calls by top representatives for a ‘strategic alliance’ with Iran's dictatorial and fundamental regime. Since President Obama has made it clear that he is applying the thumbscrews to Israel while he is applying no such pressure to the Palestinians and is on his knees in supplication to Iran, can anyone be surprised that Fatah is poised to fall in behind the strongest beast in the jungle as it readies itself for the kill?
Thursday, 6th August 2009
More of the same old, same old
8:01pm
Any hopes that Fatah – which compared with Hamas is the supposedly ‘moderate’ Palestinian faction – has actually moderated its own position were dashed this week with its general assembly meeting in Bethlehem, which descended into chaotic scenes and reported beatings yesterday. As Khaled abu Toameh wrote on the eve of the assembly, power was being concentrated in old-guard Arafat clones; Mahmoud Abbas’s likely successor, Mohammed Ghnaim, is a hard-liner who insists that the ‘armed struggle’ against Israel is the only way to ‘liberate Palestine’; and there were even
Friday, 7 August 2009
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