Lies Told With the Facts On the Arab-Israel Conflict

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                    

The Palestinian Authority was formed in 1994, pursuant to the Gaza–Jericho Agreement between the PLO and the government of Israel, and was intended to be a five-year interim body.

Lie: Israel is preventing a peaceful settlement by refusing to negotiate with the PA and recognize a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.                      

      Yasser Arafat of the PLO, Bill Clinton of USA, and Shimon Peres of Israel signed on September 13, 1993.  Onlookers are PM Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, Mahmoud Abbas of PA, Photograph: J David AKE/AFP

Facts: The Palestinian National Authority (PA or PNA; 

Palestinians were originally with Fatah, created October 10, 1959 in Kuwait.  Hamas (terrorists) broke off from it to be more aggressive by 1987.  Hezbollah was created in 1982 in southern Lebanon.   

The Oslo Accords divided the Palestinian West Bank into three administrative zones: Area A (18%), where the Palestinian Authority (PA) administers civil and security matters; Area B (22%), where the PA administers only civil matters; and Area C (60%) where Israel maintains full control.

 Commonly known as the Palestinian Authority and officially claim the State of Palestine, is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over West Bank areas "A" and "B" as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords. 

Israel was not completely cut out, and has the right to build homes, apartments, businesses in their C area.  The Arabs have been building in C anyway, which is against the rules, but it has angered Israel.  

 The Palestinian Authority controlled the Gaza Strip prior to the Palestinian elections of 2006 and the subsequent Gaza conflict between the Fatah and Hamas parties, when it lost control to Hamas;

 the PA continues to claim the Gaza Strip, although Hamas exercises de facto control. Since January 2013, the Palestinian Authority has used the name "State of Palestine" on official documents, although 

the United Nations continues to recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as the "representative of the Palestinian people".         

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas give a joint statement, on 25 May 2021, at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. [ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]

The Palestine Liberation organization (PLO) and now Palestinian Authority (PA) has made it clear from its official documents that it does not and will not recognize or live with a Jewish state in Israel.  The 1968 Palestine National Covenant, the PLO's constitution, asserts in article 19 that "the partitioning of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of Israel are fundamentally null and void."  Article 20 denies that Jews are a national people with a right to statehood.  Article 3 claims all of Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank and Jordan;   Article 15 calls for the Arabs "to purge the Zionist presence from Palestine." The Covenant makes it clear that the PLO wants an Arab state in which the Jews will be a minority.  Article 6 states that only "Jews who were living permanently in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion will be considered Palestinians, and thus allowed to stay.  

When confronted with the possibility of negotiating with Israel in 1974, the PLO (through the Palestine National Council) promulgated the Ten Point Program.  The Program states that it will accept a West Bank/Gaza state only as a "fighting authority" that would not permit "recognition, conciliation, secure borders" with Israel.                                  

                     Abbas born 15 November 1935), will be 88 in November 

   Mahmoud Abbas, also known by the kunya Abu Mazen, is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 11 November 2004, PNA president since 15 January 2005, and State of Palestine president since 8 May 2005. He's served for the past 18 years; not the usual 4 we're used to. 

                                        Abbas in 2021
 Mahmoud Abbas was born on 15 November 1935 in Safed, in the Galilee region of Mandatory Palestine (now Israel). His family fled to Syria during the 1948 Palestine war. Before going to Egypt, Abbas graduated from the University of Damascus, where he studied law.                    

Palestinian gunmen from the Balata Brigade of the Fatah movement carry their weapons during a military parade, in Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank, on November 4, 2022.

(photo credit: NASSER ISHTAYEH/FLASH90)

This shows Israel's enemies are the PLO-PA and the Gazans ruled by Hamas.  It has been Hamas who are the physical attackers and Fatah who attempts to keep up a civility, though not always.  The ruling Fatah faction headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas is set to celebrate the 58th anniversary of the launch of its first armed attack against Israel.

Born in Tell, Nablus in 1958, Shtayyeh was named a minister of Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction (PECDAR), a $1.6 billion public investment fund, in 1996. He served as its director of administration and finance from 1994 to 1996.   He's the incumbent and has been since April 14, 2019.  

Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh  (born 17 January 1958) is a Palestinian politician , he is also an academic and economist who became prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority in March 2019. He is a member of Fatah who was elected to its Central Committee in the movement’s 2009 and 2016 elections and is aligned with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.  

Lie: The Palestine Liberation Organization PLO or PA is the sole representative of the Palestinian people. 

                Yasser Arafat b: 1929 in Cairo, Egypt, In 1959  started to organize Fatah.  After 1967, organized world-wide terror against Israelis. Zionist and Jewish targets.  He was kicked out of Jordan in 1970;  Lebanon in 1982.  He supported Saddam Hussein during 1991 Gulf War.  By 1988 the PLO proclaimed a Palestinian state with Arafat as president.   

The PLO has been a loose confederation of terrorist organizations unified mainly by a desire to destroy Israel.  All of the terrorist groups depend upon various Arab states for economic and diplomatic support.  The PLO is based primarily in Lebanon and Syria, where less than 15% of Palestinians live.  It has never held  general elections.  It lacks the characteristics of a legitimate national liberation group.  It does not operate from within Israel, and its constituent groups attack civilian targets exclusively.  

Hamas terrorist who orchestrated 2002 Park Hotel massacre, in which 30 Israelis died, gets $3,000 a month, Channel 2 reports; bomb-maker jailed for 67 killings gets $1,000.  The PA spends 6% of its budget paying Palestinians in Israeli jails , and families of suicide bombers.  

When an Arab murders a Jew in the land of Israel he will immediately begin receiving a salary from the Palestinian Authority. The more Jews he murders, the more money he and his family will receive. In fact, there are more than 30,000 Palestinians receiving blood money from their government to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars. Where does that money come from, you ask? Welcome to seeing our American tax dollars at work.

Hamas was founded in 1987, soon after the First Intifada broke out, as an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood which in its Gaza branch had previously been nonconfrontational toward Israel and hostile to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)  Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine, including modern-day Israel, from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Resource:

Near East Report, through Jewish Digest, December 1975

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority#:~:text=The%20Palestinian%20Authority%20was%20formed,a%20five%2Dyear%20interim%20body.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/12/oslo-israel-reneged-colonial-palestine

https://101.visualizingpalestine.org/resources/glossary/areas-a-b-c#:~:text=The%20Oslo%20Accords%20divided%20the,where%20Israel%20maintains%20full%20control.