[IsraelTimes] Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, will not nominate a candidate in the scheduled Paleostinian presidential elections, senior Hamas official Mousa Abu Marzouq tells al-Jazeera.
PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
issued a decree ordering the first Paleostinian national elections in 15 years in mid-January.
Observers are skeptical that the elections will actually take place, as similar pledges have fallen through before.
Indeed. But it’s fun watching them wriggle. The elections — should they come to pass — will happen in three rounds. First, national legislative elections have been set for May 22, a vote for the Paleostinian Authority presidency is set for July 31, and elections for the Paleostinian National Council on August 31.
Marzouq’s remarks are likely to come as a relief to aging Paleostinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, who opinion polls indicate would lose in a head-to-head matchup with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh
 ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
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