ABBAS’ WIFE FURIOUS AT THE PROSPECT OF HIM QUITTING

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October 26, 2009 at 10:00 pm (Cartoons, Humour, Palestine)

What do you mean, you’re QUITTING????? Who’s supposed to buy me my Duty Free Ahava products if Fatah doesn’t send you abroad???

"I will Quit"

Haaretz/ here

"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the White House that he intends to resign his post, Channel 10 reported on Monday.......that he sees no chance of advancing the peace process with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in power.

Channel 10 also reported that Abbas communicated to the White House his disappointment in the administration's "capitulation" to Jerusalem on the issue of West Bank settlement construction....

..... Abbas told the White House that the Palestinian Authority's initial decision to defer a vote on the Goldstone Report at the United Nations Human Rights Council was politically damaging. ....

According to Channel 10, Abbas also told the Americans that he sees no possibility that Fatah, can reach a reconciliation agreement with Hamas, the Islamist group which ousted Fatah in the Gaza Strip...."

Posted by G, Z, or B at 4:50 PM

Israeli TV: Abbas to resign soon

[ 27/10/2009 - 11:33 AM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)-- Mahmoud Abbas, the PA chief whose term in office expired last January, has told American president Barack Obama that he would resign his post soon, the Israeli 10th TV channel reported on Monday night.

It said that Abbas attributed his decision to the stalemate in the Middle East peace process.

Meanwhile, Abbas's militias continued their campaign against Hamas supporters in the West Bank and abducted 8 citizens over the past 48 hours.

In this regard, Hamas MP Husni Al-Bureini said that the issue of political detainees in the West Bank should be closed once and for all.

He added in a statement on Monday that many of those detainees had already been ordered out of jail by the Palestinian supreme court but they remained in custody.

Describing the political detention as a "tragedy", the lawmaker called for serious steps to free all detainees.

In another context, Nayef Hawatmeh, the secretary general of the democratic front for the liberation of Palestine, told Al-Jazeera TV network that Abbas's decision to hold elections early next year was political par excellence and not legal.

He called for the immediate return to comprehensive national dialog that would agree on new legislative and presidential elections in which all factions and parties would take part under Palestinian, Arab and international guarantees.