Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Abu Shakha has no shame.

Via Angry Arab

Current Al-Jazeera (Arabic) Online Poll


This new poll asks a dumb question:

Do you see Iraq as being in a better condition, 7 years after the US invasion?

Duh!

With over 1,200 responding so far, 94% said no.

Here is a suggested question for the next poll, Al-Jazeera:

Do you think it would hurt, if you drive a nail into your thumb?

Ground Zero Mosque, by Khalil Bendib



(Click on cartoon to enlarge)

Mahmoud Abbas: Double Agent


The Washington Farce

By JEFFREY BLANKFORT
CounterPunch

"This coming week we will witness the latest challenge for the man who is arguably the most extraordinary double agent in the Middle East. What is unusual about Mahmoud Abbas, or Abu Mazen, as he was known when his fellow Palestinians had yet to take his measure, is that most of what he does for his Israeli and US masters he does in plain sight.

To which of the two he is most beholden will be determined during his upcoming visit to Washington for the latest chapter in what has euphemistically been referred to as the “peace process” since it was launched in the aftermath of the Oslo Agreement. The odds are it will be Israel. In Oslo, it should be recalled, Abbas, as the chief Palestinian negotiator, played Neville Chamberlain for Tel Aviv, agreeing to surrender occupied Palestinian land with a view toward putting a permanent end to Palestinian resistance and, immediately, to the first Intifada...."

Afghanistan bomb attacks kill twenty-one US soldiers in 48 hours, but Obama is still making progress!


Twenty-one American troops have been killed in Afghanistan since Friday in one of the bloodiest periods of the summer.

The Telegraph

"A series of bomb attacks have badly hit US troops in eastern and southern Afghanistan in the past 48 hours.

The death toll among in the Nato-led coalition has reached 484 this year and is predicted to far surpass 2009’s total of 521...."

Al-Jazeera Video: Israeli settlements to be determining issue in peace talks



"The building of new Israeli settlements on Palestinian territories will be one of the key and determining issues in upcoming peace talks that will be held in the US capital Washington DC.

Israel has been criticised by all sides, including the US, for its illegal construction of thousands of homes, which have been separated by an imposing wall.

Nour Odeh reports from the Palestinian village of Al-Walajeh in the West Bank, where many are suffering from the unlawful settlements."

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Part 2 of An Excellent Interview
Should people boycott Israel? Pt2 with Omar Barghouti


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Petraeus: Hook, line and sinker


(Cartoon by Carlos Latuff)

By Gareth Porter
Asia Times

"Claims from General David Petraeus' command that the Taliban are losing Marjah in Afghanistan due to low morale ring hollow in the face of all the available hard facts. The episode and a similar one in Iraq two years ago instead illustrate the military's extraordinary efforts to shape the media narrative surrounding the war - and are straight out of Petraeus' manual on counter-insurgency....

To make matters worse for Petraeus, over the past six months, the Taliban have continued to establish a politically dominant presence in more areas of northern Afghanistan which had previously been judged relatively secure. The Washington Post's Joshua Partlow reported on August 15 - the same day Petraeus was making his claim of progress - that Taliban fighters were "spreading like a brush fire into remote and defenseless villages across northern Afghanistan".

Two weeks earlier, Alissa J Rubin of the New York Times had quoted the chairman of the provincial council in Baghlan province as saying the situation there was "very serious and day by day it is getting worse and worse". ...."

Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail


(Cartoon by Khalil Bendib)

Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 30 August 2010

"As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, Nora Barrows-Friedman interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week's US-brokered direct talks between the two parties for The Electronic Intifada....

NBF: What are your major concerns about the Palestinian political atmosphere right now?

DB: The major concern is that we all know that this is going to fail. It doesn't require anyone with any particular knowledge or foresight to realize that these talks are going to fail. The real question is what is going to come afterwards, and here is where I'm most concerned. For the past 17 years, the PLO, and in particular, Fatah, has had one strategy and only one strategy: negotiations, negotiations, negotiations.

And they have had only one strategy as regards to themselves, and that is survival. We are now at a stage where we are seeing that this is going to be -- and I really hope that it is -- the final blow to the logic and the ideology of negotiations, that people somehow have to negotiate their freedom.

