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PA implodes as Abbas ‘fires’ Haniyeh


By Stan Goodenough
June 15, 2007

The terror-directing Palestinian Authority became the victim of its own policies and practices Thursday, as chairman Mahmoud Abbas (FATAH) declared it dissolved and prime minister Ismail Haniyeh (HAMAS) ignored him.

Abbas also declared a state of emergency in the areas the “Oslo Agreements” gave him to control.

But the “terrorist in a tie” who succeeded kaffiyeh-sporting Yasser Arafat a few years ago has neither the stature not the authority of his late, demonically-inspired boss.

Few in “Palestine” will listen to him, and Hamas certainly will not.

Senior officials scorned his declarations, some saying it was “unconstitutional” for him to fire the “government,” while others wanted to know how a state of emergency could be imposed and maintained when there was no government to do so.

Abbas, in an apparent attempt to look presidential, called US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice late Thursday to “brief” her.

Critics said he was really looking to her for help extract the PA from its mess.

But Hamas, which declared victory over Fatah in Gaza earlier in the day, showing confiscated “proof” that Abbas’ faction was in cahoots with the United States against Hamas, would only have been further incensed by that conversation.

As the gangland-style war rages in Gaza, and an impotent PA chairman issues meaningless decrees in the “West Bank,” analysts in Israel agree that “the Palestinians [sic] are destroying their future with their own hands.”

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