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On August 25, its distinguished fellow David Makovsky noted "a surge in cooperation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority ever since Hamas ousted security officials and the mainstream Fatah Party from Gaza more than three years ago."
Never mind Hamas' democratic election as Palestine's legitimate government. In June 2007, however, working cooperatively with Israel and Washington, Abbas dissolved the unity government, instigated full blown confrontations when Israel imposed its siege, seizing West Bank coup d'etat authority as enforcer, disdaining his own people, his official role.
After spending five weeks in the region meeting with dozens of Israeli and PA officials, including Abbas, Makovsky noted that joint cooperation "substantially improved," saying "the PA no longer attempts to hide its daily security cooperation with Israel," including "weed(ing) out schoolteachers (and others) who support Hamas radicalism." In other words, anyone voicing dissent.
Mahmoud Abbas - A Treacherous Illegitimate Leader
In an August 31 article, Jeffrey Blankfort called Abbas a "double agent," saying he serves "his Israeli and US masters in plain sight," at least since Oslo when as chief Palestinian negotiator, he "played Neville Chamberlain for Tel Aviv, agreeing to surrender occupied Palestinian land" and end legitimate resistance. As "emergency" PA leader (20 months after his term expired), he's now "Israel's sheriff," suppressing peaceful demonstrations, arresting Hamas members and supporters, serving Israel, not his own people, an illegitimate Quisling head of state.
On June 19, 2003, in the London Review of Books, Edward Said discussed him in an article titled "A Road Map to Where,?" saying:
He first met him in March 1977 at a Cairo National Council meeting where he gave "by far the longest speech." In retrospect, it launched secret PLO-Israeli meetings "that made Oslo possible."
During the PLO's 1971 - 1982 Beirut years, Abbas was in Damascus, later joining Arafat in Tunis, exiled for the next decade. After the 1991 Madrid conference, he, PLO officials, and independent European intellectuals formed teams "to prepare negotiating files on subjects such as water, refugees, demography and boundaries" ahead of secret Oslo meetings, "although to the best of my knowledge, none" of it was used. Other Palestinians were excluded from talks. In the end, no tangible results "influenced the final documents that emerged."
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