The real question is, what is this leadership going to do? Is this leadership going to continue to hold us hostage to this tired, visionless lack of strategy? Or is something different going to come?
I'm not concerned with the talks, we know they are going to fail. My bigger concern is about what is going to happen once the talks fail, and is there going to be anybody who is going to come forward with a different plan, a different strategy, a different vision? And that is my fear. You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

"Solidarity tastes different inside prison"


Ameer Makhoul writing from Gilboa prison, Live from Palestine, 30 August 2010

"The following is an edited excerpt from a 7 August 2010 letter written by Ameer Makhoul from Israeli prison. A human rights defender, the director of the Arab nongovernmental organization network Ittijah, a leading voice of the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions movement and a Palestinian citizen of Israel, Makhoul was arrested during a raid of his family home in Haifa in the early morning hours of 6 May. For the following eleven days Makhoul was held in isolation, denied access to a lawyer, and subjected to torture. Rights groups have condemned his political persecution and the criminal proceedings launched against him.

"My trial is still somehow stuck. The system is structurally and politically Shabak-oriented, not justice-oriented. My human dignity, basic human rights and constitutional rights are suffering from basic violations. I still have no permit to meet my lawyers without being recorded....

I am doing a lot of efforts to bring hope and steadfastness to freedom prisoners. It is one of my missions inside prison. I have to keep in contact with Ittijah and the community and all solidarity movements, groups and persons, but most of all I have to correspond intensively as much as possible with my daughters Hind and Huda, who have become mature fighters for freedom, justice and dignity and mostly bringing back the happiness of life which was highjacked on 6 May at 2:30am. My wife Janan is leading in a heroic way the whole campaign as well as facing huge tasks at home.

Your letters are needed; the taste of solidarity is different in prison than being outside. The taste reflects the great solidarity, support and empowering acts."

Military Court Sentences Civilian Workers


By Cam McGrath

"CAIRO, Aug 31, 2010 (IPS) - An Egyptian military court handed down sentences Monday in the trial of eight civilian factory workers who led a protest against deteriorating safety conditions in an army-owned factory. Rights groups say the trial should never have taken place....

Rights groups fear the government may be using the threat of military trials to intimidate workers and eliminate the growing labour movement.

"Thousands of protests, strikes and sit-ins have been staged by Egyptian workers in both the public and private sectors, protesting the rising cost of living and demanding better wages and working conditions. This latest referral before military courts of workers is therefore a disturbing step," Amnesty International said in a statement.

In June, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) ranked Egypt among the worst 25 states that violate workers' rights. It said labour conditions were deteriorating, and accused the government of violating union freedoms and of deploying security forces to break up industrial actions....."

اعتذاركم غير مقنع


"Palestinian" Ben Gurion addressing Israel's Annual Conference on Israeli Security

اعتذاركم غير مقنع
عبد الباري عطوان

"جميل ان يعتذر رئيس الوزراء الفلسطيني سلام فياض عن قيام مجموعة من افراد الامن، التابعين لسلطته، بالاعتداء على مجموعة من ممثلي فصائل منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية، وشخصيات وطنية مستقلة، ومنعهم من المشاركة في ندوة تداعوا لعقدها للتعبير عن معارضتهم لمشاركة رئيس السلطة محمود عباس في المفاوضات المباشرة التي ستستأنف غداً في واشنطن، ولكن هذا الاعتذار غير مقبول، بل يجب ألا يقبل، لان هذه السلطة لا تحترم الشعب الفلسطيني فقط، بل تستهتر بأقرب حلفائها فيما تبقى من منظمة التحرير، وتمارس ابشع انواع البلطجة، لقمع الرأي الآخر، ومنعه من التعبير عن وجهة نظره اذا كانت تتعارض مع وجهة نظرها وقادتها.
المشكلة لا تنحصر في مجموعة من بلطجية رجال الامن، اقتحمت مقر الندوة ومزقت اللافتات والشعارات، واثارت حالة من الفوضى في القاعة، وانما في النهج الذي اتبعته السلطة في الاعوام الاخيرة، من حيث مصادرة الحريات، واحتكار التمثيل الفلسطيني، والحديث باسم الشعب، دون ان تملك الشرعية او التفويض او الاثنين معاً.
مجموعة رجال الامن هذه التي مارس اعضاؤها اعمال البلطجة هذه، تنتمي الى جهاز أمني جرى اختيار المنتسبين اليه بعناية فائقة، وتحت اشراف اربعة اجهزة استخبارات. اثنان منها عربيان (الاردن وفلسطين) واثنان اجنبيان (الشين بيت الاسرائيلي والسي اي ايه الامريكي) وهذا موثق في محاضرة ألقاها العراب الاكبر الجنرال كيث دايتون في معهد بواشنطن، وحتى يكون هذا الجهاز ابرز ادوات المخطط الحالي في خلق الانسان الفلسطيني الجديد الخالي من الوطنية والكرامة وعزة النفس.
هذه المجموعة، وفي هذا الاطار، تربت على قيم ومبادئ واخلاقيات لا نعرفها، بل لا نريد ان نعرفها، وليس لها اي علاقة بقيم واخلاقيات ومبادئ الشعب الفلسطيني التي استشهد من اجلها آلاف الشهداء الفلسطينيين والعرب والمسلمين.
من اقدموا على اعمال البلطجة هذه لم يقدموا عليها من جراء انفسهم، وانما بتعليمات من قيادتهم بشقيها الامني والســـياسي. وليــــس صـــدفة ان العشـــرات من هؤلاء البلطجية كانوا يحملون صور الرئيـــس عباس، ويهتـــفون بحمايته بالروح والدم وكأنه حرر فلسطين من البحر الى النهر. ترى ماذا سيهتفون له اذا فعل ذلك؟
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القمع كالكفر ملّة واحدة، والناس على دين ملوكهم، واجهزة الامن الفلسطينية التي تحتقر الديمقراطية وحرية التعبير، انما هي صورة طبق الاصل عن قيادتها، فكيف تكون ديمقراطية والرئيس عباس يذهب الى المفاوضات اليوم دون مرجعية وطنية او تفويض من مؤسسات الشعب الفلسطيني، بل حتى اللجنة المركزية لحركة 'فتح' التي يتزعمها ويحكم باسمها، ناهيك عن اللجنة التنفيذية للمنظمة التي افتقدت الى النصاب القانوني اثناء اجتماعها الاخير لهروب معظم اعضائها الى الخارج، او تهربهم من الحضور والتصويت بالتالي.
ومن المفارقة ان هؤلاء الذين تعرضوا للاعتداء جرى استدعاؤهم قبل ايام معدودة فقط للمشاركة في اجتماع للجنة التنفيذية نفسها، واصدار بيان، بطلب من الرئيس يرفض الذهاب الى المفاوضات المباشرة الا اذا تحقق تقدم في المفاوضات غير المباشرة على صعيد القضايا المحورية مثل وقف الاستيطان، والقبول بحدود الدولة الفلسطينية على اساس حدود عام 1967، وتحديد مرجعية واضحة للمفاوضات اي قرارات الشرعية الدولية، وعندما تراجع الرئيس عن هذه المواقف مكرها وبضغط امريكي وتنكر عربي وذهب الى واشنطن بناء على دعوة امريكية، وفق شروط نتنياهو، بات ممنوعاً على هؤلاء ان يوضحوا وجهة نظرهم، ويبرئوا ذمتهم امام شعبهم والتاريخ، من هذه المصيدة التي اعدت باحكام في واشنطن لتصفية القضية الفلسطينية او ما تبقى منها، وبمباركة عربية.
بنيامين نتنياهو رئيس وزراء اسرائيل تعمد ان يهين الرئيس عباس، والوفد المرافق له، عندما اعلن صراحة وامام الملأ، انه لن يمدد قرار تجميد الاستيطان الذي ينتهي في الثلث الاخير من الشهر المقبل، وكأنه يقول اتحداكم ان تنفذوا تهديدكم بالانسحاب من المفاوضات اذا لم يتم التمديد مثلما ترددون في تصريحاتكم التلفزيونية، لاعطاء انفسكم ورقة توت تبرر ذهابكم الى واشنطن بعد التراجع عن كل 'لاءاتكم'السابقة.
الدكتور سلام فياض اعلن بالامس الشق الثاني من خطته لاستكمال بناء البنى التحتية للدولة التي
يعتزم اعلانها في شهر آب/اغسطس المقبل، واذا كانت هذه الدولة العتيدة عنوانها القمع، وتكميم الافواه، ومصادرة الرأي الآخر، فانها لا تتماشى مع طموحات الشعب الفلسطيني، ولا ترتقي الى الحد الادنى من تضحياته.
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تخص الدكتور فياض بالذات لانه المسؤول الاول عن بناء قوات الامن الفلسطينية باشراف الجنرال الامريكي دايتون، وهو المرشـــح الاكبر لتولي مسؤولية القيادة فيها مستقبلاً، فدور الرئيس عباس وانصاره في حركة 'فتح' هو مجرد دور 'المحلل'.
الدكتور سلام فياض القادم الى السلطة من البنك الدولي، يسير على خطى اصدقائه الامريكيين، اي انهم يريدون الديمقراطية، وسيادة القانون لشعوبهم فقط، ولكن عندما يتعلق الأمر بالمواطن الفلسطيني، فان الديمقراطية ومستلزماتها ترمى من النافذة، وتدخل الديكتاتورية وادواتها القمعية من الباب العريض. فالقيم الديمقراطية وما يتفرع عنها من حريات محرمة على الشعب الفلسطيني وكل شعوب المنطقة في الوقت نفسه.
وربما يجادل البعض بانه جرى تشكيل لجنة تحقيق بأمر من الرئيس عباس، وهذا صحيح، ولكن متى ادت مثل هذه اللجان عملها بمهنية وموضوعية، واذا كانت فعلت ذلك، هل جرى العمل بتوصياتها، من حيث معاقبة المسؤولين، وخاصة من كبار رجال السلطة، والقائمة طويلة لا يتسع المجال لذكرها.
في أحد الأيام مر حكيم الصين العظيم كونفوشيوس بامرأة تبكي بحرقة، وتلطم خديها، فسألها عن اسباب بكائها، فقالت له ان النمر اكل زوجها اليوم، وقبل شهر اكل ابنها البكر، وقبل شهرين التهم والدها.
فسألها كونفوشيوس: لماذا لا تغادرين هذه البلدة اذن؟.. اجابت.. وكيف تريدني ان اغادرها وفيها حاكم عادل؟
الدكتور فياض اطلق في مؤتمره الصحافي وثيقة سماها 'موعد مع الحرية'، قال انها تتضمن ارساء قيم النزاهة والشفافية والفصل بين السلطات، وتوفير الامن والامان وترسيخ سيادة القانون والحرية والعدالة والمساواة. انها اذن جمهورية افلاطون الفاضلة.
ردنا على الدكتور فياض بالتذكير بالمثل الفلسطيني الذي يقول 'الليلة السعيدة بتبان من العصر' ومثل مقدمات كهذه لا يمكن ان تؤدي الى العدالة وسيادة القانون اللتين يبشر بهما.
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The Pace of the Circus is Picking Up; Come One, Come All! Secret Abbas-Barak talks in Jordan


