Hamas Terrorists Wanted Jail to ‘Earn’ PA Salary
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
14 februari 2012, Shevat 21, 5772

Two Gaza terrorists have been indicted for plotting to kill IDF soldiers and then expecting to be jailed so they could “earn” PA salaries for terror.

The two men, Salam Alsufi and Ra'ami Tayima were charged in a Be’er Sheva court on several counts of terrorist activity, including manning a terrorist outpost in Gaza to maintain surveillance of movements of IDF soldiers and kill them if they entered Gaza.

They also were charged with weapons violations, plotting to murder, holding membership in illegal terrorist groups and maintaining contact with enemy agents.

The terrorists worked with Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and wanted to be arrested in Israeli after carrying out an attack so they could collect the monthly stipend provided by the Palestinian Authority for prisoners in Israeli jails. The PA maintains its budget with the help of funds from the United States and the European Union.

They were arrested after being caught when they cut through the Gaza security fence.

Alsufi had maintained surveillance of IDF troop movements at a terrorist outpost near a Gaza crossing.

Tayima was indicted for participating in terrorist training camps and digging tunnels in Rafiah, which straddles the border with Egypt, with the intention of smuggling weapons into Gaza.

Erekat: Release Terror Prisoners, No Matter Whom they Killed
24 januari 2011, Tevet 29, 5772
by Elad Benari

Saeb Erekat, member of the Fatah Central Committee and the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator, on Monday called on the international community to immediately intervene to release all Palestinian Authority Arab prisoners currently in Israeli jails.

According to a press release published by his office and quoted by the PA-based WAFA news agency, Erekat called for the release of 25 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, prisoners arrested before May of 1994, women, children, the ill and senior prisoners.

Erekat, who has recently been conducting negotiations in Amman with Israeli negotiator Yitzchak Molcho, appears to have called for the release of these terrorists from Israeli prisons, regardless of whom they murdered. His statement on Monday came after he used the meeting with Molcho to demand that Israel release Hamas lawmaker Aziz Duwaik, parliamentary speaker for the Palestinian Legislative Council.

PA Rejects Deadline Extension for Talks

The Palestinian Authority on Monday rejected a request by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to extend the deadline for peace negotiations to start set by the Mideast Quartet.

"Time extension is useless. Israel doesn't appear to be serious, so time extension will not add any value to the status quo," Fatah Central Committee member Jamal Muhaisan told Gulf News.

"We are sticking to the 26 deadline and once it passes we will confer with our Arab brothers on the next course of action," he added.

Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that he believed the timeframe for negotiations should be extended to April 3, three months after Israelis and Palestinians sat down for their first face to face meeting in Amman on January 3.

The original deadline set by the quartet to start negotiations was January 26.

Muhaisan's charges come despite senior PLO official Tayseer Khaled saying last Friday that Israel was willing to cede as much as 94% of Judea and Samaria in exchange for the core settlement blocks and eastern Jerusalem.

Despite this, the recent round of so-called exploratory meetings between PLO chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and Netanyahu envoy Yikzhak Molho have been derided as a failure by both sides.

Erekat threatened to terminate talks unless Israel initiated a second construction freeze saying "The Amman talks are intended to obtain a colony freeze and the use of the 1967 lines as a reference for any future talks, and will be given a chance to succeed until January 26."

Israeli officials have charged the PLO has used the recent face-to-face meetings to create the "illusion of progress" while continuing to pile on preconditions that serve as a fait accompli to scuttle talks.

The PLO in December adopted "a strategy based on continuous efforts along with the international community to secure full recognition and full United Nations membership, pursuing internal reconciliation, and keeping up the popular resistance."

They have also threatened to downgrade all economic and security agreements with Israel while moving to induct Hamas and its terror confederates into the PLO.

Netanyahu has said Israel is ready to negotiate without preconditions from either side "anywhere, anytime."

He has also categorically ruled out a building freeze noting a previous 10-month moratorium on construction in Judea and Samaria aimed at bringing the PLO to the table was rebuffed and met with more preconditions.

Netanyahu: PA Has No Interest in Peace

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said PA officials "have no interest in restarting peace negotiations."

Netanyahu, however, has said he is willing to begin negotiations without preconditions from either side "anywhere, anytime."

PA Mourns Support for Jewish Israel as the ‘Cursed Promise’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
29 november 2011, Kislev 3, 5772

The Palestinian Authority continues to speak in two languages. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas official says he recognizes Israel but officials mourn the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917, in which Britain expressed Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."

In its annual condemnation of the Balfour statement, high school girls in Tulkarm located several miles east of Netanya, wrote “letters of sorrow and pain” to Queen Elizabeth, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reported. http://www.palwatch.org/

"The real reasons that caused Balfour to give his dark promise, first and foremost [the desire] to be rid of the Jews in Europe and to award them a prize for the genocidal weapons which they had invented, which helped Britain to annihilate more people," one girl wrote in a letter that appeared in PA media and was translated by PMW.

Another girl wrote to the Queen "that she and her contemporaries are still paying the price of the Balfour promise in blood and tears, because he [Balfour] 'decided to donate a country which was not his to a nation [the Jews] which was not entitled to it, with no justification, since the Palestinian people had not attacked Britain or dreamed of invading London.'"

Fatah member Faiz Abu Aitah told the official Palestinian Authority's daily newspaper that the Balfour Declaration was "the greatest crime that the international community is responsible for."

In its continuing attempt to rewrite history, PA television reported, "Today is the 94th anniversary of the cursed Balfour promise, in which those who had no ownership (Britain) permitted those who had no right (the Jews) to establish a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine."

A PA reported chimed in on cue, “They [the Jews] took the place of the original inhabitants, conquered their land, and turned them into refugees throughout the world. A promise that brings a mark of shame upon humanity because it [humanity] ignored the colonialist frenzy - not only in Palestine but in the Arab homeland, from east to west...

"The promise is not necessarily the right of humans, in contrast to Allah [who has the right] to promise this land, which did and still does belong in its entirety to its Palestinian owners. Balfour will continue to turn in his grave because of the historical injustice which Britain committed against the Palestinian people."

Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported, "The promise declared by British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, on Nov. 2, 1917, constitutes a great political crime and sin, leading to the uprooting of the Palestinian people and the theft of its land, and causing wars and great conflicts which still continue in the region.'"

Despite the incitement of hatred for the establishmentof Israel, the United States this week continues to to convince Israel to make concessions to bring Abbas back to direct talks for the creation of the PA as a country, on land that includes areas that were part of the 1947 Partiton plan drawn by the United Nations.

Katyusha Missiles Fired from Lebanon at Northern Israel
by Elad Benari
29 november 2011, Kislev 3, 5772

At least four Katyusha missiles were fired from Lebanon into northern Israel overnight Monday.

Kol Yisrael Radio reported that the missiles exploded in two communities near the border with Lebanon. There were no reports of physical injuries but damage was caused to a chicken coop in one of the communities.

The IDF Spokesman said that IDF forces returned fire and said in a statement, “The IDF is treating this as a serious incident and wishes to emphasize that it sees the Lebanese government and the Lebanese army as responsible for the prevention of fire at Israel.”

The statement said that the IDF’s Northern Command is conducting an ongoing assessment in light of the events.

Channel 2 News reported that residents from the communities of Ma’alot and Kfar V'radim reported hearing explosions in the area.

According to the report, a preliminary investigation indicated that the explosions came from the Lebanese side of the border.

Though the border with Lebanon has generally been quiet in recent years, in January of 2009 three missiles were fired from Lebanon and exploded near Kiryat Shmona. No injuries were reported.
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In October of 2009, terrorists in southern Lebanon fired a Katyusha on the Upper Galilee. No one was wounded and no damage was reported. The IDF retaliated with half a dozen rounds of artillery fire.
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In August, a Lebanese army soldier opened fire on Israeli soldiers manning the northern border. It was the first incident at the border in a year.
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Abbas: Shalit Kidnapping 'A Good Thing'
by Gavriel Queenann
2 november 2011, Cheshvan 5, 5772
 
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas went on record in Arabic saying he will never recognize a “Jewish state.” He also said the kidnapping and five year ordeal of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was "a good thing."

The report came from Middle East Media Research Institute, who translated and posted an interview Abbas gave on Egyptian state TV last month.

“First of all, let me make something clear about the story of the Jewish state,” Abbas told Dream2TV on Oct. 23. “They started talking to me about the Jewish state only two years ago.”

“I’ve said it before and I will say it again: I will never recognize the Jewishness of the state or a Jewish state.”

In the same interview Abbas said the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was held captive for five years by Hamas militants, was a "good thing."

“They were able to keep him and hide him,” he said admiringly.

