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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• May 3, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The internecine
strife in Fatah no longer appears restricted to the loyalists of
Dahlan and Abbas. It is threatening to erupt into an all-out war
between contesting camps. Some Palestinians see the internal strife
as the most serious challenge to Abbas's rule over Fatah and the
Palestinian Authority, especially in wake of growing criticism among
Palestinians against Abbas's policies and autocratic regime.
- The criticism
has escalated following last week's humiliating defeat of Fatah to
Hamas at the student council election of Bir Zeit University, near
Ramallah.
- Hamas is
thriving on the mayhem among the top brass of Fatah and disgust with
Abbas and the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. Rather than
striving to improve the lives of Palestinians, Fatah leaders spend
their time playing at being gangsters, settling scores. Meanwhile
Abbas continues his charade of lies with the international community
that he and his Fatah faction are ready for a sovereign state.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left)
and Mohamed Dahlan (right), a former Fatah commander and minister, have,
for the past five years, been at each other's throats. The two were once
close allies and had worked together to undermine the former PA
president, Yasser Arafat. (Image sources: U.S. State Dept., M. Dahlan
Office)
Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah
faction is supposed to be preparing its people for statehood. But it
seems to be busy with other business.
According to sources in the Gaza Strip, Hamas security forces
recently uncovered a scheme to assassinate a number of senior Fatah
officials living there.
The sources claimed that ousted Fatah operative Mohamed Dahlan, who
has been living in the United Arab Emirates for the past five years, was
the mastermind of the alleged scheme. Dahlan's men in the Gaza Strip were
planning to assassinate Fatah officials closely associated with his
rival, Abbas, the sources revealed.
Dahlan's hit list included Ahmed Abu Nasr, Jamal Kayed, Emad al-Agha
and Mamoun Sweidan.
After the alleged plot was uncovered, Hamas summoned a number of top
Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip and asked them to take precautionary
measures to ensure their safety.
by Yves Mamou
• May 3, 2016 at 4:00 am
- "There are
today, we know, a hundred neighborhoods in France that present
potential similarities with what's happened in Molenbeek." —
Patrick Kanner, Minister for Urban Areas.
- The Salafists,
in fact, do not want to "take the power in these
neighborhoods." In many, they already have it.
- "The
farther I walked between the buildings, the more I was stunned. A
courtyard of Islamist miracles; an enclave that wants to live like
during the times of Muhammad. Bakery, hairdresser... It's a mini
Islamic Republic. During the sermons, they denounce, they
criminalize. A woman who smokes? A degenerate. A woman who does not
veil herself? A tease. A man that does not eat halal? He has
an express ticket to hell." — Paris Match.
- Remadna
received a death threat over the phone: "We know where your
kids go to school," and "your daughter is very
pretty." The next day, a delegation of completely veiled
Salafist "true Muslim mothers" came and told her, "We
want mosques, not schools."
The Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels has become the
epicenter of jihad in Europe. Abdelhamid Abaaoud (right), mastermind of
the November 2015 attacks in Paris, lived in Molenbeek. Amedy Coulibaly
(left), who in January 2015 murdered a policewoman and four Jews in
Paris, spent time in Molenbeek.
Patrick Kanner, France's Minister for Urban Areas, was undoubtedly
not planning to tell the truth on March 27.
He was on the set of Europe 1 TV to emphasize the left's credo:
Islamist terrorism is rooted in poverty and unemployment. But they asked
one question again and again: "How many Molenbeeks are in
France?" Finally, he said: "There are today, we know, a hundred
neighborhoods in France that present potential similarities with what has
happened in Molenbeek."
Molenbeek, as the entire world knows today, is the neighborhood of
Brussels that has become the epicenter of jihad in Europe. It is a
neighborhood under Salafist control that sent three of its residents to
assassinate hundreds of people in Paris on November 13, 2015. These are
the residents of the same neighborhood that bombed the Brussels airport
and the Maalbeek Metro station.
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