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The first is the creation of a more stable environment in the region.​

A culture of peace has been established and spread throughout the region, it has become a common concept and has taken precedence over other terms such as “war,” “enemy” and other vocabulary that for years and decades were indicators of the underlying conflict situation that extremist and terrorist organizations tried to inflame and exploit, whether in light of the confrontation between Palestinians and Israel or in any other occasion.

Helping the UAE build stronger ties​

The second outcome is the UAE’s success in building a strong and balanced relationship with all parties in the Middle East. Following the formal normalization of relations with Israel, Emirati diplomacy was able to continue its policy of building bridges by focusing on realistic interests and formally renewing relations with Iran with the recent return of the Emirati ambassador to Tehran.


Prior to that, there was a course correction in Emirati-Turkish relations that settled the dispute and launched a new phase of joint cooperation. This reflects the UAE’s desire to create a secure and stable regional environment that provides the necessary conditions for achieving the UAE’s development goals to maximize the strategic benefits for its regional and international network.


The UAE proves that its talk of common ground and a stable regional security environment was not a political maneuver, but rather an expression of careful strategic planning to realize the interests of the UAE and its people, without engaging in alliances or axes that distract the realization of these interests from their ultimate goal.

Historic breakthrough for Israel​

The third of these outcomes concerns the Israeli side, which achieved a new historic breakthrough from its regional insulation with the Abraham Accords. The agreement paved the way for communication and openness between Israel and other Gulf and Arab countries. It was the cornerstone that prompted other capitals to take a peaceful step with Israel.


This in turn opened the door to a new phase of regional cooperation in trade, economy, tourism and so on. We see a further expansion of Israeli cooperation with neighboring Gulf states, which bodes well for a cooperative and stable regional climate. The fourth of these conclusions relates to a strategic analysis of the Abraham Accords as a whole.


The agreement reflects the status, effectiveness and ability of UAE diplomacy to take the lead and influence its regional environment in accordance with an objective and calm approach that is consistent with the UAE’s foreign policy characteristics since the establishment of the union state.


In this agreement, the UAE emphasized its role in promoting direct and indirect communication between regional parties, preventing the outbreak of sudden regional crises or the expansion of violent clashes between Palestinians and Israel, and reducing the influence of organizations and groups supported by regional parties that foment hostility toward Israel.


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2 years since Israel, UAE signed Abraham Accords - what's been achieved?

The two-year anniversary of this strategic agreement between Israel and the UAE provides an opportunity to assess its results.

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You know how Palestinians say that occupation and settlements are the worst human rights abuses in world history?

It appears that they mean "only if done by Jews."


From Kurdistan 24:

A delegation of Kurds from Afrin visited the Palestinian Consul in Erbil, Nazmi Hazouri, and handed over a letter of protest of a Palestinian foundation building housing units for displaced Syrians in Afrin.

Levant 24 reported that the Palestinian organization Wafaa al-Mohsenin Charitable Foundation delivered 34 housing units to displaced Syrian Arabs in Jindires, in Afrin.

The organization says the project is funded by “the donation of the people of Al-Zaeem village in the city of Jerusalem”

Turkish-backed factions have occupied Afrin since March 2018, when the Turkish Army launched a cross-border offensive against the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG).

Kurds used to make up 96 percent of Afrin's population, but now represent only 25 percent after 2018, over two dozen organizations said in a letter last year.

In a letter, handed over to the Palestinian Consul, the delegation complained over the fact that the demography of Afrin have been changed since 2018, and the orignal people of Afrin have been replaced by Arabs and Turkmens, with the aim of Arabizing the region.

Also two years ago, there were reports that said a Palestinian NGO called “Association for Living with Dignity for the 48 Palestinians” funded Turkish NGO Beyaz Eller to construct a mosque in the Tal Tawil village in Afrin.

In a report released on 6 May 2021, the Syria Justice and Accountability Center, focuses on the role of "Kuwait and other regional governments in financing Turkish-led reconstruction efforts on land in Afrin belonging to displaced Kurdish populations."

