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At their convention this past August, Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah faction of the PLO officially endorsed a recognized terrorist organization as the "military wing" of Fatah. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. These jihadists have been responsible for gruesome "jihad in the way of Allah" suicide bombings. They also openly serve in Abbas PA security services. Some of them have also bragged about the military training they recieved courtesy of your U.S. tax dollars and General Keith Dayton. Gen Dayton, an American version of Glubb Pasha. A top Fatah leader, Muhammad Dahlan, acknowledged that Fatah has never recognized Israel's right to exist.Abbas and Fayad's Fatah...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian president said Thursday he does not want to run for another term in January elections, blaming a stalemate in Mideast peace talks on Israel and the United States. In a televised speech to the Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas said he has told his "brothers" in the Fatah movement of his "desire not to run in the upcoming elections." But Abbas' careful wording left room for the possibility that he could be persuaded to change his mind, especially if he perceives the United States as backing his position on demanding an end to Israeli construction in...

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian president's political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have "evaporated," accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish settlement. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party also accused the U.S. of failing to set a clear agenda for a new round of Mideast peace talks, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday. "All hopes placed in the new U.S. administration and President Obama have evaporated," the document said. Obama "couldn't withstand the pressure of the Zionist lobby, which led...

Mohammed Dahlan, the former Fatah leader in Gaza and a senior PA legislator, told Israeli Radio listeners Sunday that a Jewish presence in eastern Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria is equivalent to Arab terrorist suicide bombings. "What is the difference between blowing up a bus in Tel Aviv and taking over Palestinian land?" he asked rhetorically. Dahlan also warned Israel that violent riots in the capital will continue as long as Jews visit the Temple Mount, which was re-opened to Jews on Sunday.

Israel has been placed on alert for the prospect of widespread Palestinian violence throughout the West Bank. Officials said Israel's military, police and intelligence services were ordered on high alert after the military has assessed that the ruling Fatah movement, in cooperation with elements within the Palestinian Authority, were organizing civil unrest as well as ambushes on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Officials said PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has been pressed by senior members of Fatah to approve what was termed a "third intifada," or uprising. "Abbas doesn't have to actually approve anything," the official said. "He just has to remain...

SNIPPET: "I think it safe to assume that Hamas would like to kill Dayton and lay the blame on al-Qaida, a task perhaps made easier by the fact that al-Qaida has a relatively substantial number of supporters in the West Bank." Posted on 03 September 2009 @ 14:34

In the wake of the Fatah Conference which recently took place, one very important item has deliberately not been reported on or covered by the biased media:And that is Fatah's "official endorsement" of the Al-aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a U.S. recognized foreign terrorist organization as the "military wing" of Fatah.The Palestinian Authority is run by Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party. In January of 2006 candidates representing Hamas, another U.S. recognized terrorist organization, won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority elections.This resulted in Congress immediately reacting by adaption of legislation to prohibit any further funding of the PA, as such funding would...

The Council on Foreign Relation's article on the Islamic terrorist organization, "Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades" [a U.S. recognized foreign terrorist organization], is not entirely accurate. Under the heading of "What is the Brigade's relationship to the Palestinian Authority Government?", the CFR has this: "Whether Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has a direct relationship with the leadership of Fatah is debated."-CFR Not hardly. In a March 2007 article, Aaron Klein of WND wrote the following: "Many Fatah security members from Force 17 are also openly members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. All Brigades leaders are members of Fatah. " If there was any...

Last week during its 6th Conference,Fatah, the terrorist group considered "moderate" by the US showed its true colors, not that you would ever know about it by reading the mainstream media. Under the tutelage of President Abbas, the party created by Yassar Arafat has it both ways, sometimes it tries to maintain a public shroud of "moderation," and at other times refuses to sit at the negotiation table and calls for "armed struggle." Since Bibi Netanyahu Made his speech offering to sit down and have talks with the Palestinians with no preconditions, there has been no movement toward talks. You...

Obama and the U.S, State Dept., as well as the MSM, have been silent concerning a document/ resolution adapted by Fatah at their recent conference. No, not the resolution they adapted blaming Israel for the death of Arafat. [That one received wide reporting] Notwithstanding, a top Fatah leader had recently pointed the finger at Abu Mazen [Abbas]. But a document in which the Fatah Palestinian Authority says Israel must give up "all" of Jerusalem as a pre-condition for any negotiations. In addition, the resolution also stated that Fatah would,- "continue to sacrifice victims until residents of Jerusalem are free of...

