Fayyad: We've Never Been More Marginalized

Arutz Sheva ^ | 30/7/12 | Elad Benari

[Eleutheria5]

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has charged that “the cause of the Palestinians” has never been more marginalized than it is today.

Fayyad, who spoke to the British daily The Independent, cited the international focus on the Arab spring, the eurozone crisis and the U.S. electoral cycle as reasons for the fact that PA leaders were facing a “path of growing untenability.”

He was strongly critical of the West’s failure to tackle Israel more “seriously” over what he termed its “violations of international law.” Fayyad declared that this “marginalization” was now the “biggest obstacle” to progress towards a Palestinian state.

“Our cause has never been this marginalized,” he told The Independent. “Ever. This is our greatest challenge.”

He warned that the Palestinian Authority itself was being undermined because of factors ranging from its acute financial crisis to a potential loss of faith by PA Arabs that it would able to end to “an occupation” that is “entrenching itself by the day.”

“The Israeli Ministry of Defense is trying essentially to take out of existence eight hamlets in southern Hevron under a pretext that you think would be viewed as completely outrageous,” he accused. “The army is running out of space for military training and so you displace an entire population… Telling you that these people have homes in Yatta. That is incredibly outrageous. It’s not that we accept any demolitions whatever but here we are talking about the total elimination of communities.”

Fayyad said the international Middle East Quartet of the U.S., EU, Russia and the UN, had focused on what at present was the “seemingly impossible task of re-launching the peace process in an effective manner… at the expense of paying attention” ....

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[Eleutheria5]

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....to a series of violations which included, but were not limited to, expansion of settlements in Judea and Samaria and which had taken place with “no consequences whatever.”

He charged Israel of conducting nightly incursions into cities designated under the Oslo Accords as Area A which is under control of the Western trained PA security forces.

“There is not a night when there are not multiple raids or incursions in Area A,” Fayyad said, adding that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had been in the cabinet that had accepted the internationally agreed Road Map which, among other things, had called for a halt to Jewish building in Judea and Samaria.

“It really is outrageous. There is not a single requirement of the road map that the government of Israel can assert they are complying with. Not one,” he said.

Fayyad declared, “What the EU, indeed the whole world should do…. is to ask the government of Israel - any government of Israel a straightforward question: ‘Do you support as a solution to this conflict the emergence of a fully sovereign state of Palestine on the territory occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem? Yes or no?’”

He added, “If they answer yes it is going to be very hard for them to explain how they continue to accept settlement expansion, settler extremism, violence that in certain instances cannot be described other than as outright terrorism.”

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[tet68]

Fayyad declared that this “marginalization” was now the “biggest obstacle” to progress towards a Palestinian state.

The biggest obstacle to a palestinian state is the
palestinian leadership, it’s not in their interest.

Israel should tell them to kiss off once and for all.

[tet68]

Do you support as a solution to this conflict the emergence of a fully sovereign state of Palestine on the territory occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem? Yes or no?’”

Mmmmm, NO, any other questions?

[Netz]

Ya think if maybe the Palestinians would accept a (now here's a word unknown in Arab dialects across the Middle East) “COMPROMISE” for some kind of real peace deal and once and for all renounce their ultimate goal of destroying Israel (they never will) that maybe, just maybe, something might move towards a situation resembling DIALOGUE and maybe, Peace? Well of course not my good man Watson, the Palestinian leadership has promised ultimate (military) victory over Israel (using a term they love calling “Armed Resistance to the so-called “OCCUPATION”). They whine, kill, whine, kill, get Western money, whine, kill some more and then feel...MARGENALIZED?? Oh, poor little diddums, wake up and smell the damn coffee already, it's been 100 years of refusals, extremism and no, no, no, the three No’s. So, go ahead you s**mbags and have your little feeling hurt.

[DesertRhino]

So quit being A-holes, and maybe you won’t be marginalized. Moslems are a joke,,so violent they are a parody of themselves.

[Eleutheria5]

I hope we just have, but fear disappointment.

[Paladin2]

The Palis need to man up and move to Saudi Arabia.

[Eleutheria5]

Over there in Saudia, they’d stone some Pali chicks for the outfits they wear here, always of course with a chadour.

[MestaMachine]

Here’s an idea. The falsestinians should go back to wherever they came from and get off Israeli land. They are illegaal occupiers who have no right to be there and have no legitimate claim to that land whatsoever...ancient or otherwise.
They are squatters in the worst sense of the word.

[Gaffer]

They are squatters in the worst sense of the word

They are the dregs of the Arab world; no other Muslim country wants or will have them.

[rbg81]

“Our cause has never been this marginalized,” he told The Independent. “Ever. This is our greatest challenge.”

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That is ONE benefit of the economic crisis. When people are worried about their jobs and futures, they tend to be less worried about BS manufactured issues like: global warming and PA “oppression”.

[Gay State Conservative]

OK,so you're “marginalized”.At least you still have your goats so you'll have something to curl up with at night.

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