The Syria Justice and Accountability Center said the "foreign-funded housing projects are desperately needed to meet the humanitarian needs of IDPS currently residing in the area."

But it noted that the "the manner of their implementation means that they are also contributing to processes of demographic change that many have seen as the explicit intent of Turkey and its proxies."

"By funding the construction of settlements that hinder the return of the original residents displaced by Turkish-backed forces, foreign donors may be complicit in the forced transfer of populations – a crime against humanity under international criminal law," the report concluded.

Yes, Palestinians are helping to build illegal settlements on occupied territory.

Palestinians funding illegal settlements -- in Kurdistan

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In the four decades since Israel effectively annexed the Golan Heights, the Druze residents of the volcanic plateau have zealously maintained their Syrian identities and ways of life. From signage that gives no quarter to Hebrew to farms that ship their produce across the border rather than down the road, sharp-eyed visitors can see how the community has thoroughly rejected integration into Israel, instead maintaining strong commercial, social and academic ties to Damascus.

Neither the improved economic situation of the Druze population nor the concerted efforts of successive Israeli governments to cut those links have made any difference.

In recent years, however, a quiet shift has taken place. After years of near-blanket rejection of Israeli offers of citizenship, the number of Golan Druze applying to become Israeli citizens has begun to tick upwards.

Official government figures obtained through a freedom of information request submitted by Shomrim, via the Movement for Freedom of Information NGO, show that over the past five years, the number of citizenship requests filed by Druze residents of the Golan Heights has gradually jumped from 75 requests in 2017 to 239 in 2021.

The number for 2022 will likely be even higher still. In the first half of the year alone, 206 requests were submitted.

The reasons for the change are not entirely clear, but appear to be connected to the Syrian civil war, which made links with Damascus harder to maintain and altered attitudes toward the regime in Damascus. Generational shifts may also be at play, with many Golan Druze coming of age today bound to Syria only by stories.

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As ties to Syria fade, Golan Druze increasingly turning to Israel for citizenship

After years of eschewing offers, record numbers of Druze are quietly applying to become Israeli, motivated not by newfound Zionism, but convenience and a drift away from Damascus

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A total of 14 countries in the region took part in the event from Sept. 6-8, according toB’nai B’rith International, which co-sponsored the forum. It was organized by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), the Center for Jewish Impact and the Panama-Israel Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Dozens of ministers, politicians, mayors, religious leaders and heads of NGOs participated in the forum. Guests included human-rights activist Natan Sharansky, chair of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy; Panama’s Minister of Education Maruja Gorday de Villalobos; Gerardo Amarilla, vice minister of environment in Uruguay; and Fernando Lottenberg, the commissioner to monitor and combat anti-Semitism for the Organization of American States.

The participants discussed relations between Central America, Israel and the United States, and addressed the global issue of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism.

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Second annual Central America-Israel Forum in Panama draws 14 nations

The focus of this year’s forum was strengthening ties between Christians and Jews.

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Every weekday from Sunday through Thursday, Arab media has articles that sound roughly the same: "This morning, groups of settlers stormed the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied city of Jerusalem. Dozens of settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque, toured it and performed Talmudic rituals, under heavy guard from the Israeli occupation police."

I imagine it gets boring after a while, trying to incite violence against Jews when all they do is quietly walk around and, sometimes, silently pray.

Now some Palestinian media are upping the ante, and referring to the Jews visiting the holy spot as "terrorist settlers."


It's rhetoric inflation!

The earliest I can find the phrase "terrorist settlers" referring to Jews visiting the Temple Mount is from Al Shabab Radio, last year.

"Jewish settlers storming Al Aqsa" have been upgraded to "terrorist settlers"

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Abraham Accords opens Arab skies to Israeli flights​

Unprecedentedly, in March 2018, an international carrier, Air India, received permission to transit the air space of Saudi Arabia and Oman on all its flights to and from Ben-Gurion Airport.