Shalit was ultimately freed in exchange for 1,027 security prisoners, including some 450 terrorists, last month.

Abbas, packaged as a moderate by media handlers and pro-Arab politicians in the West, has long said one thing in English and another in Arabic. Despite this, he signed a unity agreement with the Hamas terror organization – which maintains a genocidal posture towards Israel – earlier this year.

He has also repeatedly accused Israel of being responsible for stalled peace-talks while openly putting maximalist preconditions on his participation in negotiations that he knows will be wholly unacceptable to officials in Jerusalem.

In September Abbas violated the bilateral framework of the Olso Accords when he sought unilateral recognition of a PA state based on pre-1967 lines without consulting Israel or the US, both of whom are Oslo signatories.

Israel has called for negotiations to resume without preconditions from either side.

Ismail Haniyeh

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Echoing earlier statements  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147979#.ToT9vYKo0ZI  by officials in the Hamas terror group, Hamas’ Gaza Prime Minister said on Sunday his group would not back a United Nations membership bid and warned that no Palestinian Authority leader had a mandate to sacrifice “fundamental Palestinian rights.”

Speaking in Gaza, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said the terror group continued to support the establishment of a Palestinian state on any part of “historical Palestine” but would not seek to disrupt the UN bid.

“There is no mandate for any Palestinian leadership to infringe on Palestinian national rights, nor is there a mandate for any Palestinian actor to make historic concessions on Palestinian land or the right of the Palestinians, foremost among them the right of return,” Haniyeh was quoted by AFP as saying.

“Given this position, we reiterate our rejection of this bid,” he added.

Haniyeh stressed, however, that despite Hamas’ objection to the UN bid, it would “not place obstacles in the way of the establishment of a Palestinian state with full sovereignty.”

He said, “We repeat today that we are with the establishment of a Palestinian state on any liberated part of Palestinian land that is agreed upon by the Palestinian people, without recognizing Israel or conceding any inch of historical Palestine.”

Haniyeh was reinforcing the statements made by Hamas on Friday, after PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas officially confirmed he would be going to the United Nations to ask for a Palestinian state this week.
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“We are against any step that will be giving up any inch of the land of Palestine or the rights of the Palestinians, including the right of return,” Hamas’ statement from Friday said.

The ‘right of return’ refers to the Arab leaders demand that as part of a future peace agreement, Israel is to allow millions of Arabs descended from those who left during the 1948 War of Independence to “return” to the cities in which their grandparents and great-grandparents once lived.

Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said that Abbas’ intention to go to the UN “is a tactical step aimed at modifying the way of getting back to the negotiation table with the Israeli occupation.”

Barhoum added, “Hamas movement will not give Abbas or the PLO any legal cover or permission to apply to the UN for full membership, because we believe that his act of heading to the UN is a preparation for resuming the negotiations with Israel.”

The Islamic Jihad terror group has also said it does not back the statehood bid at the UN. Islamic Jihad Spokesperson Daoud Shihab said that Abbas should spend his efforts on achieving unity with Hamas, which controls Gaza and leaves the Palestinian Authority a split entity.

Meanwhile, another senior Hamas official, Khalil al-Hayya, suggested that the PA approach the UN for recognition of a Palestinian state on all of “historical Palestine,” including areas now in Israel.

AFP quoted al-Hayya as saying the Palestinian Legislative Council should “apply for recognition of a Palestinian state on all the Palestinian territory and confirmation of the right of Palestinians to live within the borders of this state.”

Referring to Israel, al-Hayya added, “We appeal to the UN to invalidate the entity that took the decision to establish itself on the land of another.”

Hayya called on the international community to “apply pressure to ensure the implementation of international resolutions, particularly those that uphold the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”

Hamas officers in Gaza

Israel news photo: Flash 90

The Hamas terrorist rulers of Gaza have announced their opposition to the Palestinian Authority bid for recognition at the United Nations as a new country and membership among the international body's ranks.

Senior members of Hamas told the Ma'an news agency this week that the reason is that the statehood bid by the Ramallah-based PA government, led by the rival Fatah faction, would constitute recognition of Israel as a state. 

Such recognition is diametrically opposed to the Hamas platform, which refuses to recognize Israel as a legitimate entity, renounce terrorism or uphold prior agreements negotiated by other PA governments.

These three conditions were set by the Quartet of peacekeeping nations -- Russia, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations -- as necessary for the resumption of funding to the region. Nevertheless, most of the Quartet members have managed to find loopholes through which to channel monies to the Gaza.

The Islamic Jihad terrorist organization has come out against the PA statehood bid at the United Nations as well.

Neither is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) umbrella organization that, despite this, claims to be the “sole representative” of “all” Palestinian people worldwide.

The much-touted “unity deal” between Fatah and Hamas promoted earlier this year has long since fallen apart, with other factions also in disagreement about the issue.
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Oxford University scholar and former PLO representative Karma Nabulsi is also opposed to the plan, but for different reasons.

Nabulsi told Al Jazeera in an interview, “We have been informed by our officials that the initiative will advance our rights to self-determination. However, as it is currently constructed, this initiative does not actually advance or protect this collective right of the Palestinian people.”

It is the Ramallah-based PA, led by Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whose term officially expired in January 2009, that is the driving force behind the U.N. initiative, although the PLO will make the formal proposal. The PLO is the official representative of the group to the United Nations.

There are also concerns being expressed by “ex-pats,” both within the PA territories and abroad, that the resolution in its current form “will replace the PLO as our representative at the U.N. with the Palestinian State,” Nabulsi said, “thereby disenfranchising the majority of our own people.

September 20, 2011, Elul 21, 5771

Global leaders are so busy speaking of how essential it is for a “State of Palestine” to be founded that none of them seems to have noticed that it already exists in practice in the Palestinian Authority. Since the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, the contours of the “State of Palestine” that they wish have taken form in front of our eyes.

So what will this famous “State of Palestine” be like? 

It will be a racist state ethnically cleansed of Jews, as the PLO representatives proclaimed the last week.

It will be a state led by Holocaust enablers like Hamas or by a Holocaust-denier like Mahmoud Abbas, who in a book downgraded the number of Jewish victims and denied that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews.

In any case, it will be a state committed to the destruction of the nearby Jews’ homeland. 

A state that will banish freedom of conscience for artists, journalists and writers. A state that will drive away Christians from the land, while proclaiming Jesus “the first fedayeen”.

A state that will stone to death Arab homosexuals and prostitutes, who are now finding a shelter in Israel. A state that will torture Arab inmates in prisons and that will throw political dissidents from the roofs of public buildings.

A state where the Iranian clergy will preach the Khomeinist ideology. A state that will accept checks and support from the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood in the name of “the caliphate or death”, as the Islamists who assassinated Egypt’s Anwar Sadat in 1981 decorated their holding cages. 

A state where the sharia – the Islamic code – will be the only rule of law. A state that will be put to death human beings simply because guilty of apostasy (conversion to Christianity). A state where the women will be obliged to wear headscarves. A state where “honor killings” will terrorize the female population.

A state that will commemorate terrorists, human bombs and baby killers in public squares, streets and monuments. 

A state that will not hold democratic elections, but that will be a combination of corruption, dictatorship, Islamic theology and “binladenism”.

A state where terror militias will cut fingers off smokers.

A state where public libraries will become the largest global archive of anti-Semitic books.

A state that will ban drinking in public buildings. A state where liquor stores will be blown up by terror groups.

A state where men will be banned from women’s hair salons. 

A state where security forces will arrest people for expressing opinions unpopular with the regime, as well as punishing media organizations and journalists for their coverage of such statements.

A state where the ratio of militiamen/men- under-arms to civilians will be higher than in any other country. A state where worshipers in mosques will be gunned down by terrorists.

A state that will encourage a new category of Arab refugees, those who would gladly escape oppressive and murderous Palestinian control. 

A state where ambulances will be stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded will be shot in cold blood. A state that would be a heavily armed union of rejectionists all dedicated to destroying the shards of Western values.

A state where young couples will not walk hand in hand in the Al Manar Square of Ramallah and where plainclothes officers will halt them in the streets, demanding to see marriage licenses. 

A state that will declare war on Judaism, depicting Jewish history in the Middle East as no more than an insignificant, brief sojourn by arrogant colonizers. 

Who would live in such a state? So why the world is dribbling at the mouth about the creation of a “State of Palestine”?

Is it because Arab state number 23 and Muslim state number 58 will be the perfect tool for the evaporization of the lone Jewish state in the world?

6 miles is the distance between the Israeli city of Afula and the “State of Palestine”. 9 miles to the city of Netanya. 11 miles to reach the skycrapers of Tel Aviv. 4 miles to bomb the Ben Gurion International Airport. Just a mile to the city of Kfar Saba.

