Monday, November 17, 2014

Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen is proud of his role in the Munich Massacre.

Abbas is proud of his role in the Munich Massacre.

Palestinian President Abbas: Paymaster of 1972 Munich Massacre Terrorists
Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas financed the Abu Daoud/Black September terror call to murder 11 Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972.  Read the reports, then decide.
Wikipedia reports that:
“As a commander of Black September, Abu Daoud was the mastermind behind the Munich massacre. While he planned the operation, he did not personally take part in it. The day before the operation commenced on 5 September 1972, Abu Daoud briefed the assassination squad and issued final instructions over dinner in a restaurant at the Munich railway station. . .
“The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, targetting 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, who were taken hostage and eventually killed. . .  Shortly after the crisis began, they demanded the release of 234 prisoners held in Israeli jails. . .
“The following Israeli Olympians were murdered either by the terrorists themselves or in the attempt to free them:  Moshe Weinberg (age 33, wrestling coach); Yossef Romano (age 32, weightlifter); Ze’ev Friedman (age 28, weightlifter); David Berger (age 28, weightlifter); Yakov Springer (age 51, weightlifting judge); Eliezer Halfin (age 24, wrestler); Yossef Gutfreund (age 40, wrestling referee); Kehat Shorr (age 53, shooting coach); Mark Slavin (age 18, wrestler); Andre Spitzer (age 27, fencing coach); and Amitzur Shapira (age 40, track coach).
“In 1999, Daoud published “Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist,” in which Daoud describes how he planned and executed the 1972 Olympic attack where 11 Israeli athletes were murdered.  In 1999, Abu Daoud was awarded the Palestinian Prize for Culture for his book “Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist,” for which he received 10,000 French Francs as prize money.”
Despite having published his own public confession of the Munich terror attack, Daoud was not assassinated by Israel.
“According to Ankie Spitzer, widow of fencing coach Andre, ‘He [Abu Daoud] didn’t pay the price for what he did.’
In 2006, Abu Daoud gave several personal interviews after the release of the Steven Spielberg film ‘Munich’ revived discussions of the massacre. Abu Daoud remained unrepentant regarding his role in the Munich attacks, stating on Germany’s Spiegel TV, ‘I regret nothing. You can only dream that I would apologize.’
In an Associated Press interview, he [Abu Daoud] legitimized the operation given its success, declaring, ‘Before Munich, we were simply terrorists. After Munich, at least people started asking who are these terrorists? What do they want? Before Munich, nobody had the slightest idea about Palestine.’
Shortly before Daoud’s death, he said in a farewell statement to Israelis, ‘Today, I cannot fight you anymore, but my grandson will and his grandson too.’