This breakthrough gave Air India a distinct competitive advantage over the Israeli carriers. For while El Al’s pre-COVID Tel Aviv-Delhi flight (involving the Gulf of Aden detour) took close to eight hours, Air India flew it in under six.


In 2020, the signing of the Abraham Accords with the UAE and Bahrainrevolutionized Asian travel for Israelis. Dubai International Airport is a major hub for destinations across Asia and beyond, and the Gulf airlines, Emirates and Etihad, enjoy a strong global presence. Not only was it possible to fly directly over Arab airspace, but the traveling public was given multiple choices of carriers and routes.



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Flying from Israel to Australia: The geopolitics of visiting family

If there were once two prerequisite stops, and more recently a single transit point, flying to Melbourne may soon involve a zero-stopover journey.

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Here's the plan: Lets just keep giving them more money.

Daddy Mahmoud needs a new presidential jet.

 

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Mo' money, Mo' money, Mo' money.

 

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Not for the first time, Agence France Presse has erased Nasser Abu Hamid’s seven murder convictions, presenting him only as a Palestinian prisoner while withholding any indication about why he might be in jail.
While yesterday’s captions mention that Abu Hamid (also spelled Abu Hmeid) is ill with cancer, they contain no inkling of the fact as to why he is sitting in jail. Thus, the captions refer to demands for “the release of Nasser Abu Hamid, a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel who suffers from cancer.”

Surely his multiple murder convictions are at least as relevant to the caption as the fact that he is sick with cancer.

A sampling of the incomplete captions follow:


Masked militants of the Palestinian Fatah movement’s “Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” armed faction march in centre of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on September 10, 2022, after a rally demanding the release of Nasser Abu Hamid, a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel who suffers from cancer. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP


Masked militants of the Palestinian Fatah movement’s “Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” armed faction march through an old market in centre of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on September 10, 2022, after a rally demanding the release of Nasser Abu Hamid, a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel who suffers from cancer. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP


Masked militants of the Palestinian Fatah movement’s “Aqsa Martyrs Brigades” armed faction gather in centre of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank on September 10, 2022, after a rally demanding the release of Nasser Abu Hamid, a Palestinian prisoner held by Israel who suffers from cancer. JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP

The Almagor Terror Victims Association reportedabout Abu Hamid:

On 12 October 2000 he was photographed while taking part in the desecration of the bodies of IDF Corporal Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami during the Ramallah Lynch.
On 21 December 2000 Hamid murdered Eli “Eliko” Cohen in a shooting attack in the vicinity of Giv’at Ze’ev.
On 31 December 2000 he murdered Rabbi Binyamin and Talya Kahane in a shooting attack in the vicinity of Ofra.
He planned the 25 February 2002 attack on Neveh Ya’acov in which policewoman Galit Arbiv was murdered and ten civilians were injured.
On 27 February 2002 Hamid directed the murder of Gadi Rejwan in the Atarot industrial zone in Jerusalem.
He was responsible for the 5 March 2002 bombing attack on Sea Food Market, murdering three Israelis—Eliyahu Dahan, Yossi Habi, and policeman Salim Barakat—and injuring 31.
In December 2002, Hamid confessed in Jerusalem District Court to killing seven Israelis and was sentenced to three life sentences and fifty additional years’ imprisonment. He also was convicted of 12 counts of attempted murder and other charges. The representative of the State of Israel at the trial dubbed Hamid a “killing machine” and stated that Hamid had been the one who announced the founding of the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist organization.

The news agencies’ attention to all kinds of detaild about Palestinian terrorists — their medical condition, age, family, how many prisoners before them supposedly died while in Israeli prison — stands in striking contrast to the repeateddisinterest in reporting the terror acts which landed them in prison.

AFP (Again) Erases Nasser Abu Hamid's Seven Murder Convictions

Not for the first time, Agence France Presse erased Nasser Abu Hamid's seven murder convictions, presenting him only as a Palestinian prisoner sick with

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Several journalists working for the British Broadcasting Company’s Arabic service have gone on a Twitter scrubbing spree to remove numerous anti-Israel tweets, which constituted a flagrant violation of the UK taxpayer-funded outfit’s employee social media guidelines.

