WHY PALESTINIANS WILL HAVE NO STATE

Palestinian Moslems are killing fellow Palestinian Moslems in violent clashes in the Gaza Strip. The trigger for this recent violence between warring factions of Hamas and Fatah was the call for early elections by former Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbasf

Middle East expert Avi Lipkin in conducting interviews on the topic of why, in his opinion, the Palestinians will not have their own independent State. The following is an article by Avi on this subject.

PALESTINIAN MOSLEMS ARE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMY
They Will Not Have Their Own State Because They Keep Fighting Each Other
By Avi Lipkin (249 words)
There are two primary guidelines as to how things will develop in Gaza and the West Bank.

Firstly, the only country in the world where Moslems/Arabs/Palestinians are able to vote freely and enjoy the democratic process is the Jewish State of Israel, where Israeli Arabs can participate in virtually all aspects of Israeli life. The brothers of the Israeli Arabs, the Palestinians, are ruled by guns. Whoever has the most guns wins. This is why Fatah will militarily overthrow the Hamas in conjunction with the upcoming elections declared by former Palestinian Prime MinisterAbu Mazen.

Secondly, neither the Hamas nor the PLO backed Abu Mazen can really do anything for their people, because they are both dedicated to the destruction of Israel, the Hamas calling on Israel's destruction today, and the PLO calling on Israel's destruction some time in the future.

The reason there will never be a Palestinian State is because in order to have a state, you must have a viable economy. In order for the Palestinians to have a viable economy, they must make peace with Israel-- real peace. Since this is unthinkable to most true believing Middle East Moslems, there will never be peace; therefore there will never be a viable economy, therefore, there will never be a Palestinian state. Therefore civil war will continue between Hamas and PLO and much innocent blood will be shed.

Until the Palestinian Moslems learn to put bread and butter before guns and bullets, there will be no Palestinian State.

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December 18, 2006

After Deadly Gaza Clashes, Leaders Appeal for Calm
By STEVEN ERLANGER

JERUSALEM, Dec. 17 — The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, and the acting speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Ahmed Baher of Hamas, appealed separately to militants of all stripes to lay down their arms on Sunday after a day of rallies and violent clashes in the Gaza Strip.

The violence, which both Hamas and Fatah used to send messages of strength after Mr. Abbas ordered early elections, included mortar fire and gun battles around the presidential compound that killed two security officers and a 19-year-old passer-by and wounded 15 other people.

As gunmen attacked forces loyal to Mr. Abbas, Fatah forces took over two ministries, using their roofs as firing platforms as they tried to secure a wider area around the presidential compound.

After nightfall, the armed groups agreed on a cease-fire and the removal of armed men from the streets, said Hamas and Fatah spokesmen. But the cease-fire may prove shaky as others have before it.

Earlier, Mr. Abbas, who was not in Gaza, issued a statement calling for restraint, saying, “I ask the people to show steadfastness and national spirit and avoid provocations intended to destroy the democracy and blow up the situation.”

Mr. Baher, speaking for Hamas, said: “We ask all armed people to leave the streets and stop fighting. We ask people not to use weapons to solve political issues and not to take political issues to the street.”

On Saturday, Mr. Abbas, who leads Fatah, said he was fed up with the failure of Hamas to negotiate seriously on a new unity government and he ordered early presidential and parliamentary elections. Hamas rejected early parliamentary elections as illegal, saying that it was a blatant effort to overturn their majority, won in free elections 11 months ago. They accused Mr. Abbas of following an American and Israeli agenda.

But any election, if it happens, would be at least four to six months away, election officials said on Sunday. Many Palestinians are hoping that Hamas and Fatah will resume negotiations on a unity government to short-circuit this building crisis.

The Hamas interior minister, Siad Siam, said that “the security situation is very tense due to the political conflict and to the incitement campaign and accusations.” He called on all factions for “a political decision to stop this deterioration,” adding, “We’re seeking to put an end to what is happening but it’s not as easy as some think.”

Among those wounded on Sunday was a girl, 10, and a correspondent for the French newspaper Libération, Didier François, 46, who was hit by a bullet in the leg and was taken to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza, where he was said to be in satisfactory condition. Fatah held a huge rally in the Jabaliya refugee camp, but a colonel in the security service, a 40-year-old member of Fatah, was abducted and killed by masked men.

The prime minister, Ismail Haniya of Hamas, said at a cabinet meeting on Sunday that Hamas would not participate in legislative elections. “The government rejects the call for early legislative elections because it’s unconstitutional and would cause wide tension among Palestinians,” he said. He called Mr. Abbas’s speech, which harshly criticized Hamas for bad faith and for inserting religion into politics, “insulting to the sacrifices and the pain of Palestinians everywhere.”

Hamas, which has regularly called for a national-unity government on terms that do not please Fatah or the Bush administration, is nonetheless expected to continue talking with Mr. Abbas. Although he met with the Central Election Commission in Ramallah on Sunday, the chairman of the commission, without commenting on the legality of the election call, said he needed at least four months just to prepare the voting register.

Ismail Radwan, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said at a rally that Hamas “will not be driven into a civil war” by Fatah or the United States. “The only way out is returning to the dialogue table, but in order to respect Palestinian legitimacy, to respect people’s will,” he said.

Mr. Abbas, who was elected in January 2005, could resign to cause a new presidential election. But many doubt that he has the legal right to dissolve the parliament.

Mouin Rabbani, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organization that works to resolve conflicts, said he believed that Hamas officials were sincere when they said they desired a unity government based on a political document negotiated with Mr. Abbas but opposed by Washington. He said he expected Hamas to negotiate further with Mr. Abbas, but from a position of strength. “If Abbas and Fatah make a serious effort to engage in new talks it will be hard for Hamas to refuse, and hard for them to refuse further compromise,“ Mr. Rabbani said.

Public American and British support for early elections only helps Hamas, he said.

Polls show that support for Hamas has been slipping because of the economic crisis facing the Palestinians, worsened by the cutoff of Western direct aid to the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority, and the security chaos in Gaza and large parts of the West Bank.

But Hamas could win new elections and also defeat Mr. Abbas for the presidency, which could put an end for some time to the idea of a two-state solution, with an independent Palestine next to Israel. Hamas recognizes Israel as a fact, but does not accept its right to exist permanently on what it considers Islamic land.

A poll released Sunday placed Mr. Haniya and Mr. Abbas in a dead heat in a presidential race and suggested that Fatah is six percentage points ahead of Hamas, 42 to 36, in a parliamentary election. But the poll, conducted by the independent Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points, meaning that the two factions could be tied. Mr. Abbas also faces problems because he has done little to reform Fatah or to fire old cronies, who are popularly considered corrupt and out of touch with the lives of ordinary Palestinians.

Taghreed El-Khodary contributed reporting from Gaza.

Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company

ABOUT AVI…
AVI LIPKIN is cofounder of Israel Today Magazine and has served as an Israeli Army reserves spokesman 14 years. Avi has been a guest on Sean Hannity, Fox and Friends, Dayside with Linda Vester and other popular radio and television programs, as well as in person in hundreds of churches and synagogues across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, France, Greece, Norway, Finland, Russia, Germany and Israel. Mordecai speaks six languages and has received his B. A. from Hebrew University, 1973, majoring in Sovietology/Russian Studies and East European Studies. He is well versed in the centuries of Islamic wars. He was born in the U.S. but immigrated (made Aliyah) to Israel in 1968.

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