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Abbas planning to replace longtime spy chief, capping off purge of PA security heads

2025-03-26

[IsraelTimes] PA president under growing pressure to make space for new generation of leaders, as world community hopes Ramallah can gear-up to take on larger task of resuming governance in Gaza

The world community is full of fools. Ramallah’s PLO/PA can’t, even if Israel would trust them to try.

Paleostinian Authority 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....>
is planning to replace his longtime intelligence chief Majed Faraj, capping off a wider purge of security heads in Ramallah that began several months ago, a Paleostinian official, a European diplomat and a Paleostinian source familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel.

Faraj is one of Abbas’s closest confidants and has worked to bolster security coordination with Israel in the West Bank since becoming head of the PA’s General Intelligence Service in 2009.

But Abbas is facing mounting pressure from Arab and Western allies to reform the Paleostinian Authority and make way for a new generation of leaders, so that the PA is better equipped to potentially take on the larger task of once again governing 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 a rusty 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...
after the war there. After Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005, Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
~~violent~~ mostly peacefully took power there in 2007, pushing out Abbas’s Fatah faction.

Fatah being the largest faction in the PLO, and therefore of its figleaf, the PA.

Last March, Abbas fired all of his ministers and formed a new cabinet led by Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa, another longtime ally. In recent months and weeks, he has replaced the heads of the PA’s Security Forces, Preventive Security Service, police and civil defense. Three of those four agencies are now headed by former senior members of Abbas’s security detail.

Not looking far afield, then, to bring in young, new blood with new ideas.

Faraj is the last security chief to remain in his post, and the three sources speaking to The Times of Israel said he is hoping to avoid the fate of his now-former counterparts. At the very least, Faraj is hoping to shift to a spot on the Paleostine Liberation Organization’s powerful Executive Committee.

The sources said a final decision regarding Faraj’s fate is expected in the coming weeks, with the PA president likely to appoint a new intel chief. Spokespeople for Abbas and Faraj did not respond to requests for comment.

In a further bid to address demands from allies and donor countries to reform the PA, the 89-year-old Abbas

….oh my — I hadn’t realized he was quite that elderly…

announced earlier this month that he would create the position of vice president in addition to granting amnesty to expelled members of his Fatah party.

A placeholder to run things until a new Number 1 is chosen — or chooses himself — after President Abbas dies in office?

Speaking at a Cairo summit of Arab leaders to discuss plans for the post-war management of Gaza, Abbas said he would also soon convene the PLO’s long-dormant legislative body, the central council.

Soon being totally undefined, we note. Not that it matters— the PLO is not capable of holding Gaza, which has an entirely different set of clans.

Abbas, who has not stood for elections since winning a four-year term in 2006,

…now approaching his sixth extension of that four year term…

insisted he is willing to do so if Israel allows balloting in East Jerusalem.

Israel annexed East Jeruslaem in 1980, taking it off the table, but President Abbas like to pretend he would hold elections if he could, though all know that his party would lose resoundingly to Hamas if elections were actually held. This is why they have not been since Hamas drove the PLO out of Gaza.

In November, Abbas declared that if his post were to become vacant before elections are held, he would be temporarily replaced by Rawhi Fattouh, the former speaker of the Paleostinian Legislative Council.

A statement posted to the PA’s official Wafa news site said that in such an event, Fattouh would serve as interim president for no more than 90 days, during which presidential elections would be held. But if it were not possible to hold elections, the Paleostinian Central Council could grant a one-time extension to the interim president’s term.

Another reform announced by Abbas in February — which was aggressively pushed by Western countries — saw the cancellation of legislation that conditioned welfare payments to Paleostinian security prisoners on the length of their sentence in Israeli jails.

A.k.a. Pay to Slay. They like to pretend it’s something else in the new, improved version.

Payments to prisoners and the families of slain attackers have not yet been updated, though, because the cash-strapped PA is running several months behind on the stipends, two Paleostinian officials told The Times of Israel last week.

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