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HAMAS, a Hostile Arab Palestinian (HoAP) militant and jihadist group, serves as one of two major political parties, is an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya ("Islamic Resistance Movement"). It is a prominent rival party by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Fatah organization. The PLO-Fatah
(as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people") has has not yet actually renounced violence; but has, instead --- incited, encouraged, and political honored the martyrs of the Islamic jihadist, insurgents, guerrilla's, rebels, resistance and other asymmetric activities and individual initiative to strike-out and inflict harms on the Israelis.
Both HAMAS and the PLO-Fatah, incite, support, finance and encourage various other elements and splinter organizations of the HoAP (as the protected persons), who commit offenses or conduct activities which is solely intended to harm the Israel
(as the Occupying Power), are subject to prosecution. Just as HoAP actions which represent a collective danger, nor seriously damage the property of the Israeli police and security forces --- administrations, --- or the installations used by them, shall be liable to prosecution and serious fines and sentencing.
The US administration continued to treat Fatah as if it had won the election rather than lost it - funding, arming, and directly encouraging agents within it to reverse the outcome of that democratic election by force. The Palestinian president brought pressure to bear on Hamas to change its position on recognition of Israel. Palestinians refused to participate in this externally driven coup - indeed, the vast majority of Fatah cadres rejected outright an enterprise so clearly directed at destroying the Palestinian body politic. Both the prisoners' document and the Mecca agreement signed in Saudi Arabia creating a national unity government took place because Palestinian society insisted on a national framework. Yet a small group has brought us to this point. The outcome is what we have before us today, similar to what the Americans were seeking to create in Iraq: the total exclusion of democratic practices and principles, the attempt to impose an oligarchy on a fragmented political society, a weakened and terrorised people, a foreign rule through warlords and strongmen.
(COMMENT)
The "People of Palestine" have, since the (1920) termination of the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration (OETA) and transition to the Civil Administration the Arab Palestinians have been encouraged to participate directly in the Civil Administration under the Mandate for Palestine. The HoAP had unilaterally decided their own fate. Even if a choice is given to them --- and the HoAP consider the options unacceptable and declined to participate, --- that is still exercising self-determination and the future consequences of their choice. And that policy existed in the beginning when "in 1923, a third attempt was made by the Mandatory, to establish an institution through which the Arab population of Palestine could be brought into cooperation with the government. The Mandatory Power had proposed “the establishment of an Arab Agency in Palestine" which will occupy a position exactly analogous to that accorded to the Jewish Agency”. The Arab Agency would have the right to be consulted on all matters relating to immigration, on which it was recognized that “the views of the Arab community were entitled to special consideration.” But each time the HoAP were offered participation and integration into the administration of Palestine, no matter what it was, including the recommendation put forth by the UN Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) and the recommendations adopted by the General Assembly [A/RES/181(II)] (1947). In early 1948, the UN Palestine Commission (UNPC) noted that:
"Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside Palestine, are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein."
The HoAP are always complaining about their "Right of Self-Determination" --- yet when the HoAP exercised their "right" they invariably were unsatisfied with the outcomes and consequences.
Most Respectfully,
R
