NABIL
SHA'ATH SUMMONED AGAIN TO D.C.
.
YET HE
SHOULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED LONG AGO
MER - Washington - 10 July:
Everytime the Americans need the Palestinians
to sign another terrible agreement, they call on Nabeel Sha'ath.
This is the man many suspect of long-time involvement as a kind of de facto
American and Israeli agent within Palestinian ranks.
This is the man whom the Palestinian
Legislative Council last year demanded be fired by Arafat and brought to
trial for corruption. This is the man who has essentially stolen millions
and millions for himself, family and cronies through a process of bribes
and "commissions", while supposedly representing the destitute Palestinian
millions.
This is the man who in 1995 in Cairo
-- when Yasser Arafat said during a live TV signing attended by Mubarak
and Rabin that he was being forced to sign documents he had not even seen,
not to mention approved -- jumped up on stage, took Arafat aside for 20
minutes, and then brought him back, TV cameras rolling again, and gave
him the pen to sign that terrible agreement which pushed forward the process
of putting Palestinians on Reservations.
So no wonder this is the man the Americans
want to do business with. The scandal is that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian
"Legislative Council" continue to allow this rather than removing Sha'ath
immediately and bringing him to trial.
MER published the following article,
also about Sha'ath, just a few months ago.
50TH "ANNIVERSARY"
YEAR:
50 YEARS
AFTER THE BRITISH DEPART,
PALESTINIAN
KIDS TOLD TO FLY THE UNION JACK!
"We will come to London because
we feel London is a place we should give an opportunity to, that it will
add to the American efforts, it will provide new venues and I hope new
will, particularly armed with the success of the Irish peace process. We
think he (Tony Blair) has the momentum and he has also the will which he
showed very clearly to our leadership... Will he be able to succeed? That
depends a lot on Mr. Netanyahu, I believe..."
Nabil Sha'ath -"Minister"
for International
Cooperation in the "PA"
MER - Washington - 4/23:
How ironic...and disgusting. Fifty
years after the British retreated from Palestine, leaving it in chaos and
civil war, and 80 years after their Foreign Minister, Lord Balfour, declared
the then British protectorate ripe for a Jewish homeland -- though nothing
was supposed to be done to "prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" -- the regime of Yasser Arafat
is handing out Union Jack flags to the children of today's Palestinian
reservations -- the "autonomous" population centers that remain -- and
stumbling all over itself to welcome the Brits back!
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UPCOMING BY MER: "ARAFAT'S GULAGS"
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The Palestinians are about to be taken
to the cleaners one more time,this time with some cockamamie scheme to
put under Arafat's "autonomous" rule another 10 or 11 percent of the but
23 percent (comprising the "occupied territories") of what was Palestine
when the British ran away in 1948. And even that, whatever it is, will
be completely surrounded by the Israeli army with all movement of people
and goods subject to Israeli military control, Arafat's subcontrol, and
the CIA's "mediation".
And once more, as usual, Nabil Sha'ath
is in the lead of these "arrangements", his pockets and those of his cronies
stuffed evermore with bribes, commissions, kickbacks and "special" priviledges.
Last year the Palestinian Legislative
Assembly, against tremendous pressures and threats, called for the immediate
dismissal of Sha'ath from Yasser Arafat's "Palestinian Authority" and his
indictment for corruption. At various times Arafat promised this and that,
clearly buying time to bring the Legislative Assembly into line. And as
usual, in the end Arafat delivered nothing but more repression while Sha'ath
remains most powerful and most corrupt -- both politically and financially.
Now all this change of venue stuff,
this time to London, is quite ridiculous of course. If they really wanted
do, the Israelis and the Arafat folk could easily meet right where they
all are now that Arafat is installed as a kind of Israeli-annointed Governor
of Gaza.
Indeed they usually do for social events
-- Sha'ath recently threw four bashes for his wedding, one in Israel just
for the Israelis. What the London venue is really all about is more political
and financial pay-offs; more behind the scenes deals behind the backs of
the Palestinian people. The Europeans give Arafat and Sha'ath alot of money
these days, money they then use primarily to control and repress the Palestinian
people. Indeed, just a day before the announcement of next month's London
meetings, Arafat and Blair, these days representing the European Union,
signed an agreement "on security matters and the war against terror." I.e.,
Europe, at the behest of the Americans and the Israelis, will give Arafat
still more money for his now Gulag-like prison system, including expanded
"training" of "security" personnel and extensive amounts of "surveillance
equipment" to keep the police-state on top of everything, and everyone.
In short, the Europeans are stepping
in to further prop up the miserable "Authority" of Arafat -- pushing up
the PA, pushing down everyone else. Arafat's thugs then use blackmail,
torture, rape-threats, "surveillance", and still-escalating lawlessness,
to keep the "peace process" going on behalf of their new "benefactors"
as well as the Arab "client regimes" (especially in Amman, Cairo, and Riyadh)
who themselves cling to power and wealth in similar manners throughout
the essentially American-occupied region.
This is the overall situation for the
Palestinians, and in the Middle East, this 50th "Anniversary" Year.