Abu Daoud legitimized the operation given its success, declaring, ‘Before Munich, we were simply terrorists. After Munich, at least people started asking who are these terrorists? What do they want? Before Munich, nobody had the slightest idea about Palestine.’
Abu Daoud died on 3 July 2010 in Damascus, Syria, of natural causes of kidney failure at the age of 73.”
In the August 22, 2002 issue of Sports Illustrated (SI), in an article about Abu Daoud, entitled “The Mastermind” (meaning Daoud had already admitted in his 1999 “Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist” book that he was the mastermind, planner and architect of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes), SI reported the following:
“In late July, SI’s Don Yaeger went to the Middle East to find the 72-year-old Abu Daoud. After five days in Syria, where he met with leaders of several Palestinian groups, including the Palestinian Authority, PA president Yasir Arafat’s Fatah faction and the militant Hamas, Yaeger received a call from Abu Daoud, who said he was in Cyprus. Abu Daoud, who would not reveal where he resides—saying only that he lives with his wife on a pension provided by the PA—agreed to answer written questions. Among his claims, in his memoir and to SI, are these:
“Though he wasn’t involved in conceiving or implementing it, ‘the [ Munich] operation had the endorsement of Arafat.’ Arafat is not known to have responded to the allegations in Abu Daoud’s book. In May 1972 four Black Septembrists hijacked a Sabena flight from Brussels to Tel Aviv, hoping to free comrades from Israeli jails. But Israeli special forces stormed the plane, killing or capturing all the terrorists and freeing every passenger, leaving Arafat, by Abu Daoud’s account, desperate to boost morale in the refugee camps by showing that Israel was vulnerable.
“Though he didn’t know what the money was being spent for, longtime Fatah official Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen [the current President of Palestine], was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack. Abu Mazen could not be reached for comment regarding Abu Daoud’s allegation.
“After Oslo in 1993, Abu Mazen went to the White House Rose Garden for a photo op with Arafat, President Bill Clinton and Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. ‘Do you think that…would have been possible if the Israelis had known that Abu Mazen was the financier of our operation?’ Abu Daoud writes. ‘I doubt it.’ Today the Bush Administration seeks a Palestinian negotiating partner ‘uncompromised by terror,’ yet last year Abu Mazen met in Washington with Secretary of State Colin Powell.”
On 3 July 2010, the then-Chairman of the Palestinian Authority/President of Palestine, Abbas wrote in a condolence letter to Daoud’s family, “He is missed. He was one of the leading figures of Fatah and spent his life in resistance and sincere work as well as physical sacrifice for the people’s just causes.”
The next day, 4 July 2010, Palestinian President Abbas made the following public announcement of condolences for Abu Daoud:
“The official PA daily:
Headline: ‘The President [Abbas] expresses condolences over the death of the fighters Muhammad Oudeh and Ja’afar Shadid…’
‘President Mahmoud Abbas sent a telegram of condolences yesterday over the death of the great fighter Muhammad Daoud Oudeh, ‘Abu Daoud,’ who died just before reaching 70. The telegram of condolences read: ‘The deceased was one of the prominent leaders of the Fatah movement and lived a life filled with the struggle, devoted effort, and the enormous sacrifice of the deceased for the sake of the legitimate problem of his people, in many spheres. He was at the forefront on every battlefield, with the aim of defending the [Palestinian] revolution. What a wonderful brother, companion, tough and stubborn, relentless fighter.’
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, July 4, 2010]”
So there you have it.  Palestine President Abbas was and is the unrepentant and proud bagman for one of the vilest Palestinian terrorist acts in the history of Israel.  Yet, the Israeli government is ceding him and his fellow-terrorists land from which they will attempt and G-d forbid, succeed in murdering more Jews.
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 July 28, 2014

Report: Billions of Dollars of Aid to Palestinian Authority Lost to Corruption

Billions of dollars in international aid granted to the Palestinian Authority may have been squandered, lost to corruption, or misspent, a new report by the European Court of Auditors, the Luxembourg-based watchdog, revealed, The Sunday Times reported.
Roughly €2.3 Billion ($3.1 Billion) made its way from Europe to the Palestinian territories between 2008 and 2012, but much of it is unaccounted for, the report said.
According to The Sunday Times, which got an early glimpse of the report, “EU investigators who visited sites in Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank noted ‘significant shortcomings’ in the management of funds sent to Gaza and the West Bank.
“The auditors complained about the lack of measures to ‘mitigate’ high-level’ risks, such as ‘corruption or of funds not being used for their intended purpose,’” The Times said.
 July 28, 2014