Press TV

"Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas has secretly met with Israeli defense minister amid warnings at home against resuming direct talks with Israelis.

Abbas held talks with Ehud Barak on Sunday during a clandestine meeting in a private home in Amman, AFP quoted Israeli media reports as saying on Tuesday.

Barak had earlier talked with King Abdullah II in the Jordanian capital.

The secret meeting comes in the run up to the US-sponsored direct negotiations scheduled to start on September 2 in Washington.

King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak are also expected to join an inaugural meeting in Washington on Wednesday between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Abbas, who will participate in the direct talks the following day.....

Abbas is facing mounting criticism from Palestinians who charge the Palestinian Authority with yielding to "US and Israeli pressure." The Palestinians have also raised concerns that further concessions on the part of Abbas could lead to an intensified violation of their rights by Israel."

Monday, August 30, 2010

Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinain schoolgirl

An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.

The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago.

The manner of Iman's killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was "scared to death", made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died.

After the verdict, Iman's father, Samir al-Hams, said the army never intended to hold the soldier accountable.

Capt R's lawyers argued that the "confirmation of the kill" after a suspect is shot was a standard Israeli military practice to eliminate terrorist threats.

Following the verdict, Capt R burst into tears, turned to the public benches and said: "I told you I was innocent." [This is the nature of this most uncivilized society of the past 60 years. Killing little arab girls is not a crime, it is justified and glorified by this sick psychotic society. Israel is a demented nation , led by racist psychopaths , inhabited by one of the most inhumane colonizers, who refuse to acknowledge the simplest truths , keep believing the lies that formed their "nation" and "national identity".]

Direct talks déjà vu

Posted By Stephen M. Walt


President Obama is hosting a dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sept. 1, in order to kick off the new round of direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators. As regular readers know, I don't think this effort will go anywhere, because the two sides are too far apart and because the Obama administration won't have the political will to push them towards the necessary compromises.

Furthermore, there are now a few hints that the Obama administration is about to repeat the same mistakes that doomed the Clinton administration's own Middle East peacemaking efforts and the Bush administration's even more half-hearted attempts (i.e., the "Road Map" and the stillborn Annapolis summit). Last week, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronoth provided a summary of a conference call between Obama Middle East advisors Dennis Ross, Dan Shapiro, and David Hale and the leaders of a number of influential American Jewish organizations. According to the article (whose accuracy I cannot vouch for), the goal of the direct talks will be a "framework agreement" between the two sides that would then be implemented over a period of up to ten years.

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Direct talks will fail – is that what the US is planning on?


Tony Karon
The National

"....The real importance of this week’s talks is the symbolic sense of the US taking ownership of the issue. An old line on the two-state peace in Washington, sometimes repeated by Obama administration officials, holds that the US "cannot want this more than the parties themselves do". If anything, the process launched this week will prove that the reverse is true: unless the US is prepared to join with international partners and impose a two-state solution, Mr Obama is in fact presiding over its funeral."

Video with Transcript: Latin death squads invade Iraq



"In Latin America El Salvadorian death squads were known for targeting clergy members, doctors, and others, similar to what is being said about Iraq. Michel Chossudovsky, the director of the Center for Research on Globalization in Canada argued that the death squad approach created in El Salvador in the early 1980's to fight the liberation movement has been adopted by the US and employed in Iraq."

America's Holy Crusade against the Muslim World.


A GOOD PIECE

by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, August 30, 2010

"We have reached a decisive transition in the evolution of US military doctrine. The "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT) directed against Al Qaeda launched in the wake of 9/11 is evolving towards a full-fledged "war of religion", a "holy crusade" directed against the Muslim World.....


The fact that the 9/11 attacks were not instigated by Muslims has rarely been acknowledged by the Muslim community. Al Qaeda's ongoing relationship to the CIA, its role as a US sponsored "intelligence asset" going back to to the Soviet-Afghan war is not mentioned. (Michel Chossudovsky, America's "War on Terrorism" Global Research, Montreal, 2005)

Since the early 1980s, Washington has covertly supported the most conservative and fundamentalist factions of Islam, largely with a view to weakening secular, nationalist and progressive movements in the Middle East and Central Asia. Known and documented, the fundamentalist Wahhabi and Salafi missions from Saudi Arabia, dispatched not only to Afghanistan but also to the Balkans and to the Muslim republics of the former Soviet republics were covertly supported by US intelligence. (Ibid) What is often referred to as "Political Islam" is in large part a creation of the US intelligence apparatus (with the support of Britain's MI6 and Israel's Mossad).....

The rising tide of xenophobia, sparked by the proposed Ground Zero mosque and community center, has all the appearances of a PSYOP (Psychological Operation) which contributes to fomenting hatred against Muslims throughout the Western World.

The objective is to instil fear, rouse and harness citizens' unbending support for the next stage of America's "long war", which consists in waging "humanitarian" aerial attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, portrayed by the media as endorsing the terrorists.....

