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<div class="PublishedDate_details"><span>Published Date: </span>03/01/2011 &#8211; 12:01 AM</div>
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The PLO-PA leadership is behaving very much like Nero who was fiddling while Rome was on fire.</p>
<p>As the manifestly fascist government of Israel and the Obama  administration, which happens to be decidedly at Israel&#8217;s beck and call,  are negotiating amongst themselves the final liquidation of the  Palestinian cause, the PLO leadership is busy discussing a government  reshuffle in Ramallah, as if the Ramallah regime, which depends  completely on foreign handouts, were enjoying any semblance of  authority, or sovereignty or even dignity.</p>
<p>This coincides with  the clear confusion, disorientation and helplessness with which PA  leader Mahmoud Abbas and cohorts are reacting to the unrelenting  conspiracies being hatched by both Israel and the Obama administration  for the purpose of liquidating the remainder of the Palestinian cause  once and for all.</p>
<p>Fully aware of the sheepish nature of his Fatah  loyalists, Abbas is effectively abandoning Palestinian national  constants one by one. However, when meeting the people face to face,  e.g. to mark certain national occasions or anniversaries, such as the  anniversary of Yasser Arafat&#8217;s death or Fatah&#8217;s anniversary, Abbas has  no problem claiming rather shamelessly that he continues to stick to all  the national constants and that he has not and will not give  concessions to Israel.</p>
<p>One of the most disgraceful displays of  behaviour by the Ramallah leadership has been its silent but scandalous  response to the obscene bribe the Obama administration has offered the  Zionist regime in return for freezing settlement expansion in the West  Bank for 90 days. Equally scandalous has been Ramallah&#8217;s reactions to  Washington&#8217;s announcement of the collapse of the peace process and its  decision to try to cajole the PA into accepting a new chapter of tricks,  lies, prevarications and time-consuming manœuvres aimed at giving  Israel more time to create more facts on the ground in the West Bank.</p>
<p>Indeed,  instead of voicing its strongest opposition to this deception by the  very immoral woman who declared only a few years ago that Jerusalem was  Israel&#8217;s <em>united and undivided capital</em>, the PLO leadership babbled  a few irrelevant words, with some PA spokesmen saying that what goes on  between Washington and the Zionist regime was none of the Palestinians  business!</p>
<p>Indeed, if the Obama administration could afford Israel  $3 billion dollars for merely agreeing to freeze settlement expansion  in the West Bank, but not in East Jerusalem, what would it take to get  Israel to agree to withdraw entirely from the occupied territories of  1967 and allow for the creation of a viable Palestinian State?</p>
<p>Would the U.S. cede the State of California or Texas to Israel?</p>
<p>Would  the U.S. give Israel free of charge four or five aircraft carriers or  share with the Zionist State all of America&#8217;s nuclear secrets? Or  perhaps the U.S. government would agree to formalize the Zionist control  of America by levying a certain poll-tax from every American man, woman  and child which would be used further to enforce the Jewish settlement  schemes in the West Bank.</p>
<p>To put it mildly, the latest tomfoolery  on the part of the Obama administration has been more than mere spit in  the faces of Arabs. It told the Arabs in no mistakable language that  “you are contemptible creatures, like scum, vermin and dirty animals;  that since you people have no respect for yourselves and your people, we  are not willing to show you the slightest respect, because those who  don’t respect themselves deserve no respect from others.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately,  even if Washington were to say bluntly and brashly what it has been  saying for ages tacitly and implicitly, the Arab leaderships won’t wake  up, for they are effectively dead.</p>
<p>To be sure, Washington is not  that naïve. It knows too well the reality of Arab rulers from Morocco to  Bahrain—that they are contemptible, self-worshiping little men who  would be willing and ready to trade off the future of their entire  countries and peoples for one thing: staying in power and remaining on  their thrones. And it does not matter if these rulers happen to be at  the helm of kingdoms, or sheikhdoms, or <em>republics</em>; since every one would eventually groom his son to be the next tyrant.</p>
<p>It  is really lamentable that the Palestinian leadership, whose term in  office has long expired, is behaving exactly like the other Arab  dictatorships.</p>
<p>For example, the Egyptian regime has become the  perfect model for Mahmoud Abbas. Thus, from Abbas&#8217;s viewpoint, Egypt is  the only Arab country that is qualified to bring about reconciliation  between Fatah and Hamas because of its impeccable credentials and  evenhandedness!</p>
<p>Well, one is almost innately prompted to ask if a  regime that is nearly totally dishonest with its own masses, a regime  that orders crack police, with batons, to savagely beat voters on  suspicion that they might vote for the opposition, is capable of acting  honesty and evenhandedly with regard to Fatah and Hamas.</p>
<p>Unfortunately,  Abbas, whose financial lifelines starts from Washington does not even  try to treat his own people with the dignity and respect they deserve,  having withstood (and are still withstanding) decades of Israeli  oppression and repression.</p>
<p>Instead, he gets the money from  Washington, but emulates the tyranny of his fellow Arab dictators who  too happen to be American&#8217;s puppets and obedient servants.</p>
<p>What  is even more despicable is that Abbas&#8217;s numerous disingenuous  “legislative” and consultative bodies, such as the PLO Executive  Committee, the Fatah Revolutionary Council, and the Central Council, are  in reality “yes bodies” whose members, appointed or elected, would not  raise any objection to Abbas&#8217;s free concessions to the Zionist regime.</p>
<p>These bodies always give Abbas the benefit of the doubt and deal with the “leadership” as if it were an infallible entity.</p>
<p>The  truth of the matter, however, is these people are not stupid or  ignorant of what is going on. They are rather contemptible hangers-on  and would do almost anything that maintains their interests, especially  the hefty salaries they receive from Abbas&#8217;s regime.</p>
<p>In the  meantime, Israel is introducing draconian measures for the purpose of  irreversibly altering the face of the West Bank. This is while Abbas, et  al., are busy with petty politics and other childish games of Ramallah;  and Mubarak, the head of the biggest Arab State, is urging the  Palestinians to surrender to Israeli dictates before Israeli settlement  activities cover the remainder of occupied Palestine.</td>
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<p><a href="http://www.ptimes.org/main/default.aspx?xyz=BOgLkxlDHteZpYqykRlUuI1kx%2FVDUOFoXblU0tUlDJWKTBf4Y28svWyxQ8iiiS92yHbgLSgSFnQq7rZU7%2F%2FB6dPCsFjV7eA3mnAdaFHHuPkfKDmSA0gL%2Bocql5IxReg5CBGUbaoaAhY%3D">Palestine being decapitated as PLO fiddles in Ramallah</a>.</p>
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