The information was, again, not the front page of our media: the Palestinian Authority has agreed to postpone by several months to make a formal request submitted to the Council on Human Rights UN findings the Goldstone.
We talk about (yet?) Bit in the press non-Arab, but the postponement to next March at the earliest, the vote by the Council for Human Rights United Nations report written by Justice Richard Goldstone about the war in Gaza, lack of support from Palestinian officials , has not finished reactions. Certainly, the Palestinian Authority says it is a tactical withdrawal to achieve a greater consensus, and it also explains it has undergone enormous U.S. pressure and the threat of a vote now weighs, like the sword of Damocles over the head of the Israeli government that we imagine this event ... terrified
Abu Mazen and others have nevertheless very difficult to accept their decision by international organizations, like Human Rights Watch, have fought to try to condemn the "international community" war crimes committed in Gaza.
And it mildly that such a position gives ammunition to all those in Palestine, feel they are represented by puppets worthy of Puppets Info.
Alain Gresh also returns on the case in his blog Diplo and quotes a dispatch from AFP that says:
President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas is the target of sharp criticism, including in his own camp, following the postponement of the vote on the controversial UN report condemning the attitude of Israel during the war in Gaza. This crisis threatens to undermine Mr. Abbas when the United States is trying to revive peace talks with Israel, are observers. In Ramallah, seat of the Authority, hundreds of Palestinians on Monday denounced the support of their management to the postponement, while others spoke in Jerusalem a "stab in the back and the heart of all the martyrs' . "We want President Abbas to apologize and if the government has anything to do with this decision, we want him to resign," said Mohammed Jadallah, the leader of a coalition of Palestinian NGOs.
interesting they are, these two tickets unfortunately do not really understand the decision to tracks Mahmoud Abbas, and the anger of the Palestinians and their supporters. Should be consulted this very interesting article by Ali Abunimah (Electronic Ali ") to understand the gravity of the situation. For As'ad Aboukhalil ("Angry Arab") is a new record of baseness that just beat the Ramallah regime.
So I give you a personal translation of the article of Electronic Intifada. That its conclusions are correct (I think they are) or false is an important article anyway: when Abbas and Dahlan spend the Israeli border in underwear in the middle of the night (fate Israel by its own employees), when they are shot down, crumbled or hanged (spells which escapes almost no puppet of the West), when the Palestinians persist to vote so-called "irrational", is what kind of charges widely known there, ignored here, for understanding.
Abbas helps Israel to bury its crimes
Just when it seemed that the Authority Palestinian (PA) in Ramallah and its leader Mahmoud Abbas would not go lower in their complicity with the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and blockade of deadly Gaza, Ramallah just inflicted a new blow to the Palestinian people.
Abbas delegation to the UN in Geneva (which is officially an Organization for the Liberation of Palestine moribund) withdrew a resolution asking the Council for Human Rights transmitting the report by Justice Richard Goldstone on War Crimes in Gaza to the Security Council to get UN sanctions. Although the PA has acted under American pressure, there are strong indications that the commercial interests of Palestinians and Gulf businessmen closely linked to Mr Abbas have also played a role.
The Goldstone report this in 575 pages the evidence of Israeli war crimes and shocking crimes against humanity committed during the aggression of last winter against the Gaza Strip, which killed 1,400 Palestinians, vast majority of non-combatants, and hundreds of children. The report also accuses the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas war crimes for firing rockets into Israel killed three civilians.
The Goldstone report was hailed as a turning point for Palestinians and supporters throughout the world, the rule of law and requested that suspects are held accountable in international courts if Israel fails to prosecute them. Yet Israel has never in its history, given its political and military leaders legally responsible for war crimes against Palestinians.
