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2024-01-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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PA official: If Hamas were to win elections, we’d hand it the government
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Such an interesting statement, given that when Hamas won the January 2006 legislative election, violence erupted between factions in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip... and in Gaza Hamas took over by force of arms. There hasn’t been a “national” election since, though there’ve been ongoing reconciliation negotiations and several agreements, each duly cheated upon. [IsraelTimes] Deputy PM says Palestinians need to find common ground; PA Foreign Ministry slams funding freeze of UNRWA in response to some staffers’ Oct. 7 involvement as ‘collective punishment’
| 44% in the West Bank said they support Hamas, up from just 12% in September. In Gaza, the terror group enjoys 42% support, up from 38% three months ago. |
The Paleostinian Authority’s deputy prime minister said Saturday that 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....
would be willing to hand control over his government to Hamas
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...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
if the terror group were to win future general elections.
In an interview with the Saudi news channel Al Arabiya Saturday, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, who also acts as a spokesperson for Abbas, said that the Paleostinian people need to find common ground and formulate a unified position and that for the time being "the address for political decisions is the Paleostine Liberation Organization and its President Mahmoud Abbas."
But after the war, the PA "is ready to hold general elections, and if Hamas wins, the president will hand over the Authority."
The Paleostinian Authority has not held general elections since 2006, when Hamas won a majority of the seats in the legislative council, and subsequently staged a violent mostly peaceful coup in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip.
Since the outbreak of the war, various PA officials have called for integrating the political wing of Hamas into a future Paleostinian government, claiming that it is an essential component of Paleostinian society.
Elections are seen by many in the international community as a key stage in the reform and revival of the Paleostinian Authority, a body perceived as corrupt and ineffectual, in order to boost its legitimacy and potentially enable it to take control over the Gaza Strip after the war.
A wartime opinion poll in December found 88 percent of Paleostinians saying Abbas must resign. At the same time, 44% in the West Bank said they support Hamas, up from just 12% in September. In Gaza, the terror group enjoys 42% support, up from 38% three months ago.
The war erupted on October 7 when some 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed by Hamas Lions of Islam who rampaged across southern Israel. Another 253 people, also largely civilians, were kidnapped and taken into Gaza, where 132 remain.
Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that their goal in the war sparked by Hamas’s October 7 onslaught is the eradication of the terror group and the return of all the hostages.
’DEPLORABLE DOUBLE STANDARDS’
Separately, the PA’s Foreign Ministry panned the suspension of funds to UNRWA by a number of countries, including the US and the UK as a demonstration of "deplorable double standards."
Nine countries have announced they are freezing funding for the UN Paleostinian refugee agency after Israel showed evidence that a number of its employees were involved in the October 7 onslaught.
The ministry defined the decision as "highly politicized, disproportionate and unjustified," especially in light of the fact that the agency’s Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said an independent investigation would be launched into the Israeli claims.
Echoing comments that Lazzarini made Saturday night, the ministry said it sees the decision to suspend funding to UNRWA as a form of "collective punishment," stressing that the agency is about to run out of money and will not be able to provide assistance to Paleostinian refugees throughout the region.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz has called for Lazzarini to quit and said the body "must be replaced with agencies dedicated to genuine peace and development" after Gaza’s bloodiest war. 
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