An Israeli takeover of the Palestine Authority…?
Shortly after his forces were expelled from the Gaza Strip, Dahlan re-established himself in the West Bank. And thereafter tensions between his Fatah supporters and opponents grew and grew.
In June 2011 he was expelled from Fatah because of the assumption that he had delivered for Israel whatever it was that poisoned Arafat. Three months later Abbas ordered a raid on Dahlan’s house and the arrest of his private armed guards.
Today in exile, and consulting with his allies in Sisi’s Egypt and some Arab Gulf states as well as Israel and America, Dahlan is plotting his comeback to replace Abbas by one means or another.
The Ma’ariv article I mentioned above said that Dahlan has claimed that he and not Abbas can be counted on to bring peace, and that in 2010 he reportedly sent a letter to the Obama administration in which he said, “There is no choice but to replace Abbas with someone who can deliver results.”
Because Dahlan must know that Israel’s leaders are not remotely interested in peace on terms the Palestinians could accept, I think it is reasonable to assume that the result he has in mind is peace imposed on Israel’s terms – effectively a Palestinian surrender to Zionism’s will.
Is a Dahlan/Israeli takeover of the PA really possible?
An indication that Abbas seems to think it cannot be ruled out was his request to President Obama that he press Israel to include Marwan Barghouti in the fourth and final batch of Palestinian prisoners due to be released at the end of this month. (Prisoner release was one of the inducements to secure Abbas’s green light for Secretary of State Kerry to launch his “peace process”. But today Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from the neo-fascist tendency to the right of him to say “No” to any further prisoner releases).
Barghouti is by far the most popular Palestinian leader and would easily win an election to replace Abbas as “President”. And that, of course, is precisely why Israel won’t release him. So if Abbas can be bullied and bribed by Israel and the U.S. into lifting the ban on Dahlan’s return from exile to the occupied West Bank, he, Dahlan, could be in with a chance. In my view a victory for him would be the final betrayal of the Palestinian cause.
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Confoundmeonce:
March 24th, 2014 at 3:59 am
Alan Hart, Your Strength is in your Ability to See Thru Every Thing that Is Hidden..And Bringing it into The Light of Day..to be Dissected Properly. Sometimes The Answers Don`t come Thru Quickly Nor Do they Wind down into a Manageable Ball Of YARN. This Isitreal Situation is NOT going to Be cleared Away Until IT is Pushed into The SEA. Only then is there going to be Any sort of Justice or Chance for The Palestinian People Who Have Been Displaced And imprisoned on their Piece of land The Isrealis Haven`t managed to Take Over YET.( World Opinion is the holdup.. You Know ! ) Nor is Time on Israels` side >>>But then, Is it going to work in The Palestinian Peoples’ favor soon enough ? How much longer can they Withstand Hunger And The Tortures OF Being SO heinously Imprisoned In their Own Land ? I pray for Gods` intervention. Soon.
Rehmat:
March 24th, 2014 at 1:01 pm
No wonder, Mahmoud Abbas’ son Tareq Abbas recently adised his father to dissolve Palestinian Authority PA) and stop wasting time in these “peace negotiation” charades.
Tareq Jodi Rudoren of the Jewish York Times (March 18, 2014) that the only viable solution to the 66-year-old conflict is to have a single state over the entire historic Palestine with equal rights for both the Jewish settlers and the Native Palestinian Muslims and Christians.
http://rehmat1.com/2014/03/23/abbass-son-peace-talks-with-israel-are-futile/
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William Smart:
March 26th, 2014 at 12:02 pm
Israel needs a de Klerk and Palestine needs a Mandela.
Marwan Barghouti is Mandela. Or that’s how it looks from here.
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