Understandably, Israel has been terrified by the report, mobilizing all its diplomatic and political resources to discredit him. In recent days, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that if the report was acted on, it would be "a serious blow to the war against terrorism" and "deal a fatal blow to the peace process because Israel would not be able to take further action and take risks peace if its right to self defense was denied. "
Unsurprisingly, one of the first allies in the Israeli campaign for impunity has been the Obama administration, including Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, expressed "very serious concerns" about the report and the mandate Goldstone denounced as "unbalanced, unilateral and fundamentally unacceptable. "(Rice has faithfully fulfilled his word: In April, she told the newspaper Politico that one of the main reasons that motivated the Obama administration to join the Council of Human Rights of UN was to fight against what she called "anti-Israel crap").
Goldstone, which has publicly described her daughter as a loving Zionist Israel, is a former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, and a highly respected international lawyer. He was the chief prosecutor of war crimes tribunals of the United Nations for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia.
That Goldstone is a severe blow to Israel's ability to commit with impunity in future war crimes is no doubt this week, based on the report, lawyers in the United Kingdom asked a court to issue an arrest warrant against the Israeli Minister of Defense visits, Ehud Barak. This action failed, but the Israeli government has taken extraordinary measures in recent months to try to protect its staff against lawsuits, fearing that the arrest occurred is a matter of time. Parallel to the growing international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions, the fear of ending up in The Hague seems the only thing that can push the Israeli government and his company to reconsider their destructive adventure.
One would think, then, that self-proclaimed representatives of the Palestinian people do not neglect such a weapon. And yet, according to Ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi Abbas, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah has dropped its action to the American request, arguing that "we do not want to create an obstacle for them."
Excuse Khraishi of that resolution has simply been postponed until spring is not convincing. If no action is taken now, the Goldstone will be buried by then and the evidence of the crimes of Israel - necessary to prosecution - may be more difficult to collect.
The latest surrender came less than two weeks after Mr. Abbas appeared at a summit in New York with U.S. President Barack Obama and Netanyahu, despite the abandonment of its demand that Israel stop building settlements Jewish only on occupied Palestinian land. Already under U.S. pressure, AP has abandoned his promise not to resume negotiations without stopping settlement, and agreed to participate in "peace talks" with Israel under U.S. mediation in Washington this week. Israel, meanwhile, announced plans to build the largest colony in the West Bank since 1967.
What is even more exasperating is the real possibility that the PA is trying to help Israel to wash their hands of the blood he spilled in the Gaza Strip, for reasons also lower than the financial interests of businessmen closely linked to Mr. Abbas.
The Independent (United Kingdom) reported on 1 October:
Shalom Kitale, an aide to Defense Minister Ehud Barak said today that Israel will not free from the radio spectrum that has long been sought by the Palestinian Authority to enable the launch of a second mobile telecommunications company, unless the Palestinian Authority to abandon its efforts to challenge the Israeli soldiers and officers about the Israeli operation. " ("The Palestinians denounce "Blackmail" by Israel against the telephone service " The Independent, 1 October).
Kitale added that the fact that AP abandoning its efforts to advance the Goldstone was a "condition" specific. The phone company, Wataniya, was described last April by Reuters as "a company promoted by Abbas' which is a joint venture between investors from Qatar, Kuwait and the Palestinian Investment Fund in which the One of the son of Abbas is closely involved. In addition, Reuters has revealed that the company birth does not apparently suffering from a shortage of capital to investors through the Gulf, receiving millions of dollars in "aid of the United States in the form of loan guarantees for Palestinian farmers and other small and medium enterprises" (see " U.S. aid goes to the telephone company backed by Abbas " Reuters, April 24, 2009).
Just one day before the delegation Abbas withdrew his resolution in Geneva, Nabil Shaath, the "foreign minister" of the PA has condemned the Israeli threats about as Wataniya a "blackmail" and vowed that Palestinians do not cede.
The betrayal of the Palestinian people by the AP about the Goldstone and the pursuit of its "security coordination" with Israel to crush the resistance and political activity in the West Bank, we must make it absolutely the shadow of a doubt that this is an active arm of the Israeli occupation, acting in a tangible and increasingly against the Palestinian people and their just cause.
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