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Fatah decides to prevent all meetings between Israelis and 'Palestinians'

You think the 'moderate' Fatah terror organization wants peace? In their latest stunt, the terror organization has decided to thwart all meetings between Israelis and 'Palestinians.'

Last week, Palestinians thwarted an attempt by a group called the Israeli Palestinian Confederation to hold a conference in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

At the conference, Israelis and Palestinians were expected to vote for a joint parliament that would offer itself as a “third government” for the two peoples.

Palestinian protesters stormed the Ambassador Hotel in Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem and forced the Israeli organizers and hotel management to cancel the event.

The following day, a similar anti-normalization protest in Bethlehem forced the group to cancel a planned conference near the city.

Al-Quds University President Sari Nusseibeh, who was supposed to speak at the conference, had to cancel his appearance after receiving threats from Palestinian activists belonging to Fatah and other groups.

The Fatah leadership fears that the Israeli government would exploit such meetings to tell the world that there is some kind of dialogue going on between Israelis and Palestinians and that the only problem is with the PA leadership, which is refusing to return to the negotiating table, the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported.

Abdel Kader, a former PA minister for Jerusalem affairs, revealed that the Fatah leadership has decided to foil all informal meetings between Israelis and Palestinians.

“We will try to thwart any Palestinian Israeli meeting, even if it’s held in Tel Aviv or west Jerusalem,” Abdel Kader said. “In Fatah we have officially decided to ban such gatherings.”

He said that it was inconceivable that such meetings are being held at a time when Israel continues to build settlements and refuses to accept the pre- 1967 lines as the future borders of a Palestinian state.

The 'Palestinians' decided that they could not reach a deal with Netanyahu before he ever took office. Therefore, they don't want any negotiations with him. They are hoping that if they remain intransigent, Netanyahu will lose power and they will have a more pliable 'negotiating partner,' so whatever Netanyahu does will never be enough.

Under the circumstances, Israel should be creating permanent consequences to act as a disincentive to this type of 'Palestinian' behavior. Unfortunately, it is not.

What could go wrong?

Labels: Abu Mazen, Binyamin Netanyahu, Fatah, negotiations without preconditions

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:50 PM