Building the small Palestinian caliphate on Israel’s shoulders is the first step of throwing the Jews in the sea. 

The writer, a journalist with Il Foglio, is a weekly columnist for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror vicitms, published by Encounter. He lives in Italy. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage, YNet, Makor Rishon and Commentary.

Hamas, Islamic Jihad Unite against Abbas
September 18, 2011, Elul 19, 5771
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Palestinian Authority unity is further away then ever as the  and  terrorist groups unite to denounce PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his “unilateral moves.”
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Statements by the two terrorist groups highlight the split in the Palestinian Authority and find Hamas and Islamic Jihad in rare agreement with Israel and the United States, although for contradictory reasons.

After Abbas delivered a speech Friday explaining his bid to the United Nations for recognition, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum ridiculed Abbas for “unilateral moves” that he said are part of a move to resume talks with Israel. Israel, the United States, and many other Western leaders have said the unilateral move, which violates the Oslo Accords, is designed to preclude any chance of direct discussions with Israel over the establishment of the Palestinian Authority as an independent country.

Barhoum explained that recognition by the United Nations would lead to acknowledging the existence of Israel and would abandon “the legitimate Palestinian Right of Return and self-determination.”

Islamic Jihad Spokesperson Daoud Shihab said that Abbas should spend his efforts on achieving unity with Hamas, which controls Gaza and leaves the Palestinian Authority a split entity.


Sluipschutter wordt vredestichter
24 augustus 2011, Av 24, 5771
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PA Criticized for Honoring Oslo Accords
19 juni 2011, Sivan 17, 5771
by Gavriel Queenann

 The Palestinian Authority was criticized Thursday by a local Arab committee in Shechem for allowing Jews to visit Joseph's Tomb, the Maan News Agency reported.

Saying they "refuse and condemn" PA dialogue with "settler groups" who wish to visit Joseph's Tomb, the Factional Coordination Committee demanded a stop to coordinating any such visits.

The statement, signed by officials from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Palestinian People's Party, the Palestinian Democratic Union, the Palestinian Liberation Front, and the Arab Liberation Front, was the latest reaction to changes in the way visits to the area are coordinated.

The statement was made after twelve right-wing MKs, many of whom do not reside in Judea and Samaria, made a pilgrimage to Joseph's Tomb earlier this week in a rare daylight visit coordinated by the IDF and PA officials.  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144920

The group, which terms all Jews in Israel as "settlers," described the MKs visit as a "dangerous trend," saying PA police should "protect our people from occupation forces and settler aggression instead of protecting the settler leaders."

The signatories questioned the motives of the PA leadership saying increased coordination with the IDF allowing Jews to visit the site was "collusion with the occupation" and served to "oppress Palestinians."

Joseph's Tomb was inaccessible to Jews during the seventeen year Jordanian occupation of Judea and Samaria from 1949-1967. After the Six Day War Jews were able to freely visit the site. Under the Oslo Accords in 1993 the tomb was initially in Area C, under Israeli jurisdiction, but Israel eventually handed control of the site over to the PA.

Since that time Israelis have only been able to vist the site with the express permission of the IDF and PA officials who coordinate visits to the site.

Most Jewish visits to the site occur at night, but the MKs recent visit was conducted in broad daylight, which is considered a step towards normalizing Jewish visits by PA Arabs who object to Jews visiting at all.

The MKs daylight visit was conducted seven weeks after Minister Limor Livnat's nephew, Ben Yosef Livnat, was brutally murdered by PA security forces at Joseph's tomb.
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Hamas Summer Camps Train Next Generation Terrorists
10 juni 2011, Sivan 8, 5771
by Gavriel Queenann

Hamas is reporting record turnouts for its summer camps for children in 2011.

The 'summer camps,' combining Islamic indoctrination, paramilitary training, and social activities are set to begin again this year as United Nation’s summer camps, considered competition by Hamas, are being openly denigrated by jihadists.

Children and adolescents are an important target demographic for Hamas, from which its future army of terrorists will be recruited. Summer camps are an important means for indoctrinating Gaza's youth with Hamas' jihadist ideology.

In 2010 Hamas ran camps for an estimated 100,000 campers, a number similar to 2009. The Islamic Jihad terror group ran 51 camps with 10,000 participating boys and girls.

Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan reported the objectives of the camps were to raise a generation of children with 'genuine Islamic values.'

"Children working for the interests of their homeland and to educate them to the culture of the Islamic faith so they will remember their goals, including Jerusalem and the prisoners," Radwan said

In addition to indoctrination, Hamas terrorists give children paramilitary training. Banners are hung on the walls with slogans extolling jihad and 'death for the sake of Allah.'

Other prominent motifs for this year are solidarity with Turkey in connection with the Mavi Marmara flotilla, a call for the release of Hamas prisoners (campers carried posters with their pictures) and organized expressions of hatred for Israel and the Jewish people.

UNRWA Programs Attacked

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency summer camp system hosted 250,000 children and adolescents in 2010. This year, as with previous years, the UN camps were harassed by jihadist terrorists.

On May 23, 2010  a group of 30 armed, masked men broke into an UNRWA summer camp site and burned it to the ground. On the night of June 28, 2010 armed, masked men broke into another UNRWA camp site in the Al-Zuweida region in central Gaza and set it on fire. In both incidents the arsonists were not identified.

A UNRWA spokesman called on the security services of the de facto Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip to investigate and determine who was behind the attacks.

But the groups of armed men who attack the UNRWA summer camps every year receive are inspired by, and probably supported by, Hamas and other terror networks networks operating in Gaza who say the UNRWA camps are 'undermining Palestinian values.'

Hamas Back to Normal, Attacks Western Negev with Missile
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
29 mei 2011, lyar 25, 5771

Hamas managed to hold its fire for a month before unleashing another missile attack on the western Negev Saturday night. No one was injured.

An IDF spokeswoman told Israel National News the military has not responded, so far, to the Kassam attack, the first in several weeks since Hamas terrorists  an advanced anti-tank missile at a school bus, killing one teenager. 
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After the strike by the laser-guided missile made in Russia and smuggled from Iran, IDF ground units targeted 11 terrorist cells in northern and southern Gaza, and the Air Force strafed 15 terrorist sites, including terror infrastructure sites, Hamas outposts, smuggling tunnels and weapons manufacturing and storage facilities.  

Hamas reached a unity agreement last month  with the Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, who is publicly committed to halt all violence and incitement against Israel. 
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Following Friday night’s rocket attack, mainstream media followed their habit of reporting rocket strikes that cause no damage or injuries as minor incidents.

PA Carries out Ahmadinejad’s Threat and Wipes Israel Off Map
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
27 april 2011, Nissan 23, 5771

 The Palestinian Authority has carried out Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s threat to “wipe Israel off the map” and literally has done so by displaying maps of “Palestine” covering all of Israel at the same time its leaders talk about “two states for two people.”
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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement that controls the PA in Judea and Samaria, has in effect established a “one-state” solution in Fatah offices and in Palestinian Authority schools and offices.

The Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) has documented that professional unions and private PA groups display maps showing a rifle and a quill over “Palestine,” from the Lebanese border in the north to Eilat in the south and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=4932

The maps have been circulated at the same time Abbas campaigns for international recognition of the Palestinian Authority based on the borders of Israel as they existed between 1949 and 1967, during which time Jordan, which had been mandated by the United Nations to rule part of Judea and Samaria, took over and occupied the entire region, including large swaths of Jerusalem, after the War of Independence in 1948.

Jordan surrendered the areas in the Six-Day War in 1967, later relinquishing all claim to it, and Egypt and Syria did the same in Gaza and the Golan Heights respectively.

The maps declare Abbas’ intentions of making what is often termed the “1967 borders” (actually armistice lines that were never recognized) the temporary outline of a would-be Palestinian Authority country, even though – as PMW noted – U.S. President Barack Obama has criticized such maps as a security threat to Israel, in the same category as the threat from terrorist groups who want to destroy Israel.

"I will never compromise when it comes to Israel's security,” he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in 2008. “Not when there are still voices that deny the Holocaust. Not when there are terrorist groups and political leaders committed to Israel's destruction. Not when there are maps across the Middle East that don't even acknowledge Israel's existence."

Nevertheless, the PA’s version “Palestine,” as illustrated on the map with a rifle and quill, was displayed last week at a meeting of the General Union of Palestinian Writers, PMW reported.

The Palestinian Authority has embedded in its school system the ”one-state” idea of a Palestine – without Israel – for years. As far back as 2003, school posters have displayed the Palestinian flag over a map erasing Israel.

