An official of the mainstream (!) Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas warned on Sunday of what he termed as "a planned bloodless coup" by the contending main group Fatah to restore power. Aziz Dweik, a representative of Hamas in the newly-elected legislative assembly, warned that Fatah and officials of the Palestinian Authority planned "a bloodless coup whereby a bill will be forwarded to the legislative council to give the president the right to dissolve the Parliament." Dweik was addressing dozens of intellectuals who gathered in Beir Zeit University, in response to a call by the legislative council to hold a session tomorrow for possible voting on a new basic law for the parliament that may give the president the right to dissolve it and call for early elections.
The Hamas official was also indicating at reports that the authority named several loyalists in senior posts in the ministries and the assembly. "Such pre-emptive decisions in this respect constitute a bloodless coup that will lead to dire consequences," he said, warning of possible eruption of a civil war among the Palestinians in case major amendment has been introduced to the basic law of the parliament.| Hamas prefers its coups bloody. Very messy object lessons for those who refuse to follow the One True Path®. None of this finessing of the political process for Allan's Green Brigade. |
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