Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Fatah: Mursi invites Abbas to meet over reconciliation

President Mahmoud Abbas received a formal invitation to meet his Egyptian counterpart Muhammad Mursi in Cairo next week, a Fatah official said Wednesday.

PA: 2013 must be year of independent Palestine

The Palestinian Authority cabinet on Wednesday called for 2013 to be the year of an independent Palestinian state and the end of Israeli occupation.

Israeli talk of West Bank collapse 'wishful thinking'

The spokesman of the PA security forces Adnan Dimeiri on Wednesday accused Israeli officials of engaging in "wishful thinking" in their warnings that the West Bank government and security situation is on the brink of collapse.

Rights group: Israel detains Gaza patient at border

Israeli forces detained a Palestinian at a border crossing from the Gaza Strip who was seeking medical treatment in Jerusalem, a human rights group said.

PA cancels electricity debts for every West Bank resident

The Palestinian Authority announced on Wednesday that it is cancelling outstanding electricity debts for each West Bank resident, on the heels of a deal that aims to help assuage the electricity companies' own arrears.

Abu Marzouq Calls PA President Abbas to Hand Over The West Bank to Hamas


On Monday 21st December, Hamas' deputy political bureau chief, Moussa Abu Marzouk, called Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to hand the keys of the West Bank to Hamas.

Abu Marzouq statements came as a response to Abbas' threats to dissolve the PA and to hand over responsibility for the West Bank to Israel if the latter refused to return to the peace talks and to freeze settlement construction after Israel's elections that will take place in January 22, 2013.

Abu Marzouq have wandered in a press release published on his Facebook page, "Why President Abbas want to hand over the West Bank to Israel? Why he don't hand it over to Hamas."

Abu Marzouq said that the best and most effective threat for Israel is to hand the West Bank to Hamas, as Hamas has proved its steadfastness in the face of the Israeli siege imposed on Gaza and their success in achieving the triumph in the wars with Israel and Hamas attempts in fighting the internal conflict and reaching a national reconciliation.

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Israel's Violence on Palestenians

Right to Defend itself

Israel has always cried 'holocaust' tears to the world while singing the old tune of "Defending itself and its citizens". How do they do it? By banning or killing international journalists by bribing their supportive governments. Palestine is destroyed as a State so is Gaza. Meanwhile the "chronically suffering Israel" has developed to a point it does not need Uncle Sam anymore, see their infrastructure, see their military development up to nuclear programs... and they are the eternal "poor" in need. -- --