Apparently John Kerry believes in diplomacy by threat, as he recently threatened Israel with new uprisings if the Israelis didn’t make new concessions to the Palestinian jihadists. But this is a strange threat for him to have made, if this story is accurate. Is Kerry implying that Arafat was indeed assassinated, as Islamic supremacist conspiracy theorists constantly claim?
“Fatah wants Kerry prosecuted before ICC for ‘threatening’ Abbas,” by Khaled Abu Toameh for the Jerusalem Post, February 2:
US Secretary of State John Kerry recently threatened PA President Mahmoud Abbas that he would meet the same fate as his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, if he turned down Washington’s proposals for peace with Israel, a Palestinian source was quoted Sunday as saying.
The source told the website Rai al-Youm that Abbas angrily stormed out of a four-hour meeting with Kerry in Ramallah after the latter exerted pressure on him to accept the proposals.
The source claimed that Kerry told Abbas his fate would not be “less than that of Yasser Arafat.”
Jamal Muhaissen, a senior Fatah official in the West Bank, said that if the report is true, “this shows that Israel assassinated Yasser Arafat after receiving a green light from the US administration.”
Muhaissen said that Kerry’s threat comes in wake of his failure to impose a settlement on Israel that is “consistent with international law.”
Kerry should not hold the Palestinians responsible for his failure with the Israelis, the Fatah official added.
“If true, Kerry’s threat paves the way for bringing him before the International Criminal Court for threatening the life of an elected Palestinian president,” Muhaissen said.
Kerry’s proposals were met with shock and rejection by Abbas, Rai al-Youm’s source said.
The source said that Kerry’s proposals do not meet the minimum of Palestinian aspirations and Abbas’s promises to his people.
“Abbas wants future generations to remember him as a hero who managed to achieve for his people what the largest Arab powers and parties failed to obtain in all their wars with Israel,” the unnamed source explained.
The source claimed that Kerry’s proposals call for Israel’s annexation of between 6 and 8 percent of West Bank land. In return, the Palestinians would be compensated with a comparable measure of land from inside Israel.
In addition, the source said, the proposals envisage the opening of a safe passage between the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the division of east Jerusalem.
As for the issue of the refugees, the source said, Kerry wants to establish an international fund for settling Palestinians in Australia and anywhere else they wish. Only a small number of refugees would be permitted to enter Israel in the context of “family reunion.”
The source claimed that the proposals consider creating large settlement blocs where 80% of the settlers would be gathered under Israeli sovereignty. The settlers would be offered dual citizenship (Israeli and Palestinian).

Charli Main says
” Kerry wants to establish an international fund for settling Palestinians in Australia or wherever else they what”
Really ???????
Why not settle them among their Muslim brothers in Saudi Arabia, the mega rich Arab Gulf States, or in other Muslim countries where they can live the perfect Muslim life.
Oops—-silly me. I forgot that one of Kerry´s objectives in to progress the stealth Jihad by Muslims, advocated in the Koran, by dumping as many Muslims as possible in Western Christian Countries.
Dave says
You nailed it, Charli!
EYESOPEN says
Right you are Charli. But you can be sure that this is not one of the things that will be broadcast by the LameScreamMedia.
Robert Chaney says
I agree with Charli Main. It was the Muslim leaders of surrounding countries that told all Arab/Muslim people to leave Israel in 1967 to avoid being killed by the coming blood bath. Then, those same Muslim leaders would not let the refugees become citizens of any Islamic state. Jerusalem was the capitol of Israel long before Mohammad came along.
mortimer says
Since Arafat died of AIDS according to the Paris pathologist, the conspiracy theory is irrelevant.
Moreover, Arafat was a CHAIN SMOKER. There is polonium-210 in cigarette tobacco. It is an alpha-emitter which can be rather damaging at close range when lodged in the lungs. The polonium gets into tobacco from a fertilizer called apatite. Experiments have shown that as little as 15 rads of polonium can induce lung cancers in mice. That’s only about a fifth of what a smoker would get if they averaged 2 packs a day for 25 years.
Case solved.
Islam_Macht_Frei says
By “same fate” he probably meant “become irrelevant.” Any Islamic leader who is not actively and overtly engaged in terror or the threats thereof is at great risk for that.
Islamisdeath says
I want him prosecuted to just not for the same reason!
JessieJames says
I want him prosecuted, sentenced and be given a public execution by hanging along with his boss obumble head as all traitors should be.
JIMJFOX says
“an international fund for settling Palestinians in Australia”
Has he suggested this to Australia? Abbot the current PM has just denied residence permits to 30,000 illegal boat arrivals…
gravenimage says
Fatah wants Kerry prosecuted before International Criminal Court for threatening Abbas
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As I have often said, no amount of appeasement is *ever* enough for Mohammedans.
More:
The source said that Kerry’s proposals do not meet the minimum of Palestinian aspirations and Abbas’s promises to his people.
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i.e., the United States is not offering to destroy Israel outright…
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As for the issue of the refugees, the source said, Kerry wants to establish an international fund for settling Palestinians in Australia and anywhere else they wish. ..
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Did he actually say this? What have the civilized Australians done to deserve this?
What a tool—and yet, still not enough of a tool to really please supremacist Muslims…
Champ says
“…a Palestinian source was quoted Sunday as saying.”
A Palestinian source? …well, it must be true then!
Champ says
In response mohammedans might burn an effigy of john kerry while screaming “death to america” …”death to israel”, along with other evil rants.
exsgtbrown says
In return, the Palestinians would be compensated with a comparable measure of land from inside Israel.
Any land surrendered by Israel puts Israel that much closer to extermination…
Theb Nyip says
“Kerry wants to establish an international fund for settling Palestinians in Australia” – well strike me pink Mr Kerry I think you better first try stuffing your own ass up the kazoo, buy us all a kangaroo down sport and throw another shrimp on the barbie. We did our share of heavy lifting in Afghanistan and Iraq 2 compared with your NATO allies so why don’t you take a long jump off a short pier. Anyone else notice John Kerry looks like Dr Smith in Lost in Space? Danger, danger Will Robinson!
Kepha says
If the report on what transpired between Kerry and Abbas is accurate, then Kerry is a bumptious @$$ of the first water and thoroughly unsuited to the post of America’s chief diplomat.
Yes, Arafat died irrelevant, and the current PA leadership is indeed heading down that path. But Kerry (and his staff), should’ve been aware of the paranoia, conspiracy-mongering, and mistrust that pervades Arab political discourse. He especially should’ve been aware of the bad press the USA gets i n any Arab country, and been a little most careful in his choice of words.
For the record, I am not pro-PA, but pro-Israel. Still, even when you talk to an interlocutor from a hostile state or entity, you tread carefully and take into account the universe of discourse that he inhabits.
One more reason why the whole Obama administration means One-Big-@r$e-mistake,-America.