P F Tinmore
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Indeed, and all true.I have only seen one article from Virginia Tilley.The U.N. "apartheid" document was written by two AMERICANS. Doncha just love it?
Richard Falk has always been anti-Israel. I am aware of him.
I do not know much about Virginia Tiley, but she does seem to prefer the "One State Solution", where the Arabs will be in the majority......again.
Whose Coup, Exactly?
Having sacked Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and dissolved his democratically-elected government, Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas has now installed Salam Fayyad as the new Prime Minister, to the clear delight of the West.
An international community worried by the ācoupā accusation might endorse the Fayyad government as the seemingly correct position. But the ācoupā claim stumbles over a basic problem ā that Abbasās appointing a new prime minister was itself entirely illegal. The new āemergency governmentā is illegal, too. According to the Basic Law of Palestine (as amended in 2003), which serves as the constitution of the PA, Abbas can do neither of these things. Nor can the new āemergency governmentā claim any democratic mandate. This means that Abbas and the Fayyad government are ruling by decree, outside the framework of the Basic Law. So on what basis is that government supposed to govern ā and on what basis are foreign governments supposed to deal with it?
According to the Basic Law, Abbas has violated a whole stream of Articles as well as the spirit of its checks and balances, which were designed during the Arafat era partly to limit the power of the presidency. With full US and Israel support (if not their insistence), Abbas has baldly trashed numerous provisions of the Basic Law, including:...
Whose Coup, Exactly?
electronic intifada............of course