Abbas herdenkt strijd van groot-moefti en oprichting PLO

 

Abbas hield gisteren een toespraak ter ere van de opening van een nieuw hoofdkantoor voor de PLO in Ramallah. Hij verwachtte dat dit maar een tijdelijk onderkomen zou zijn, want men zou binnenkort zijn definitieve intrek nemen in Jeruzalem. Tja. Als men blijft weigeren met Israel te onderhandelen, kan het nog wel even duren voordat er een vredeakkoord en een eventueel gedeeld Jeruzalem is waar men naartoe kan verhuizen.

Abbas keek met nostalgische blik terug op de stichting van de PLO in 1964, maar vergat erbij te vermelden dat de organisatie toen niet streefde naar een eigen staat op de Westoever en Gazastrook, respectievelijk onder Jordaanse en Egyptische controle, maar naar de vernietiging van Israel. Officieel is die doelstelling veranderd sinds de jaren '90, en wil men nu slechts een staat op de Westoever en Gazastrook, maar dat valt tegen. Niet alleen weigert men enige afstand te nemen van een radikaal en gewelddadig verleden, men verheerlijkt nog steeds geweld en verheerlijkt de terroristen van toen. En men weigert Israel als Joodse staat te erkennen en eist de 'terugkeer' van miljoenen nakomelingen van de vluchtelingen. Oh, en als klap op de vuurpijl haalde Abbas de oude 'held' mufti Haj Amin Al Hoesseini aan. Hij zei:  

 

"We must also recall the outstanding [early] leadership of the Palestinian people, the Grand Mufti of Palestine-Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, who sponsored the struggle from the beginning, and sponsored the struggle and displacement for the cause and died away from his home."

Arme man. Hij gaf zijn leven voor zijn geliefde volk, net als die andere Leider waarvan hij een groot bewonderaar was, en die hij graag hielp bij de 'final solution'. Je zou zeggen dat Abbas met deze uitspraak zijn imago als gematigd leider wel heeft verspeeld, maar dat zal wel weer wishful thinking zijn. Het zal de kranten niet halen, en geen westerse diplomaat ligt er wakker van.

 

RP

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New Abbas poster

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In the same speech that Mahmoud Abbas waxed nostalgically over the PLO in 1964 today, he added, "We must also recall the outstanding [early] leadership of the Palestinian people, the Grand Mufti of Palestine-Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, who sponsored the struggle from the beginning, and sponsored the struggle and displacement for the cause and died away from his home."

The Mufti was a rabid Jew-hater who was the driving force behind not only the 1929 massacres in Jerusalem and Hebron but also the 1936-39 riots that resulted in the deaths of hundreds. He moved to Germany during World War II, hoping that Hitler would win and allow to him murder every Jewish man, woman and child in Palestine, and proposing plans to do exactly that.

This is Mahmoud Abbas' hero.

For some reason, that part of his speech wasn't translated in the English version of the Ma'an article.

If any Western politician would publicly praise a Nazi sympathizer who supported genocide, their careers would be over. When the so-called "moderate" PA leaders do exactly that, no one says a word.

This idea that it is acceptable for Arabs to make outlandish and unacceptable statements because they are Arab is nothing less than bigotry. If they are to be treated as respectable world leaders, they should be held to the same standards as anyone else. It is way past time of granting them a free pass.
 

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Abbas remembers the good old days of the PLO in 1964

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/11/abbas-remembers-good-old-days-of-plo-in.html

Ma'an (Arabic) reports that Mahmoud Abbas spoke at the opening of a new PLO headquarters in Ramallah today. He described it as a "temporary" headquarters, saying that he expects it will be moved to Jerusalem "in the near future."

If he believes that, then he just announced that he wasted millions of dollars of donor money to build a useless building.

He recalled visiting the PLO headquarters in Jerusalem in 1964, saying that  just as it was the headquarters of the PLO then, so it will return.

For some reason, he didn't mention that the PLO in 1964 had explicitly rejected the idea of a Palestinian Arab state on the West Bank, saying that they have no ambitions to take away Jordanian territory. From its original charter:

Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields.

Also in 1964, the PLO's goal was not to build a state - it was only to destroy Israel. Nowhere in its charter does it use the word "state" or "nation" in terms of its goals; it only talks about a "homeland" and the "liberation of Palestine" that is strongly implied - along with the concept of a Palestinian Arab people - to be a tactical move on the way to pan-Arab unity:

Article 11: The Palestinian people firmly believe in Arab unity, and in order to play its role in realizing this goal, it must, at this stage of its struggle, preserve its Palestinian personality and all its constituents. It must strengthen the consciousness of its existence and stance and stand against any attempt or plan that may weaken or disintegrate its personality.

Article 12: Arab unity and the liberation of Palestine are two complementary goals; each prepares for the attainment of the other. Arab unity leads to the liberation of Palestine, and the liberation of Palestine leads to Arab unity. Working for both must go side by side.

The only nation it speaks about is the negation of a Jewish nation, anywhere:

Article 18: The Balfour Declaration, the Palestine Mandate System, and all that has been based on them are considered null and void. The claims of historic and spiritual ties between Jews and Palestine are not in agreement with the facts of history or with the true basis of sound statehood. Judaism, because it is a divine religion, is not a nationality with independent existence. Furthermore, the Jews are not one people with an independent personality because they are citizens to their states.

Within the same document we see the attempt to artificially create a people who nobody had heard of a few decades earlier, and to deny the nationhood of a people who had been identified as such for millennia.

This was the PLO of 1964 that Abbas nostalgically recalls. And this document is still available on the PLO's UN website.

And while its stated goals might have changed, its actions are still remarkably consistent with the actions of today's "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas.