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Post by pieter on Jul 25, 2024 17:06:01 GMT -7
 Ex-Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan considered to lead Gaza after war - reportA US report says that 'some U.S., Israeli and Arab officials' see the exiled leader as a 'temporary solution to a dilemma facing postwar Gaza'i24NEWS
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July 25, 2024 at 02:32 PM File photo of Mohammad Dahlan gesturing in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, FileA report on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal suggests that Mohammad Dahlan could be selected to lead the Gaza Strip after the Israel-Hamas war.
A former leader from the Fatah organization, Dahlan is blessed with no ties to Hamas and being tried in absentia by the Palestinian Authority in 2014, as well as growing up in southern Gaza's Khan Yunis. Former PLO/Fatah leader Jasser Arafat with Mohammad Dahlan The present Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, the PLO and Fatah from Ramallah (The Westbank), former Palestinian leader Jasser Arafat and Mohammed Dahlan Left to right: Isaac Gilmore, a former Navy Seal who later became second in command of a private U.S. military firm Spear Operations Group,covert warfare in southern Yemen, Mohammed Dahlan in the middle, and Abraham Golan, a Hungarian-Israeli security contractor, whom founded the US private military company Spear Operations Group. In 2015, the company embedded a team of US special forces veterans and former members of the French Foreign Legion within the Emirati military, which supplied the team with weapons, uniforms, Emirati military ranks and identity tags. The Israeli-American Abraham Golan was hired by the UAE and Mohammed Dahlan, former head of Palestinian Preventive Security, to head a team of mercenaries tasked with killing a Yemeni Islamist leader, according to a Buzzfeed report.Some U.S., Israeli and Arab officials" see the exiled leader as a "temporary solution to a dilemma facing postwar Gaza," the report said. Israeli political analysts believe that Dahlan would be a figure with whom Jerusalem could collaborate.
The media also cited "Arab and Hamas officials" claiming that Dahlan had begun discussions with Hamas and Fatah about possibly supervising aid distribution in a future Palestinian-administered Gaza. Last February, Dahlan, who served as head of security in Gaza in a previous Fatah government and who currently resides in Dubai, told The New York Times that an independent Palestinian leader, supported by Arab peacekeeping forces, could oversee the reconstruction of Gaza. This proposal comes in a context of intense reflection on the future of Gaza after the current conflict. |
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Post by pieter on Jul 25, 2024 17:28:41 GMT -7
 Mapping Palestinian PoliticsMohammed Dahlan Mohammad Dahlan is a former head of the Palestinian Authority‘s Preventive Security in Gaza and a senior member of Fatah opposed to president Mahmoud Abbas. He leads a break-away Fatah faction, the Democratic Reform Bloc.
Dahlan was elected to Fatah’s Central Committee in 2009, but increased tensions with Abbas led to his expulsion in 2011. He now lives in exile in the United Arab Emirates where he serves as an adviser with a security-focused portfolio for Abu Dhabi’s ruler Mohammad Bin Zayed. He has reportedly also acquired Serbian nationality. During this time Dahlan has created a profile for himself as an influential yet polarising regional player.
Born in 1961, Mohammad Dahlan grew up in Khan Younis refugee camp and was a founding member and leader of Fatah’s al-Shabiba, the youth arm of the party, while a student at Gaza University. Israel deported him from Gaza in January 1987 to Jordan. From there he joined Yasser Arafat and the exiled PLO/Fatah leadership in Tunis.
Mohammad Dahlan in 2006 (Michal Fattal/Flash90)
Following his return to the occupied Palestinian territory in 1994 as part of the Oslo Accords, he was appointed to head Preventive Security in Gaza with a mandate to suppress local opposition to the PLO.
By the mid-1990s, Dahlan commanded a well-organised force of about 20,000 members, giving him great powers within Gaza and strong relations with Israeli, American, and regional intelligence agencies. His forces were accused of committing grave human rights violations at the time, mainly against members of Hamas, including arbitrary arrests and torture and the killing of protestors on 18 November 1994.
By the time of the Second Intifada, Dahlan had established himself as a trusted partner of the Israeli security establishment and began to pose a direct challenge to Yasser Arafat. In 2001, he made public calls to reform the PA and resigned from his post as security chief in protest against what he said was the corruption of Arafat’s rule.
Palestinian supporters of Mohammed Dahlan with his image
In 2003 he served as a short-lived minister of state and security affairs under then prime minister Mahmoud Abbas until the latter’s resignation. Following Arafat’s death in November 2004, Dahlan was reappointed by Abbas (now president), this time as minister of civil affairs, directly responsible for coordination with Israel. He held this position until the 2006 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections when he was elected to represent Khan Younis.
Between 2006-2007, as head of the National Security Council, Dahlan reportedly led preparations for a US-backed military effort by Fatah security forces to overthrow the Hamas government in Gaza. This was pre-empted by a Hamas coup in June 2007 and resulted in the Islamist movement seizing full control of the Strip following bloody clashes. At that time, Dahlan fled to the West Bank but fell out with Abbas and other Fatah leaders, who blamed him for the Gaza debacle.
Ismail Haniyeh, left, smiles as he celebrates with Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan in Gaza City on Saturday, March 17, 2007. (AP Photo,File)
In 2016, Abbas stripped him of his parliamentary immunity. The same month, he was convicted by the PA’s Anti-Corruption Crimes Court of embezzling $16m and was sentenced in absentia to three years in prison.
In November 2019, Turkey offered a $700,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, accusing him of “being a mercenary for the UAE and involved in a 2016 coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.”
Mohammed Dahlan with the late Israeli President Shimon Peres credit: Reuters
Dahlan retains a small and localised support base in Gaza, particularly in his home-town of Khan Younis, and among groups that received financial or other aid from him or through the Palestinian Centre for Human Perseverance (FATA) which his wife, Jalila Dahlan, heads. He is thought to have support from armed groups in the West Bank refugee camps, including in Balata and Jenin.
He is considered close to Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and has led Egyptian diplomatic missions, including negotiations for a dam project on the Nile river with Ethiopia and Sudan. He has also been described as a middleman for funnelling weapons to UAE-backed militias in Libya.
Throughout this time, Dahlan has reportedly maintained strong links to the Israeli security establishment and political leaders. More recently, he has been using his strong relations with regional powers to insert himself back into Palestinian politics. This reportedly included a three-way deal with the Egyptian government and Hamas which would allow him to make a political return to the Gaza Strip.
 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and his then aide Mohammad Dahlan, walk out Abbas' house in Gaza in this February 11, 2005 file photo. |
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Post by karl on Jul 26, 2024 13:32:38 GMT -7
Pieter
Well, as the plot thickens, so goes with another face of an old problem, these Palestinian Arabs have the age old issue and that is aways it appears to not to able to form a workable alliance with Israel. It always goes back to Ishmael and Isaac in the days of Abraham and Sara and the Egyptian hand maiden Hager.
A new day with yesterday's problems.
Karl
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