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2023-10-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Hamas' actions do not represent Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas says

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Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-16 03:02|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top
File under: Palestinian Authority

#1 Well they were voted in, so.....

Posted by Mercutio 2023-10-16 10:30|| 2023-10-16 10:30|| Front Page Top

#2 So - getting what they voted for - good and hard.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-16 10:40|| 2023-10-16 10:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Background: "Many Iranians believe Suleiman has ruthlessly used his appointment as head of the Quds Force, which was formed during Iran's eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s, to further his own political ambitions. This was certainly the impression he sought to give when, in 2008, he sent General David Petraeus, the [then] CIA director who was then commanding US forces in Iraq, a phone text informing him that he should always deal with Suleimani if he wanted a discussion of Iranian foreign policy.
"General Petraeus," the text read, "you should know that I, Qassem Suleimani, control the policy for Iran with respect to Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, and Afghanistan.... The Iranian ambassador to Afghanistan is a Quds Force member, while Quds Force units have been sent to Syria to support the Assad regime's barbaric campaign to silence anti-government protests.
The Quds force, which takes its name from the Arabic for Jerusalem, actively supports a number of radical Islamist groups throughout the Middle East that are committed to the destruction of Israel, such as Hizbollah in Lebanon and Gaza. Israeli forces have intercepted several weapons caches bound for Hamas militants in Gaza and Hizbollah in southern Lebanon.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-10-16 12:04|| 2023-10-16 12:04|| Front Page Top

#4 #3 above" 4 Dec 2011, The Telegraph, Con Coghlin author.

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-10-16 12:06|| 2023-10-16 12:06|| Front Page Top

#5 When Mahmoud Abbas is LESS "anti-Zionist" than BBC

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-10-16 13:24|| 2023-10-16 13:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Abbas backtracked later that day.

Posted by lord garth 2023-10-16 16:46|| 2023-10-16 16:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Hamas' actions do not represent Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas says

So Palestinian pre-attack warnings to Israel (over the course of months and years) fell on deaf ears did they?

Sorry, Mahooood. You're a part of the problem.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-16 17:01|| 2023-10-16 17:01|| Front Page Top

#8 But - here in the USA - every gun owner "has blood on their hands" every time some freak goes nuts with a gun. Every white man is responsible for the twisted rhetoric of a skinhead.

Or so the media and liberal pols tell us.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-10-16 17:14|| 2023-10-16 17:14|| Front Page Top

#9 PA president Abbas has been all over the map on this one: first praising Hamas, then condemning Hamas, then saying that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians… and that is only in English —who knows what he is saying in Arabic.
Trying to maximize gain and minimize harm in all directions at once, it appears to me. And also not be assassinated.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-10-16 17:19|| 2023-10-16 17:19|| Front Page Top

#10 "No true Scotsman..."

Posted by European Conservative 2023-10-16 17:41|| 2023-10-16 17:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me 1,746 times, I must be a demokrat and you must be a Palestinian!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-10-16 18:25|| 2023-10-16 18:25|| Front Page Top

#12 I went to Engineering College and worked with a lot of Iranian immigrants. All were, to my knowledge, pre-Ayatollah-era (Shah) or sympathetic. Good peeps, fun to party with, and despairing what happened to Iran. I suspect most of the Iranian people are hating what's happened since 1979

Posted by Frank G 2023-10-16 19:21|| 2023-10-16 19:21|| Front Page Top

#13 put him on the list after hamas,hezbollah.

Posted by irish rage boy 2023-10-16 20:38|| 2023-10-16 20:38|| Front Page Top

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