Among the most offensive posts that have now vanished from Twitter include one that refers to the Jewish state as the “terrorist apartheid state of Israel” and another that labeled all Israelis “terrorists.”

It is therefore clear that the journalists featured in our piece were well aware of how their social media postings broke the BBC’s rules on how its journalists should conduct themselves to avoid conflict with the broadcaster’s commitment to impartiality.

As we pointed out at the time:

The BBC has made it clear in the past that disclaimers in social media profiles, such as ‘my views [are] not the BBC’s,’ are not a defense against ‘personal expressions of opinion on social media that may conflict with BBC guidelines.’
Breaching such rules can reportedly result in disciplinary action, including possible termination of employment.”

Although HonestReporting reached out to the BBC to ask how the corporation would respond, we have yet to receive a definitive response, except to say that breaches of the company’s rules are dealt with appropriately.

Worryingly, several of the tweets we drew attention to still remain live, including those from one journalist who repeatedly expressed her wish that Israel would “go down” and foul-mouthed rants about the Jewish state.

We can therefore assume that the broadcaster believes adherence to its own guidelines by staff is unnecessary, at least where such breaches pertain to Israel-Palestinian issues.

This is particularly disturbing given that it comes just months after it was announced that the BBC’s public funding would all but disappear when the compulsory annual television license fee of £159 ($182) per household would be frozen and eventually scrapped entirely.

The decision was preceded by numerous complaints by the UK’s ruling Conservative government over whether the BBC acts in an impartial manner, specifically in reportage relating to right-wing politicians and political issues.

The aforementioned BBC Arabic tweets are also just the tip of the iceberg with regard to Israel, considering there are problems in far too many of the corporation’s news pieces on the subject.

Just this week, we pointed out that Yolande Knell, the BBC’s Middle East correspondent, had twisted the facts to produce a scathing report on Israel’s new regulations concerning the entry of foreigners into Palestinian-majority areas of Area C, the area of the West Bank that is under full Israeli control.

Specifically, Knell had sought to imply that Jerusalem was implementing Orwellian rules designed to prevent Palestinian ID holders from entering into relationships with foreigners.

Over the last six months, we have produced numerous critiques that lay bare the BBC’s repeated failure to accurately report on Israeli-Palestinian events (see here, here and here).

It is high time the BBC met its own standards for fair and accurate news coverage. It could start by disciplining the raft of BBC Arabic journalists whose crass tweets about the Jewish state damage even further their employer’s reputation.

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For Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) the creation of a “State of Palestine” in the territories Israel freed in 1967 - Judea, Samaria (the West Bank) and East Jerusalem (freed from Jordanian occupation) and Gaza (freed from Egyptian occupation) - is just one stage towards the ultimate goal of destroying Israel.

While the international community would often like to believe that forcing Israel to relinquish Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem (Israel completely left Gaza in 2005) will bring about the long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace, the truth is that the Palestinian leadership is not interested in peace with Israel. Rather, the Palestinian leadership actively seeks Israel’s destruction.

As Palestinian Media Watch has shown, the PA, the PLO, and the Palestinian leadership constantly claim that Israel has no right to exist. These claims are reinforced by repetitive messaging and thousands of maps of “Palestine” that erase any recognition of Israel’s existence. It is the Palestinian leadership’s refusal to accept the existence of Israel (in any borders) that has brought the Palestinians to repeatedly reject every Israeli offer to secure a long-lasting peace. Those offers included the 2008 offer of then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to create a Palestinian state on an area larger than the combined areas of Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem prior to 1967.

To understand the Palestinian position, it is important to appreciate that this reality is not a passing phase, but rather, has been official Palestinian policy for decades.

While the Palestinian leadership take great pains to conceal its true goals, occasionally the truth slips out.

