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2019-01-30 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Abbas accepts Hamdallah’s resignation, asks government to stay on for transition
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[IsraelTimes] PA president reportedly set to begin consultations to name new ministers from PLO, ending unity bid with Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
 ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
accepted the resignation of his prime minister Tuesday, but asked the government to stay on until a new one is formed.
PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and his government tendered their resignations earlier Tuesday, marking the end of a failed unity bid with rival Hamas.
Abbas accepted the resignations but assigned Hamdallah and his fellow ministers the task of maintaining the PA government’s operations until the formation of a new one, the official PA news site Wafa reported.
The government’s decision to resign came two days after the Fatah Central Committee recommended the formation of a government made up of representatives of factions in the Paleostine Liberation Organization and independent personalities, leaving out Hamas, a terror group that is the de facto ruler of the Gazoo Strip.
Hamas front man Fawzi Barhoum condemned the government’s resignation on Tuesday, saying it was aimed at paving the way for the establishment of "a new separatist government" that serves Abbas and his Fatah party’s interests.
Abbas was set to begin consultations to form a government made up of PLO factions, with the goal of preparing for new legislative elections, Wafa reported. It is not clear who will be tapped as the next prime minister.
Abbas and other PA officials have recently pledged to hold new parliamentary elections in the coming six months, but how that would be possible in the Gazoo Strip is unclear. Hamas has controlled the coastal enclave since ousting the Fatah-dominated PA in 2007 from the territory.
Fatah Central Committee Member Azzam al-Ahmad said on Sunday that the Paleostinians planned to form a new government in response to Hamas not handing over the Gazoo Strip to the PA.
The Paleostinians formed the current PA government in 2014 with the support of Fatah and Hamas. Since its establishment, however, Abbas has carried out at least two cabinet reshuffles without Hamas’s consent.
Fatah and Hamas have been in disputes since 2007, when the terror group forcibly ousted the Fatah-dominated PA from Gazoo.
While the two rival parties have signed multiple agreements to advance reconciliation and bring Gazoo and the West Bank under one government, they have not implemented them.
Hamdallah, a former president of An-Najah University, where he was once an English professor, was expected to return to academic work, according to a Paleostinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity. 
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