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| PA’s Abbas announces new cabinet, with little-known figures taking key roles |
| 2024-03-29 |
| [IsraelTimes] Interior minister from previous government retains position; incoming Jerusalem affairs minister Ashraf al-Awar ran as Fatah candidate in postponed 2021 elections The Paleostinian Authority has announced the formation of a new cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform. 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.... , who has led the PA for nearly two decades and remains in overall control, announced the new government in a presidential decree on Thursday. None of the incoming ministers is a well-known figure. Abbas tapped Mohammad Mustafa, a longtime adviser, to be prime minister earlier this month. Mustafa, a politically independent US-educated economist, vowed to form a technocratic government and create an independent trust fund to help rebuild 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 Hamaswith 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 oppressionand disproportionate response... . Mustafa will also serve as foreign minister. Interior Minister Ziad Hab al-Rieh is a member of Abbas’s secular Fatah movement and held the same portfolio in the previous government. The Interior Ministry oversees the security forces. The incoming minister for Jerusalem affairs, Ashraf al-Awar, had registered to run as a Fatah candidate in planned elections in 2021 that were canceled. At least five of the incoming 23 ministers are from Gaza originally, but it was not immediately clear if they are still in the territory. The PA administers parts of the West Bank. Its forces were driven from Gaza when Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, seized power in 2007, and it has no power there. It has little popular support or legitimacy among Paleostinians, in part because it has not held elections in 18 years. Its policy of cooperating with Israel on security matters is extremely unpopular and has led many Paleostinians to view it as a subcontractor of military rule. Opinion polls in recent years have consistently found that a vast majority of Paleostinians want the 88-year-old Abbas to resign. The United States has called for a revitalized PA to administer postwar Gaza ahead of eventual statehood. Israel has rejected that idea, accusing it of failing to condemn Hamas’s attacks and encouraging terror through incitement in education and the payment of stipends to tossed in the slammer I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! and slain Lions of Islam and their families. It says it will maintain open-ended security control over Gaza and partner with Paleostinians who are not affiliated with the PA or Hamas. It’s unclear who in Gaza would be willing to take on such a role. Hamas has rejected the formation of the new government as illegitimate, calling instead for all Paleostinian factions, including Fatah, to form a power-sharing government ahead of national elections. It has warned Paleostinians in Gaza against cooperating with Israel to administer the territory, saying anyone who does so will be treated as a collaborator, which is understood as a death threat. |
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