Amr: Abbas is responsible for delaying the vote on Goldstone’s report

Amr: Abbas is responsible for delaying the vote on Goldstone’s report

[ 06/10/2009 - 05:07 PM ]

RAMALLAH, (PIC)-- Nabil Amr, the resigned Palestinian ambassador to Cairo, accused Mahmoud Abbas of being responsible for postponing the vote on Goldstone’s report about Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Amr told Al-Jazeera satellite channel on Tuesday that Abbas has to admit his responsibility for withdrawing the report, pointing out that Abbas tried to evade his responsibility by saying he would form a committee to investigate what happened and putting the blame on Arab countries.
In the same context, the Palestinian communist party condemned on Monday the withdrawal of Goldstone’s report as a political scandal and high treason.

The party said that Abbas’s claims about the involvement of Arab countries in the withdrawal of the report and the formation of an investigation committee were an attempt to pull the wool over the eyes and cover up his blatant compliance with the Israeli dictates.

During a protest held outside the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza on Tuesday, families of war victims deplored Abbas for withdrawing Goldstone’s report, considering his position a disrespect for their pains and for the blood of thousands of Palestinian martyrs.

They appealed to international human rights organization and Arab leaders to refer Goldstone’s report to international courts to prosecute Israeli leaders for the crimes they committed against them.

For its part, the Palestinian community in Switzerland strongly denounced the PA irresponsible position against Goldstone’s report, saying that this position represented a political and moral decline and contradicted the interests and rights of the Palestinian people and the justice of their national cause.

The community demanded the Palestinian Authority (PA) to apologize to the Palestinian people for selling their rights at auction.

In a joint statement issued Tuesday, the media forum, the media assembly and the journalist bloc expressed their dismay and shock at the PA for its irresponsible position towards Goldstone’s report.

They described this position as a poisoned dagger stabbed in the heart of every Palestinian seeking to avenge the blood of innocent victims who were slain by Israeli war criminals.

The Palestinian police, for their part, declared Tuesday their intention to arrest everyone involved in obstructing Goldstone’s report on Israeli war crimes, noting that they lost hundreds of policemen during the last Israeli war.

In a televised statement on Al-Jazeera channel, Osama Hamdan, the representative of Hamas in Lebanon, said that Abbas must bear responsibility for what he had done, adding his only solution is to backtrack on his decision and correct what happened by putting Goldstone’s report forward and supporting it.


Al Thani and Ihsanoglu: Abbas delayed action on Goldstone’s report

[ 06/10/2009 - 10:43 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- Envoy of Qatar to the UN human rights council in Geneva Khaled Al Thani and secretary-general of the organization of Islamic conference Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu affirmed Monday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was responsible for delaying the vote on Goldstone’s report.

Al Thani told Al-Jazeera satellite channel that everyone in the human rights council was surprised to see the PA envoy submitting a request to postpone the vote on the report until next March.

He said that the PA envoy was instructed directly by Mahmoud Abbas not to take any action on the report during the current session and to work on delaying it.

For his part, Ihsanoglu also confirmed that the PA was the party that decided to defer action on the report, noting that any objection now would be of no use after the PA delegation and major countries agreed on the postponement.

In a related context, Palestinian informed sources told the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the Palestinian left-wing factions cancelled their participation in the national conference on the PA position on Goldstone’s report held Monday due to threats they received from Abbas and his aides.

The sources explained that the series of meetings called for recently by the Movement of Islamic Jihad and attended by left-wing factions affiliated with the PLO which issued statements condemning the PA’s step against Goldstone’s report raised the ire of Abbas.

The sources added that things also got worse after the popular front issued a statement following a meeting with Palestinian premier Ismail Haneyya describing him as an extraordinary premier.

Afterwards, Abbas’s aide Tayeb Abdelrahim threatened leaders of the popular front including Abdelrahim Malluh and Jamil Al-Majdalawi to take punitive action against them if they did not curb their incitement against the PA in Ramallah.

In a new development, the Palestinian ministry of interior said Monday that it embarked on studying the requests it received from many national factions and human rights organizations demanding it to arrest all people involved in delaying the vote on Goldstone’s report on charges of high treason and collaboration with the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people.

For their part, the network of NGOs and the civic coalition for defending Palestinian rights in Jerusalem called Monday for holding accountable all those who are involved in suspending the vote on Goldstone’s report.

They also condemned the PA position as an abominable bias against the Palestinian rights and blood, noting that the PA had already killed a decision on the apartheid wall in the international court of justice in The Hague.