The U.S., EU, and UN proped up bogus "peace partner", Abbas's Fatah, reveals their true intentions at the Fatah conference in Bethlehem: [All of Jerusalem, all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, must come under PA Fatah control--which of course means Islamic rule.] [How much longer will the U.S. and the rest of the International countries continue to be in denial?] The sixth Fatah General Assembly decreed on Saturday that the return of both east and west Jerusalem to Palestinian control was a "red line" which was nonnegotiable, and would need to be fulfilled before any...

Once again Fatah, the terrorist group considered "moderate" by the US is showing its true colors. Under the tutelage of President Abbas, the party created by Yassar Arafat has it both ways, sometimes it tries to maintain a public shroud of "moderation," and at other times refuses to sit at the negotiation table and calls for "armed struggle." Since Bibi Netanyahu Made his speech offering to sit down and have talks with the Palestinians with no preconditions, there has been no movement toward talks. You see, the Palestinians refuse to talk unless Israel agrees to give them everything they want...

On July 23, Tawfiq Tirawi, security adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Palestinian television: I am saying these things so that we understand that words are ineffective. Action is effective. … Jerusalem needs thousands of martyrs. If we live to see the day, and you become the leaders of the future, mark my words: It is impossible for Jerusalem to be restored to us without thousands of martyrs.

The sixth General Assembly of Fatah unanimously adopted on Thursday a proposal calling for the establishment of a committee which would investigate the death of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat while abiding by the following guidelines: that Israel bears full responsibility for his death, that the issue continues to remain open, and that the investigation enlists international support. The proposal was raised by Bassam Abu Sharif, Arafat's former political advisor, and was motivated both by demands from a number of Fatah delegates at the gathering, and also by estranged PLO leader Farouk Qaddoumi, who in an interview in mid-July...

The Fatah party, which is meeting in Bethlehem, beat the incitement drum Thursday and accused Israel of being responsible for the “assassination” of Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004. Arabs have routinely accused Israel of having poisoned Arafat, but the statement in Ramallah by former Arafat advisor Bassam Abu Sharif is the first time the party officially has outright blamed Israel.

"Fatah, don't forget, is the "moderate" Palestinian faction to which the U.S. and E.U. are giving money and support, dreamily hoping that it will establish a stable, secure Palestinian State that will live in peace side-by-side with Israel."-video as well. [these are the folks the State Dept. and Obama is giving $ millions of our tax money to. ]

Many observers are watching to see to what extent Fatah's Sixth General Congress will advance or retard the prospects for re-launching the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians. In this regard, the crucial question is: Is Fatah going to waive its historical principle of "armed struggle" and devote itself to peace negotiations based on compromise? The two relevant documents to be discussed and approved by the Fatah Congress are the Political Program and Fatah's "Internal Order." The Political Program might be seen as reflecting progress in terms of accepting a political solution and rejecting violence - but it falls...

The Fatah party, which leads the Palestinian Authority, will meet in Bethlehem this week and call for “controlled violence” against Israel, the Saudi Arabian newspaper Al Watan reported. The French news agency AFP also confirmed an Al Watan statement that Fatah will reject the idea that Israel is a Jewish state. The proposed Fatah platform in effect puts on ice any chance for negotiations over the establishment of a PA state. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has said that talks with the PA must be predicated on its acceptance of Israel as the home of the Jewish people, which would provide...

An IDF military court in the West Bank has convicted Yasser Arafat's former financial aide Fuad Shubaki of illegal arms dealing, as well as organizing and financing the Karine A weapons boat, which the IDF caught carrying advanced weaponry in the Red Sea as it was making its way to the Gaza Strip in 2002. Shubaki, who was arrested three years ago, was also convicted of bankrolling terror attacks and providing funds for the al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades terror group during the second intifada. According to the court, Shubaki coordinated the purchase and subsequent shipment of the arms from Iran, and...

The Obama Administration has transfered $200 million directly to the Fatah PA in violation of the criteria of the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006. The Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 has very specific criteria that the Palestinian Authority must be in compliance with in order to recieve any U.S. funding. Section 620K contains the following criteria: The President must certify to Congress that 1) no ministry, agency, or instrumentality of the Palestinian Authority is controlled by a foreign terrorist organization and no member of a foreign terrorist organization serves in a senior policy making position in a ministry, agency, or...

(IsraelNN.com) Senior members of Fatah have announced that their group will never recognize Israel, and will continue to call for war against Israel. “Fatah does not recognize Israel's right to exist, nor have we ever asked others to do so,” said senior Fatah member Rafik Natsheh, a close associate of Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Media reports, according to which Fatah has recognized Israel and has called on Hamas to do the same, are false, Natsheh said in an interview with the pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi. “It's all media nonsense. We don't ask other factions to recognize Israel; we...

