Gary Fitleberg, December 26, 2004

The rat race is on.

Mahmoud Abbas, or more affectionately known as Abu Mazen, launched his campaign to become Palestinian Authority/Palestinian Liberation Organization "Chairman of Terror" as Arafat’s apparent heir to the throne.

Abbas, the mainstream so-called "moderate" Fatah faction candidate for January 9 elections in the disputed territories of Gaza, Judea & Samaria (wrongfully called "West Bank") issued a platform demanding an Arab "Palestinian" state of terrorism in all of the territories, with east Jerusalem as its capital.

The United States and Israel favor Abbas as a reformer, but his election campaign is making much of his close ties with the late Yasser Arafat. Abbas´ web site, www.abumazen.info, shows a picture of the two men together. Abbas has long insisted on a "right of return" for so-Arab "Palestinian" refugees to lands now in Israel, but his platform appeared to signal a softening of the stand, with its call for a "fair and just solution" to the refugee issue. Six other Arab "Palestinians" are running for the presidency in the first elections to be held in the territories since 1966.

Abbas is no moderate but a mastermind of mass murder and mayhem. Abbas wrote a dissertation and later a book that the Holocaust is a hoax. Abbas is one for the co-founders of Fatah and the PLO. Abbas also was one of the masterminds behind the Munich Olympic massacres of eleven Israeli athletes.

Gary Fitleberg is a Political Analyst specializing in International Relations with emphasis on Middle East affairs.

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