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Fatah officials jockeying for position when Abbas dies, accusing each other of corruption. Pass the popcorn.noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 29 Aug 04: Like   Tweet   Fatah officials jockeying for position when Abbas dies, accusing each other of corruption. Pass the popcorn. noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 29 Aug 04:45 AM Elaph published details of a report showing that Fatah official "Major General" Tawfiq Al-Tirawi was guilty of corruption. Al-Tirawi was the chair of the Board of Trustees for the Palestinian Military and Security Academy in Jericho, associated with Al Istiqlal University. Abbas recently removed him from that position. The report accuses Tirawi of professional and financial abuse, and of appointments to close people and relatives. The college initiated real estate projects that appear to have been created to line the pockets of Tirawi and his cronies. The university received none of the revenues from Jericho villas and an office building in Al Ram, ostensibly for Al Istiqlal University but that the university does not need. An audio recording of Al Tirawi surfaced where he attacked Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh and his family. Al-Sheikh is a rival of Tirawi to succeed Abbas and is widely considered to have the inside track. There is an additional investigation into Al Tirawi on "very serious" charges that Elaph said it did not want to publish yet. Apparently, all of those who want to succeed Mahmoud Abbas, who is 87, are now digging up dirt on their rivals and planting stories. Not that the stories aren't true! But Tirawi has a history of criticizing Mahmoud Abbas and it looks like some of these accusations are sourced at the top...Read More Elder Comix: The magic word that wards off being called an antisemite noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Aug 02:30 PM * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More 08/28 Links: Any power the JCPOA had to curb Iranian nukes is long gone; Holocaust inversion: Abbas' longtime weapon of choice noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 28 Aug 12:00 PM From Ian: Caroline Glick: Israel's rational and irrational Iran policies For their part, Israel's generals did their best to discredit and subvert Netanyahu. From 2010 through 2012, Dagan, Pardo, Ashkenazy and Gantz all rejected repeated orders from Netanyahu to prepare the security services to attack Iran's nuclear installations. In 2010 Dagan flew to Washington without authorization to tell then CIA chief Leon Panetta that Netanyahu had ordered the Mossad and the IDF to attack Iran. Pardo and Gantz similarly refused Netanyahu's order to prepare to attack Iran in 2011. Israel's military and intelligence leaders also worked to undermine Netanyahu's credibility by refusing to stand with him when he waged his public campaign against the JCPOA in 2014 and 2015. While refusing to publicly criticize the deal which gave Iran a glide path to a nuclear arsenal, military and intelligence leaders gave off-camera interviews applauding the deal. Eisenkot openly embraced the JCPOA after he retired in 2019. During Donald Trump's presidency, Pardo condemned Netanyahu for revealing that the Mossad had seized Iran's nuclear archive, despite the fact that the operation, and its publication, paved the way for Trump's abandonment of the JCPOA and implementation of his "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran, which brought the regime to its knees and dried up its funding for its terror proxies. Gantz and...Read More Today's Arab media antisemitism noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Aug 10:00 AM Because no one else is doing it.... Amad (Palestinian): The Popular Struggle Front accuses Israel of stealing the organs of Palestinians who were killed during terror attacks, Ad Dustour (Jordan): "Palestine is an Arab Palestinian from the sea to the river, and there is no place for the Jews in it, and they have to go back to where their fathers and grandfathers came on one black night.. to land on our shores as locusts landed, to eat the vegetation." Freedom and Justice Gate (Egypt): Asks why the UAE, in allowing a synagogue to be built in its territory, is "embracing of the enemies of Islam...Read More Is Iran preparing for a proxy war with Israel as soon as JCPOA is signed? noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 28 Aug 07:00 AM Haaretz is perplexed: In addition to dealing with the progress toward a new nuclear agreement with Iran and the talks aimed at preventing a teachers' strike September 1, Israeli decision makers had another matter to ponder this week. Much time and other resources were devoted to trying to figure out what Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is up to. The answers, so far, have been very partial. There seems to be no logic to Nasrallah's frequent threats to strike Israeli drilling platforms in the Mediterranean, risking war, if a final agreement is not reached on the Israel-Lebanon maritime border. Lebanon is in the midst of a severe economic and political crisis, and if war were to break out Hezbollah would likely be widely blamed for embroiling the country in an unnecessary and very costly military adventure. Nevertheless, throughout the summer Nasrallah has spoken out the dispute over natural-gas drilling rights, growing increasingly extreme in his statements. What's worrisome, especially to Military Intelligence, is the difficulty of analyzing his views and intentions. Despite the high likelihood of an eventual agreement, with U.S. mediation, there is still genuine apprehension about possible surprises from Hezbollah. It still amazes me that serious analysts think that Hezbollah...Read More    ©2022 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company