Abbas was recently criticized for having put too much faith in the US administrations and in the results of Israel’s elections to achieve a limited Palestinian state that comprises only Gaza, Judea, Samaria, and East Jerusalem. Deflecting the criticism, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily Muwaffaq Matar, came to Abbas’ defense. According to Matar, if the Palestinians were to read the speeches of Abbas, they would realize that his goal is to free every inch of the “[Palestinian] land”, including all of Israel, through “the policy of stages” – a reference to the PLO’s “10 Point Program” or “Stages Program” (see below):

“If they would read with a desire, perhaps they will understand the consequences and the goals of President Mahmoud Abbas in focusing on two parallel paths of the Palestinian national struggle: the first is on the ground, on the land of Palestine, through peaceful popular resistance with all its meanings, demands, and methods (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror). The second is the legal, political, and diplomatic [path] in the international forums, which will establish Palestine on the world map geographically, and will establish it in international law…
The long-term vision of the leader of the national liberation movement, Mahmoud Abbas – its gist is to wrest the Palestinian people’s historical and natural right from the colonialist states, which committed the worst crime in the history of humanity: establishing their front base (Israel) [parentheses in source] …
We are fighting to wrest free and liberate every inch of our land from the colonialist states’ proxy (Israel) [parentheses in source] through the policy of stages, as the oppressive colonialist states, which committed the worst crime against humanity in modern history, stole the Palestinian people’s historical and natural right in stages.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 26, 2022]

Adopted by the PLO’s governing body (the Palestine National Council) in 1974, the “10 Point Program” or “Stages Program” is not only still relevant today, but even still seen as the guiding ideology of Abbas and the PLO that together dominate the PA.

According to the program, the PLO is committed to “establish the independent combatant national authority for the people over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated” (paragraph 2). The PLO created entity will then “strive to achieve a union of the confrontation countries, with the aim of completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory” (paragraph 8). To achieve its goal, the PLO will “employ all means, and first and foremost armed struggle” (paragraph 2). For the PLO, “Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realization of the Liberation Organization's strategy” (paragraph 4). Nonetheless, the PLO will “struggle against any proposal for a Palestinian entity the price of which is recognition, peace, secure frontiers, renunciation of national rights and the deprival of our people of their right to return and their right to self-determination on the soil of their homeland” (paragraph 3).

In this context, the most relevant provision of the program is paragraph 4, which provides:

“Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realization of the Liberation Organization's strategy of establishing the democratic Palestinian state specified in the resolutions of previous Palestinian National Councils.”
[PLO “10-point program,” June 9, 1974, as published on the website of the UN]

While unusual, columnist Matar’s reference to the PLO program is nothing new.

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Part 2

Already in 1994, just months after the signing of the Israeli-Palestinian “Declaration of Principles,” Yasser Arafat made clear that in his eyes the agreements were nothing more than a Trojan horse. He made this clear by equating the agreement to the treaty signed by Islam's Prophet Muhammad with his enemies in Mecca. The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah called for peace for at least 10 years, but after two years Muhammad broke the truce and attacked and conquered his enemies:

"This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our Prophet Muhammad and Quraish, and you remember the Caliph Omar had refused this agreement and considered it "Sulha Dania" [a despicable truce]. But Muhammad had accepted it and we are accepting now this [Oslo] peace accord."
[Audio recording of Arafat speech in Johannesburg, May 10, 1994]

Othman Abu Gharbiah, then Arafat's aide for Political Guidance and national affairs, and Director-General for National Affairs was more explicit:

"The goal of this stage is the establishment of the independent Palestinian State, with its capital in Jerusalem... Every Palestinian must know clearly and unequivocally that the independent Palestinian State, with Jerusalem as its capital is not the end of the road. The Palestinian State is a stage after which there will be another stage, and that is the democratic state in all of Palestine (i.e. replacing Israel)."
[Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 25, 1999]

The idea was again repeated by the late Faisal Husseini, PA Representative for Jerusalem Affairs, in 2001:

"The Oslo agreement, or any other agreement, is just a temporary procedure, or just a step towards something bigger... We distinguish the strategic, long-term goals from the political staged goals, which we are compelled to temporarily accept due to international pressure. ... [Palestine] according to the higher strategy [is]: 'from the river to the sea.' Palestine in its entirety is an Arab land, the land of the Arab nation."
[Al-Arabi' (Egypt), June 24, 2001]

