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Thursday, 17 December 2009

History Repeat it Self - Fatah/ PLO Elected it Self Again

Fatah/ PLO Elected it Self Again

12/17/2009 01:59:00 PM Reporter: Editor Publisher Hiyam Noir

Updated

December 17 - 2009 -1:59 AM

GAZA - Fatah and its corrupt leadership in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council did it again, they elected it self on Wednesday, when the council extended Mahmoud Abbas’ mandate, "until general elections are held". Abbas sits on two chairs, he is the head of both PLO and the PA, the Palestine Authority.

Hamas is not represented in the PLO, PLO is a body of Fatah. Hamas clearly stated weeks ago, that PLO does not have the authority to decide on constitutional matters.On Monday, Ismail Haniyeh, elected Prime Minister in 2006, clarified that -“ decision that contradicts with the Palestinian constitution and contradicts with the will of our people, can not be binding."

Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections of 2006 and Abbas and the Fatah leadership never admitted to the defeat. Fatah failed to hand over more of its power, than foreign policy, security forces and civil services to the winners. Instead Fatah dragged the Palestinian society into a protracted civil war.Since then under Abbas self proclaimed ruling, the Palestinian territories have essentially fractured into separate autonomous territories.

There is no one to be found more hated among Hamas members, than Muhammad Dahlan, a Fatah "strongman", earlier a resident of Khan Younis in Gaza, served as Abbas national security adviser, he spent more than a decade waging war against Hamas movement.Hamas had no intention of taking over Gaza until Fatah forced its hard hand. The events in June 2007 was not a take over Gaza by Hamas, but an attempted coup concealed by Fatah that was preempted by Hamas, before it could happen.

In June 14, 2007, Hamas fighters in Ezzedine Al Qassam broke into Fatah's fortress-like “Preventive Security" building in Gaza City, they found a video. In the video, bound and blindfolded, Hamas political prisoners were made to chant a rhythmic echo yelled out by one of their captors: “By blood, by soul, we sacrifice ourselves for Muhammad Dahlan. Long live Muhammad Dahlan!”.

After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House concocted a scandalous covert in the Middle East.Israel together with its alleys ,the U.S officials,George W Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and the U.S. National-Security adviser, the American Jew,Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Muhammad Dahlan in an attempt to set-off a bloody civil war in Gaza. - However the result they wished for did not come through,the clandestine action left Hamas stronger than ever before, while Fatah leader's rushed to dissolve the short lived Palestinian unity government.

An election in which Abbas proclaimed him self, scheduled for January 2010,was thwarted when the Palestinian Central Elections Commission in the last minute, realised that it would be unconstitutional, and that Hamas and other parties with dissenting political views would not allow it. The CEC was right, certainly Hamas movement and other Palestinian political groups have contested the legitimacy of the matter.

As a curiosity,Mahmoud Abbas led the Central Election Commission for the Palestine Legislative Council elections in January 1996, in which Yasser Arafat won the election with 82,2% of the votes. Hamas, boycotted the 1996 election,the Hamas movement capitalized on a widespread dissatisfaction, seen as corruption within the Palestinian Authority and Fatah, and a perceived inability by the PA to manage Palestinians affairs.

In March 2003, under pressure to divest some authority, Arafat named Mahmoud Abbas as Prime Minister. Mahmoud Abbas took over some key roles, he acted as head of the PLO and Fatah, in Arafat's absence.However Abbas started exercising his new found authority sooner than Arafat attempted to eviscerate the power of the new Prime Minister.

Abbas a mischievous, bold-faced Palestinian, resigned as Prime Minister in September 2003. He planned it well. By leaving the PA , he was allowed to keep his head up, salvage some dignity, and protect his reputation which not yet had been sullied. His short job as Prime Minister gave him some valuable exposure in the corridors of international diplomacy.It also allowed him to develop a good reputation with the American and Israeli administrations, in their perspectives, a reasonable and reliable Palestinian leader.

On Tuesday, in Ramallah, Abbas informed the Fatah Central Committee he would not "make any surprise decisions" about whether or not he would run for reelection in the next Palestinian vote. The Fatah committee reportedly took the comments as an indication that Abbas would not resign before elections are held.

In Gaza today, despite that the scandalous U.S - Israeli led international blockade is causing many obstacles, life survive and moves on.The Hamas authority in Gaza led by the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, continue to enforce law and order.

Two administrative actions including preventive health care. The ban of smoking in public schools, universities, hospitals and community clubs,the ban also applies to restaurants and public transportation vehicles, as well as ban of smoking in public waiting areas.The enforcement of Smoking Law :25:2005 will begin December 16 2009.

On Monday Ismail Haniyeh also attended a meeting with Gaza Health Ministry, to discuss various measures to prevent the spreed of viruses in Gaza, including the H1N1 virus.The Minister of Health,Dr Basem Naim said that the Gaza Health Ministry will provide H1N1 ( swine flue) vaccine,and that fatalities caused by swine flue virus, were at large an attribute to pre- existing conditions, adding that the majority of confirmed H1N1 cases has been treated.