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas [ Abu Mazen] ordered Al-jazzera in the PA area be shut down. Charging that the  Arab network station was being "unbalanced" and "inciting" against the Fatah PA government: "Abbas's security forces have been systematically targeting journalists over the past few years. In the past year, at least seven Palestinian journalists and writers were arrested and held without trial in PA detention centers for allegedly criticizing the performance of Abbas and his prime minister, Salaam Fayad." Now when the Abbas Palestinian Authority controlled media engages in the glorification of terrorists and murderers as "heros" [Samir Kuntar], and incitement against Israel, they...

"Our goal has never been peace,” says a Fatah official in a PA TV panel. “Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine" – meaning the conquest of Israel. Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), directed by Itamar Marcus, reports on a panel discussion on a television program of the Fatah organization broadcast this past week. Headed by Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah is considered the more moderate wing of the Palestinian Authority, compared with Hamas. "It has been said that we are negotiating for peace,” she further stated, “but our goal has never been peace. Peace is a means; the goal is Palestine."...

GAZA CITY // Every morning Nidal dons his blue camouflage fatigues, trademark of the Hamas Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip, and sets off to work as a civil policeman in the Jabaliya refugee camp outside Gaza City. In the same camp, another policeman, Ismail, keeps his own uniform tucked neatly in a drawer, forbidden to wear it after Hamas fighters ousted his fellow Fatah forces from Gaza in a violent power struggle in 2007. Ismail and Nidal are brothers, separated by just two years and an ideological abyss that has fractured the Palestinian landscape since the West Bank...

Egypt has ceased efforts to mediate the formation of a national unity government between the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, Israel Radio reported on Saturday. Officials who met with the senior echelon of Egyptian intelligence said that Cairo is instead proposing that two separate governments ? the Hamas regime in Gaza and the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority in the West Bank ? continue to function until general elections are held. In parallel, Egypt would like to see the Palestinian factions agree on the formation of a committee that will lay the groundwork for the next elections as well as the...

There is only one difference between Hamas the terrorist group that control's Gaza and Fatah, the terrorist group perceived as moderate by the United States Fatah controls Judea and Samaria. Hamas is open about it terrorist goals, Fatah (the party that is controlled by Palestinian President Abbas) tries to maintain a shroud of "moderation" Of course their moderation belies the truth. Both President Bush and President Obama have worked to "prop up" Abbas and the Fatah Party, former Prime Minister Ehud (Mr. Comb-Over) Olmert also worked to "prop up" the terrorist leader. In doing so, they all ignored the continued...

Arabs in Kalkilya, adjacent to the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, fear that Hamas will stage a coup similar to the one on Gaza two years ago, residents and political leaders told the American National Public Radio (NPR) network. “The Hamas leadership wants to take over [Judea and Samaria] and the proof is that they have discovered large weapons cache right here in Kalkilya in Hamas areas,” Kalkilya’s Fatah representative Ahmed Shreen told NPR.

Please sign this petition letter to President Obama to end this insane use of U.S. taxpayer money. Letter to President Barack Obama Dear Mr. President, I am concerned that we have been squandering U.S. taxpayer dollars by assisting the Palestinian Authority with vast sums of money used to train Palestinians to kill. In addition to the $900 million your Administration offered the Palestinians on March 2, your training of 1,500 new Palestinian soldiers is costing American taxpayers another $161 million. During our severe financial crisis, our hard-earned tax dollars should be directed to more worthwhile causes in the U.S. The...

Palestinian Fault Line Exposed by: Malcolm A. Kline, June 08, 2009 Although the hundreds of Middle East studies courses in universities nationwide portend to treat the region exhaustively, there is a key component of the conflict that most ignore. “For more than two years, Hamas and Fatah have been in a deadly war,” author Jonathan Schanzer said on June 3 in a conference at the Heritage Foundation. “The media have downplayed it and academics have attempted to rewrite the history of it.” “It is not a new conflict but goes back 20 years.” Schanzer, the author of Hamas vs. Fatah:...

Sunday's confrontation between an armed Hamas cell and Palestinian Authority policemen in Kalkilya shows that the Islamic movement still has a military presence in the West Bank - one that it is hoping to use to topple Mahmoud Abbas's regime there. PA security officials said the two Hamas operatives who were killed in the clash, Muhammad Samman and Muhammad Yassin, headed a cell that possessed large amounts of weapons, including explosives and automatic rifles, some of which had been hidden in a basement of a mosque in the city. The weapons, according to the officials, were supposed to be used...

