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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					07/11/2010 &#8211; 11:34 PM ] </span></td>
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<div class="AuthorStyle_inside">By Khalid Amayreh</div>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">Trying to justify its manifest moral  and political bankruptcy, the Fatah movement, under PA leader Mahmoud  Abbas, is trying to use the so-called Iran bogey to justify its  effective surrender to the Zionist regime.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Fatah, which is kept alive by American  money and Israeli tolerance, thinks that by joining the international  Zionist-led campaign against Iran, it will obtain a certificate of good  conduct from Israel, the US as well as from the many American puppet  regimes in the Arab world.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In recent weeks, the Fatah leadership even  began currying favor with some anti-Iranian regional groups, suggesting  that resisting the so-called Iranian expansionism was more important  than resisting Israeli Nazism.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In fact, the bulk of some of Fatah&#8217;s  propaganda activities has centered on &#8220;highlighting&#8221; the Iranian danger  and only secondarily on saving Jerusalem and occupied Palestinian land  from the claws of Zionist ghoul.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">I have no doubts that Zionist money and  intelligence are behind those who are trying to tell the Palestinians,  Arabs and Muslims that their real enemy is Iran, not the Zionist regime  whose nuclear warheads are being trained toward Muslim countries.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Listening to some of the Fatah propaganda  of late, one would get the impression that it is the Iranians, not the  Zionist regime, that is trying to demolish the Aqsa Mosque, destroy  homes in Jerusalem, build more colonies in the West Bank and carry out  more wars and massacres in the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">This misplaced fixation on Iran surfaces  and resurfaces every time Israel is facing a difficult situation at the  international arena. Hence, it is probably no co-incidence that Israel&#8217;s  Arab or &#8220;Muslim&#8221; agents hasten to help their ultimate master, the  Venomous Zionist viper, every time it finds itself in a stressful  situation.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Earlier this week, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas  blamed Iran for undermining the Palestinian reconciliation efforts. He   also said that Iran was preventing Hamas from getting involved in that  failed &#8220;peace&#8221; process, which looks more like a game of make believe  than a genuine peace-making process based on justice and ending the  Nazi-like Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">To begin with, Abbas&#8217;s claim that Hamas is  coming under Iranian influence has no sliver of truth or credibility.  It is probably a kind of unconscious projection uttered inadvertently by  Abbas, who is completely and absolutely at America&#8217;s beck and call, so  much so that he is willing to accept anything imposed by the United  States .</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Well. What is  anything  imposed by the US  supposed to mean? Doesn’t Abbas realize that the US is fully against  the right of return for Palestinian refugees, which is the crux of the  matter of the conflict? Doesn’t he realize that the American policy in  this part of the world is more or less the Israeli policy? Doesn&#8217;t he  realize that it is the US and US alone that enabled Israel to have its  way in occupied Palestine, and build hundreds of Jewish colonies on  occupied land, with impunity?</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Besides, what is Hamas, the  democratically-elected movement, supposed to do to prove to Abbas and  his minions and hangers-on its good will and sincerity in seeking just  peace for Palestinians.?</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Must Hamas recognize  Israel  as a state  for the Jews, by the Jews, and of the Jews, as Israel is constantly  demanding, thus effectively acknowledging the legitimacy of Israel&#8217;s  &#8220;right&#8221; to ethnically cleanse the estimated two million- strong  Palestinians who are Israeli citizens?</p>
<p>Must Hamas give up on the  right of return for the refugees for the sake of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s blue  eyes? Must Hamas give its full consent and blessing to the daily  criminal acts by Jewish settlers against Palestinians and their  property? Must Hamas sing the ha&#8217;tekva, (the Israeli national anthem) in  order to find acceptance in Ramallah and Tel Aviv and Washington?</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The truth of the matter is that Hamas&#8217;s  principled stance has very little or nothing to do with the Iranian  policy. Moreover, it has nothing to do with any real or imagined Shiite  &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; to overrun the Sunni Middle East whose various despotic,  tyrannical and dynastic fiefdoms are more or less completely controlled  by the United States which is itself controlled tightly by Israel.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In light, one is prompted to ask Abbas and  the likes of Abbas if he thinks that one can&#8217;t and shouldn&#8217;t adopt  patriotic and dignified positions vis-à-vis Israeli Nazism unless one is  subservient to Iran?</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">In truth, there is a  vast difference  between the bribery money the US is giving to Abbas and his  unelected  Ramallah regime and whatever assistance given to Hamas by the Muslims of  the world, governments and individuals.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">America (and Europe) is giving the PA  money in order to torment, savage and subjugate the Palestinian people  on Israel&#8217;s behalf. America&#8217;s money is used to enable the PA to torture  and even kill political detainees. Ultimately, America&#8217;s money is used  to subdue and coerce the Palestinian people to sell out their  inalienable rights such as the right of return.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">On the other hand, the non-Political  assistance coming from Muslim sources, including Iran, is used to  enhance and enforce the Palestinians&#8217; steadfastness and resilience in  the face of Israel&#8217;s Nazi-like crimes, such as the enduring siege of  Gaza and the murderous onslaught against the coastal enclave whose  second anniversary occurs next month.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">I think that in alienating Iran and jumping onto the American-Israeli bandwagon, Fatah is committing a huge historic blunder.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Sometime playing the opportunism card  might work, but in this particular context, doing so, and by a movement  that claims to be the leader of the Palestinian struggle for freedom and  independence, spells shortsightedness, indignity and political  stupidity.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Moreover, Fatah should realize that Israel  is very much like a vicious crocodile, the more meat you feed it, the  more it demands.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Last week,  Israel decided to bar two of  the most arguably &#8220;moderate&#8221; Fatah leaders, Muhammed Dahlan and Ahemd  Qrei&#8217;, from  traveling to Jordan via the Allenby Bridge.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Israel had poured wholesome praise on the  two, using grand epithets to describe them. But the moment one of them  made a slip of the tongue about Israeli criminality, Israel showed him  &#8220;the red eye,&#8221; telling him effectively that Israel&#8217;s friends must  completely and absolutely surrender to &#8220;the chosen people&#8221; or &#8220;Master  race.&#8221;  Not a minute deviation from the script would be tolerated!!</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Some of these &#8220;moderates&#8221; did huge  services for Israel. At one point they were willing to flood Gaza with  the blood of Hamas. They were willing to decapitate Hamas once and for  all. Some of them distributed sweets and Kenafa when Israel was raining  death on the Gaza children.</p>
<p>And what they promised  to do in secret, on behalf of Israel and the US ,  may have been even more shocking.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Yet Israel is treating them like diseased dogs.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Such is the fate of those who don&#8217;t respect themselves and their people.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The Holy Quran says &#8220;And whomsoever God disgraces, none can honor him. Verily.&#8221;</p>
<p>Moreover, Zuheir, the pre-Islamic poet said, &#8220;he who doesn&#8217;t respect himself, shall not be respected.&#8221;</p>
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