The policy has continued unchanged despite statements by Abbas to President Obama that the PA has ceased anti-Israel incitement. Earlier this year, a map was hung in the principal’s office in a PA school which erased Israel and replaced it with "Palestine", with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flag flying over Israel.

Gebieden die teruggegeven moeten worden aan Palestina... Palestina is overigens een naam die stamt uit de Romeinse overheersing. Ver voor die tijd staat de tijdslijn van Abraham, Izaäk en Jacob.
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Peres Rails Fatah-Hamas Agreement as 'Fatal Mistake’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
28 april 2011, Nissan 24, 5771

The Hamas-Fatah agreement announced on Wednesday is “a fatal mistake” that will allow terrorists to rule Judea and Samaria and  ruin the chances for the establishment of the Palestinian Authority as a country, President Shimon Peres said Thursday afternoon.

He said that  the agreement, if implemented, means there will be a “continuation of rocket attacks, a continuation of the murder of innocent civilians, and the continuation of Iranian interference that supports and finances terror in our region.”

Peres is widely regarded as Israel’s champion of dialogue for peace.

His unusually harsh condemnation of the agreement between Hamas and Fatah leader PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, whom he has called “a productive leader who wants peace,” unifies the Israeli reaction so far, and even echoes the comments by plain-talking Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

“Signing this agreement that will result in elections in another year is liable to allow a terrorist group [Hamas] to control [not only] Gaza [but also] Judea and Samaria,” said the president, "and the Hamas policy will win." The Foreign Minister issued virtually the same verdict earlier Thursday, placing both leaders, from parties on opposite sides of the spectrum, in rare agreement.

“Hamas is not changing its spots,” President Peres continued, "It is not ceasing to be a terrorist group that serves Iran and smuggles weapons.”

He said the Fatah-Hamas accord is between two camps, “one calling for peace and the other calling for the destruction of Israel… This is a fatal mistake."  

Sources commenting on the president's remarks took issue with the PA's sincerity when "calling for peace", due to its preconditions, incitement and refusal to negotiate, but agreed that it does mouth the peace words, as opposed to Hamas.

Report: Abbas’ Holocaust-Denial Dissertation Widely-Taught in PA
by Hillel Fendel
28 april 2011, Nissan 24, 5771

Research by the Center for Near East Policy Research Center has found that the doctoral dissertation of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas “stars” throughout the Palestinian Authority educational curriculum, and “is the basis for Holocaust studies in the PA.”

The Center’s Director, David Bedein, has asked Education Minister Gideon Saar and the government of Israel to demand that the PA remove the work from its schools and from its curricula.

Bedein wrote that the Center is engaged in preparing a movie on the PA educational system, in the course of which it tracks that which is taught in PA classrooms. “Throughout the educational system of the PA,” he wrote to Saar, “we have found that the doctorate of Mahmoud Abbas stars, and forms the basis of PA Holocaust studies.”

Downgrades Number of Victims, Accuses Zionists of Collaboration

The doctorate was published as a book in 1984, entitled,"The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.” It was completed in 1982 at a university in Communist Russia, and was defended at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

It downgrades the number of Holocaust victims to “[possibly] below one million,” and accuses Zionist leaders of encouraging the persecution of Jews.

It also denies that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews, quoting a "scientific study" to that effect by French Holocaust-denier Robert Faurisson. 

Excerpts: “…it is possible that the number of Jewish victims reached six million, but at the same time it is possible that the figure is much smaller--below one million.”

  "The historian and author, Raoul Hilberg, thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000." [Holocaust authority Dr. Rafael Medoff says, “This is, of course, utterly false. Professor Hilberg, a distinguished historian and author of the classic study 'The Destruction of the European Jews', has never said or written any such thing.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/9283

  "It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement, however, is to inflate this figure so that their gains will be greater… This led them to emphasize this figure [six million] in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism.”

  "A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement ... [the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine."

Medoff writes that Abbas writes in his dissertation that the Zionist leaders actually wanted Jews to be murdered, because "having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner --suffering victims in a battle --it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting." 

Netanyahu: Abbas is Distorting History
20 mei 2011, lyar 16, 5771
by Elad Benari

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu criticized Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, following the op-ed he published earlier in the day in The New York Times.

“The article is a blatant distortion of historical facts which are well-known and documented,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “The Palestinians were the ones who refused the partition plan for two states while the Jews had agreed.”

Netanyahu was referring to Abbas’ claim in his article that “the last time the question of Palestinian statehood took center stage at the General Assembly, the question posed to the international community was whether our homeland should be partitioned into two states. In November 1947, the General Assembly made its recommendation and answered in the affirmative. Shortly thereafter, Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened. War and further expulsions ensued.”

Abbas conveniently omitted the rejection of the partition plan by the Arab world and the fact that most Arabs living in Israel left because they were told to do so by their leaders, who promised them that they would return after Israel was quickly annihilated.

Netanyahu also mentioned that Abbas skipped over the Arab nations' attacks on the young Jewish state following its declaration, saying that “Arab armies aided by Palestinian forces were the ones who attacked the Jewish state in order to destroy it. Yet all of this is not even mentioned in the article.”

Netanyahu added that “we can conclude from the article that the Palestinian leadership sees in the establishment of a Palestinian state a means to continue the conflict with Israel instead of ending it.”

In his op-ed in the Times, Abbas also said that the future PA state would be “a peace-loving nation, committed to human rights, democracy, the rule of law and the principles of the United Nations Charter.” He added that its entry into the UN would allow the PA “to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice,” but his skewing of history and unity with the Hamas terror organization puts those statements into another perspective, according to Israel's Prime Minister.

Abbas also called for the creation of the Palestinian Authority as a new country inside Israel’s borders, with only the refugee question open to negotiation. He stated that the entry of the PA into the UN as a full-fledged member “would pave the way for the internationalization of the conflict as a legal matter, not only a political one.”

Previously, in a Knesset speech on Monday night, Prime Minister Netanyahu had said, "This is not a conflict about 1967. This is a conflict about 1948, about the State of Israel's very existence. You must have noticed that yesterday's events [“Nakba Day”] did not take place on June 5, the day the Six Day War erupted; they took place on May 15, the day the State of Israel was established." 

Abbas and Netanyahu Agree: War of 1948 Has not Ended
20 mei 2011, 16 Iyyar,5771
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas agree at least on one point: The “conflict” between Arabs and the Jewish state was not settled in the 1948 War for Independence. 

In his Knesset speech Monday night, the Prime Minister said, "This is not a conflict about 1967. This is a conflict about 1948, about the State of Israel's very existence. You must have noticed that yesterday's events [“Nakba Day”] did not take place on June 5, the day the Six Day War erupted; they took place on May 15, the day the State of Israel was established."

In his Monday op-ed in The New York Times, Abbas wrote, “It is important to note that the last time the question of Palestinian statehood took center stage at the General Assembly, the question posed to the international community was whether our homeland should be partitioned into two states. In November 1947, the General Assembly made its recommendation and answered in the affirmative. Shortly thereafter, Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened. War and further expulsions ensued.”

Abbas' skillfully written op-ed implicitly rejected the existence of Israel by stating that the General Assembly partitioned “our homeland,” a phrase that previously had referred to a Jewish state in declarations by the League of Nations and in the Balfour Declaration, among others.

His description of the chain of events in 1947 and 1948 parallels several Muslim and Arab alterations of history and the Bible. His op-ed stated that Zionist forces expelled "Palestinian Arabs” after the United Nations recognition of Israel.

However, Britain still was in control of the country at the time under the Mandate, and Israel, where the Jewish people already were under siege by Arabs, did not establish itself as an independent nation until the following May. Also, the term "Palestinian Arabs” was not invented until years later. The entire country was referred to as Palestine under the British Mandate, a term coined by the ancient Romans.

Abbas also tried to establish as a fact that Arab armies “intervened” to stop the alleged efforts to expel Arabs and create a Jewish majority. Virtually every history book outside the Arab world notes that Arab terrorists attacked Jews for decades, most notably the 1929 pogrom in Hevron, where Arabs slaughtered 67 Jews.

The "intervention” was an Arab declaration of war against the existence of a Jewish state, which Arab forces vowed to annihilate.

Abbas wrote that “war and further expulsions” ensued but omitted reminding readers that every war against Israel was launched by Arabs. He did not mention the war drums that seven Arab nations beat until the beginning of the Six Day War in 1967.

Six years later, Egypt, followed by Syria, launched an unprovoked war with a large-scale invasion on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish holiday.

Muslim clerics and the Palestinian Authority also have tried to change the Bible, referring to binding of Isaac (Yitzchak) as the “binding of Ishmael.” They also have rejected any Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, which has been subject to an Arab campaign claiming that it was not built by Jews and that the Western Wall is a Muslim holy site, despite the Bible and archaological findings to the contrary..

