{"article":{"id":267765,"heading":"Israeli Stooge Abbas Supports Obama's War on Yemen","author":"Stephen Lendman","created":"2015-03-28 16:15:22","modified":"2015-03-28 16:15:22","last_modified":"Sat, 28 Mar 2015 23:15:22","article":"<p>Israeli Stooge Abbas Supports Obama's War on Yemen <br><br> by Stephen Lendman <br><br> Israel appointed Mahmoud Abbas Palestinian Authority leader to provide enforcer services - dirty work it subcontracts. <br><br> He's hugely corrupt. He amassed great stolen wealth serving Israeli interests - conspiring against his own people. <br><br> He's a Palestinian Judas, a longtime Israeli collaborator. He has no legitimacy whatever. He belongs in prison, not high office. <br><br> On Thursday, he expressed support for Saudi terror-bombing - naked aggression by any standard.  <br><br> He backs US-installed ousted puppet Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. <br><br> He ludicrously called restoring him to power important to create Yemeni security and unity. <br><br> He turned a blind eye to his despotic rule. He's mindless of US-directed Saudi terror bombing murdering scores of civilian men, women and children - maybe hundreds by now. <br><br> Reports indicate Saudi and Egyptian military forces intend invading Yemen as soon as orders from Washington signal go. <br><br> Expect mass slaughter to follow. Millions of Yemenis are at risk. <br><br> Abbas supports what demands universal condemnation. <br><br> Naked aggression violates core international law. No nation may attack another except in self-defense. <br><br> Security Council members alone may authorize it. Otherwise it's brazenly illegal. <br><br> The Electronic Intifada said senior PA official Mahmound al-Habbash called on Arab states to \"strike\" Gaza - terror-bomb 1.8 million people the way Israel did last summer. <br><br> Murder perhaps thousands more. Maybe turn all remaining parts of Gaza Israel didn't destroy to rubble. <br><br> Abbas supported Israel's 2008-09 Cast Lead and 2012 Pillar of Cloud wars. Most likely its 2014 Operation Protective Edge carnage. <br><br> He's Palestine's worst enemy. He supports mass murdering his own people. <br><br> Al-Habbash serves as PA religious advisor. What kind of a god he prays to isn't known - for sure not one civilized people believe in. <br><br> He said Arab states are obligated to \"strike those who have violated legitimacy with an iron fist, regardless of the place, time or circumstances, beginning with Palestine.\" <br><br> In January 2006, Palestinians overwhelmingly elected Hamas their legitimate government. <br><br> Al-Habbash called its democratic victory and what followed \"a coup\" separating Gaza and West Bank authority. <br><br> \"(I)t must be addressed with firmness,\" he said. Mass murder is his method of choice. <br><br> \"There can be no dialogue with coup-makers. They must be hit with an iron fist.\" <br><br> Israel complicit with Washington orchestrated \"coup-mak(ing)\" against Palestine's legitimately elected government. <br><br> Hamas successfully resisted their lawlessness. The price of electoral victory and resisting coup d'etat efforts was longterm isolation under siege and three US-supported and encouraged Israeli wars of aggression. <br><br> Abbas solidified West Bank power as Palestine's illegitimate leader. <br><br> Besieged Gazans continue suffering horrifically under Israel's lawless blockade - with no end in sight or international community help to support their legitimate rights. <br><br> Al-Habbash perhaps spoke for Abbas saying \"(t)here are many other (regional) cases that should be treated like Yemen.\" <br><br> In other words, mass murdering Arabs is OK as long as privileged ones benefit. <br><br> Abbas, al-Habbash and likeminded corrupt PA officials are Palestinians worst enemies. Why they put up with them, they'll have to explain. <br><br> Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.  <br><br> His new book as editor and contributor is titled \"Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.\" <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a> <br><br> Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.  <br><br> Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. <br><br> It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/p>\n","contact":"lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net","link":"sjlendman.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"anti-war","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/03\/267765.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}