Nadene Goldfoot
What can Trump know about such people as Mahmoud Abbas or even Benjamin Netanyahu other than what people tell him or his impression upon meeting with them? That's like knowing a book by its cover, only.
Born 15 November 1935, Mahmoud Abbas, also called Abu Mazen, was 86 in November 2021, in Safed, Israel, where I lived and taught in the junior high from 1981-1985.
Trump now dislikes his past friend, Netanyahu, in favor of Mahmoud Abbas, as both have dealt with him. He picks on his past friends by who have done something lately that puts him in a bad light, according to his decision. Netanyahu congratulated President Biden, the wrong thing to do according to Trump. Now Trump only has bad things to say about him. It's not what they accomplish; it's how they affect him, personally, and in this case, has magnified a slight as if none of them are in the political arena.
Abbas later entered graduate studies at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow,Russia, where he earned a Candidate of Sciences degree (the Soviet equivalent of a PhD). His doctoral dissertation was "The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism".
Was he comparing Nazism with Zionism? Russian instructors possibly made a point of encouraging this line of thought. In truth, there's no comparison. This is one of his false quotes; “A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement... [the Zionists] gave permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine.” Mahmoud Abbas
“All of this wasn't enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.”
-- Mahmoud Abbas
“The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to provide any kind of aid. The Zionist movement concealed the information that came from within the ghetto walls and concentration camps, news that shed light on what was really happening. If it had to publish anything, it did so by questioning that information and diminishing its importance.”
-- Mahmoud Abbas
According to Abu Daoud, a Palestinian militant, teacher, and lawyer known as the planner, architect and mastermind of the Munich massacre. He served in a number of commanding functions in Fatah's armed units in Lebanon and Jordan. Part of the funds raised by Abbas were used, without the latter's knowledge, to implement the 1972 Munich Massacre which happened at the Olympics where many Israeli participants were massacred by the PLO in Germany. The deadliest terrorist attack by Black September at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, led to the death of 11 Israelis. Black September—a militant offshoot of the Palestinian group Fatah. Surviving Black September members. Two of the three surviving gunmen, Mohammed Safady and Adnan Al-Gashey, were allegedly killed by Mossad as part of Operation Wrath of God.
He was among the first members of Fatah to call for talks with moderate Israelis, doing so in 1977. In a 2012 interview, he recalled, "[...] because we took up arms, we were in a position to put them down with credibility." What credibility? There's nothing credible in this situation at all.
Mahmoud Abbas is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He is a former terrorist by his own actions. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 11 November 2004, PNA president since 15 January 2005, and State of Palestine president since 8 May 2005. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected chairman in 2009. This means that Abbas has held the reins of power for the past 18 years; more like a king or Czar, not a President, who rules from 4 to 8 years, though Roosevelt was in his 3rd term, almost 12 years. His people are losing hope of having another leader.
Arafat b: August 24, 1929, d: November 11, 2004
Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini-AKA Yasser Arafat, born August 24, 1929 in Cairo, Egypt to Palestinian parents, he said. Is he related to Haj Amin al-Husseini?
Here is where he spent most of his youth and studied at the University of King Fuad I. While a student, he embraced Arab nationalist and anti-Zionist ideas. Opposed to the 1948 creation of the State of Israel, he fought alongside the Muslim Brotherhood during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Returning to Cairo, he served as president of the General Union of Palestinian Students from 1952 to 1956.
The Ottoman Empire held the land for 400 years, only using it to milk taxes out of a few Palestinian Arabs, what else? No one did anything with the land except let it grow to pot, not the kind you smoke, untended, wild, turn into weeds, swamps and mosquitoes. Arafat had no plans to create a Palestine for his friends. No others did, either. The Jews were the only ones at the door of the British asking them to consider them, who want the holy land back.