Similar claims have been made that Rachel’s Tomb, south of Jerusalem and on the road to Efrat, actually was a Muslim holy place, even though Islam was not founded until nearly 2,500 years after the death of the Matriarch Rachel, wife of Jacob (Yaakov).

Hamas MP: Jews Ingathered for Us to Annihilate Them
19 mei 2011, lyar 15, 5771
by Gil Ronen

Beeldmateriaal: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144283

Yunis al Astal, a member of the Palestinian Authority parliament, spelled out his organization's vision for the genocidal annihilation of the Jewish people in a television interview last week. The interview was broadcast on Hamas Al Aqsa TV and monitored by incitement watchdog group MEMRI.  

Al Astal described the ingathering of the Jewish people in the Land of Israel in terms of a divine plan that would give the Arabs "the honor" of annihilating "the evil of this gang."

In a few years' time, he predicted, the Zionists will understand that they were brought here for the purpose of being slaughtered in "a great massacre."

Using Hitleresque language, he said that the Jews are more dangerous than all of the world's lethal birds of prey, dangerous reptiles and lethal bacteria combined.

Hamas and Fatah have signed a pact of cooperation, yet the Israeli government refuses to assign enemy status to Fatah, which controls part of Judea and Samaria. Rather, it sees it as a partner in security cooperation and possible peace talks. As part of the accord between Fatah and Hamas, Hamas's Al Aqsa TV is allowed to broadcast in Judea and Samaria.   http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144085

Not long after the massacre of the Fogel family at Itamar, the government announced that it would be publishing an incitement index  and monitoring PA hate talk, but little has been heard of the initiative since. 
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142864

Hamas praises Osama bin Laden as holy warrior
Conal Urquhart in Ramallah
guardian.co.uk
Monday 2 May 2011 14.07 BST

Palestinian Islamist group condemns mission to kill Bin Laden as part of a US policy of oppression

The Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh condemns Osama bin Laden's killing at a news conference. Photograph: Ismail Zaydah/Reuters

Hamas Leader Khaled Mashaal Reportedly Quits Syria
by Chana Ya'ar
1 april 2011, Nissan 27, 5771

The Damascus-based Hamas leadership has left Syria, according to a report this weekend in the London-based Al Hayat newspaper.

The newspaper reported Saturday the Syrian government had asked the Hamas leaders to leave.

According to that report and one in Gulf News, the government of Qatar agreed to “permanently host” the terrorist group's political leadership – but not its "military" (terrorist) leaders. Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal has visited Doha numerous times in the past year.

Journalist Naser Najjar quoted political analyst Shaker Shabat, who explained the terrorist leaders were asked to endorse the Syrian regime or leave.

“Since Hamas considers itself a liberation movement, it found itself in a compromising situation since they wouldn't be able to support the protesters in their will for freedom and liberation,” Shaker told Gulf News.

He added unrest in Syria had contributed to the reconciliation between Hamas and the Ramallah-based Fatah faction, which leads the Palestinian Authority government based in Judea and Samaria. Hamas wrested control of Gaza from the PA in June 2007.

With the end of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's regime, and the current threat to Syrian President Bashar Assad, Najjar explained, “the Palestinian parties no longer felt secure, as these regimes threw financial and political support behind Fatah and Hamas.”

Egypt to Host Hamas Office?

PA sources told Al Hayat that Hamas military leaders were slated to return to Gaza, but the information could not be independently confirmed.

In addition, although Jordan rejected a request to host Hamas, the sources said that Egypt had agreed to allow Hamas to open an office in Cairo.

The office would allegedly be headed by deputy politburo chief Mousa Abu Marzouk.

US Diplomat in Doha with Hamas Spokesman

On February 23, U.S. Foreign Service Officer Rachel Schneller, an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, appeared in Doha on the same panel with Hamas politburo member and spokesman Osama Hamdan.

The panel was presented as part of a forum hosted by the Al Jazeera Center for Strategic Studies in the Qatari capital.

The fact that a semi-active U.S. diplomat was sitting together on a public platform with a Hamas official, and later admitted that she “shared a cup of tea” with him with the blessing of her State Department supervisors, made headlines at the Al Jazeera pan-Arab satellite news network.  http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/04/02/confirmed-us-sanctioned-meeting-hamas-doha

Hamas is named on the U.S. State Department list of outlawed terrorist organizations with whom Americans are told not to do business nor to have any contact.

Wholesale Denials by Hamas

All of the above reports regarding moves from Damascus were denied Saturday by Hamas officials.

A spokesman for the terrorist group told Voice of Israel government radio that Hamas has “no intention” of leaving Damascus.

He also denied the report that Egypt had agreed to allow Hamas to open an office in Cairo.

A post on the Los Angeles Times' Babylon & Beyond blog also quoted a Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan, as saying, “As far as I know, we were not told to move to any other country.”

The Hamas political leadership has been based in Syria for the past decade. 

All of Israel within Rocket Range under Hamas-Fatah State
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
1 april 2011, Nissan 27, 5771

A new illustrated map presented by the pro-Israel Americans for a Safe Israel (ASFI) shows that a Hamas-Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority state, with or without all the borders the PA demands, would leave all of what would remain of Israel within Katyusha missile range.

The map was created by Mark Langfan, a New York attorney and expert on military and strategic issues who has frequently appeared at Congressional committees on Capitol Hill.

A Hamas-Fatah PA state would allow the Hamas terrorist organization, whose stated aim is the destruction of Israel, to deploy Iranian and Syrian-supplied Katyusha missiles near all Israel urban centers. 

Seventy percent of the population of Israel, and 80 percent of the country’s industrial base is located in the coastal region that includes Netanya and metropolitan Tel Aviv, AFSI pointed out. One large PA city is Tulkarm, located only a few miles east of Netanya and overlooking the high-speed north-south Highway 6 (Kvish 6).

Jerusalem would be within easy range of Jericho, where the PA army is trained on a United States-funded base by American military officers.

Be'er Sheva already has been attacked by Grad Katyusha missiles from Gaza, as have been Haifa and the Galilee from Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon.

“Mahmoud Abbas, our supposed ’peace’ partner, has now joined forces with Hamas, the acknowledged [Hamas] terrorist group", AFSI wrote. "This is actually a declaration of war against the State of Israel since Hamas has never disguised its intentions of destroying Israel.

“The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has used the diplomatic track, hoping to delude Israelis and the world with its words of peace, while pursuing its terrorist ideology. The truth is now out.”

It added that the creation of a new Arab state controlled by Hamas and Fatah would be “suicidal” for Israel.

Israel has been almost totally unified in its horror of the idea of Hamas being part of the Palestinian Authority.  Even before the "unity" of the two organizations, there was the fear of a Hamas takeover in the PA's Judea and Samaria areas, as happened in Gaza.

The Obama administration has only stated that it is “studying” the new agreement between Fatah and Hamas while former U.S. President Jimmy Carter stated he thinks it is a great idea.

The Carter Center, founded in 1982 by Carter and his wife Rosalynn, commended members of Hamas and Fatah for "having the vision to begin the process of reunifying the Palestinian people.”

Carter added, “Based on my years of contacts with Fatah and Hamas, I am confident that, if handled creatively and flexibly by the international community, Hamas’ return to unified Palestinian governance can increase the likelihood of a two-state solution and a peaceful outcome.”

Palestinian Authority Police Kill Israeli near Joseph's Tomb
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
24 april 2011, Nissan 20, 5771

Palestinian Authority police Sunday morning shot and killed one Israeli and wounded four others after they prayed at Joseph's Tomb (Kever Yosef) around 6 a.m. Sunday (11 p.m. Saturday night EDT). The murder victim (pictured below) was identified as 24-year-old Ben Yosef Livnat, a nephew of Likud Minister Limor Livnat and father of four children.

Arabs attacked the funeral procession with rocks as it proceeded from his childhood home of Elon Moreh to Jerusalem, where he lived with his wife and four children. At least one car windshield was broken in the rock attacks, but no one was injured. People from Elon Moreh stood by the highway in dozens of cars as the funeral procession passed.

One of the three who were wounded in the shooting attack is in serious condition, and Army helicopters evacuated the injured to a hospital for emergency care. A group of 15 worshippers from the Breslov Chassidic sect had driven to the site and were returning when they were gunned down by Palestinian Authority police in a jeep.

The PA security forces continued to fire at the cars as they fled.

The IDF hurriedly issued a statement that the trip to Kever Yosef was not coordinated with Israeli security forces, and military spokesmen referred to the murder as an "incident" and not an attack.