* Aid running at less than 55 percent of amount needed * Palestinian Authority borrows $350 million from banks * PA now close to borrowing limit

Hamas claimed on Saturday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who visited Washington last week, presented US President Barack Obama with a "detailed plan" to overthrow the Islamic movement's government in the Gaza Strip. Hamas also accused Abbas's security forces of arresting 22 of its supporters in the West Bank over the weekend as part of a US-backed scheme designed to prevent the movement from extending its control beyond the Gaza Strip. The plan which Abbas presented to Obama calls for eliminating Hamas politically by pressuring the Europeans and Russia to boycott the movement, a Hamas official said, noting that...

QALQILYA, West Bank, May 31 (Reuters) - Three Palestinian policemen, two Hamas gunmen and a bystander were killed in a clash in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestinian security officials said. The incident was among the bloodiest internal Palestinian confrontations since U.S.-backed President Mahmoud Abbas pressed a security drive and revived peace talks with Israel after breaking with Hamas over its 2007 takeover of the Gaza Strip. Security officials said police raided Qalqilya town before dawn to arrest Hamas members, touching off gunfights. They named the dead Hamas men as Mohammad Yasin and Mohammad Samman. The names of the...

May 17, 2009 The Late Great State of Israel By Lori Lowenthal Marcus Aaron Klein's The Late Great State of Israel: How enemies within and without threaten the Jewish nation's survival WND Books (April 28, 2009) 249 pp. $25.95 Aaron Klein, the intrepid Middle East bureau reporter for World Net Daily, hopes that his new book, The Late Great State of Israel, will blast open the tightly shut eyelids of most of the Western world in time to prevent the demise of the Jewish State. The most striking way he does that is by revealing that all of us --...

In the first case of its kind, a Palestinian Authority "military court" on Tuesday sentenced a Palestinian man to death by hanging after finding him guilty of selling land to Jews. The verdict came shortly after the PA's chief Islamic judge, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, issued yet another fatwa (religious decree) banning Muslims from selling land or houses to Jews. The death sentence is seen as an attempt by the PA leadership in Ramallah to deter Palestinians from conducting real estate transactions with Jews. It follows reports according to which Jewish individuals and organizations recently bought land and houses from Arabs...

Palestinian Authority special forces were praised by an American general this week for becoming the founders of a new Arab country within Israel's current borders. "As I look at you, I couldn't be more proud of the fact that you stepped up to be the founders of a Palestinian state," U.S. Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton told a battalion in his speech to the troops Monday in Tulkarm.

Yasser Abbas, the son of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, revealed this week that he's a self-made millionaire who started his own business shortly after the signing of the Oslo Accords. In an interview with the Dubai-based Al-Aswak.net economic magazine, Abbas's son, who was named after former PA leader Yasser Arafat, also declared that "a majority of Palestinians," including himself, "collaborate with Israel." Yasser Abbas's remarks raised many eyebrows in Ramallah, where one PA official described the interview as "scandalous and harmful." "It would have been better if Yasser did not speak out, especially about his wealth," the official told...

The Islamic Jihad movement Monday called on rival factions of Hamas and Fatah to declare their commitment to the inter-Palestinian unity and reconciliation dialogue. The call was made following a meeting between the Islamic Jihad leaders and envoys of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. "The two movements have to commit themselves to the dialogue to settle the political crisis," said Khaled al-Batsh, an Islamic Jihad official based in Gaza. Hamas and Abbas' Fatah movements held several rounds of talks in Egypt during recent weeks, trying to figure out a unity government that would restore political unity to the Gaza Strip and...

A 13-year-old Israeli boy is killed by a Palestinian ax-murderer; a 7-year-old is wounded. How is it covered? Let’s take a look at the April 2, 2009 article posted by the Inquirer, by Sebastian Scheiner of AP, entitled, “Palestinian kills Israeli teen with pickax.” The lead is matter-of-fact: “BAT AYIN, West Bank - A Palestinian armed with a pickax went on a rampage Thursday in this West Bank Jewish settlement, killing a 13-year-old Israeli and wounding a 7-year-old before fleeing the area.” The next paragraph is badly written: “Israeli television stations showed pictures of the dead teenager, bespectacled with long...

Last week, a Palestinian with an axe attacked and murdered a 16-year-old boy, Shlomo Nativ, and wounded a 7-year-old boy in a West Bank Jewish settlement. The situation following this event tells a great deal about why Israel must ignore most Western criticism and advice. Let’s list some of the real factors operating here. * The Palestinian Authority (PA) won’t help find the killer. * If they found him, they wouldn’t turn him over to Israel. * If they tried him in court it would not be for murder but for acts undermining the Palestinian people’s interests, a formula always...

