No Hudna in Jenin
Charles Johnson
Thu Jul 31, 2003 at 7:04 pm PDT • Views: 197
Apparently, the Palestinian Arab murder gangs in Jenin didn’t get the memo from Yasser Arafat (or his sock puppet, Abu Mazen/Mahmoud Abbas) that there was a “cease fire” in effect: No ‘hudna’ in Jenin.
“Neither I nor Zakariya received orders from Arafat to make a cease-fire with the Israelis,” said Atta Abu Rumeyli, the Fatah [Editor’s note: “Fatah” is the Arabic word for “conquest.”] leader in the Jenin refugee camp and one of the city’s strongmen. Abu Rumeyli was referring to Zakariya Zubeidi, chief of the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank.
“Arafat,” Abu Rumeyli continued, “does not believe the struggle should end. We have to continue to fight for our land.”
Fatah’s Jenin organization was surprisingly disbanded on Tuesday night, and many of its fighters were incorporated into the renegade Aksa Martyrs Brigades northern division, which is headed by Zubeidi.
Effective Tuesday night at 9 p.m., the Fatah political branch ceased to exist in Jenin. Disbanding the group, the leading and most veteran Palestinian organization in the territories, was engineered to “escalate the situation with the Palestinian Authority,” Abu Rumeyli said.
He slammed the PA leadership for cowing to Israeli and American pressure, adding that PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas’s “weak-kneed” approach in his trip to Washington this week sealed Fatah’s fate.
“Fatah as a political unit no longer exists here,” he declared, waving his hands in front of his chest. “Now there is only the military way. Members of Fatah can now join Aksa.”
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