PA Financial Corruption: How Much Is Mahmoud Abbas Worth? Try $100 Million

Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, including President Mahmoud Abbas, are deeply concerned that Rashid’s revelations could expose their role in the embezzlement of public funds. They are also concerned that Rashid’s revelations could prompt some Americans and Europeans to reconsider their decision to pour millions of dollars into the Palestinian Authority’s coffers. What is needed is an independent Commission of Inquiry to restore pubic funds belonging to the Palestinian people. The Palestinians have many Mohammed Rashids…
The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has just discovered what every Palestinian child knows — that hundreds of millions of dollars had been embezzled during the era of Yasser Arafat.
The “discovery”, however, was not the result of a thorough and long investigation ordered by Palestinian leaders in Ramallah with the hope of restoring public funds.
Instead, it came after one of Arafat’s most trusted aides, Mohammed Rashid, threatened to expose corruption scandals in the Palestinian Authority.
For many years, Rashid served as Arafat’s financial advisor and was given a free hand to handle hundreds of millions of dollars that were poured on the Palestinian Authority and the PLO by US, EU and Arab donors.
A former journalist who used to earn less than $1,000 a month by working for a PLO newspaper, Rashid is now considered one of the wealthiest Palestinians anywhere. Palestinian Authority officials have estimated his fortune at more than half a billion dollars.
Rashid left the Palestinian territories almost immediately after his boss, Arafat, died in late 2004. Since then, the Palestinian Authority has almost nothing to bring him to trial or return at least some of the missing funds.
This week, however, the Palestinian Authority finally woke up and remembered that Rashid was suspected of embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Palestinian Authority’s Anti-Corruption Commission in Ramallah announced that it has issued an arrest warrant against the former Arafat advisor and asked Interpol for help in bringing him to trial.
The announcement came a day after Rashid appeared on a Saudi-owned TV station and threatened to expose corruption scandals in the Palestinian Authority leadership.
Palestinian leaders in Ramallah, including President Mahmoud Abbas, are deeply concerned that Rashid’s revelations could seriously embarrass them and expose their role in the embezzlement of public funds.
They are also worried that Rashid’s revelations could prompt some Americans and Europeans to reconsider their decision to pour millions of dollars into the Palestinian Authority’s coffers.
Rashid, after all, was not a junior official in the Palestinian Authority. He was an insider, someone who was very close to Arafat and probably the only official who knows where hundreds of millions of dollars ended up.
The Palestinian Authority’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against him does not seem to worry Rashid, who this week demanded a probe into Abbas’s personal fortune, which he estimated at more than $100 million.
So Abbas is saying that Rashid stole hundreds of millions of dollars, while Rashid is accusing the president of embezzling “only” $100 million. This is happening at a time when international donors are continuing to channel more funds every month to the Palestinian Authority, often without holding its leaders accountable or demanding to know how the money is being spent.
What is needed is an independent commission of inquiry to restore the public funds belonging to the Palestinian people. The Palestinians have many Mohammed Rashids who turned into wealthy businessmen during the peace process with Israel — thanks to the naivety of Americans and Europeans.


 July 28, 2014

Abu Mazen Funded Munich Massacre

Abu Mazen is not as terrorism-free as might have been thought – and he is in fact connected with one of the 20th century’s most infamous terrorist crimes: the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes…
Abu Mazen is not as terrorism-free as might have been thought – and he is in fact connected with one of the 20th century’s most infamous terrorist crimes: the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes – including American citizen David Berger – at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany in 1972.
Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, long the treasurer of the PLO, was the man who provided financing for that attack, according to information compiled by Israeli attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat Hadin Israel Law Center.
Darshan-Leitner told Arutz-7 that PA sources themselves told her that it is ridiculous to claim that Abu Mazen was never involved in terrorism. In addition, Abu Daoud, who masterminded the Munich attack, has said that Abu Mazen provided the funds to carry it out. He made these charges in his autobiography, “Palestine: From Jerusalem to Munich” (published in French in 1999) and again in an interview last August in Sports Illustrated magazine. Abu Daoud called Abu Mazen “the financier of our operation” – though he later seemed to qualify this by saying that Abu Mazen did not know what the money was to be used for. Darshan-Leitner waved off this claim, saying, “Is it logical that the treasurer of Fatah did not know what was being done with the money he doled out? Everyone knew that Black September [the group that carried out the Munich massacre] was Fatah’s front for terrorism!”
Darshan-Leitner has written to U.S. President Bush and German Chancellor Schroeder, calling for an investigation into Abu Mazen’s role in the Munich Olympics attack. Bush praised Abu Mazen last week as “a man dedicated to peace,” and indicated that he would soon invite him to the White House for talks. The lawyer’s letter noted that Bush had said he would not conduct diplomacy with those tainted by terrorist pasts – but “it appears that the new Palestinian leader on which the United States and Israel are now pinning all their hopes, was also involved in murderous attacks perpetrated by the PLO’s Black September.”
Abu Daoud, in an interview about the Munich massacre for a film called “One Day in September,” admitted that Black September was merely the cover name adopted by Fatah members when they wanted to carry out terrorist attacks. WorldNetDaily.comreports that the PLO terrorist murderer recalled how Arafat and Abu Mazen both wished him luck and kissed him when he set about organizing the Munich attack.
 July 24, 2014

