West Bank – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reported to have complained to the emir of Qatar during their recent meetings in Doha about Hamas’s attempt to stage a coup against his regime in the West Bank.
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The Hezbollah-affiliated newspaper Al-Akhbar published on Monday what it said was the protocol of the meeting between Abbas and the emir, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was invited to join the meeting at a later stage.
The protocol quotes Abbas as telling the emir that Hamas has been working to foil and bring down the PA ever since its establishment.
“(Former PLO leader Yasser) Arafat invited them (Hamas) to join the Palestinian Authority and the 1996 elections, but they refused and said that democracy is forbidden because it is the rule of the people, while we want the rule of sharia,” Abbas was quoted as saying. “They issue fatwas (religious decrees) as they like and use religion to serve their interests.”
Abbas said – according to the protocol – that each time he meets with Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz, the latter tells him that Mashaal is a “liar.”
The protocol quotes Abbas as accusing Hamas of being behind the abduction and murder of the three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank last June in order to “strike at the Palestinian national project.”
Abbas was quoted as saying: “When I asked Mashaal (about the murder of the three youths), he replied: ‘I don’t know.’ Then he told me, ‘I neither deny nor confirm.’ Lies and beating around the bush.”
Abbas pointed out that top Hamas operative Saleh Arouri, who is based in Turkey, later confirmed that his movement was behind the kidnapping and murder of the Israeli youths. “This means that Turkey approves of it,” Abbas added, according to the protocol. “Hamas’ goal is to destroy the West Bank and create chaos in order to stage a coup against us. Hamas wants to drive me crazy. Since the kidnapping of (IDF soldier) Gilad Schalit, they have been contacting the Americans and Israelis and Europeans and others. They have been doing things behind our backs.”
The protocol quotes Abbas as disclosing that the head of Shin Bet visited him in Ramallah two weeks ago and briefed him about Hamas’s plan to stage a coup in the West Bank. Abbas claimed that Arouri and a Jordan-based Hamas operative nicknamed Jawad were behind the alleged coup. He said that the head of Shin Bet told him that Israel has the weapons and knows about the tunnels that were being prepared to stage the alleged coup.
“Why do they want a coup?” Abbas was quoted as telling the emir of Qatar. Where’s the partnership between us? Where are we headed? Why this Iranian method of taqqiyah?”
He noted that in 2006 Hamas also tried to assassinate him by placing explosives along the route his convoy uses in the Gaza Strip.
The protocol also quoted Abbas as saying that Hamas had been conspiring with ousted Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan to topple his regime. Dahlan has since been expelled from Fatah and lives in the United Arab Emirates.
“I know them well,” Abbas said, referring to Hamas. “They have no relation to Islam, from their highest ranking sheikh to the youngest of them. Many Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, asked me to marginalize Hamas and were opposed to my reconciliation deal with it.
The emir at this point tells Abbas (according to the protocol): “Frankly, you have provided information whose source is Israel. It must be correct.”
The protocol quoted Mashaal as telling Abbas and the emir of Qatar that he informed Arouri that he made a mistake when he took credit for the kidnapping and murder of the Israeli youths. Mashaal also denied the claim that Hamas had planned to stage a coup against Abbas. “I wish to say in front of the emir of Qatar that the claim is a one million percent lie,” Mashaal was quoted as saying. “Form commissions of inquiry and have Qatar participate. If anything is proved, I’m prepared to bravely apologize to the Palestinian Authority. But if it is proven to be a lie, I want Abu Mazen (Abbas) to come out and say that Israel is lying.”
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
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Good morning.
Gee. Will the Real Moe come forward? I wonder if the Abbas reunion with Meshaal is like a christmas gathering for the wing nuts of pain. They might just decorate their tree with the blood of their slavery rebellion.
Terrible.
Tomorrow’s headline will read that Mashaal says that Abbas is a liar (in the article he already said it). Regardless, they will join together in their quest to annihilate Israel, and the terrorists that run the US government will look to aid them in every way possible.
There is no honor among thieves and criminals. Never has been. This is just another example.
Who leaked this and why?
Did Abbas forget how hamas would throw fatah members off of building rooftops as they were taking over gaza?
I vote this the headline of the week (some great quotes in the article as well). Of course it’s the Jerusalem post, and not likely to make it’s way (in this form) to the world press. But it’s a great read!
I know of many “liar” leaders
I think it’s great that our enemies have no peace between themselves.
It took him some time, but give him credit, he finally figured it out, and all by himself!!!! AMAZING!!!
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The proper conclusion is that they are all liars including saudi arabia ,Who has funded all of the terrorist organizations as long as they do their terror out side of saudi arabia
Best Line:
” Why this Iranian method of taqqiyah?”
LOL instead of just saying “Islamic Taqqiyah” he terms it as an “Iranian” (i.e. Persian not Arabic) method…
As it says “Pirud Shel Reshayim…tov l’hem v’Tov leOlam”
I’m no student of “religions”, but most of all I have heard of boast to have some connection with a sense of morality. One of the basics is the reverence held for “truth”. It is replete in Torah, and it seems to be a high priority of X-ianity and others. One “religion” lacks it completely, both in terms of its scriptures and in the universality of its practice – Islam. The conclusion is that the closer one feels to Islam, the less connection one has with truth. Lying therefore becomes the norm. It is the exception when a Muslim tells the truth. I always wondered why Obama lies so consistently, whether his almost perfect record in breaking his campaign promises, or his contradiction of positions. In light of his Islam faith, this all makes sense. And now, we know……….the rest of the story.
It’s a blessing that the Moslems are so two faced that they can’t even trust eachother
What does this say about abbas who signed an alliance with him???? Not a brain between any of them.