Kever Yosef is a Jewish holy site that was supposed to be under Israeli control and open to worshippers as stated in previous agreements. However, the government has surrendered the area to Palestinian Authority control, and local Arabs have desecrated it several times.

The Breslov group was known to Palestinian Authority authorities as people who frequently prayed at Kever Yosef without any other intentions, according to Gershon Mesika, chairman of the Shomron (Samaria) Regional Council. He called the shooting attack a “massacre at close range." 

Breslovhgroup: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJIP6z5fxI&feature=player_embedded#at=44

National Union Knesset Member Dr. Michael Ben-Ari indirectly blamed the American government for having “trained and armed the enemy army that is called the ‘Palestinian Authority police’ and is directly responsible for the murder at Kever Yosef.”

He called on the Israeli government to restore the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva to Kever Yosef and to confiscate weapons from the Palestinian Authority 

The attack on the morning before the last day of the Passover holiday comes less than a month after the savage stabbings of Rabbi Udi Fogel, his wife Ruthie and three of their six young children, including a three-month-old baby, in community of Itamar, also located in Samaria.

Residents of Judea and Samaria frequently have warned that the removal of roadblocks and checkpoints in the area would make it easier for Arab terrorists to stage attacks and would encourage PA police to attack Jews. Defense Minister Ehud Barak has argued that the easing of security measures are “goodwill” measures that strengthen PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s popularity and help him fight terror.

Hamas Plans to Kidnap Israeli Civilians In Israel
by Gavriel Queenann
8 april 2011, Nissan 4, 5571

Hamas intends to kidnap Israeli civillian in Israel with a special focus on the Jewish population of Judea and Samaria, the National Security Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned Wednesday.

The warning comes as intelligence sources cited tangible reports from reliable sources.

In addition, Israelis who plan to travel abroad for Passover have been warned of hotspots for kidnapping attempts. Countries on the list include Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Georgia, Armenia, Kenya and Nigeria.

The Council Counter-Terrorism Bureau advises Israelis in these countries conceal their identity, use air travel as their means of transportation, and only travel during the day.

Last Saturday the Counter-Terrorism Bureau also issued a strong warning to Israelis to leave Sinai immediately. "Terrorist elements remain in Sinai and are making preparations for kidnappings along with extremists among the local Bedouin tribes," the warning stated

The warning also asked Israelis with relatives staying in Sinai to contact their relatives and tell them of the warning, saying, "recent and reliable information obtained by the security services indicates terrorist organizations continue to plan to kidnap Israelis in Sinai to use as bargaining chips. The Counter-Terrorism Bureau strongly recommends Israelis refrain from going to Sinai and is calling on all Israelis currently there to leave immediately and return to Israel."

Counter-Terrorism Bureau officials explained "the security situation in the Sinai, which is characterized by instability, produces a real danger of attacks on Israelis there. Over the weekend the IDF a hit Hamas cell in Gaza, which was involved in planning attacks in the Sinai. This demonstrates the reality."  

Document Hamas, SWC
2 april 2011, Adar Bet 27, 5771
http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/HAMAS_YESTERDAY_TOMORROW.PDF

PA Double Talk on Honoring Terrorist, Jerusalem Bombing
by Elad Benari
29 maart 2011, Adar Bet 23, 5771 

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a media watchdog group that monitors the media in the Palestinian Authority, reported once again on Sunday about the duplicity of the Palestinian Authority leadership.

Once such incident in the report revolves around the naming of a square in Ramallah after Dalal Mughrabi, the female terrorist who led the Coastal Road Massacre in March of 1978 which ended with 37 Israelis dead, including 13 children.

Abbas condemns: During an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 News last week, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the naming of a square after Mughrabi:

Abbas: “If there's incitement on my part, where is it?”

Israeli TV host: “On TV.”

Abbas: “No. I say, in Israel there's also incitement.”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143056

Host: “I'll give you another example. When the Israeli public sees the PA glorifies terrorists, calling a square for [terrorist] Dalal Mughrabi, a street for [terrorist] Ayyash.”

Abbas: “These [namings] are not by the PA but by the municipalities. The municipalities have a degree of independence.”

Host: “Are you personally against those commemorations?”

Abbas: "There's no doubt, I'm against it... Whatever we must do, you must do as well, but I condemn this action [naming square for Mughrabi].”

Abbas commends: The above comments are the complete opposite of comments made by Abbas during an interview he gave just over a year ago to the Arabic language, PA-based Al-Hayat Al-Jadida newspaper.

“They [Israel] say about me that I carry out terrorist activities. What are those terrorist activities? That I search for those who sell land in Jerusalem and chase them. Of course I chase them, and I shall continue to do so. Is that a crime? [Israel says,] 'Does he [Abbas] not know that they [the PA] named a square after Dalal Mughrabi and he [Abbas] personally went [to the ceremony]?' - Of course I did not go myself, but I do not deny [the naming].

Of course we want to name a square after her. Okay, what about [murdered Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam] Zeevi? They [Israelis] named a road after him [in the Jordan Valley], near brother Saeb [Erekat, i.e, the chief Fatah negotiator], and so on. What is it [that Israel wants]? That we renounce our history? How? We... carried out a military activity; can I then later renounce all that we have done? No, I don't renounce it.” [Emphasis added.]

The PMW report also notes how Abbas personally glorified Mughrabi in the past, funded a computer center named after her, and sponsored a “birthday” celebration on what would have been her 50th birthday, with senior Fatah officials present and including a live performance of songs and poems.

Mughrabi is not the only terrorist glorified by the PA and specifically by Abbas, notes the report. Abbas took part in the official red carpet military funeral of Amin Al-Hindi who was one of the senior planners of the murder of 11 Israeli athletes in the Munich Olympics in 1972. Another planner of the Munich Olympics attack, Muhammad Daoud Oudeh, was referred to by Abbas as “a wonderful brother, companion, tough and stubborn, relentless fighter.”

Abbas' Prime Minister also guilty of double talk

A separate reported released by PMW showed that PA Prime Minster Salam Fayyad is no different when it comes to double talk. Fayyad, who on Wednesday afternoon condemned as “terror” the bomb at a Jerusalem bus stop, had, the same morning, honored PA women terrorists, including two who drove suicide bombers to terror attacks killing five. http://israeltoday.nl/headlines/9-nederlands/1498-bom-ontploft-in-jeruzalem-een-dode-50-gewonden

Fayyad commends: “I will not fail to mention with honor and admiration the resolve of the female prisoners, the fighters, and of all the prisoners of freedom who are imprisoned in the Israeli prisons, experiencing indescribable suffering,” Fayyad was quoted by Arabic language Al-Hayat Al-Jadida as saying. “This requires that all of us intensify the effort to ensure their liberation from the occupation's chains and from the abuse of its [Israel's] executioners.” Among those terrorists he honored was also one who placed a bomb in a bus station, an act identical to the one he condemned just a few hours later.

The same newspaper, as well as Israel's media, also reported Fayyad’s condemnation of the terror attack in Jerusalem:

Fayyad condemns: “Prime Minister Fayyad condemned ‘harshly’ the explosion which took place next to the Jerusalem central bus station. He emphasized that such actions bring 'catastrophes' upon the Palestinian people. In an announcement, Fayyad said, ‘I condemn this terror operation in the harshest terms, no matter who stands behind it.’ Fayyad wished the injured a speedy recovery.

He said, ‘It is shameful that after all the catastrophes which such actions have brought upon our people, and the heavy damage which they have brought to our struggle and to the justice of our cause, some Palestinian party still insists on renewing these shameful operations and scenes, under hollow slogans which our people no longer believe, and which stand in complete contrast to its legitimate attempt to earn freedom through peaceful means and through its determination to stand resolute and to remain upon its land.’”

Confusing? Only if you understand Arabic or read the Palestine Media Watch  translations. If you stick only to what the PA leaders say for Israeli and world consumption, you will feel better.

Fatah Leadership Calls For Fayyad's Dismissal
by Gavriel Queenann
4 maart 2011, Adar 28, 5771

Fatah wants to jettison Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Reuters reports. In a letter to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, senior officials of the dominant Fatah party demanded he fire Fayyad. The letter, backed by Fatah's central revolutionary council, read,"We suggest you reconsider re-appointing Dr. Fayyad and ask that a strong Fatah figure do the job."

The letter underlies deep political tensions gripping the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, with many strident Fatah members clearly frustrated by Fayyad, who has proposed forming a unity government with Hamas, who wrested control of Gaza from the PA in a bloody coup in 2007. Hamas, Fatah's bitter rival, rejected Fayyad's proposal and caricatured him as a "puppet of the west."