Hamas Official: Abbas “Lying” to Americans

Mahmoud Abbas. Photo: World Economic Forum.
A former Hamas official wrote on his Facebook page Sunday that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was “lying” to the Americans.
Palestinian Media Watch translated Ihab al-Ghussein’s comments:
“You know what Mahmoud Abbas says behind closed doors?? He says: ‘Guys, let me [continue] saying what I say to the media. Those words are meant for the Americans and the occupation (i.e., Israel), not for you [Hamas]. What’s important is what we agree on among ourselves. In other words, when I go out [publicly] and say that the government is my [Abbas] government and it recognizes ‘Israel’ and so on, fine – these words are meant to trick the Americans. But we agree that the government has nothing to do with politics (i.e., foreign relations). The same thing happened in 2006,’ he [Abbas] said: ‘Don’t harp on everything I tell the media, forget about the statements in the media.’
To punctuate his point, al-Ghussein mocked those who believe Abbas’s moderate words: “The problem really isn’t with him [Abbas], the problem is with whoever believes him.”
Al-Ghussein was the spokesman for the Hamas interior ministry until resigning last week with the formation of the Fatah-Hamas unity government.
After the announcement of the unity government, the State Department said that it “will be judging this government by its actions.” Over the weekend, rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel.
Previously, Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar boasted that Abbas’s claims to be in charge of the unity government were a “marketing” ploy to reduce political pressure from the West.
 July 24, 2014

Mahmoud Abbas: Still a Holocaust Denier

The New York Times says the Palestinian leader’s position ‘shifted.’ It didn’t.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. (Thaer Ghanaim/PPO via Getty Images)
By Yair Rosenberg|April 27, 2014 10:24 AM|
One of the less savory aspects of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s biography is that he has a PhD in Holocaust denial–literally. His 1982 dissertation, published as “The Other Side: the Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism,” famously argues that the Zionists collaborated with the Nazis in order to spur more Jewish immigration to Palestine. “The Zionist movement,” it explains, “led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule, in order to arouse the government’s hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them, and to expand the mass extermination.” The Zionists, the work asserts, were the Third Reich’s “basic partner in crime.” It also claims that the figure of six million dead has been exaggerated for political gain, and suggests one million as a more reasonable estimate. Abbas has never unreservedly repudiated the document, and has in fact regularly reaffirmed its core argument, saying in 2013 that he had “70 more books that I still haven’t published” proving the Zionist-Nazi partnership.
But according to today’s New York Times, that has all just changed. An article headlined “Mahmoud Abbas Shifts on Holocaust” has the scoop:
President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority planned to issue a formal statement on Sunday calling the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era” and expressing sympathy with victims’ families.
The statement, which grew out of a meeting a week ago between Mr. Abbas and an American rabbi who promotes understanding between Muslims and Jews, is the first such offering of condolences by the Palestinian leader.
Mr. Abbas has been vilified as a Holocaust denier because in his doctoral dissertation, published as a book in 1983, he challenged the number of Jewish victims and argued that Zionists had collaborated with Nazis to propel more people to what would become Israel.
Given how revolutionary Abbas’s new statement seems to be, Times readers might be confused to discover that he said pretty much the exact same thing to Haaretz in 2003:
I have no desire to argue with the figures. The Holocaust was a terrible, unforgiveable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity that cannot be accepted by humankind. The Holocaust was a terrible thing and nobody can claim I denied it.
In fact, contrary to the Times‘s claim, Abbas has acknowledged the reality of the Holocaust for decades. He just thinks that the Jews helped perpetrate it. His doctoral dissertation didn’t claim that the Holocaust never took place (though it did quibble with the numbers), or that it wasn’t a terrible atrocity. Rather, as the Times itself reports, Abbas argued that the Zionists joined forces with the Nazis to inflict that atrocity on European Jewry. In other words, he cleverly crafted a position that allowed him to acknowledge the Holocaust while still blaming the Jews for it.
And Abbas has never repudiated this stance. On the contrary, he has consistently reasserted it and defended it from criticism. Thus, as recently as last year, he told Al-Mayadeen, a Beirut TV station affiliated with Iran and Hezbollah, that he “challenges anyone who can deny that the Zionist movement had ties with the Nazis before World War II,” adding that he had “70 more books that I still haven’t published” demonstrating the purported partnership.
While at first glance, this statement may seem like an about-face from 2003 (and today’sTimes), it is not. Rather, when Abbas bemoans the Holocaust as an “heinous crime” to anAmerican rabbi and then turns around and blames the Zionists for helping perpetrate it,these are not mutually exclusive positions. They are part of his coherent and consistent worldview that sees the Zionist movement as partially culpable for committing the Holocaust and exterminating their Jewish brethren.
Which means if any reporter really wants to find out if the Palestinian leader has finally jettisoned his conspiracy theories about the Holocaust, they need to ask him not about whether it happened, but who he thinks was responsible.
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