Worse than herding cats — this lot will say anything, then keep on exactly as they have been since the 1960s, with ever-decreasing success. But Egypt must be the leader of the Arab world, so they keep trying to lead.
[AlAhram] Head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service (GIS) Abbas Kamel met on Saturday with a delegation from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine (PFLP), the second largest faction within the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO), reported al-Arabiya.The two officials met ahead of a meeting between Paleostinian factions’ secretary generals scheduled to be held in Cairo on 30 July. They discussed the requirements for making the meeting successful and the importance of ending the division and restoring Paleostinian national unity.
Important, yes. Likely? Unfortunately never.
Kamel met with the delegation headed by Deputy Secretary-General of the PFLP Jamil Mezher, where they reviewed the faction’s position with regard to the current challenges and dangers facing the Paleostinian cause.They also discussed means of bolstering Paleostinian people’s resilience and achieving their national rights.
*BUMP* So sorry — I fell off my chair, laughing.
Kamel affirmed Egypt's support for the Paleostinian people as well as its keenness to make the upcoming conference a success.No doubt.
The GIS chief added that Egypt will provide all facilities to ensure the conference’s success.For its part, the PFLP delegation affirmed its appreciation for Egypt's efforts and support for the Paleostinian people and their rights, hailing Egypt’s continuous role in seeking to end the division.
*Kow tow* *Kow tow* *Kow tow*
The meeting is being held in response to a call by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase.... He’s still alive? I could have sworn he’d passed away quietly in a corner somewhere, unnoticed until the cleaning crew came through the next day.
following the deadly Israeli attack on the Jenin camp in the West Bank.WIDENING RIFT
Leaders of several Paleostinian factions welcomed the invitation to attend the conference, which aims to discuss the recent Israeli attacks.
Whoo-hoo! Food, drink, dancing girls!! And no IDF hunting parties waking everyone up in the middle of the night!
However,a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the Paleostinian factions have a widening rift over whether to attend. Both Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
(PIJ) have accused the Paleostinian Authority of detaining their members in the West Bank.
And so they are. The alternative is to let them drive the PA out of power, so it’s clear which they’d choose.
PIJ Secretary General Ziyad al-Nakhala has warned that the Paleostinian Authority’s arrest of his movement’s members in the West Bank places the planned meeting in Cairo at risk of failure.Bummer. No dancing girls?
On Sunday, al-Nakhala said in press remarks that the PIJ would not attend unless the Paleostinian authority releases the detainees.ACHIEVING NATIONAL UNITY
Unity. Riiiiiiiiiight.
Hamas, however, announced Sunday that it will participate in the meeting, affirming that the movement will spare no effort to make it a success.They can wait until the West Bank falls like a ripe plum into their lap.
Hamas Political Bureau member Khalil al-Hayya said the Cairo meeting represents a "great chance to advance the situation in Paleostine and achieve national unity."Egypt has previously hosted a number of meetings to foster unity between Paleostinian factions.
...every single one of which failed. Clearly Allah does not want unified Palestinians. Or else He wants Egypt to fail...
Egypt has also brokered several ceasefire deals between Israel and the Paleostinian factions over the past years against the backdrop of Israeli aggression.Each case of Israeli aggression being a response to Palestinian misbehaviour, but never mind. Were Israel not there, the events would not have happened, so by Middle Eastern Moslem definition it is indeed Israel’s fault.
Ahead of the meeting, the Paleostinian Ambassador to Cairo, Diab al-Louh, ...he shows up in the Rantburg archives, but I have no memory of his existence. I assume he just represents the West Bank, Hamas in Gaza taking care of their own representation...
has urged all Arab allies to aid in reconstructing the Jenin camp that was damaged by recent Israeli attacks.Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets
whapped!around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
the ambassador reaffirmed the State of Paleostine’s commitment to the Arab Peace Initiative and the two-state solution.
Some state. They don’t pay their bills, they don’t control their own people, and their presidential election is about sixteen years overdue.
The Times of Israel adds:
Ziyad al-Nakhala, Secretary-General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, announced on Sunday that the movement will boycott a meeting of Palestinian factions scheduled to take place in Cairo on July 30.The Times of Israel adds:
Al-Nakhala said in a statement that the boycott is motivated by the arrest of a number of PIJ members by the Palestinian Authority. “We will not go to the meeting as long as our mujahideen brothers are detained in the prisons of the Palestinian Authority,” he said.
The meeting of the general secretaries was announced on July 3 by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, in response to the latest Israeli operation in Jenin, and it is scheduled to include 14 Palestinian factions, most notably Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular and Democratic Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Palestinian People’s Party, according to a report in al-Quds news.
For its part, Hamas responded positively to Abbas’s invitation. During a public meeting held in Gaza on Sunday, Khalil al-Hayya, a prominent member of the Hamas political bureau, said that the group intends to take part in the Cairo talks and will do “everything it can for the success of the meeting.” The talks will explore the possibility of forming a new Palestinian National Council through elections, or to find an agreement for the formation of a transitional national council and a joint government with Fatah.
| It would be impressive if they actually accomplished it, but they won’t. |
Hamas confirmed its participation after the release of one of its leaders in the northern West Bank last Thursday. Mustafa Abu Arra (63) was detained last Thursday in his home village of Tubas, between Jenin and Nablus, on charges of slandering PA officials, and was released on Sunday following calls from Hamas activists and a deterioration of his health condition, according to Palestinian news website Palinfo. Hamas had qualified Abu Arra’s arrest as “political.”
Relations have been tense between the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority on one side and Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad on the other in the weeks following the IDF Jenin operation. The PA arrested a number of members of both terror groups, which have been eroding Ramallah’s authority in the northern West Bank for the past two years.