In 2013, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Abbas' advisor on religious and Islamic affairs, and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Shari'ah Justice repeated Arafat’s analogy between the Oslo Accords and the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah:

"The Palestinian leadership's sense of responsibility towards its nation made it take political steps [the Oslo Accords] about 20 years ago [1993]...exactly like the Prophet [Muhammad] did in the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah... The Prophet said: 'I'm the Messenger of Allah and I will not disobey Him.' This is not disobedience, it is politics... In less than two years, the Prophet returned and based on this treaty, he conquered Mecca. This is the example, this is the model."
[Official PA TV, July 19, 2013]

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Part 3

While the US initiated Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations (2013-2014), under the auspices of former US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, were under way, senior Palestinian official Abbas Zaki said the Palestinians will only agree to a treaty with Israel if the Palestinian state is established on the 1967 lines. However, he stressed that '67 lines would only be the beginning. After that, the Palestinians will continue with the stages plan:

"Even the most extreme among us, Hamas, or the fighting forces, want a state within the '67 borders. Afterward, we [will] have something to say, because the inspiring idea cannot be achieved all at once. [Rather] in stages."
[Official Syrian Satellite TV Channel, Dec. 23, 2013]

Two years prior, in 2011, Zaki also mentioned this PA stages plan and referred to "the inspiring idea," explaining that it means the end of Israel. He said that Abbas shares the goal of eliminating Israel in stages, but that the PA says it only wants a state along the 1967 borders because it is unacceptable politically to say you want to destroy Israel:

"The agreement is based on the borders of June 4 [1967]. While the agreement is on the borders of June 4, the President [Mahmoud Abbas] understands, we understand, and everyone knows that it is impossible to realize the inspiring idea, or the great goal in one stroke. If Israel withdraws from Jerusalem, if Israel uproots the settlements, 650,000 settlers, if Israel removes the (security) fence - what will be with Israel?Israel will come to an end. If I say that I want to remove it from existence, this will be great, great, [but] it is hard. This is not a [stated] policy. You can't say it to the world. You can say it to yourself."
[Al-Jazeera TV, Sept. 23, 2011]

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Part 4

In 2020, Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi also clarified that from the point of view of the PLO and Fatah, the so-called “1967 borders” are an “intermediate statement”:

“Why, as PLO, did we say 1967? ... The Palestinian leadership wanted to make it easier for our people with the establishment of its state on the 1967 borders, because that is what would be acceptable to the world... [The PLO] said “a state on the 1967 borders,” however the [Palestinian] declaration of independence does not mention 1967… Put aside the [Palestinian] Authority – I am Fatah, and in the goals and principles of the Fatah Movement there is nothing that says 1967. Nothing... In everything related to me – one of the senior officials in Fatah - all my life I have never said “a 1967 state.” ... I will not forget my homeland, will not forget Palestine, and will not forget Palestine's history. These [1967 borders] can be an intermediate statement.”
[Facebook page of Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi,
Feb. 5, 2020]

The stages program is not only the policy of the PLO/PA/Fatah, but it is also widely accepted by the Palestinian people. In a 2014 survey conducted for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 62.5% of those surveyed supported the assertion that if the Palestinian leadership were to negotiate a two-state solution with Israel, “that would be part of a ‘program of stages’ to liberate all of historic Palestine later.” 63.2% of those surveyed supported the assertion that if the Palestinian leadership were to negotiate a two-state solution with Israel, “resistance should continue until all of historic Palestine is liberated” – in other words, until all of Israel is eliminated.

The following are additional excerpts of some of the provisions in the stages program and PMW’s commentary on them:

“The Liberation Organization will employ all means, and first and foremost armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian territory and to establish the independent combatant national authority for the people over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated. This will require further changes being effected in the balance of power in favour of our people and their struggle.”

