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Quick, Mr. Bush, send this guy more millions!
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook at Palestinian Media Watch:
At a time when Iran is being isolated by most of the world for its nuclear program and its calls for the destruction of Israel, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has sent a telegram of effusive greetings to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Iran's national holiday.According to the PA daily Al-Hayat Al Jadida, Abbas's greeting earlier this week also wished for "further progress and prosperity" for Iran.
The following is the paper's account of the message:
"The president said in the greeting: 'I am happy to express to your excellency and, through you, to your honorable government and to your brother people, on behalf of the Palestinian people and their leadership and on my behalf personally, the warmest, most heartfelt wishes, in a prayer to Allah, that He shall bestow on you on this holiday further progress and prosperity. We wish you and your people happy holidays.' President Abbas expressed the greatest wishes of wealth, health and joy to the President of Iran, and to his people and his sister country, continuous respect, glory and well-being."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, February 12, 2007]
Posted by Robert at February 14, 2007 1:55 PM
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There is a long history of the PLO leader backing the wrong horse, look at now dead Arafat, he backed Sadam. and now Abbas backs the monkey man from Iran. Logically the West should extract any support, ie money going to that giant sucking noise of those Abbas gangsters.
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at February 14, 2007 2:32 PM
This is almost laughable, but that it is so serious! We are being assaulted from every side. What kind of wacky, upside-down world are we in? We give millions to lunatics that hate us, the "few" jihadi groups around the world want to destroy civilization, Muslims emboldened are killing our countrymen here in the US and we're letting more in.
When will it stop?? I have been self-employed for over fifteen years with established annual earnings and I can't even get $100 from the SBA. I resent my $40K that was paid to the FED is being used as largesse to keep cheap oil flowing to the Global Petrocorps.
How do we de-elect the oligarchy?
Posted by: detocquevilledisciple at February 14, 2007 2:33 PM
About as unholy an alliance as is humanly possible!
Posted by: Ynkedoodl at February 14, 2007 2:37 PM
Actually, there is One gutsy congresswoman blocking US funding of Palestinian terrorists..proof that not all Democrats are insane.
Bush is,frankly, too close to the Saudis for comfort, which is where all the largess for the `Palestinians' comes from.
So much for all that phony rhetoric on the `Bush Doctrine' and the `war on terror' hmmm?
Posted by: Freedom Fighter at February 14, 2007 3:04 PM
Abbas to MadMahx: "that He shall bestow on you on this holiday"
Valentines Day greetings? XoXoXoXo
Posted by: TheOmegaMan at February 14, 2007 3:28 PM
Condi's greta man of peace
Posted by: SalaciousCrumb at February 14, 2007 3:34 PM
Condi's great man of peace
Posted by: SalaciousCrumb at February 14, 2007 3:35 PM
Well Abbas sucking up to Ahmadinejad will please Saudi Arabia no end (not!) especially as SA just brokered a deal between Hamas & Fatah.
Sometimes I think the best Western ploy would be to instruct our intelligence services to use whatever means to destabilise the Middle East (if you were attacking Islam). In the case of Iran, you make contacts with Sunni dissidents, express sympathy and provide them with whatever low-tech weaponry they require (not hi-tech). And seeing that they live in the midst of Iran's oil fields, they could create havoc. At that point Iran has its hands full dealing with internal dissent.
There is a lot more that could be done.
Oil prices will go high, but we need to wean ourselves of it anyway.
Posted by: UK Infidel Lover at February 14, 2007 3:47 PM
Wait a minute, I wish Iran the best too; God Damn; they're gonna need it !
Posted by: Jeff at February 14, 2007 6:52 PM
A few updates:
The U.N. Security Council has put sanctions on Iran and given it until Feb. 21 to halt its enrichment work or face more penalties.
The US is putting pressure on European and Asian banks to stop operating in Iran.
"An adviser to Iran's top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, suggested in remarks published on Wednesday that Tehran might consider suspending sensitive atomic work." - Reuters
This is fake and Bush is not buying it. The Iranians have just recently installed an additional 328 centrifuges at the Natanz enrichment plant -- out of the 3,000 that they plan to add this year. (3000 centrifuges is the minimum needed to purify enough uranium for one bomb in a year)
"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying on Wednesday that Moscow expects the United States to show the same flexibility in resolving the problem of Iran's nuclear programme as it did with North Korea." - Reuters
Maybe he was referring to this bit of blackmail from Kim Jong very Ill:
"Under a breakthrough agreement struck on Tuesday [with the US], Pyongyang will freeze the reactor at the heart of its nuclear programme and allow international inspections of the site in return for about $300 million worth of aid." - Reuters
at February 14, 2007 9:00 PM
NO MORE MONEY TO THE PALESTINIANS. EVER!
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS at February 14, 2007 9:18 PM
"At a time when Iran is being isolated by most of the world for its nuclear program and its calls for the destruction of Israel, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has sent a telegram of effusive greetings to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Iran's national holiday. "
Abbas is just following in the footsteps of his late leader Arafat who stood alone in defending Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. And besides, look at what good it did Hamas to court Ahmadinejad when funds to the PA were cut off: more money than they would have got from the usual jizya-payers plus, no doubt, the attention of the usual Sunni leadership, who didn't fancy the establishment of a Shia crescent across Syria, Lebanon and "Palestine".
Posted by: waterdragon52 at February 15, 2007 7:37 AM
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