai went to Oslo to negotiate they did not have a “legal or negotiating team” to given them advice. This tragic and criminal recklessness on the part of the leadership promoted the UK to fund and sponsor the “Negotiation Support Unit” disbanded by Abbas few days ago. The PLO and Fatah were never ready to run any thing that resembles a state. The PLO “institutions” specially the Palestine National Council (PNC) was no different from Mubarak National Democratic Party for the benefits of all those who never questioned Arafat and the leadership and betrayed the millions of Palestinians.

Only after Arafat came back with a military order from the Israeli governor general of Judea and Samaria did Arafat and the PLO think of building state institutions. Millions if not hundreds of millions worth of contracts were giving to Arafat cronies and PLO army of crooks to organize the different ministries. One has to only see the function of these so-called “ministries” to see why Salam Fayad is working on re-inventing a functional government. The guys from Tunis simply had no clue about building state institutions let alone run a functional government. This is in contrast to David Ben Gurion who had a functional government and a functional army the minute Israel was announced as independent state. This of course shows the incompetence and ineptness of a leadership that is simply total failure and should be thrown out like their buddy Hosni Mubarak. No need here to list all of the failures and corruption of the PLO as an organization and as a leadership. Good luck to Salam Faydh in his efforts to build his city/state of Ramallah.

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Sami Jamil Jadallah

Born in the Palestinian city of El-Bireh ( presently under Israeli Military Occupation, Armed Jewish thugs and settlers). Immigrated to the US in 62. After graduating from high school in Gary, Indiana was drafted into the US Army ( 66-68) received the Leadership Award from the US 6th Army NCO Academy in Ft. Lewis, Washington. Five of us brothers where in US military service about the same time. Graduated from Indiana University with BA-72, Master of Public Affairs-74 and Juris Doctor-77, and in senior year at IU,was elected Chairman of the Indiana Student Association. Sami Jamil Jadallah is an international legal and business consultant and is the founder and director of Palestine Agency and Palestine Documentation Center www.palestineagency.com and founder and owner of several business in technology and services. Sami also runs an online website (Jefferson Corner)