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Fatah warns moving US embassy will ‘open gates of hell’
2017-01-15
Fatah is the PLO is the Paleostinian Authority... but fig leaves are convenient for those who don't want to have to respond as decency requires.
[IsraelTimes] Spokesman for Abbas’s party says Paleostinian people ’won’t allow’ Trump to relocate embassy to Jerusalem.

The front man for Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
’s Fatah party on Saturday warned that if the Trump administration moves the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, it will "open the gates of hell."
You mean like you've been doing with your little knife intifada? Or your truck attacks now being met by concrete barriers? Up until now the Israelis have been polite; go for open war in front of President Trump, and things will get considerably more exciting.
Fatah front man Osama Qawasmeh said Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s campaign promise, if implemented, would negate chances for peace and stability in the region, and "the Paleostinian people won’t allow that happen," according to Israel Radio. To move the embassy, he said, would be to "open the gates of hell in the region and in the whole world."

On Friday, Abbas told Le Figaro the Paleostinians might revoke their recognition of Israel: If the embassy transfer takes place, "there would be several options for us, and we would discuss them with Arab countries," Abbas said.
You mean the Arab countries seeking rapprochement with Israel in the hope she will protect them from Iran? The ones who've been neglecting to send you promised funds? Good luck with that.
"Reversing our recognition of the State of Israel is one of them. But we hope that it doesn’t reach that point, and that, on the contrary, we will be able to work with the next American administration," he added.
Mr. Trump invited Settler leaders to his inauguration. I haven't read that he invited any Palestinians. This is suggestive.
Earlier Saturday, Abbas warned that moving the embassy to Jerusalem would "destroy the prospects of any political process, bury the hopes for a two-state solution, and fuel extremism in our region, as well as worldwide."

"In this moment, we extend our hand to President-elect Trump for his cooperation to make peace based on international law," Abbas said in statement after he inaugurated the Paleostinian embassy to the Holy See following an audience with Pope Francis.

The Paleostinians strongly oppose the move, saying it would kill any hopes for negotiating an Israeli-Paleostinian peace agreement and rile the region by undercutting Moslem and Christian claims to the holy city.
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  "gates of Hell" - shouldn't that be with a TM? I mean they use it so much, they must own the rights to it....
Posted by: Hupearong Snore6022   2017-01-15 12:51  

#3  Yep. Time for you lot to go home.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-01-15 05:49  

#2  I've heard that one before. Several times.
Posted by: gorb   2017-01-15 03:25  

#1  How would we notice the difference?
Posted by: Crusader   2017-01-15 01:46  

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