T Belman. Khaled Abu Toameh has fought Mudar on the Jordan Option since we announced it. He is suing me in defamation and I have counterclaimed against him and Varda Epstein and Bat Zion Susskind who greatly helped him in his endeavours. Now he is getting desparate.
In my opinion, in this article, he is basically a mouth piece for the Palestinian resistence. Remember he used to be the editor of the PLO newspaper under the direction of Yasser Arafat. In his own words, in 2004, he wrote:
“Twenty years ago, while studying at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, I worked for the PLO’s newspaper Al Fajr (The Dawn). Al Fajr was more than a paper; it was a PLO institution. At the paper we basically received and carried out orders from Arafat’s office in Tunisia. Although I eventually became an editor there, I did not mention my position at Al Fajr on my resume for years because I did not consider the work that went on there to be real journalism.”
‘A declaration of war on the Palestinians’
By Khaled Abu Toameh, JPOST JANUARY 25, 2020 17:22
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SENIOR PLO OFFICIAL Saeb Erekat speaks to reporters about Israeli appropriation of West Bank land, near Jericho last year.
Palestinian officials warned over the weekend that US President Donald Trump’s upcoming plan for Mideast peace, which is expected to be announced this week, would spark a new wave of mass protests in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The officials said the Trump administration did not inform the Palestinians of its intention to publish the plan, also known as the “Deal of the Century.”
Emphasizing that the plan would not change the reality on the ground as far as the Palestinians are concerned, the officials called for a series of protests to foil the “Zionist-American conspiracy.”
A PA official in Ramallah warned that Israel and the US were “playing with fire.” The official said that the Palestinian leadership will meet in the coming days to discuss ways of responding to the Trump plan. “We are headed towards a dangerous escalation,” he cautioned.
According to the official, the Palestinian leadership is “facing huge pressure from the street to take tough measures, especially halting security coordination with Israel.”
PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said on Saturday that “any deal, attempt or dictation that ignores the fact that Israel is an occupying power of the State of Palestine, will be recorded in history as the fraud of the century.”
Erekat said that what the Trump administration has done so far, “and the full partnership with [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, will enter history as the fraud of the century against international law, UN resolutions, and the terms of reference of the peace process.”
Nabil Abu Rudaineh, spokesman for the Palestinian Authority presidency, repeated the Palestinians’ rejection of Trump’s plan. He said that there have been no contacts between the PA and the US administration concerning the plan.
The PA has been boycotting the US administration since Trump’s December 2017 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi pointed out that the timing of the announcement of Trump’s plan coincided with the Knesset’s vote on Netanyahu’s request for immunity from prosecution on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. “Add to it Trump’s impeachment issues and you have a lethal diversionary tactic at the expense of Palestinian rights and international law,” she wrote on Twitter.
Osama Qawassmeh, a spokesman for the ruling Fatah faction, denounced Trump’s plan as the “deal of shame” and said the timing of its publication was designed to help Netanyahu in the general elections next March.
Qawassmeh warned of the “destructive consequences” of the US administration’s policies. “They won’t find one Arab leader who would buy their corrupt merchandise,” he added. “The US and Israel don’t own Palestine to determine the fate of its heroic people.”
Another PLO official, Wasel Abu Yusef, said that Trump’s plan was tantamount to “waging open war” on the Palestinians. The Palestinians, he said, won’t accept any plan that aims to end the Palestinian cause.
Two PLO groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) warned on Saturday about the “dangers” facing the Palestinians as a result of Trump’s peace plan.
The groups called for a popular uprising against the US and Israel. They condemned the plan as a “new conspiracy against the Palestinian people and their cause.”
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) also repeated their rejection of Trump’s upcoming plan, saying it won’t pass.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum denounced the plan as a “Zionist-American plot to liquidate the Palestinian issue.” He called on the PA leadership to respond with a series of measures, including halting security coordination with Israel in the West Bank.
Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Haya dismissed Trump’s plan as “Zionist and American dreams and illusions.” He and other Hamas officials vowed to thwart the plan.
PIJ representative Yusef al-Hasayneh said that the US administration was “acting with a mentality of piracy, legalizing the theft of the land of Palestine and its holy sites.” The US, he added, is “deceiving the world by claiming that it seeks a solution to the Palestinian issue.
Another PIJ official, Mohammed al-Hindi, said that the “talk about the ‘Deal of the Century’ aims to liquidate what is left of the Palestinian cause.” He predicted that matters were headed towards escalation in the aftermath of Trump’s decision to release his peace plan. “The hypocrites in the West don’t give the weak people their rights,” Hindi said. “The battle is open-ended and lengthy. There is great readiness for sacrifices.”
Ted, it seems this Khaled Abu Toameh is a dangerous agent of the Jordanian kinglet. Do you think he used his connections with Israeli Government to ban Mudar Zahran from entering Israel? I wish you and Mudar Zahran success with the defamation case.
What a mess, Ted. Court cases can be very expensive and time consuming. Thank you for your friendship and support for Mudar Zahran. Do you think Khaled and the two women were acting on orders from the king?
Well Sunday and Monday are soon upon us where will nutanyahoo be? In the air, getting ready for take off? Will he have the nuts to turn around if it’s not to Israels liking? But anything trump says or does will be in his mind words from the big guy above.
Remember it’s not what’s good for Israel it’s what’s good for nutunyahoo.
All these dire comments and they have by their own admission not seen the plan. This is due to the fact that anything that does not give them all of Israel in the long they are opposed.