Fayyad wields substantial power despite the absence of a meaningful political base of his own. As Prime Minister Fayyad controls finances and security. A former economist with the World Bank, Fayyad has been credited by Western governments with transforming the institutional landscape in the West Bank, successfully building the core structures needed for a planned independent Palestinian state.

Growing dissatisfaction with both Hamas and Fatah simmers under the surface of the Palestinian electorate, however. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/142637 Looking to show his commitment for change in the wake of popular protests across the Arab world - and to avert unrest - Abbas has asked Fayyad to appoint a new cabinet and prepare for elections.

Attempts to draw up a new list of ministers for the PA has bogged down amidst dissent from Fatah's rank and file, complicating the efforts. As has Abbas' steadfast refusal to hold elections on the national level, instead opting to only hold municipal elections. Fatah has dominated 'Palestinian' politics for generations and many activists are angered by Abbas's apparent reliance on Fayyad, saying it risks eroding their credibility.

According to an official close to Abbas, the President "did not take it [the letter demanding Fayyad's dismissal] seriously."

Fatah Announces Elections; Hamas Says It's a Conspiracy
by Hillel Fendel
13 februari 2011, Adar 9, 5771

 With Mahmoud Abbas illegally usurping the “presidency” of the Palestinian Authority ever since his four-year term expired a year ago, the PA has finally announced that it will hold general elections “by September at the latest.”  The announcement was made Saturday night by Yasser Abed Rabbo, a top Abbas aide.

Hamas, the main rival of the Abbas-led Fatah movement, immediately announced that it would not participate in the election. A spokesman for Iran-backed Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel, said the announcement was a “conspiracy against the Palestinian people." He said the elections would be “illegitimate, and that "Hamas will not participate or recognize or give any cover for this election.”

The Hamas refusal is not expected to last for long, if the elections are actually held, as Hamas celebrated when Egypt overthrew Hosni Mubarak and adopted democracy. On the other hand, the Hamas-allied Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has also announced that it will not take part in elections in Egypt.

Fatah and Hamas have long been at odds, especially after Hamas fought Fatah in 2007 and conquered Gaza. At least 118 people were killed and more than 550 wounded during the week-long battles. Hamas had won the legislative elections the year before, though Abbas retained the title of PA Chairman.

The decision to hold elections is generally seen as an attempt to fall in line with the winds of change blowing throughout the Arab Middle East. The Abbas government is not viewed as particularly popular, and the loss of his Egyptian ally Hosni Mubarak does not help matters. Negotiations with Israel are not expected to move forward in the coming months; in fact, the PA has announced that it will ask the United Nations to unilaterally recognize it as a nation by this coming September.


Report: Hamas Stirring Up Violence in Egypt
by Maayana Miskin
4 februari 2010, Shevat 30, 5771

Hamas is attempting to increase the level of violence in Egyptian demonstrations, according to a report in the Egyptian daily Al-Yawm Al-Sabah that was translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). According to the report, Hamas terrorists were recently caught on their way to demonstrations. Nine of the terrorists were nabbed in Suez City, and another two were caught in El-Arish.

Security forces believe the 11 were not alone, the paper said. More terrorists are believed to have infiltrated Sinai recently. There has also been movement in the other direction, as Hamas prisoners escape jail in Egypt while police are busy with the protests. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/142033

Hamas shares a platform with the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian opposition party that supports the demonstrations against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Gaza-based terrorist group is in fact an offshoot of the Brotherhood, as is the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Israel-based Islamic Movement.

More than 300 people are thought to have been killed in riots in Egypt so far. The Muslim Brotherhood's favored candidate for president, former UN inspector Mohammed ElBaradei, recently told Mubarak that he must leave the country by Friday, a demand Mubarak has rejected. (lees voor meer informatie: Egypte)

Muslim Brotherhood’s Message Same as Hamas: Kill Jews
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
4 februari 2010, Shevat 30, 5771

Many Western analysts agree that the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are one and the same. One leading Brotherhood cleric has said: "Kill Jews – to the very last one.” A Brotherhood takeover of Egypt would strengthen Hamas in Gaza.

Another Brotherhood leader told an Arab language newspaper Monday that Egyptians “should prepare for war against Israel."

The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas are rooted in the same ideology. "If the Muslim Brotherhood groups gain a prominent place in the government, this would definitely help consolidate Hamas's hold on Gaza,'' Atiyeh Jawwabra, a political science professor at Jerusalem's Al Quds University, told The Wall Street Journal’s Joshua Mitnick.

The journalist added, “Hamas, whose founder was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, has rejected negotiations with Israel and refuses to foreswear military and terrorist attacks."

“Under a different name (Hamas), the Muslim Brotherhood runs the Gaza Strip. Hamas's charter states unequivocally that it wants to eradicate Israel,” wrote Richard Cohen in the Washington Post this week.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology was made clear in the sermons of one of its leading preachers based in Qatar, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Two years ago, the Anti-Defamation League posted several of his teachings, one of them a call that Israel and Jews be dealt with by the Almighty who should "kill them, down to the very last one."

In a sermon aired in January 2009 on Al Jazeera television, Qaradawi said, “I will shoot Allah’s enemies, the Jews, and they will throw a bomb at me, and thus I will seal my life with martyrdom.”  Two days later, Qaradawi gave another speech that also aired on Al-Jazeera, where he claimed that Adolf Hitler was sent by Allah to punish the Jews.

The same month, he led a delegation of Muslim scholars who met with Arab terrorist groups, including Hamas, in Damascus "to discuss the ways to cope with a war of genocide against the people in…Gaza."

On another occasion, he declared, "I support Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Hizbullah.  I oppose the peace that Israel and America wish to dictate. This peace is an illusion. I support martyrdom operations."

Several analysts view the Muslim Brotherhood as being a minority in Egypt, and the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, traditionally against Israeli nationalism, recently opined that “There is ultimately no alternative to freedom and self-government,” even if it means that a radical Muslim group will control Egypt.

During the George W. Bush administration, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was shell-shocked when aides woke her up in the middle of the night to tell that Hamas won the Palestinian Authority's first and only legislative election that the United States sponsored - and even monitored - in the Palestinian Authority.

CNN somewhat played down the prospect of an Egyptian government led by the Muslim Brotherhood, quoting Egyptian analyst Mustafa Abulhimal as saying, "The Muslim Brotherhood are a small minority among those who are out on the street," he said, and added that there is no comparison  between Egypt today and Iran in 1979, when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the American-backed Shah.

"The Muslim Brotherhood has nothing to do with the Iranian model, has nothing to do with extremism as we have seen it in Afghanistan and other places. The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt," he said.

Hamas Court Sentences Accused Collaborator to Death
by Elad Benari
12 december 2010

Death Sentence for Collaborator A Hamas military court in Gaza convicted three men of collaborating with Israel on Monday. One of them was sentenced to death, while the other two will serve prison terms, AFP reported.

The Hamas interior ministry said in a statement: "The military court handed down a death sentence against one collaborator with the occupation, and prison terms of seven years and three years for two other collaborators.” No additional details on the men were provided.

Although Palestinian Authority law states that the president must approve all execution orders before they can be carried out, PA President Mahmoud Abbas was not consulted, as Hamas no longer recognizes the legitimacy of his presidency.

This will not be the first execution of so-called collaborators. in April, Hamas executed two men on charges of working with Israel, in the first executions to be carried out since the Islamist movement violently seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.

Two years ago, during the IDF’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, at least eight people were murdered for allegedly helping Israel fight terrorism by providing information on local terrorist groups. The eight, who were prisoners in Gaza's main prison, escaped the building after it was bombed by the Israel Air Force. Following the airstrike, terrorists and relatives of terrorists killed by the IDF rushed to the prison and caught several of the escaping inmates, killing them on the spot.

This past September it was reported that Hamas was cracking down on collaborators with Israel, detaining many residents of the Gaza Strip, including two prominent physicians, a respected engineer, and even members of the terrorist group itself. Hamas refused to identify those who were arrested.

The Hamas campaign has created fear and suspicion, as locals said a few weeks ago that there is an atmosphere of distrust in the Strip. One man said that the campaign has had “a really bad impact on society.” People no longer trust each other, he said, “We don't talk openly with each other.”

According to Human Rights Watch, Hamas has killed at least 32 alleged informers and political opponents during and after Operation Cast Lead and maimed dozens of others.


Abbas’ Fatah Faction Honors Olympic Massacre Planner
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Nov 28 '10, Kislev 21, 5771

Fatah Honors Olympic Terrorist The Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, held a meeting in Ramallah last week in honor of a senior planner of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympics at their Revolutionary Council conference.. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133432

Abbas, who worked behind the scenes to fund the murder of 11 Israelis at Munich, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/42611 earlier this year he would halt incitement and the encouragement of violence against Jews. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138398 One month later Abbas praised Abu Daoud, the mastermind of the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972 who died this year.

