Militarization" the second intifada caused "total destruction of the Palestinian infrastructures and the Palestinian Authority institutions," says Abu Mazen
Posted on 12/01/2002 9:47:42 AM PST by chance33_98
Militarization" the second intifada caused "total destruction of the Palestinian infrastructures and the Palestinian Authority institutions," says Abu Mazen
Abu Mazen Urges Total End to Anti-Israel Operations
CAIRO, December 1 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The Palestine Liberation Organization's (PLO) second in command Mahmud Abbas urged Palestinian factions to halt all military attacks against Israel, in comments published in Egyptian newspapers Sunday, December 1.
"All Palestinian factions should declare their commitment to end the military operations, in all forms, totally and not partially," he said in an interview conducted in Qatar with the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram.
Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, said the Palestinians should "return to the means of resistance used in the first intifada" against Israel, in the late 1980s, "including stone throwing, demonstrations and other means of peaceful protest."
He said the "militarization" of the second intifada "has led to the total destruction of the Palestinian infrastructures and the Palestinian Authority institutions."
Abbas called on Jihad to join the dialogue that opened between Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah group and Hamas to draw up a common strategy.
His statements came as Israel mounted up its incessant military aggressions against innocent Palestinians killing two Palestinians and wounding three others, including two children, in Gaza on Sunday.
Hamas and Fatah held last month a first round of talks in Cairo and are due to meet again in the Egyptian capital after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Concluding their four-day negotiations in Cairo, Fatah and Hamas reaffirmed Wednesday, November 13, that resistance is the basis for ending the Israeli occupation, establishing the Palestinian state and restoring the rights of the Palestinian people.
The two groups agreed on forming a permanent committee for dialogue between them to work out problems or misunderstandings once reported.
A source of the Fatah delegation told IslamOnline that a halt of martyr operations was not the main topic on the agenda, adding that Fatah joins in the Palestinian struggle to end Israeli occupation.
The Fatah official asserted, however, that the two sides spoke about "rationalizing operations" so as not to target civilians.
A Hamas spokesman denied that dialogue touched on the issue of halting martyr operations.
"Both Fatah and Hamas carry out operations and it would be unreasonable for Fatah, which carries out operations just like us, to ask for halting operations," he stressed.
The final communiqué of the Fatah-Hamas negotiations reiterated the Palestinian people's legitimate right to resist Israeli occupation.
There are no innocent "Palistinians". All are guilty.
Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, said the Palestinians should "return to the means of resistance used in the first intifada" against Israel, in the late 1980s, "including stone throwing, demonstrations and other means of peaceful protest."
I guess this guy's never been hit in the head with a stone.
And I guess it hasn't occurred to any of these Pali geniuses that a really sensible strategy would be to go back to the negotiating table and see if the Barak offer is still attainable.
What pitiful fools the Pali's are. They wouldn't know a fair deal if it bit them on the ass.
LOL! Leave it to the Palestinians to invent "Gandhi Lite"
Even their loan pacificst still wants to throw stones.
A common analysis, but wrong. They knew damn well they couldn't win militarily. What they were hoping for was a repeat of Kosovo, with US and UN peacekeepers carving the heart out of Israel, while acting as human shields allowing the war against Israel to continue without fear of reprisals.
But they didn't count on Bush winning the election, and they didn't forsee that 9/11 would turn American public opinion so far against them. And in any case, it was impossible to force a Kosovo against Israel, due to its virtually unbeatable air force and its nuclear capability.
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