In a special parliamentary sitting held Monday in Gaza city, the Palestinian legislative council (PLC) adopted the report prepared by the parliamentary committee of human rights on the PA’s withdrawal of its support for Goldstone’s report.

The approved report condemns the PA position as high treason against the Palestinian people that entails the prosecution of all those involved.

The Islamist lawmakers in the West Bank also denounced in a press release on Monday the PA’s position against Goldstone’s report, saying that the PA provided the Israeli occupation with a free service and save it a lot of trouble.

For their part, the Palestinian factions in Ramallah called in a joint statement for forming a committee to investigate the decision taken by the PA to delay Goldstone’s report and for holding accountable the parties involved in taking such a decision.

Comments:

lu said...

UP, there is a good documentary you may want to watch. Narration is in Spanish but you can listen to Gazans speaking in Arabic and English, that makes a good portion of the video, and the rest you'll understand through the images. It is touching.If you want to watch it, you'll find two links to it in my blog. I've uploaded a tiny trailer of some 25 seconds or so, but the code of the video is not available for uploading, so one must go to the RTVE site. It has been broadcasted two days ago.

On another token: Sometimes I fail to understand the Angry Arab. Being a political scientist as he is, and despite the vast amounts of papers and books he reads, he however utterly fails to understand Hamas (in my opinion), and very happily makes harsh comments on them when he is lacking half of the picture at least.

Today he's castigating Hamas for "rescuing" Abbas (... and others are echoing him) but he surely did not see how Hamdam urged Abbas to retract from what he did at Geneva to the war crimes report. And next we find Ereikat making declarations to the settlers press (Ynet) saying that Abbas is "reconsidering" bactracking. He he.Now imagine he does, as it may well happen, given his lust for power. It would be a resounding success for Hamas. As to the "reconciliation" move, he incredibly speaks from his guts and not from his brain.

One could expect more from an intellectual specialised in politics and having a sound knowledge of the history in the region. Were it for my guts I'd also say "there's nothing to speak about, both are two worlds appart". But I'm convinced Hamas must have several good reasons to act the way they're acting. I can think of five or six and they surely can think of more having all the data as they have, added to a first hand knowledge of Fatah's disgraceful deeds.

So, best is to wait and see, for they are not stupid. And certain armchair generals shouldn't think they're smarter than them, specially when they're comfortably sitting behind a computer at home, rather with own life at risk 24x7x360, as the Hamas guys are.
2:46 PM, October 06, 2009

lu said...

Forgot to say the title of the documentary is The wounds of Rafah (Las heridas de Rafah), and mainly speaks about the hard work inside the tunnels where oxygen is scarce and temperature is well above 40 degrees (centigrade). Such conditions added to lack of space make pushing goods extremely difficult.
2:56 PM, October 06, 2009

Dear Lu

I fully agree with your assesment, and would add, I don't have to wait to see. I read the Angry arab contradicting statement on Fath Coup

I wonder why Hamas should be blamed for foiling a Usraeli Coup planned to save the Fath collaborationist team? I don't expect better from a guy who believe that all good guys in Fath has died or left.

If there is such a coup, Hamas should be thanked for foiling it. I would save the ass of an exposed traitor, to avoid a hidden traitor. They did every thing to turn Palestinians against Hamas, War, Siege, Propaganda, and they failed. Remember that many of those who elected Hamas were not pro-Hamas., and imagine the result of any future election after the Goldstone Report's scandel.

I am following the shitty comments of armchair general at PP comfortably sitting behind a computer at home, talking about "Becomming Very Good in Doublespeak; it Denounces the Traitor, but Still Works with Him!"

Thanks to Hamas Doublespeak, that spoiled that spoiled ememy plans and exposed traitors.

Fatima Wrote:
I dont understand this reconciliation , like we say in Arabic it is like mixing oil with water . One party cooperates openly with the zionists and targets the resistance and tortures them to death and the other supports the resistance , how can the 2 agendas ever meet ??

fatima 10.06.09 - 2:20 pm #

I agree with fatima, Palestinian reconciliation with 2 different agendas is like "mixing oil with water" but I understand reconciliation. Water and oil can't mix, but can but can be contained together on one container for some time (Hezbullah Joined siniora govenment, and Fath Joined Haneya Government.

I don't see any difference between Palestinian reconciliation and Lebanese Reconciliation. Therefore, I wonder why some people use different standards.

UP