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Middle East
Erekat resignation plunges Paleo Gov’t in crisis
2003-05-16
Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat resigned Friday, a day before a key meeting has been set between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmud Abbas. His resignation further jeopardised the international roadmap for peace as tension on the ground remained high, with the Israeli army staging a massive military operation in the northern Gaza Strip. A large number of Israeli troops backed by 70 armoured vehicles and helicopters were sweeping areas of the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after an army incursion in which five Palestinians were killed. The Jericho MP said he handed in his resignation to Abbas but refused to explain why. Official Palestinian sources said Erakat resented his exclusion from the meeting with Sharon, while interior security minister Mohammad Dahlan and parliamentary speaker Ahmad Qorei were invited.
Maybe Abbas is smarter than we thought? Arafat was keeping him diminished, and Erekat was Yassers' boy
Posted by:Frank G

#6  Abbas was one of the co-founders of the PLO with Yasser. Don't be too trusting.
Posted by: Fred   2003-05-16 22:48:34  

#5  Palestinian Civil War...is it inevetable??? Abbas and Dahlan seem committed to a democratic and free Palestine. That includes crushing Al-Aquesa, Islamic Jihad,et el. I think Arafat should have a Buick shoved up his ass!\

As a pro-Isreali, I think everyone should get behind Abbas and Dahlan! Maybee, just maybee, peace could occur.
Posted by: Thane of Cawdor   2003-05-16 21:45:51  

#4  A crisis that has been going on for a long time is more like chronic, so the the Paleostinians are plunged into a Chronic........well, maybe that just does not sound so catchy...Maybe crisis is ok.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-05-16 14:34:32  

#3  "Palestinian Government in Crisis"? That's right up there with "France On Strike". Oh, no! Not again!
Posted by: tu3031   2003-05-16 13:30:59  

#2  Erekat is not a terrorist. In Jericho (his powerbase) the is essentially no terror and no terror infrastructure. Some of this is because his clan is powerful enough to keep the terror out of town.

Notwithstanding this, he is a terrorist apologist and is an friend of Arafat.
Posted by: mhw   2003-05-16 11:36:58  

#1  Saeb: 'You mean we CAN'T support terrorism any more? I am sooo out of here!'
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2003-05-16 10:59:52  

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