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Part 5

PMW commentary:

The largest faction in the PLO is Fatah headed by Abbas. As PMW has shown here, here and here (among scores of other examples), in spite of their commitments as part of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process (i.e., The Oslo Accords) neither the PLO nor Fatah have ever renounced the use of “armed struggle” to destroy Israel. This provision also reflects a similar provision in the PLO Charter, which the PA still presents as calling for Israel’s destruction.

“The Liberation Organization will struggle against any proposal for a Palestinian entity the price of which is recognition, peace, secure frontiers, renunciation of national rights and the deprival of our people of their right to return and their right to self-determination on the soil of their homeland.”

PMW commentary:

This provision is the basis for the PA ideology that the entire area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is solely Palestinian and no one has the right to relinquish any part of it. While many often erroneously believe that only the internationally designated terror organization Hamas defines all of Israel as “Islamic Waqf” (i.e., an inalienable religious endowment in Islamic law), PMW has already shown that this is also a position held by the PA/PLO/Fatah.

The provision also appears to be the basis for the Palestinian demand that Israel agree to commit national suicide and agree to flood itself with millions of so-called “Palestinian refugees.”

“To reaffirm the Palestine Liberation Organization's previous attitude to Resolution 242, which obliterates the national right of our people and deals with the cause of our people as a problem of refugees. The Council therefore refuses to have anything to do with this resolution at any level, Arab or international, including the Geneva Conference.”

PMW commentary:

While today, many Palestinians and their supporters often erroneously cite UN Security Council resolution 242 as the basis for their demand that Israel retreat from so-called “occupied Palestinian territories,” according to the “Stages Program”, the PLO rejects resolution 242, because it “obliterates the national right of our people and deals with the cause of our people as a problem of refugees.”

It should be noted, that UNSCR 242 does not mention the existence of a “Palestinian people” and certainly does not refer to any “Palestinian territory.”

The following are a longer excerpt of Mattar’s comments and the full text of the PLO’s 10 point/stages program:

Excerpt of a column by Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary Council member and regular columnist for the official PA daily

Headline: “We will not argue with their ‘Israel,’ rather we will wrest our right from them”
“Those who spread the rumor in their speeches and statements that [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas has trusted the various American governments or political parties and election results in the occupation system (Israel) [parentheses in source] should read his books that were written for the sake of history. They should read every word in his speeches directed towards the Palestinian people or the world’s peoples, its states, its governments, and its leaders in the international forums, and specifically at the UN General Assembly – the heir of the League of Nations, which gave Israel a fake birth certificate as part of the greatest conspiracy against the peoples, which was carried out by the colonialist states that won in World War I. If they would read with a desire, perhaps they will understand the consequences and the goals of President Mahmoud Abbas in focusing on two parallel paths of the Palestinian national struggle: the first is on the ground, on the land of Palestine, through peaceful popular resistance with all its meanings, demands, and methods (i.e., term used by Palestinians, which also refers to the use of violence and terror). The second is the legal, political, and diplomatic [path] in the international forums, which will establish Palestine on the world map geographically, and will establish it in international law.
On the ground there is proof that we own the historical and natural right, while there, in the [international] forums, we must remove Israel’s fake legitimacyand the discriminatory resolutions that have been passed by the League of Nations and its heir, the UN. This is through resolutions that will emphasize the Palestinian people’s historical and natural right, even if only partially, as happened in [UN] Resolution 67/19 of 2012, when we achieved a resolution on adding Palestine to the UN as an observer member…
The long-term vision of the leader of the national liberation movement, Mahmoud Abbas – its gist is to wrest the Palestinian people’s historical and natural right from the colonialist states, which committed the worst crime in the history of humanity: establishing their front base (Israel)[parentheses in source] following massacres, wars, uprooting, expulsion, and destruction. We do not rely on these colonialist states, foremost among them the US; we will wrest from them what we can of our rights, because we understand that they are the ones who determine what will be the fate of their ‘Israel,’ which we do not argue with it under any circumstances over the right to our land. This is because our homeland Palestine belongs entirely to the Palestinian people, even if we relate with a realistic approach to the resolutions of the international institutions.
It is true that we, the members of the Palestinian people here on the land of our homeland Palestine, are fighting against the Israeli occupation army, the settlers, their government, and their system that is called ‘the State of Israel.’ But the truth is – according to the logic of the political leader figure [Abbas], who sees things in the long term and delves into reading the history that is near to us and to our land chronologically and geographically – we are fighting to wrest free our land, as it is a sacred historical and natural right. We are fighting to wrest free and liberate every inch of our land from the colonialist states’ proxy (Israel) [parentheses in source] through the policy of stages, as the oppressive colonialist states, which committed the worst crime against humanity in modern history, stole the Palestinian people’s historical and natural right in stages.This was despite the fact that they had material and military might that enabled taking control [of Palestine] and achieving their goal at once!”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 26, 2022]

