Fab Fayyad Fibs

Salam Fayyad has been quoted:

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad strongly rejected using his people as a justification for the French killings, calling them a "cowardly terrorist attack."

"It is time for those criminals to stop exploiting the name of Palestine through their terrorist actions," Fayyad said in a statement.

But wait, who has been killing hundreds * of Jewish children, women, elderly and even foreigners here in Israel but...Arabs of the former territories of the Palestine Mandate?

You know, the ones they write academic articles about?

Like here and also here. And here where you can learn that

Washington Post journalist Daniel Williams, in an article on the woman suicide bomber Abu Aisheh, estimates that there were fifty-nine acts of suicide bombings in the first eighteen months of the second intifada. Williams also notes that “the pool of potential bombers seems far from exhausted among despairing, hostile youths of Abu Aisheh’s generation.” A Ha’aretz article reports on research conducted by a psychology lecturer at Al-Aqsa University, Fadal Abu-Hin: “In Apri1 2001, Abu-Hin conducted a research study among 1,000 young Gaza Strip Palestinians, aged 9 to 16. According to the results he published, over 40 percent of the respondents said that they were actively involved in the intifada. Over 70 percent said that they wanted to be martyrs. ‘If I were to carry out the same study today,’ says Abu-Hin, ‘I am sure the figures would be even higher,’...

There's this book and this one.

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The first suicide attack ascribed to the Palestinian cause occurred on 16 April 1993, [the first modern one was the US Marine barrakcs in Lebanon] when a car bomb exploded near Mechola in the Jordan Valley. Between then and March 2004, 139 suicidal-attack incidents attributed to Palestinian operators transpired against Israeli targets (Figure 1). Between 1993 and September 2000, 27 suicide missions claimed 120 of the 290 Israeli deaths attributed to Palestinian attacks; since then, 112 suicide bombings have accounted for 474 of 918 Israeli Second Intifada fatalities while wounding more than 3,000, despite composing less than 1 percent of all violent incidents. These tallies do not include failed suicide operations (i.e. attacks intercepted by security forces or crippled by device failure); the number of attempted attacks is thus higher...recently an increasing number of these attacks have been claimed by the collaborative efforts of two or more Palestinian militant groups. From 1993 through April 2004, 46 percent of all suicide bombings were carried out by Hamas, 29 percent by PIJ (Palestine Islamic Jihad), and 22 percent by Fatah (Figure 2); the remainder were by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) or were claimed by two or more groups.

and this:

Since the onset of the Palestinian Intifada in September 2000 through August 2005, 151 Palestinian suicide bombing attacks have been launched against Israeli targets, killing 515 people and injuring almost 3,500 more...

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Salam Fayyad: Gingrich's 'Nazi ideology'

From Ma'an News Agency:

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad also urged Gingrich to open a history book.   "Even the most extremist settlers of Israel wouldn’t talk in such a ridiculous way," Fayyad told reporters on Saturday.  Such remarks would be better suited for a politician adhering to "a Nazi ideology, a source of suffering for humanity, and the Jews topped the list of victims” of that ideology, he added.

That last part was not reported by any major news outlet.

Why?

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Friedman Flunks Out - Again

Tom Friedman is at it again.  "It" being his notorius "Israel-bashing".  In today's column, The Arab Awakening and Israel, he acknowledges that

Israel is facing the biggest erosion of its strategic environment since its founding. It is alienated from its longtime ally Turkey. Its archenemy Iran is suspected of developing a nuclear bomb. The two strongest states on its border — Syria and Egypt — are being convulsed by revolutions. The two weakest states on its border — Gaza and Lebanon — are controlled by Hamas and Hezbollah.

And notes that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that ceding territory to the Palestinians was unwise at present.  Friedman grasciously acknowledges that

Netanyahu’s analysis of the dangers facing Israel is valid, and things could still get worse.

But still thinks that Netanyahu’s diagnosis is wrong.

Despite  "Israel’s fear of Islamists taking power all around it cannot be dismissed", he still asks Israel to ignore that fear.  After all, he suggests, there is nothing to fear because

...the new politics is just beginning: Islamists will now have to compete with legitimate secular parties.

He asserts:

Netanyahu’s prescription is to do nothing. I understand Israel not ceding territory in this uncertain period to a divided Palestinian movement. What I can’t understand is doing nothing...Israel’s best defense is to strengthen Fayyadism — including giving Palestinian security services more areas of responsibility to increase their legitimacy...Israeli rightists will be tempted to do nothing, to insist the time is not right for risk-taking — and never will be — so Israel needs to occupy the West Bank and its Palestinians forever. That could be the greatest danger of all for Israel: to wake up one day and discover that, in response to the messy and turbulent Arab democratic awakening, the Jewish state sacrificed its own democratic character.

The comment I left there:

Mr. Friedman writes that "I understand Israel not ceding territory in this uncertain period to a divided Palestinian movement. What I can’t understand is doing nothing." and then adds that he cannot understand why "Israel needs to occupy the West Bank and its Palestinians forever."

In the first instance, Israel has not "done nothing", a calumny Friedman insists upon repeating as if he can create a truth out of a lie. The Bar-Ilan speech recognizing (foolish as it was in my opinion) the need for a two-state solution, then recognizing specifically a "Palestinian state", then the construction moratorium and other diplomatic moves - all while the Pals. play at "as if" while not reducing their anti-Israel, anti-Zionist incitement, insufficient security (the Fogel family, for example) and other aspects, not to mention Gaza, hamas and its missiles (btw, Israel yielded up Gaza entirely as well as expelling the Jews from their homes) is not "nothing".