Abbas was a senior PLO official who played a leading role in developing contacts between PLO and left-wing Israelis and who was closely involved in the Washington and Oslo peace talks. Left-wing would be people of the Labor Party. Netanyahu is with the right, Likud.
Fatah was an outgrowth of the PLO, run by Yasser Arafat. Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, known as the PA, adopted the 2003 Amended Basic Law, which stipulates Islam as the sole official religion in Palestine and the principles of Islamic sharia as a principal source of legislation.
Due to its activities, including violence aimed at Israeli civilians, the PLO was declared by the United States to be a terrorist organization in 1987, although a presidential waiver has permitted contact since 1988. In 1993, the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist in peace, accepted UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and rejected "violence and terrorism". In response, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.
However, the PLO has employed violence in the years since 1993, particularly during the 2000–2005 Al-Aqsa Intifada. Israel knows that rockets have been lobbed into Israel non-stop to this day, PLO or PA.
Benjamin Netanyahu, born October 21, 1949, served in office for a total of 15 years, making him the longest-serving Israeli prime minister in history. He was also the first prime minister to be born in Israel after its Declaration of Independence. His paternal grandfather was a rabbi and Zionist-writer.
Benjamin Netanyahu, when PM in 1996, ordered the opening of a 2nd entrance to an archaeological tunnel in Jerusalem that ran alongside of the Temple Mount which Arabs consider their holiest of places and mosques. Trouble is, the place is over the Jewish 2nd Temple of Solomon, so the history says. This sparked hostility right away between Arabs and Jews. Religious parties are more in line with Likud. They'd want to know.Peres, PM of Israel, lost the general election on May 29, 1996 and Benjamin Netanyahu came to power. His slogan was "Peace With Security," which says a lot. At the time, everyone in Israel was shocked by the Hamas bombing campaign. Hamas was founded in 1987, their Islamic Resistance Movement. They are a terrorist group.
Most PA officials belong to the PLO or Hamas. Iran has given Hamas and Hezbollah millions of dollars annually: the Hamas leader, Khaled Maashal, lives in Damascus, Syria. Hamas and Hezbollah signed an agreement in 2004 to increase attacks on Israel. Hamas opposed the PLO. "Israel will exist until Islam will obliterate it. there is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad, the Holy War, and this is in the Hamas charter. They have taken over Gaza. We have the PA (PLO) in Judea and Samaria and Hamas in Gaza.
The Fatah Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine has the Offshoot Militias of Fatah as well the Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade that was founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat, with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and others. They are a revolutionary, nationalist liberation group that took over the PLO in 1968 and remains PLO's largest faction. Tanzim was founded in 1983 and is their military and operational wing. Marwan Barghouti was the leader in Judea and Samaria, and was jailed serving 5 life terms. Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade was founded in 2000 after an outbreak of 2nd Intifada. Most Fatah operatives work in al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. They participate in guerilla warfare, shootings, bombings, and rocket and suicide attacks. They have several militias, including Force-17, Midway, into the 2nd intifada, Fatah militias started coordinating with radical Islamist terrorist groups for joint terrorist attacks.
On 29 October 2018, the Palestinian Central Council suspended the recognition of Israel and halted security and economic coordination in all its forms with it.
Israel's Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, hosted Mahmoud Abbas in his home late on Tuesday, the Western-backed Palestinian leader's first such visit to Israel in more than a decade, although it signaled few prospects for any resumption of long-stalled peace negotiations.
Following their talks, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced a series of what it described as "confidence-building measures" that would ease the entry of hundreds of Palestinian business people to Israel.
Resource:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-defense-minister-meets-with-palestinian-president-tweet-2021-12-29/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Netanyahu#:~:text=He%20served%20in%20office%20for,after%20its%20Declaration%20of%20Independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas
https://www.britannica.com/event/Munich-Massacre
Book: Israel and the Arabs by Ahron Bregman and Jihan El-Tahri
Magazine: ISRAEL 101 by StandWithUs. 2010
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