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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• November 1, 2016 at 5:00 am
- If Abbas is
unable to make peace inside his own Fatah faction, how will he ever
be able to end the dispute with Hamas? And the more crucial
question: How can Abbas ever be expected to make peace with Israel
when he cannot even control his own Fatah loyalists? The Palestinian
political situation, plagued with anarchy on all fronts, is deteriorating
on a daily basis.
- Israel and the
rest of the world are currently facing two Palestinian camps: one
(Hamas) that does not want to make peace with Israel because it
believes Israel ought not to exist, and the second (Fatah) that
cannot make peace with Israel because it is too weak to do so. The
next US administration, whatever political persuasion it may be,
would do well to mark this reality.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas walks
with Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar, during a visit to
the Gulf state last week. The Emir hosted a meeting between Abbas and
Hamas leaders, with the goal of ending the dispute between Hamas and
Abbas's Fatah faction, and achieving "national reconciliation."
This has become predictable. Given two minutes of breath, Palestinian
Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas resorts to the old tactic of
courting Hamas as a way of hiding from the disaffection of his own Fatah
faction. The overtures towards Hamas are a smokescreen for what many
Palestinians are beginning to perceive as the beginning of a revolt
against Abbas.
Last week, Abbas held a surprise meeting in Qatar with Hamas leaders
Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal. The meeting reportedly considered ways
of ending the longstanding dispute between Fatah and Hamas and achieving
"national reconciliation."
Abbas aides said the meeting also dealt with the possibility of
forming a Palestinian "national unity" government and holding
long-overdue presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
by Robert Jones
• November 1, 2016 at 4:45 am
- "Idiots,
since when have non-Muslims been wished to rest in peace?" —
Tweet after the death of a Jewish businessman in Turkey.
- All of this
history and narrative makes one ask: What is a radical Muslim and
what is a moderate Muslim? Is "being radical" only about
being an armed militant? Can Muslims who do not engage in violent
action but who have extremely hate-filled and murderous speech be
considered "moderate"? Or would their supremacist or even
genocidal speech be enough to name them as "radical?"
- What then is
the difference between armed Islamic State terrorists who threaten
Jews with massacres, and unarmed Turkish Twitter users who celebrate
Jewish deaths and call for massacring more Jews?
Turkish police and soldiers are deployed outside the
Israeli Embassy in Ankara after an attempted attack on the facility, on
September 21. (Image source: TeleSur video screenshot).
Two important Jew have lost their lives lately: Shimon Peres, the
ninth President of Israel, and Ishak Alaton, a Jewish businessman from
Turkey.
Upon receiving the news of the deaths of these two men, many Turks
rushed to Twitter proudly and openly to show off their hatred of Jews,
according to the Turkish news site, Avlaremoz, which covers Jewish
affairs.
Some of the Tweets posted after Peres's death on September 28
included:
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