Moreover, the support fro Fayyadism or whatever, while stomping on Netayhau itself becomes an unjust and unfair form of participation by Friedman in the diploamtic process itself - all to Israel's disadvantage. So, while Friedman claims Netanyahu is doing "nothing", he himself is doing much too much in a negative fashion which will not bring peace nor security.

Thank you Mr. Friedman - for nothing.

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Any Atheists Still In The Left?

Are there any anthiests still in the left?

After this news:

Palestinian PM Fayyad suffers heart attack, in stable condition


The Palestinian premier checked into a U.S. hospital with strong chest pains, where he then was struck with blockage in a coronary artery; spokesman says he is recovering and should be released in two days.

Or are they praying hard to God?

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Salam Fayyad Interviewed

You once stated that Israeli settlers can be Palestinian citizens. Do you still believe that?

Yes, as equal citizens with equal rights.

But you know [the settlers] won’t agree to it.

The Palestinian state will be open and based on full nondiscrimination on any basis whatsoever, whether religious, gender, ethnic, or whatever, respectful of the rights, aspirations, and concerns of others, where there is democracy and the rights of minorities are protected by a constitution.

Newsweek

And won more outtake:-

What is possible in Jerusalem?

What is possible in Jerusalem is for East Jerusalem to be viewed just like the rest of the West Bank—territory seized by Israel in 1967.

These kinds of answers frighten Israelis very much.

The last thing in the world I want is to frighten the Israelis.

Astounding.

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ElderofZiyon on: Elder of "Palestine"

From Al Quds al Arabi (Arabic).


And EoZ posts:


Al Quds al Arabi reports that Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad has announced, on the radio, that the PA no longer abides by the Oslo Accords, which have governed the fragile relations between Israel and the PA since 1993.

Fayyad said during his weekly radio show on local Palestinian radio stations Wednesday that the Palestinian National Authority 'will not be a prisoner to the restrictions of Oslo'.

Fayyad added 'The National Authority recognizes the magnitude of the challenges and difficulties our people are living under on a daily basis, and it works to assume its full responsibilities. All the possibilities are available to it to strengthen the resilience of its citizens, and adhere and stay on their land, in the various regions, particularly the Jordan Valley area, all areas classified Area C, which constitute about 60 percent of the West Bank, including the areas behind the wall', he said,' These areas are not disputed areas, it is part and parcel of the occupied Palestinian territory, and the responsibility of the Palestinian National Authority is essential that work to the maximum of their capacities to provide services for all its citizens, it will not be a prisoner to the restrictions of Oslo."

As I pointed out yesterday, the Palestinian Authority derives all of its powers from the Oslo Accords, so if Oslo is not operative, he should be out of a job.

Does this mean that Israel no longer has to adhere to Oslo any more either, or is this just a one-way decision?

That's Shiloh in the Background

And that's Salam Fayyad picking olives on the left and perhaps Robert Serry, UN Rep, assisting him.

Quiz

Who said that Salam Fayyad should stand trial for his remarks that he intends "to declare a Palestinian state in the summer of 2011 and to build infrastructure to absorb Palestinian refugees into the state."

And who said that "Fayyad had effectively given up on the ‘right of return’ to 1948 borders."

And who said that “Fayyad is an illegitimate leader who stole rule in the West Bank...His hands are soiled with the suffering of thousands of martyrs in the West Bank.”

a) me

b) Moshe Feiglin

c) Benjamin Netanyahu

d) Hamas


D.

The 50-Something-Or-Other State?

The main American in Jerusalem wants a state:

The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, unveiled a government program on Tuesday to build the apparatus of a Palestinian state within two years, regardless of progress in the stalled peace negotiations with Israel.

...The United States consul general in Jerusalem expressed approval for the plan...Jacob Walles, the American consul general, spoke of the plan in an interview here on Monday, before Mr. Fayyad’s announcement. He said that it was the first time he had seen such a “concrete plan” and that the Palestinians were working in a practical way toward their goal.



Mr. Walles added that under the premiership of Mr. Fayyad there had been “a lot of progress in the West Bank” in economic, security and other spheres.

Yuval Steinitz, the finance minister of the conservative Likud Party, called Mr. Fayyad’s ideas “disappointing...There is no place for unilateralism, no place for threats, and of course, there will be no Palestinian state at all, if any, without ensuring the state of Israel’s security.”

Daniel Ayalon, the deputy foreign minister of the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu Party, said that “artificial dates and arbitrary deadlines never worked in the past, but caused only damage and would not work now.”...

So, one side can do whatever it wants outside the formal framework of negotiations.

Fayyad Gets The Other Hand

Salam Fayyad greeted by Hillary Clinton, Washington, DC, July 1, 2009:

SECRETARY CLINTON: Hello. I am very welcome – very privileged to welcome the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Prime Minister Fayyad is someone who has worked very hard on behalf of the Palestinian people. I’m looking forward to our meeting and discussing the ways forward on economic and security and political progress, and I thank him very much for being here.

PRIME MINISTER FAYYAD: It’s good to be here, Madame Secretary. Thank you very much.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you. I’ll shake with my other hand. (Laughter.)

PRIME MINISTER FAYYAD: Okay.

SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you all very much

And we are expected to give the other cheek?


UPDATE


Someone asked for visuals:

A Fayyad-Clinton handshake earlier this year:



But now Clinton is bound:



So, Fayyad didn't get the right-hand shake this time: