Couldn't fit in title but it's meant to say the President of National authority of Palestine (de facto government of most of the west bank).
Couldn't fit in title but it's meant to say the President of National authority of Palestine (de facto government of most of the west bank).
Predictably the whole of Europe is up in arms over this. Abbas also refused to denounce the Munich Olympic Games attack of 1972 and he called Israel an apartheid state.
Scholtz only pushed back on that last allegation and let the rest slide until he had to apologise on twitter lmao.
I don't know what Abbas expected to accomplish here, this was the only result these statements could have produced
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I think Hamas is sorta where Fatah was in 2005- almost ready to (at least officially) stop attacks in return for funds, work permits, and recognition. PIJ is ready to fill in the armed resistance void left by Hamas anyway. Abbas is afraid that Fatah's international/ NGO support and funding, along with electoral support in semi-autonomous West Bank cities will dry up if Hamas has both legitimacy (in the eyes of the ISraelis) and popular support among the Palestinian people.
How do you keep up with these topics? I'd love to stay more up-to-date.
Here's a good recent "Explainer" I'm wary of Wikipedia, but lots of the current factionalism directly goes back to The 2005 Election where essentially, Fatah secured 1-party rule over West Bank municipalities and Hamas secured power in Gaza. Middle East Eye is pretty good as a source, I'd just particularly avoid Times of Israel and Algemeiner (very clickbaity/Hasbarist).
This is all for domestic consumption. Palestine is fucked with inflation and normal folk are getting riled up.