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2015-08-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Palestine's Hamas not invited to PLO council meeting
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[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A leading member of Paleostinian resistance group Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, on Sunday said his movement had not been invited to attend next month's scheduled meeting of the Paleostinian National Council (PNC).
"This is a coup against legitimacy represented by Hamas, which holds the most seats in the Paleostinian Legislative Council [parliament]," Hamas member Hassan Youssef told Anadolu Agency.
The PNC, which is responsible for electing members of the Paleostine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s executive committee, is set to convene in mid-September in Ramallah.
The last time the council convened was in 1996.
Last week, Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
resigned from the PLO's executive committee -- along with a number of other members -- in a move seen by some observers as an attempt to justify convening the PNC.
Hamas, Youssef asserted, would not attend the planned PNC meeting "even if it was invited".
"Holding the PNC meeting has nothing to do with getting Paleostine's house in order," he said.
In a veiled reference to Abbas' Fatah movement -- Hamas' longtime rival -- Youssef added: "It's simply aimed at facilitating a certain party."
According to a PLO source, meanwhile, Hamas' political bureau has already told the organization that Hamas representatives would not be attending the PNC meeting.
The PNC is comprised of 740 members representing all Paleostinian factions (except resistance groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
), members of the legislative council, union representatives and independent figures. 
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Posted by Fred 2015-08-31 00:00||
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