The American Inquisition

A "war of religion" is unfolding, with a view to justifying a global military crusade. In the inner consciousness of many Americans, the "holy crusade" against Muslims is justified. While President Obama may uphold freedom of religion, the US inquisitorial social order has institutionalized patterns of discrimination, prejudice and xenophobia directed against Muslims. Ethnic profiling applies to travel, the job market, access to social services and more generally to social mobility.

The American Inquisition as an ideological construct, which is, in many regards, is similar to the inquisitorial social order prevailing in France and Spain during the Middle Ages. The inquisition, which started in France in the 12th century, was used as a justification for conquest and military intervention. (See Michel Chossudovsky, 9/11 and the "American Inquisition", Global Research, September 11, 2008). .....

The demonization of Muslims sustains a global military agenda. Under the American inquisition, Washington has a self-proclaimed holy mandate to extirpate Islam and "spread democracy" throughout the world....."

الجالية الفلسطينية في الولايات المتحدة: سنطالب عباس بالتنحي وحقوقنا الوطنية ليست للبيع..


عــ48ـرب/ خالد بركات

"قال موسى الهندي الناشط الفلسطيني في الدفاع عن حق العودة وعضو الهيئة التنظيمية للمؤتمر الشعبي الفلسطيني إن الجالية الفلسطينية سوف تسلم السيد محمود عباس رئيس السلطة الفلسطينية عريضة موقعة من عشرات المنظمات واللجان والجمعيات الفلسطينية والمئات من النشطاء والمثقفين والكتاب ا لفلسطينيين في الولايات المتحدة وخارجها، تطالب عباس فيها بـ"التنحي عن موقعه في م.ت.ف، وعدم التحدث باسم الشعب الفلسطيني أو ادعاء تمثيله أو التفاوض باسمه".

وشن الهندي هجوماً على السلطة الفلسطينية معتبراً أن "وظيفة السلطة هي إعاقة مشروع التحرير، وأن المفاوضات هي الإطار الذي يتم فيه تصفية القضية الفلسطينية على مراحل، لذلك لا بد من إقالة السلطة الفلسطينية، باعتبارها عقبة أمريكية إسرائيلية وعزلها جماهيريا".

وقال الهندي إن الجالية الفلسطينية ستقول للإدارة الأمريكية بوضوح إن الحقوق الوطنية الفلسطينية ليست للبيع أو المتاجرة، وأن ما ينتج من هذه المفاوضات التي يرعاها البيت الأبيض "تلزم عباس وعصابته ولا يتلزم شعبنا".

وقال الهندي إن استعدادات جادة وحقيقية تجري على الأرض في أوساط الفلسطينيين في الولايات المتحدة لرفض المفاوضات ونهج التفريط بالحقوق الوطنية.

وأشار إلى أن الجالية الفلسطينية والعربية في الولايات المتحدة بادرت إلى إطلاق عريضة تلقى صدى واسعا من التأييد الشعبي لمطلب تنحي عباس نهائيا " معتبرا ان هذه المواقف الشعبية تشكل امتدادا طبيعيا وأصيلا لحالة الرفض الشعبي.

وأضاف أن "الجالية سوف تعبر عن موقفها في الثاني من أيلول/ سبتمبر مع ما أسماه "انطلاق مرحلة جديدة من حفلة الاستسلام الرسمي الفلسطيني والذي بدأ رسميا خلال مؤتمر مدريد".

واعتبر الهندي أن الاعتداء الذي شنه الأمن الفلسطيني في مدينة رام الله على المؤتمر الشعبي لرفض المفاوضات والاملاءات الأمريكية كان بمثابة السقوط النهائي لكذبة الديموقراطية تحت الاحتلال أو احترام حكومة أبو مازن – فياض – للحريات وحقوق الانسان في الضفة".

واعتبر الهندي ان " السلطة الفلسطينية وصلت الى مداها الأخير، وهي تلفظ أنفاسها الآن"، مستغرباً ان هناك " من لا يزال يدافع عنها لو أنهم لا يتجاوزا أصابع اليد الواحدة
". "