RE: WHY CAN'T PITA DO MORE ??? RE: There is hope..., Al-Quds news

["Ibrahim Barham" <ibrahim_barham@safad.com>]

Dear Marwan

It's your right to disagree, but board is a board. Which means that all of
us in the board should comply with our decisions including not to mention
the name of the company and not to ask for a meeting without getting the
approval of the board. For the last three years in PITA, I did not remember
that we asked for a meeting for the members without getting the approval of
the board. Even Mashhour does not has the right to ask for a meeting, and I
spoke to him about it. The idea is that, we should be more organized, and
not to put the name of one of our members or even non member  without any
restrictions. I think that we discussed this issue on Saturday meeting.

Now, if the board accept to do this meeting, let's do it but after getting
the approval and to agree on the agenda.

Best regards,

Ibrahim

-----Original Message-----
From: Marwan Totah [mailto:totah@bisan.com]
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 8:33 PM
To: ibrahim Barham
Cc: board@pita-palestine.org; abudaka@pita-palestine.org
Subject: RE: WHY CAN'T PITA DO MORE ??? RE: There is hope..., Al-Quds news


I disagree.

On 7 May 2001, at 19:17, Ibrahim Barham wrote:

> Dear Board
>
> I recommend that we in the board to stop writing about this subject
> until we receive a reply from the minister of justice. It was too bad
> that some members start speaking about a name of a company who is
> member in PITA or even if it's not a member in PITA without any legal
> document stating that this company was involved in any corruption
> business. What we did in the board with sending the letter to the
> minister of justice was the max that any one could do. As all of you
> remember, we decided in the former board not to interfere in any
> member business, and here we are speaking about very serious problem
> that is already handled by the higher legal person who is the minister
> himself. Moreover, we can not ask any company or member for a reply
> about a legal case unless there is already a decision from the court,
> it's not our business.  For that reason, I am asking you all to stop
> writing about this subject abroad the board mailing list and to wait
> for the feedback from the minister.
>
> And the best thing that we all can concentrate on is the procurement
> policies and the future business.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ibrahim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Information [mailto:info@p-i-s.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 10:35 PM
> To: Board of PITA
> Cc: abudaka@pita-palestine.org
> Subject: RE: WHY CAN'T PITA DO MORE ??? RE: There is hope..., Al-Quds
> news
>
>
> Dear all,
>          The point is we don't have any formal documents except
>          hearsay,
> The best approach to deal with this issue is a formal investigation by
> PITA in an organized way just like what we did with Galaxy and Anera,
> but again where is the documents and where is PITA ethical conduct, I
> mean do we have in PITA something that say if you bribe your way to a
> bid you will be expelled ? Let's not be emotional about this, I have
> seen the documents and I know for fact that this was just pure highway
> robbery, but if I was challenged to prove I would have hard time. So
> if we are going to proceed with this issue, lets us gather all the
> facts that we have and decide exactly what do we want to do what do we
> want to achieve.
>
> At 09:59 ã 06/05/01, Marwan Totah wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I stated my position in the board meeting yesterday, but here it is
> >again:
> >
> >- Pita was created to collectively fight cases like this... and we
> >can't simply pass this opportunity with a thank you letter to Abu
> >Mideen.
> >
> >- All Members should be involved, and be verbal so we can make a dent
> >in this corrupt system...a general meeting to discuss this case is IN
> >ORDER.
> >
> >- HP was not officially named, but we all know they are somehow
> >involved, and should be invited to clarify their position...once we
> >have the facts from their side, we can ALL either stand with them if
> >they did not do any wrong, or take whatever steps needed to clarify
> >Pita's position.
> >
> >- Pita's credibility (members & board) is at stake here...how we
> >handle this case will justify (at least to me) why we have Pita, and
> >how much each of us stands for the principles we agreed to when we
> >joined.
> >
> >I ask Dr. Mashhour to invite HP preferably earlier than saturday, but
> >if that fails, I go with the suggested Saturday meeting.
> >
> >Yours,
> >
> >
> >-------------------------
> >Marwan Totah
> >Bisan Systems Ltd.
> >Email: totah@Bisan.com
> >Tel: +970 2 298-5941
> >Fax: +970 2 298-5942
>
>



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Marwan Totah
Bisan Systems Ltd.
Email: totah@Bisan.com
Tel: +970 2 298-5941
Fax: +970 2 298-5942