At last week’s Fatah’s Revolutionary Council meeting, Abbas sat at the head table in front of a poster of Amin al-Hindi, one of the senior planners of the terrorist attack that shocked the world but not enough to stop Olympic officials from continuing with the Games despite the massacre.

The Fatah meeting officially was held in honor of “the Shahid (Martyr) commander Amin Al-Hindi,” according to Palestinian Media Watch. http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=3788 The text on the banner behind Abbas read, "Palestinian National Liberation Movement - Fatah. Fifth Meeting of the Revolutionary Council Shahid (Martyr) Commander Amin Al-Hindi Conference November 24-25, 2010 Ramallah - Palestine."

Last August, the official PA daily described al-Hindi's participation in the Olympic massacre, saying he was "one of the stars who sparkled... at the sports stadium in Munich." The attack itself was referred to as "just one of many shining stations" in his life.

At last week’s conference in Ramallah, Fatah formally declared that it never will recognize Israel as a Jewish state and also rejected the idea of a land swap by which Israel would hold sovereignty over Jewish-dominated areas in Judea and Samaria such as Gush Etzion and Maaleh Adumim and would surrender areas which are dominated by Israeli Arabs.


Fatah Declares: No to Israel as Jewish State, No to Land Swaps
by Chana Ya'ar
Nov 28 '10, Kislev 21, 5771

Fatah: Israel Not Jewish State The faction that is led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and which leads the PA has officially declared its formal refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State. Its announcement recalled the three no's of the Khartoum Arab League Conference of September 1967, following the Six Day War, which squelched all efforts to reach a peace agreement by declaring "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it".

The Fatah Revolutionary Council over this weekend voted to “affirm its rejection of the so-called Jewish state or any other formula that could achieve this goal” at its fifth convention in Ramallah.

“The Council also renews its refusal for the establishment of any racist state based on religion in accordance with international law and human rights conventions,” the council said in a statement issued at the end of the convention.

In addition, the statement said Fatah was opposed to the concept of swapping land for peace, because “illegal settler gangs cannot be placed on an equal footing with the owners of the lands and rights.” Israel has long considered land swaps to be part of a final solution.

The latest efforts by the United States to bring Israel and the PA back to the negotiating table did not help the cause of peace, opined the Council, because it could “harm Palestinian rights and prolong the occupation… and such gifts to the occupier will only make the occupier more stubborn and radical.”

The Council also condemned the new Israeli law that mandates a full nationwide Israeli referendum prior to ceding land from within Jerusalem or the Golan Heights, saying it violated international law. Fatah Council members urged the PA leadership to fight the measure in the United Nations plenum and in U.N. Security Council.

PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas received the Council’s sole praise, with Fatah leaders expressing support for “adhering to the basic rights, first and foremost the right of return for Palestinian refugees. Also… for standing up against pressure aimed at resuming the peace talks without achieving the demands of the Palestinians.”

Abbas also vowed not to return to the negotiating table unless Israel completely froze Jewish construction throughout Judea, Samaria, and all areas of Jerusalem claimed by the Palestinian Authority for its hoped-for new country.

Last Sunday thousands protested in Jerusalem against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s agreement to a 90-day extension of the freeze.

U.S. President Barack Obama had threatened to back a unilateral PA declaration of statehood if Israel did not agree to the freeze. Obama also said, however, that there would be no demands for any further freeze extensions if Israel were to agree to the current “request.” He had no demands for the PA. Israel has repeatedly asked the PA to resume negotiations without pre-conditions.


Fatah Supports Iranian Regime
by Malkah Fleisher
maart 2010

The official Fatah website, Voice of Palestine, has announced that it will remove any material on their website which supports opponents to the rule of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollah in Iran.

On January 20, the Palvoice website alerted readers that their technical staff would delete all links of search engines such as Google and Yahoo which make anti-Ahmadinejad or pro-opposition statements.

The decision was a reaction to an article published about the "uprising of the Iranian people" which the Fatah website called "insulting to the Iranian regime." The website vowed not to "offend the Iranian regime" or jeopardize the "fraternal relationship between the two countries."

Iran heavily funds the Hamas terrorist organization. Fatah's rival that wrested control from it in a bloody militia war Gaza three years ago.

There has been a lot going on in the world of radical Islam lately that it can almost be hard to keep things straight. There are still discussions going on about the Flight 253 bomber. This week, a detailed report came out regarding the Fort Hoot massacre, yet it did not mention the word Islam. Since its release the report has come under heavy criticism for being too politically correct, which is what many people say got us in trouble to begin with.

That is why we decided to focus this newsletter on people who are making a difference. First we take a look at Dutch Parliament Member Geert Wilders, someone who everyone agrees is not afraid to stand up to what he sees as an Islamic growing threat. Then we have Tawfik Hamid who encourages questioning whether or not violence is supported in the Koran.

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Fatah Returns to Violence, Wound Border Police in Riot
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu"

Fatah Returns to Violence

Nearly 200 Fatah leaders and Israeli leftists rioted late Wednesday morning near a military prison near Jerusalem and stoned Israeli soldiers and police, wounding two Border Police officers.

The violent riot was in protest of Sunday’s arrest of Abbas Zaki, a senior member of Fatah, led by Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Zaki and a dozen others were arrested near Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem after storming an Israeli checkpoint during a march, and he has refused to appear in an Israeli military court.

Following speeches of incitement outside the Ofer military prison located west of Ramallah and near Jerusalem, police dispersed the rioters with tear gas, injuring three demonstrators.

The arrest of Zaki is politically significant because he is the most senior Fatah official to have been arrested by Israel in 17 years, according to the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera news service. “The response from the [Fatah] political leadership has been a commitment to step up popular resistance," according to Al-Jazeera.”

The IDF closed the Bitunia checkpoint, near the Ofer prison, after protesters broke through it. Among the demonstrators were three Fatah Central Committee members, leading rioters who threw rocks at Israeli security officers.

Abbas recently has told English-speaking media he is against violence but in Arabic media he has encouraged “resistance,” a code word for violence and terrorist attacks.


Report: Obama Administration Backs Arab Rallies in Jerusalem
by Maayana Miskin

WND: Obama Backs Arab Rallies
A senior PA official claims that the Obama administration backs pro-PA rallies in Jerusalem. The claim was reported by investigative journalist Aaron Klein of WorldNetDaily.

According to the official, United States diplomats have encouraged Arabs to protest in parts of Israel's capital in order to pressure Israel to evacuate neighborhoods. The US administration does not recognize Israel's claim to key parts of the capital, including much of eastern and northern Jerusalem as well as the Old City and City of David.

The US recently sharply criticized Israel for allowing construction in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish neighborhood of northern Jerusalem.

It was not clear whether the PA official who spoke to WND saw the Obama administration officials as supporting peaceful rallies, or the violent riots that are much more common in the city. Riots have been particularly common in recent days, following the rededication of the Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem and PA leaders' subsequent claims that Israel is threatening the Al-Aksa mosque.


Illegal Arab Building in Israel's South

Silvan Shalom: Fayyad Obstacle to Peace, Wants to Replace Abbas
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

Deputy Prime Minister Silvan Shalom told the Herzliya Conference on Monday that Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad’s about-face is "an obstacle to peace," and occured because he is currying favor with Fatah with the goal of replacing Mahmoud Abbas.

“Fayyad would like to replace Abbas and wants the support of activists in Fatah," Shalom said, "and that is why he is not willing to engage with Israel even though he knows this would help the PA economy."

Fayyad began his term as Prime Minister eager to cooperate with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan for “economic peace” that would provide the PA with stability to support an independent state in the future. But, Shalom said, Fayyad’s attitude has recently changed for the worse. “I have met with him many times, and he was willing to make moves for peace," Shalom told the annual conference on national affairs. "He has changed his attitude because he is under pressure for not being part of Fatah and for being suspected of being an American agent.”

The Vice Prime Minister pointed out that Fayyad (at left in ) recently appeared at a bonfire where he helped burn tens of thousands of dollars ophotof Jewish goods from Judea and Samaria, stating that the PA is boycotting them. “He knows that 25,000 Arabs work in Judea and Samaria, so something else is behind this move,” Shalom explained.

He also revealed that he recently met with a PA trade minister, who was immediately forced to quit, indicating a general refusal by Fayyad as well as Abbas to resume talks with Israel.

Shalom charged that the PA is “putting on a front of making concessions without making any real ones. What needs to be done is for the Americans to say to them, ‘Do you want peace or just the process?’

“I think it is too late. The PA does not want anything positive.”