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    Attempting Regime-Change in Palestine | رأي اليوم
    ▻http://www.raialyoum.com/?p=519213
    By Abdel Bari Atwan | September 11, 2016

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    All of a sudden and with no preliminaries, the world was informed that there exists an ‘Arab Quartet’ on Palestine, and that it has a plan.
    This group – consisting of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, and the UAE — proposes reviving and taking forward the Palestinian cause by brokering two reconciliations. The first would be within the Fateh movement, based on the readmission of former Gaza Strip security chief Muhammad Dahlan who was expelled along with some of his supporters in 2011, and has since been based in and sponsored by the UAE. The second would be between Fateh in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and that would in turn enable the moribund in stitutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to be reactivated.
    The proponents of this plan, according to leaked accounts of the talks they held, threatenedthat if no agreement were reached – in other words, if Palestinian Authority (PA) President and Fateh leader Mahmoud Abbas were to refuse to reinstate Dahlan and his acolytes — the Arab League would be prepared to intervene. It would take measures it deems to be in the Palestinian people’s interest, and some Arab states might individually consider adopting alternative approaches to the Palestinians and the conflict with Israel.

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      (...)In the current case, it there is clearly no political difference to speak of between Abbas and Dahlan. Both remain devoted to the 1993 Oslo Accords and the never-ending process of negotiations. Both oppose resistance, whether armed or otherwise, as a means of ending the occupation. Both believe that the Palestinian right of return is impractical and redundant. And both are committed to security coordination with Israel and maintain close contacts with the occupying power. They were once allies against Arafat. Dahlan used to boast that it was he who propelled Abbas to the leadership of Fateh and the PA after Arafat was assassinated. The disagreement between the two men has never been over national causes, but personal and financial issues.
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      Equally worrying is the prospect that the Arab Quartet’s pressure could drive Abbas into offering even bigger concessions to the Israelis to ensure he remains in his post. In a very real sense, the contest between him and Dahlan is over who can be more accommodating to Israel. Two of the Quartet’s members, Egypt and Jordan, openly have diplomatic relations with Israel and routinely coordinate their moves with it. The other two, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have covert and indirect contacts with it, and could well be seeking Palestinian cover for full normalization with Israel. Their sudden activity on the Palestinian front should be seen in this light. The identity of the individual who provides the cover – Abbas or Dahlan – is of secondary importance.
      The Palestinian cause does not need a change of figureheads. It needs a change of course, and a political renewal based on new foundations, foremost of which is resistance to the occupation.

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