Israel Matzav

More blufferai from Abu Bluff

'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen keeps insisting that he needs Arab League and PLO approval to 'negotiate' with Israel. He claimed to have gotten both last week. But London-based, pan-Arabic daily al-Quds al-Arabi reports that Abu Bluff is fudging the PLO approval. He never got it. Here's why that matters.

The point is not whether Abu Mazen had achieved or not achieved approval of proximity talks, because no one asked him to do so. Although his personal consent would have been enough, he decided to get the approval of the Arab League and PLO. The problem is using the "as if," in which the PLO institutions and decisions are made. At the moment of truth, when Abu Mazen will need to bring the approval of agreements with Israel to PLO organizations, he will not have a majority and he will need again to resort to "as if" The result will be that Israel will disengage from Yehudah and Shomron and agree to security arrangements and will receive nothing in return. This has already happen with the Oslo agreements, when Fatah did not approve the agreements contrary to what was reported and the result was a series of intifada's after the implementation of the agreement. At the last meeting of Fatah that was in Beit Lechem, Fatah "as if" decided to follow a diplomatic framework, Abu Mazen added an appendix where he repeated the commitment to the struggle to the armed destruction of Israel.

President Obama's administration announced yesterday that would put the blame for the failure of the proximity talks on whichever side sabotaged the peace process.. Because Obama will not blame himself, if the Palestinians sabotage the process, he will blame both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, but if he finds Israel guilty, he will blame Israel alone. That is, one way or another, in this context Israel's situation is difficult. [emphasis added].

The Hebrew post from which the foregoing was translated is here. The original Arabic article is here.

Read the whole thing.

To this day, I don't think most people understand that the PLO charter was never amended to stop calling for the destruction of Israel when Bill Clinton was here in the '90's.

What could go wrong?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:38 AM