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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• September 26, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Abbas and Fatah
leaders in Ramallah claim that Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the
United Arab Emirates (the "Arab Quartet") are using and
promoting Abbas's rival, Mohamed Dahlan, in order to facilitate
their mission of rapprochement with Israel.
- Many
Palestinians were surprised to see veteran Palestinian official
Ahmed Qurei, a former Palestinian Authority (PA) prime minister and
one of the architects of the Oslo Accord, come out in favor of the
Arab plan, which basically envisions ousting Abbas from power.
- This, and not
Israeli policy, is Abbas's true nightmare. After all, he knows that
without Israel's presence in the West Bank, his regime would have
long fallen into the hands of Hamas or even his political rivals in
Fatah.
- The "Arab
Quartet" plan shows that some Arab countries are indeed fed up
with Abbas's failure to lead his people towards a better life. These
states, which have long been politically and financially supportive
of the Palestinians, have had enough of Abbas's efforts to secure
unending power -- at the direct cost of the well-being of his
people.
When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas
addressed the UN General Assembly on Sept. 22, 2016, he did not share
with world leaders that his Arab brothers are pressuring him to introduce
major reforms in his Fatah faction, and allow some of its expelled
leaders, including Abbas's rival Mohamed Dahlan (inset), to return.
In his speech last week before the United Nations General Assembly
in New York, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas trotted
out his usual charges against Israel, citing "collective
punishment," "house demolitions," "extrajudicial
executions" and "ethnic cleansing." However, Abbas's
thoughts seem to be elsewhere these days. He is facing a new challenge
from unexpected parties, namely several Arab countries that have come
together to demand that he reform his ruling Fatah faction and pave the
way for the emergence of a new Palestinian leadership.
Yet this was not included in the UN speech. Indeed, why would Abbas
share with world leaders that his Arab brothers are pressuring him to
introduce major reforms in Fatah and end a decade-long power struggle
with Hamas that has resulted in the creation of two separate Palestinian
entities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
by Raymond Ibrahim
• September 26, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Recently in
Iraq, 19 Yazidi girls were placed in iron cages and burned alive in
front of a crowd of hundreds, for refusing to copulate with jihadis.
- "Religious
minority women under IS [Islamic State] control are often repeatedly
sold from jihadi to jihadi. Once militants get tired of raping and
abusing one particular girl, they usually sell them off to one of
their militant buddies so they can rape and abuse them at their own
pleasure." — Samuel Smith, The Christian Post.
- After their
children were abducted by the Islamic State, a couple answered their
door to find the body parts of their daughters and a video of them
being tortured and raped.
- "Christian
girls are considered goods to be damaged at leisure. Abusing them is
a right. According to the community's mentality it is not even a
crime. Muslims regard them as spoils of war." — Local
residents, Pakistan.
Islamic State jihadis laugh and joke about buying and
selling Yazidi sex slaves, in a propaganda video.
Islamic law, always harsh, is still harsher for women. According to
the Koran, men have "authority" over women and may beat them if
they are "disobedient" (4:34). According to Mohammad, the
prophet of Islam, women are less intelligent than men — two women are
needed to equal one man's testimony — and the majority of hell's
population is made up of women, who are likened to donkeys and dogs in
their ability to distract a man from his prayer and thereby annul it.
What, then, is Islam's view of women who are "infidels"?
They are at best "meant for one thing, the pleasure of the Muslim
man," as one Muslim told a group of young Christian girls in
Pakistan before terrorizing and murdering one. In the Koran, (see 4:24),
non-Muslim women seized in a jihad can be bought and sold as sex slaves
for Muslim men, as the Islamic State has been doing.
Emily Fuentes, communications director for Open Doors, a human
rights organization that advocates for persecuted Christians, said:
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