Proof of imminent RV???

[DRV1804]

Proof of imminent RV??? Excellent article from PTR

The Players: Nouri al-Maliki (everyone knows who he is), Mahmoud Abbas, and Salam Fayyad.

Who are Mahmoud Abbas and Salam Fayyad?

Mahmoud Abbas succeeded Yasser Arafat as the head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and in 2005 was elected president of the Palestinian Authority. Abbas was a former prime minister and the interior minister (April-September 2003) for the Palestinian Authority, the temporary governing body whose goal is the creation of a permanent Palestinian state. Abbas, like Arafat, was a founding member of Fatah, the political party that controls the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). If Arafat was the streetfighter, Abbas became the fundraiser and scholar. He is said to have been instrumental in the negotiations that led to the Oslo Peace Accords in the 1990s, and many hoped his role as prime minister could a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ... Abbas dissolved the government and named Salam Fayyad as the new prime minister, but Haniya vowed to carry on, setting the stage for two Palestinian governments.

http://www.infopleas...hmoudabbas.html

It is widely known that one of Abbas’ stated goals is to fundraise for the goal of developing an independent Palestinian state. Most of that funding thus far has been from the United States. How reliable do you think the Palestinians feel that income stream is, given our relationship with Israel and our own financial struggles during the last couple of years? Not very safe, clearly. If you were Abbas, would you look for alternative sources for income? You bet you would. Where would you go?

April 5, 2009 - Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit to Baghdad, Sunday, April 5, 2009. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sought to repair relations between Palestinians and the Iraqi government and find solutions for Palestinian refugees stranded in camps during his first visit to the country since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

http://newshopper.su...hoto_749077.htm

So, the above is just one example where Abbas has met with Iraq leaders to discuss relations. I’m sure we can find other “official” meetings, and scores of “unofficial” discussions. Do you honestly believe Abbas (the “fundraiser”) wouldn’t discuss the Palestinian’s need for funding with Maliki?

You with me so far?

The following article comes out a couple of months after the Maliki/Abbas meeting in Baghdad:

August 25, 2009 - First Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad gave an interview to Haaretz in which he seemed to acquiesce to his Israeli counterpart’s proposal of “economic peace.” Now comes word that Fayyad has drafted a proposal for a de facto Palestinian state that would emerge in 2011. “We have decided to be proactive, to expedite the end of the occupation by working very hard to build positive facts on the ground, consistent with having our state emerge as a fact that cannot be ignored,” he told The Times of London. If accurate, this plan represents a repudiation of years of political wrangling for peace with the Israelis—something that many observers on both sides, 16 years after Oslo, don’t anticipate any time soon. One wonders, then, if Fayyad has taken a lesson from Nouri al-Maliki’s Iraq: the fastest way to convince the world of your sovereignty is to take control of your own internal security forces and infrastructure so as to obviate a foreign occupation on material, rather than political or moral, grounds. As The Scroll has noted in the past few months, Netanyahu’s government seems keen on working with this approach.

http://www.tabletmag...11-fayyad-says/

Did you catch that? In 2009, Fayyad drafts a proposal for a Palestinian state to emerge this year, in 2011, and the author wonders if Fayyad has learned from Maliki how to “take control of your own internal security forces and infrastructure”.

Translation: if the Palestinians can bring their own wealth to the table, they won’t need financial support from the US anymore, and can push their agenda independently. What is their agenda? To take their case for a separate state to the UN, to court worldwide sympathy and support.

Fast forward to last week:

April 20, 2011 - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said he is against a third Palestinian intifada (uprising) against Israel, even if current attempts to achieve peace fail, according to the Associated Press. Speaking to reporters in Tunisia, Abbas said that regardless of what happens he "will not accept" a third intifada. Abbas said that the second intifada, which erupted in 2000, was "disastrous" for the Palestinian nation. Abbas explained he remains committed to a US-supported goal of reaching a peace deal with Israel by September. However, if a deal is not reached, Abbas reiterated the PA's plan to unilaterally seek the support of the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state in September. The US on Tuesday rejected Palestinian plans to pursue efforts to ask the UN Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state in September.

http://new.jpost.com....aspx?id=217274

Abbas is acknowledging that continued fighting is not the way to go, which would certainly follow another “intifada”. Time for a different approach. But he likes the September 2011 timeframe, except now he is emboldened to ignore the US threats against pulling funding to keep them in line.

Lastly, look at what happened YESTERDAY. Abbas is unifying support from Hamas, knowing it will upset the US (and Israel).

April 28, 2011 - RAMALLAH, West Bank – The moderate Palestinian president played down concerns that his emerging alliance with the militant Hamas will undermine peace negotiations with Israel, insisting Thursday that he will retain control over foreign policy and remain committed to resolving the conflict.

President Mahmoud Abbas' pro-Western Fatah Party and the rival Hamas said Wednesday they had reached the outlines of a deal to end a four-year-old rift that has left the Palestinians with two rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel and the international community gave a cool reception to the reconciliation plan, which would make Hamas a partner in a unity government.

With a breakdown in peace talks with Israel, the Palestinians have been campaigning to get the United Nations to recognize Palestinian statehood in September, with or without a peace deal. A unified Palestinian front would help rally international support for the initiative.

But Abbas is taking a huge risk by engaging Hamas. Israel, the U.S. and the European Union consider Hamas a terrorist group, and Abbas could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Western aid if the group is formally part of a government.

http://www.foxnews.c...ars-hamas-deal/

Would Abbas make this announcement if he needed financial support from the United States?

So, where will he get the needed money to push forward with a Palestinian state by September, and fight the battles at the UN against the will of the US (and Israel)?

Take one guess.

[paperboy]

DVR1804 - that was a long read, but I like the ending! Go Rv - pronto!

[DRV1804]

DVR1804 - that was a long read, but I like the ending! Go Rv - pronto!

I hear ya! I was cross eyed by the end of it...but I agree liked the ending and reading a different take on why RV for the Dinar makes sense

[Dalite]

Abbas smells blood in the water.

He knows a number of reasons why he will meet with little resistance from the US at this time.

We have too much blood, money and time invested in Iraq to muzzle Maliki, and the current administration is lukewarm in it's support for Israel.

Abbas, Maliki and certainly others are aware of the stakes and are preparing to go all in at the slightest shift in the political winds of change.

However, whatever effect this may have in hastening th RV of the Iraqi Dinar pales in consequence to the long reaching effects of this alliance.

The stage is being set for major reorientation in the politics of the Middle East.

As always, there are those who will try to benefit from the distraction.

Don't ask for anything you don't want...

[graml]

I like the way you put this all together, great post. Lets hope this will happen soon.