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2016-12-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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At Fatah congress, Rajoub — and Abbas — walk away with big wins
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[IsraelTimes] In pulling off conference without a hitch and sidelining rival Dahlan, PA president has good reason to be pleased... for now.
The Paleostinian news agencies on Sunday published the first results in the Fatah Central Committee elections for key positions in the political party.
Coming in first place was Marwan Barghouti, held in Israeli prison for murder after orchestrating deadly terror attacks during the Second Intifada, followed by Jibril Rajoub, the head of the Paleostinian Football Association (PFA). For months, Rajoub has been seen as the most popular personality in Fatah, after Bargouhti, of course, and Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
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... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
Next on the list are Mahmud Eshtawi, Hussein Eshtawi and Muhammed al-Alul -- all of whom are allies of Rajoub.
And that is likely to be the most significant outcome of these elections within the framework of the seventh Fatah Congress ‐ Rajoub’s camp is strengthening and he is the leading candidate for the position of general-secretary of the top decision-making Central Committee, which positions him as number two in the party and a possible successor to Abbas.
Rajoub’s biggest opponent in these elections, Tawfik Tirawi, was also chosen for the Central Committee, but few of his supporters made it on the list. Only Yasser Arafat’s nephew Nasser al-Kidwa -- also considered a possible successor -- made the cut, according to reports.
Rajoub can’t celebrate, however. The Central Committee, which chooses the general-secretary, will be supplemented by another four members appointed by Abbas, and in light of the enormous power the Paleostinian leader wields, they are expected to receive the approval of the Fatah leadership. And then, it seems, Abbas will try to appoint top Paleostinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state...
to the position of secretary-general.
Nonetheless, even before the results for the Fatah leadership elections came in, and even before the Saturday vote, one victor could be identified: Abbas himself, the leader of the Paleostinian Authority and chairman of the Paleostine Liberation Organization.
Although Abbas’s status on the Paleostinian street is more troubled than ever, and although surveys in the West Bank attest to a decline in his support, in the battle for Fatah and its leadership, Abbas can declare a big victory. The PA president managed to make the general congress happen, in the shadow of a possible split within Fatah, and despite the stubborn efforts by his opponents, led by former Gazoo strongman Mohammad Dahlan, to prevent the event from taking place.
Abbas did this while all the moderate Arab states, and especially Egypt, turned their backs on him and threw their support behind reconciliation with Dahlan, who lives in exile in Dubai. Despite these obstacles, Abbas emerges from this conference as an unassailable leader of Fatah, while his rival Dahlan and dozens of Dahlan’s cronies find themselves out of the party ranks, without any signs of a return in the near future.
Some 1,400 members of Fatah -- from all over the world -- who were accompanied by 65 international delegations from 28 different countries, and 350 members of Fatah in the Gazoo Strip, took part in the congress with the knowledge and understanding that, above all, they were attending as a display of faith in Abbas. They welcomed a national economic plan ‐ with no new components ‐ that he wanted to pass, they lined up behind his every decision and statement, and they were forced to listen to him address conference attendees for more than three hours.
They even adopted his idea of bestowing "honorary membership" in the Central Committee -- the big shotship body of the party which saw some of its most bitter battles centered on its membership -- to three Fatah veterans. It was an unprecedented decision, and it is still unclear if it will afford the three the right to vote or not, depending on whom you ask.
And still, it is hard to say how this victory for Abbas in Fatah will affect his standing in the general Paleostinian public. On the street, it must be said, the Fatah leadership is seen as an anachronistic body with almost no youth representation or new faces. Even Dahlan’s temporary setback does not rule out a possible split in the party or the loss of Fatah legitimacy, especially in the Gazoo Strip. In other words, in the long term, it is not clear how much this victory will impact Abbas, especially when the power struggles within Fatah persist. 
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