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The Abbas Doctrine - Selective TerrorismItamar Marcus |
May 20, 2003 |
Introduction: American and Israeli hopes that the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas, will fight against Palestinian terrorism is paradoxical, as the 4 terrorist attacks committed by Palestinian terrorists over the weekend that killed 9 Israelis are all legitimate according to the Abbas doctrine. Abbas has outlined his views regarding terror and violence in recent interviews, and the principles include: 1. The use of arms against Israeli civilians within Israel should be stopped for a year due to its current ineffectiveness. 2. The use of arms against Israeli civilians within the Disputed Territories should continue. The suicide terror attack that killed 7 Israelis yesterday in French Hill, is in a part of Jerusalem that the Palestinian authority [PA] claims, and therefore is within the legitimate target area, according to his recent statements in Arabic. Abbas has many other problematic opinions that make many question his potential as peace partner with Israel: 1. His demand for the settlement within Israel of millions of Arabs from refugee camps. Settling of these Arabs in Israel would destroy Israel as a Jewish state. 2. His doctoral thesis on the Holocaust was an attempt to deny that 6,000,000 Jews were killed along with the standard Holocaust denial accusations that the Zionist movement created the numbers for profit. The following spoken and written statements by Mahmoud Abbas, reveal aspects of his world outlook and form a Self Portrait of the PA Prime Minister.
On opposition to armed struggle when ineffective: “The armed struggle necessitates certain conditions and opportunities that do not exist for us in Palestine. We cannot equate what is happening in Palestine with what is going on Lebanon or Algeria. Therefore military activities under these circumstances and means are ineffective. For this reason, we stated that we have no choice but to stop it [i.e. military activities] for a year, which is not a submission from our point of view. As long as the circumstances are not equivalent.” [A-Sharq Al Awsat, March 3, 2003]
“The Intifada must continue, along with the right of the Palestinian people to rise up and use whatever it can to protect its existence and being. I add and say that if the Israelis come to your land to establish a settlement, it is within your rights to protect what is yours… with every means and weapons, when they come to your homes. This is the right of uprising…” [A-Sharq Al Awsat, March 3, 2003]
“After two and a half years of struggle, the result is that we have returned to a point below zero.” [A-Sharq Al Awsat, March 3, 2003]
“We know that right now he [Sharon] wants neither security nor peace.” (Al-Quds, February 25, 2003)
“This is the result of the agreement reached by the International Quartet, and we agreed to it despite our reservations... We would like the “Map” officially adopted in order to begin its implementation.” (Al-Quds, February 25, 2003)
“When Israel seeks to make changes [in the Road Map] she will open it and then destroy it.” (Al-Quds, February 25, 2003)
“I do not think that they will find people, not even one person to form a new Authority.” (Al-Quds, February 25, 2003)
“It is important to stress that any harm done to President Yasser Arafat, or any statements regarding the reduction of his authority or his removal, will spell destruction for the Authority.” (Al-Quds, February 25, 2003)
“It is an obligation for the refugee to return to his own home and to nowhere else in his homeland.” (Al-Quds, January 30, 2001) “Abu Mazen stated that the essence of the Palestinian problem is the refugee problem and there is no alternative to their returning to their homes and properties from where they were expelled, as stated in Resolution 194.” (Al-Ayam, January 26 2001) “Abu Mazen referred to the right of the refugees to return to the homes from where they were expelled in 1948. He stated that the PLO possess five million files that contain detailed information on the refugees, and these documents will be made public at the right time…The PLO will not sign any peace agreement that does not include the restoration of all the rights of the Palestinian people.” (PA TV News, Feb. 2, 2000)
“Abu Mazen demands that the Israeli government should take a firm stand and admit its ethical and legal responsibility for the exile of the Palestinian refugees from their homes.” [El-Ayam 26th January, 2001]
“The Authority will convene and decide what would be appropriate while avoiding internal conflict, as we maintain our internal unity.” (Al-Quds, February 25, 2003)
"A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement...[the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine." ["The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement." By Mahmoud Abbas, 1983, translation by Wiesenthal Center.]
"Having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner -- suffering victims in a battle -- it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting." "It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement...is to inflate this figure so that their gains will be greater. This led them to emphasize this figure in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions -- fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand." ["The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement." By Mahmoud Abbas, 1983, translation by Wiesenthal Center.]
"Following the war word was spread that six million Jews were amongst the victims and that a war of extermination was aimed primarily at the Jews...The truth is that no one can either confirm or deny this figure.” “In other words, it is possible that the number of Jewish victims reached six million, but at the same time it is possible that the figure is much smaller -- below one million." ["The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement." By Mahmoud Abbas, 1983, translation by Wiesenthal Center.]
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