Caroline Glick, a contributing writer at the Center For Security Policy, has written an important article that spotlights how attempts are being made by diplomats close to Obama, to push for legitimization of the Hamas Islamic terror organization. In the same irresponsible manner that the PLO Fatah was wrongly legitimized. Even though Fatah continues it's own non-recognition of Israel. Just a few days ago, Mohammad Dahlan of the Palestinian Authority Fatah, acknowledged that the PLO Fatah's "recognition" of Israel is only to obtain financial aid. But as Glick points out, the MSM has totally ignored this: "Not surprisingly, Dahlan's statement...

BEIRUT, Lebanon — A senior Palestinian official was killed Monday along with two colleagues and a driver when a roadside bomb detonated next to their convoy as they left a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, security officials said. The Palestinian official, Kamal Midhat, was the deputy leader in Lebanon of Fatah, the mainstream faction led by Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president. Three bodyguards were wounded in the blast. The bomb exploded as the two-car convoy was between checkpoints outside the camp, near the southern city of Saida. Television showed firefighters hosing down the remains of Mr. Midhat’s car,...

The MSM, including the Drudge Report, Fox, Real Clear Politics, "your" nightly news, are totally ignoring this important news item" "Western Funders Misled: Fatah Still Refuses To Recognize Israel, PA's 'recognition' only to recieve international aid." The public has constantly been told by the MSM, diplomats, and politicians, that Fatah is not like Hamas or Hizbullah. They are supposedly the good "moderates" that want peace. This report pulls the mask off of that media distortion. Someone out there know Matt Drudge? Tell him to put this report by the Arab media watchdog, Palestinian Media Watch, front and center on his...

"Western Funders Misled: Fatah Still Refuses To Recognize Israel" That should be a frontpage headline on all the major news sites. As well as talked about on the nightly news. It should be front and center on Drudge Report, but it isn't. The Fatah Palestinian Authority recieves Western funding and support because it's alledged that they are the "moderates" who want peace and recognize Israel. This report exposes that myth. But the MSM, including Fox, the Drudge Report, and Yahoo News, are not bothering to cover this. Forget about CNN.

Fatah: We Do Not Recognize Israel   By Itamar Marcus and Barbara CrookFrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 When Western countries met last month to pledge billions of dollars in funding to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, they stressed that Hamas would not receive funding until it recognized Israel. However, a senior Fatah leader, Muhammad Dahlan, admitted yesterday on Palestinian Authority television that Fatah - just like Hamas - still does not recognize Israel. Furthermore, he said that the Palestinian Authority's apparent "recognition" is to make the PA "acceptable" to the international community, and therefore allow it to continue to...

Senior Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan confirmed on Tuesday that Fatah, which leads the Palestinian Authority, does not recognize Israel, one of the basic demands of the Roadmap plan. The Western world has boycotted the Hamas terrorist organization because of the same refusal to acknowledge the existence of the Jewish state.

Arabs, mainly immigrants from Palestine, are expressing their frustration and anger over President-elect Barack Obama's silence over Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip and asserting that this shows that there would be little change in the pro-Tel Aviv policies of the US. In television interviews, they did not buy Obama's argument that there is only one president at a time, pointing out that he had been speaking about what he would do about economy and on terrorist attacks on Mumbai. But analysts say that the comparison with Mumbai attacks is not correct as currently diplomatic efforts are being made to pacify...

A Black September terrorist who served only about half his 30-year sentence for planting three car bombs in New York City in 1973 was released Thursday into the custody of immigration officials to be deported. Khalid Al-Jawary, 63, was released from the Supermax maximum-security prison in Florence, Colo... Al-Jawary has denied involvement in the 1973 New York City bomb plot; he claims his real name is Khaled Mohammed El-Jassem. The FBI to this day remains unsure of his true identity; his nom de guerre was Abu Walid al-Iraqi. Al-Jawary was a member of Black September, a terrorist group responsible for...

SNIPPET: "A Black September terrorist who served only about half his 30-year sentence for planting three car bombs in New York City in 1973 was released Thursday into the custody of immigration officials to be deported. Khalid Al-Jawary, 63, was released from the Supermax maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, said Carl Rusnok, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman. Rusnok said a federal immigration judge had signed a deportation order for Al-Jawary."

This article, posted last November, will be continuously updated as relevant events occur. Despite Obama's insistence during the campaign that his views towards Hamas were no different than those of McCain, the prediction was made that if Obama were elected president he would spearhead an effort to legitimize Hamas. George Mitchell, Obama's envoy to the Middle East, has expressed support for a Fatah/Hamas unity coalition. Hmm..., now just why would he do that?