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| Middle East |
| Palestinian Cabinet Minister Resigns |
| 2002-05-03 |
| A Palestinian Cabinet minister resigned Friday amid growing calls for reform following Israel's military offensive, which left Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority in tatters. Nabil Amr, minister of parliamentary affairs, submitted his resignation but said he would retain his seat in the Palestinian parliament. Doesn't want to see his name come up on a flyer, huh? Or did they have a little talk with him before printing started? In Friday's Cabinet meeting, the first since Israel launched its offensive March 29, Amr and other ministers spoke about the need for restructuring the government, though they were not specific in their criticism, apparently for fear of angering Arafat. And angering Yasser is kinda fatal. Might as well strap on a bomb and get it over with... In the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there is growing discontent with the Palestinian Authority after 19 months of fighting with Israel. The violence, particularly during the past month, has caused great hardship to Palestinian civilians. Y'mean the guns and the propaganda and the screaming can't hide the fact that the area's governed by homicidal kleptocrats? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |