Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has blocked a decision by the Hamas-led government to form a new volunteer security force. [Source]
I understand that Mr. Abbas is between a rock and a hard place, but may I suggest that he changes landscape? why not resign? I don’t know why resigning never occurs to Arabs, really. He either supports the newly elected government, which is not inventing rockets I guess when it decided to have a security force or tell us that he disagrees with Hamas but since they were elected by the people he will have to step down to free himself from any further responsibilities, or threats for that matter.
Back to the security force..
You have people living on a land, the whole world says that’s a country we have out there occupied by invisible Israeli forces only Palestinians claim to exist, that country had an election and a new government had been formed.
Naturally, any God damn country needs a security force, how come an occupied one does not need one?!!
Obviously it’s because of being occupied that they are not allowed to have one. But why do we have a government and a president you ask? because we have to blame someone else other than the occupier (and now I have a very dirty analogy for this situation in my mind but I’ll spare you)
Israeli Housing Minister, Zeev Boim, on Friday threatened to target Mr Samhadana, and said his appointment did not give him any immunity.
*Yawn* He has already escaped assassination attempts, coward. Besides, nobody is immune, tell us something we don’t know.
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Laila el-Haddad wrote about this on her blog, she lives in Gaza strip which makes her perception of what’s going on stronger.
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Thanks for adding my blog to your links.
bashir, no problem.
Well there already are Palestinian security forces so I don’t see why they need to create a new one. I think the Palestinian armed groups should be simply integrated into this already existing force instead of existing on its side and competing with it for rule and the right to enforce order.
When Yasir Arafat, God rest his soul, was in power he as president clashed with his prime minister over who will control the security forces. Back then the US had been backing the prime minister on the issue of controlling the security forces but Arafat never gave up. Today the same scenario is repeated, there is a clash between the Palestinian president and his prime minister over control over the security forces.
The common denominator between the two incidents? The US backed Mahmoud Abbas. He was the prime minister in the first incident, and now he is the president. Back then he wanted the prime minister to hold control of the security forces, today I’m not sure he likes to talk about that!
Why would he resign? “freeing himself from further responsibilites” as you suggest is supposed to be a viable reason? Why should he give up now? After all wasn’t he chosen by the great majority of the Palestinian people (just like the new government was? actually the newly elected government got 43% of votes, Fateh 41% and the PLO factions collectively got 57% …and when Abbas was elected president, he received 62.5% of the population’s votes)
In Palestine, you’re talking about a democratic system unlike the rest of the Arab World …i.e. Syria, Egypt, Jordan, to name a few so resigning will not occur to them … How many non-arab presidents resigned? Nixon forced to. And when Jamal Abed Al-Nasser resigned many people took to the streets protesting, wanting him to stay in office! Again, President Abbas (executive) was chosen by the great majority of people - those same people who chose Hamas (legislative). Being president gives him presiding power over decisions, veto power, the final call is his call. So if you want to get down to being supportive, you’d expect that the legislative branch (Hamas) is the one who should be more supportive!
as hamzeh says, But there are Palestinian Security Forces! I believe 3800!