Law and Society
Middle EastBy david 2000
4 months ago
The Palestinian Authority is quickly sinking into quicksand of its own making - and has no one but itself to blame for its fall from grace as a partner with Israel to resolve the allocation of sovereignty between Jews and Arabs in the West Bank.
The announcement that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does not intend to run as President when elections are supposedly held next January is shrouded in uncertainty.
Yasser Abed-Rabbo, the Secretary General of the PLO’s Executive Committee denied that Abbas had threatened to quit during a telephone call with President Obama on 3 November.
Abed-Rabbo is reported to have told Maan News Agency that he:
“witnessed the phone call between President Abbas and President Obama and the talks did not have anything to do to with Abbas resigning.”
The following report however rebuts Abed-Rabbo’s claim maintaining that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Ms Clinton has accepted Abbas’s resignation stating:
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