The terms "peaceful uprising/resistance” and “popular uprising/resistance" are used by PA leaders at times to refer to peaceful protest and at times to refer to deadly terror attacks and terror waves. For example, ‎Mahmoud Abbas defined as “peaceful popular” the murderous terror during the 2015-2016 ‎terror wave (“The Knife Intifada”), in which 40 people were killed (36 Israelis, 1 Palestinian, 2 Americans and 1 Eritrean) and hundreds wounded in stabbings, shootings, and car ramming attacks. Abbas said: "We want peaceful popular uprising, and that’s what this is." At the time Abbas said this, 14 Israelis had already been murdered.

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PLO political programme/ “10-point programme” – 12th Palestine National Council (1-9 June 1974, Cairo) – Text/Non-UN document

Political Programme of 9 June 1974, 12th Palestine National Council

“The Palestinian National Council:
On the basis of the Palestinian National Charter and the Political Programme drawn up at the Eleventh Session, held from January 6-12, 1973; and from its belief that it is impossible for a permanent and just peace to be established in the area unless our Palestinian people recover all their national rights and, first and foremost, their rights to return and to self-determination on the whole of the soil of their homeland; and in the light of a study of the new political circumstances that have come into existence in the period between the Council's last and present sessions, resolves the following:
1. To reaffirm the Palestine Liberation Organization's previous attitude to Resolution 242, which obliterates the national right of our people and deals with the cause of our people as a problem of refugees. The Council therefore refuses to have anything to do with this resolution at any level, Arab or international, including the Geneva Conference.
2. The Liberation Organization will employ all means, and first and foremost armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian territory and to establish the independent combatant national authority for the people over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated. This will require further changes being effected in the balance of power in favour of our people and their struggle.
3. The Liberation Organization will struggle against any proposal for a Palestinian entity the price of which is recognition, peace, secure frontiers, renunciation of national rights and the deprival of our people of their right to return and their right to self-determination on the soil of their homeland.
4. Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realization of the Liberation Organization's strategy of establishing the democratic Palestinian state specified in the resolutions of previous Palestinian National Councils.
5. Struggle along with the Jordanian national forces to establish a Jordanian-Palestinian national front whose aim will be to set up in Jordan a democratic national authority in close contact with the Palestinian entity that is established through the struggle.
6. The Liberation Organization will struggle to establish unity in struggle between the two peoples and between all the forces of the Arab liberation movement that are in agreement on this programme.
7. In the light of this programme, the Liberation Organization will struggle to strengthen national unity and to raise it to the level where it will be able to perform its national duties and tasks.
8. Once it is established, the Palestinian national authority will strive to achieve a union of the confrontation countries, with the aim of completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory, and as a step along the road to comprehensive Arab unity.
9. The Liberation Organization will strive to strengthen its solidarity with the socialist countries, and with forces of liberation and progress throughout the world, with the aim of frustrating all the schemes of Zionism, reaction and imperialism.
10. In the light of this programme the leadership of the revolution will determine the tactics which will serve and make possible the realization of these objectives.
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization will make every effort to implement this programme, and should a situation arise affecting the destiny and the future of the Palestinian people, the National Assembly will be convened in extraordinary session.”

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