The news media reports on the Mecca Agreement, but never really tells you what it says other than that it got Hamas and Fatah to stop shooting at each other and agree to share power. Here is the full text if you wish to read it, but the pertinent part of the agreement is this:
Third: to move ahead in measures to activate and reform the Palestine Liberation Organisation and accelerate the work of the preparatory committee based on the Cairo and Damascus Understandings.
What is the Cairo Understanding? Well, here’s a post I wrote a while back on the Cairo agreement. You can read the full text here. And an excerpt below:
Cairo Declaration:
(1) Those gathered confirmed their adherence to Palestinian principles, without any neglect, and the right of the Palestinian people to resistance in order to end the occupation, establish a Palestinian state with full sovereignty with Jerusalem as its capital, and the guaranteeing of the right of return of refugees to their homes and property.
“Resistance” is the codeword for suicide bombings, stonings, stabbings, firebombings, murder, and all the mayhem the terrorists have been using over the past. There is also the real deal-breaker: The “right of return.” The Arab world refuses to so much as acknowledge that the fifth generation of descendants of the people who fled the war in 1948 will not be settled in Israel. It simply is not going to happen, and the so-called “right of return” is just another codeword for the destruction of the Jewish state—especially since the UN actually designates as refugees people who were born in the USA of parents whose parents or grandparents were refugees in 1948. The Arabs would give those people refugee status and say they have the right to settle in Tel Aviv, if they so desire, and that Israel must accomodate that right.
Never. Gonna. Happen.
The Mecca Agreement was made specifically for Hamas and Fatah to stop murdering one another—and civilians beside—before a real civil war broke out. The Cairo Agreement was an agreement between terrorist groups of much the same thing. The text of each of them was so clear that you can’t even call it a subtext: The documents call for the groups to stop fighting each other and traing their weapons instead on Israel.
In point of fact, Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called moderate leader of the Palestinian Authority, who was Yasser Arafat’s hand-picked replacement, and who also wrote a Holocaust-denying thesis, had this to say during the fighting:
“Shooting at your brother is forbidden. Raising rifles against the occupation is our legitimate right, but raising guns against each other is forbidden. We should put our internal fighting aside and raise our rifles only against the Israeli occupation,” said Abbas in a speech in the Muqata compound in Ramallah attended by World Net Daily.
I am not a big fan of World Net Daily, and it has a less than sterling reputation with many people. But that story was also carried by Ynet, the English-language version of Israel’s largest daily newspaper, and I respect the Ynet editors’ judgment. The AP reported on the speech but whitewashed the damning quote.
What you are not being told by the mainstream media is that the palestinians don’t want peace with Israel. They want the destruction of Israel by any means possible. If they can do it through demographics—by flooding Israel with millions of “refugees”—so much the better for them.
And that is the part of the 2002 Saudi peace plan (that has suddenly re-emerged as a “serious” document rather than the same irridentism that has been displayed for 40 years) that the Saudis want Israel to accept in full.
Once more, with feeling: Not. Gonna. Happen.
Not. Ever.