Arabs Adopting Sanctions Against Palestinan Factions?
Posted on September 10, 2008
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Kuwait’s Arab Times has the following in today’s edition:
Arabs discuss ‘sanctions’ against Palestine groups
CAIRO, Sept 9, (Agencies): Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, his Saudi and Egyptian counterparts Prince Saud Al-Faisal and Ahmed Abulgheit respectively, all agreed on the importance of Kuwait’s upcoming Arab Economic Summit in January 2009, said Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Husam Zaki on Tuesday. A separate meeting coinciding with the 130th Arab League Ministerial Council meeting that concluded last night, was held between the three counterparts. The three ministers agreed that the summit would target and come up with recommendations on certain policies as well as ease the flow of capital, goods, Arab labour, trade and investments, according to Zaki. The spokesperson said that in light of recent obstacles facing the global community like economic disasters and the energy and food crises, an Arab unified strategy to face these problems had to be established.
Meanwhile, The head of the Arab League said on Tuesday that he was angry with fractious Palestinian political groups and that sanctions against them were being discussed by Arab governments. Egypt, the main mediator between often rival Palestinian groups, has been holding bilateral talks with minor groups in preparation for similar talks with the two main groups — Fatah and Hamas. “I am extremely angry with the Palestinian organisations,” Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the league, told a news conference in an unusually harsh criticism of the Palestinians.
“We are studying the measures to be taken in the face of the current Palestinian chaos,” he said, after a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo. But he added: “The sanctions would not be against anyone in particular. They would be against the party which obstructs reconciliation and maybe against everyone or against the organisation which obstructs Egyptian efforts.” If talks with the main groups succeed, Egypt might bring all the factions together in October after the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the holiday which follows. Hamas routed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s forces in Gaza in June 2007. In response, Abbas dismissed the Hamas-led government and appointed a new administration in the occupied West Bank where his Fatah group holds sway. Hamas and Fatah disagree on their approach to talks with Israel and over how to resolve the dispute which led to Hamas control of Gaza.
Officials from the militant Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have met in Syria to resolve a Gaza flare-up between the two, the groups announced Tuesday, just days after Hamas-led police forcefully dispersed a gathering by the other group. The two groups issued a joint statement saying they held a “long meeting” Monday in Damascus, discussed their relations and the situation in the Palestinian territories. Both sides asserted their “strategic relations,” adding that minor disagreements and events on the ground “will not effect the depth of these relations.” Hamas-run police on Saturday dispersed by force the sit-in by the Islamic Jihad’s Teachers Union in Gaza that was protesting what it argued is politicization of academic institutions in the Hamas-ruled coastal strip.
The infighting between Palestinians, the ferocity of the clashes, the intransigence of all sides, is finally getting to their Arab brothers. While host nations of Palestinian refugee camps have been repeated bloodied by these groups, somehow it was assumed that in their own state they would at least show some interest in getting along with themselves if not with others. Alas, like unruly children they have shown no interest in anything other than petty bickering and bloody fighting. Their enemy isn’t just the Zionist Entity, their enemy is any other group they may oppose at any given moment, for whatever momentary reason!
Not only have both Hamas and Fatah shown no governance skills, but they have amply demonstrated their adeptness at graft, corruption, dictatorship, and total disregard for the welfare of their own constituents. Perhaps, if the Arab nations toughen up on these Palestinian thugs rather than molycuddle them as usual, perhaps if the Arab nations would exercise some “tough love,” they might tame the Palestinian “leadership” beast. Meanwhile, all the groups have only exhibited an extreme interest in fighting while accomplishing nothing, yet worsening their own people’s situation.
Below I include a screen-shot of the above quoted Arab Times page. It seems that once I link to a page on their site, that URL shows a mysterious propensity to disappear…
Please click on image to see the full screenshot
Chaim
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If these “mainstream” Arab powers are discussing sanctions, you ca be sure that sanctions are already in place. These powerful countries realized that if they continue to pour money into the Palestinians, they are really settin the stage for rebellions all over the Arab nations. Therefore, they “might discuss” calming them down.