Terrorism is a Drug
Aussie Dave | Aug 22, 2005 | 4 comments
The meeting between PLO Arab Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and an assortment of PLO Arab terrorists was rather uninspiring…
That is, until Queria brought out the brownies.
A few minutes later..
An hour later and the terrorists appeared at the news conference, the effects of the hash still apparent.
Note: Here is more on terrorists and substance abuse
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I’ll betcha 5 ugly camels and a 3-legged donkey that it’s those evil zionists who been slippin’ the hash into the brownies….
It is really sad to realize how palestinian censorship is sucesseful.
Actually the Fatah is in turmoil. The PLO is in turmoil. But the palestinian authority managed to prevent people from knowing what is going on. Back in the beginning of august farouk Qadoumi a hight ranking fatah official living in Tunis did rebel against abbas. August 1 , a Qadoumi deputy in gaza announced the creation of a popular army in Gaza.
Fatah sets up ‘popular army’ to cope with Gaza pullout Tue Aug 2, 2:51 PM ET
KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip (AFP) – Fatah, the ruling Palestinian party, has begun recruiting a “popular army” responsible for helping to keep law and order after Israel’s pullout from the Gaza Strip, a spokesman said.
The volunteer force, which Fatah hopes will number some 1,500 people, is being set up on the orders of party leader Faruq Qaddumi, who is based in Tunis, one of his spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Suleiman al-Farra, told AFP.
“We have decided to create a popular army to help the Palestinian Authority take things in hand after Israeli forces withdraw from the Gaza Strip,” Farra said, 15 days before the planned pullout is to begin. (END OF QUOTE)
Click here to read the wholle post in a blog I did
Not happy with the creation of another security force Abbas men from the preventive security forces kidnap that Qadoumi Deputy.
Gunmen seize Fatah official
GAZA CITY: A representative of Faruq Qaddumi, the chairman of the ruling Fatah party, was seized in the Gaza Strip yesterday, just days after announcing the creation of a new “popular army”, his office said.
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Fatah official Suleiman Al Farra was snatched at gunpoint from his office in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis by armed men in plain clothes, witnesses said.
(END OF QUOTE )
Qadoumi men were not happy and strike back.
AUGUST 7 Fatah gunmen storm Gaza buildings
Web posted at: 8/8/2005 2:47:4
Source ::: Agencies
A Palestinian displaying coffee mugs commemorating Israel’s planned withdrawal from Gaza in his shop in Gaza City yesterday.
GAZA: Gunmen stormed two buildings in the Gaza Strip yesterday to protest what they said was the “kidnapping” of a top official from the leading Fatah group.
The gunmen from Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah group, said they were protesting after senior official Suleiman Al Fara was taken away by men they believed to have come from the Preventive Security Service.
The Preventive Security Service, a powerful Fatah-dominated internal security force set up by the late president Yasser Arafat in 1994, did not comment on the incident.
Detentions of Palestinians by security forces have sometimes been carried discreetly, leading some to believe those detained had rather been abducted.
The gunmen first took over a building in the town of Khan Younis owned by Palestinian Red Crescent Society and then seized a municipal building nearby. Neither building was occupied.
(END OF QUOTE ).
See here the blog with pictures
Days later the Qadoumi men adducted UN oficials.
These staggering events were not very publicized.
It took me lots of time and research to understand them.
Why does this happen ?
This happen because these is a wall of silence .
The palestinian Authority does make censorship and foreign media does censor itself.
Here is the proof:
Click here to read a couple of paragraphs about palestinian authority censorship
[i]Amid rising lawlessness the PNA Interior Ministry on Friday ordered journalists in the West Bank and Gaza not to publish news about its security forces without advance permission, an Interior Ministry statement said.
‘We would like to note to all local, Arab and international (media) that it is completely forbidden to publish any text, radio or television broadcast in relation to police and security forces without informing the media office of the Ministry of the Interior and National Security,’ the statement said.
The statement said journalists would have to fill out special forms before they could publish reports involving security forces. The interior ministry said its move followed publication of news reports and photos that were ‘harmful to national security,’ but did not specify what the objectionable reports contained. [/i]
AND THE MEDIA DID EXACTLY THAT.
That is the reason why when people look at a picture of PLO officials that picture means nothing. They are seen as just terrorists.
Who are they ? What are they talking about ? Why did they meet ? The media does not tell that because the palestinian Government does not allow it and people is not even aware of that curtain of silence.
In short : The palestinian authority builds a wall of silence when it comes to events related to the palestinians. And the world is not even aware of it.
My other blog
the caption of one of the pictures does read.
From the left, Khaled al-Fahoum, the former head of the National Palestinian Council, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, Mahmoud al-Khaldi, the PLO’s representative in Damascus, and Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy of Hamas’ Damascus -based political bureau, during a meeting held in Damascus on Monday, Aug, 22, 2005 that aims at discussing the inter-Palestinian issues following Israel’s pullout from the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/ Bassem Tellawi). “.
Judging for the caption this was a meeting between Fatah (Qorey ) , and Hamas, in Lebanon.
What did they talk about ? What are the issues ?
They look hight in the last picture because they want to assure the world everything is OK , between Hamas and The Palestinian Authority.
Why they were sooo happy ?
Here is the answer.
PA won’t disarm Hamas, Islamic Jihad
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Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 22, 2005
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Hamas and Islamic Jihad announced on Monday that they have reached an agreement with the Palestinian Authority according to which the two groups would not be disarmed.
The agreement was reportedly achieved during talks in Damascus between PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Qurei met Sunday night in Damascus with leaders of various radical groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and discussed ways of cooperating with them after implementation of the disengagement plan is completed.
Sources close to the two groups said Qurei made it clear that the PA would not confiscate the weapons of any of the armed groups in the Gaza Strip.
Musa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader based in Syria, said the meeting was held in a “cordial atmosphere” and that the two sides agreed that the Palestinians should have a joint strategy after disengagement.
“We stressed during the meeting that the Palestinians have the right to continue the resistance [against Israel] and that there would be no attempt to collect weapons from the resistance groups,” he said.
“The weapons of the resistance were founded to defend the Palestinian people and resist the occupation,” he added. “The Gaza victory was achieved with the weapons of the resistance, which is the only strategy to drive Israel out of the rest of our lands.”
Qurei met earlier with Syrian President Bashar Assad and discussed with him the Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
He briefed Assad on Israel’s settlement expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and the ongoing preparations of the PA for the aftermath of disengagement, the Syrian news agency Sana reported.
“Gaza is a part of Palestine, and there will be no calm until the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital,” Qurei told reporters after the meeting.
He lauded Syrian-Palestinian relations, saying they were based on “full cooperation and consultation.”
Meanwhile, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told a European envoy Monday that the Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip was not enough and that Israel should withdraw to the pre-1967 borders.
Abbas, who met in his office in Gaza City with European Union Middle East envoy Mark Otteh, called for international pressure on Israel after disengagement to revive the peace process and implement the road map plan.
Abbas also met with US, Russian and United Nations officials and urged them to put pressure on Israel to withdraw from the entire West Bank and east Jerusalem and to stop construction of the security fence.
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, a spokesman for Abbas, said the Quartet ‘ the US, Russia, the EU and the UN ‘ was working toward ensuring a smooth Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.
He said the Quartet was also seeking ways of helping the Palestinians rebuild the Gaza Strip and that its representatives would meet in New York next month to discuss providing financial aid to the PA.
Otteh said after the meeting with Abbas that Europe would help the Palestinians improve their living conditions and boost their economy to create jobs for the unemployed. He said the EU had already provided the PA with $500 million for various projects in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.