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Abbas urged to quit, scrap government
Fatah officials have asked the Palestinian president to resign, dissolve the Palestinian Authority and return responsibility for the occupied territories to Israel in protest against Tel Aviv's actions.
Senior Fatah officials said on Friday the idea of scrapping the Palestinian Authority (PA) was debated for the first time on Thursday night by the Fatah central committee, which controls Mahmoud Abbas's faction.
The discussion highlighted frustrations within Fatah, beaten by Hamas in elections in January, after Israel's seizure of a Palestinian leader in a West Bank prison raid this week.
A senior Fatah official said Abbas's aide, Tayeb Abdel-Rahim, had sparked the debate in the central committee, winning support from several members.
"Abdel-Rahim said at the meeting Abbas must consider resigning and dissolving the Palestinian Authority if Israel continues with its attacks and unilateral measures," said the official, who asked not to be named.
"Why should we accept blow after blow to President Abbas whom the world claims to support?"
Abbas, who resigned once when he was prime minister under the late Yasser Arafat, and has threatened to quit since becoming president, told the central committee that he would consider the proposal, the official said.
Hamas opposition
Islamist resistance movement Hamas, which is about to form a government that Fatah and other factions have refused to join, said it opposed dissolving the PA.
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/00476A15-C9F7-41C1-BC0C-6EB88066AA85.htm
The discussion highlighted frustrations within Fatah, beaten by Hamas in elections in January, after Israel's seizure of a Palestinian leader in a West Bank prison raid this week.
A senior Fatah official said Abbas's aide, Tayeb Abdel-Rahim, had sparked the debate in the central committee, winning support from several members.
"Abdel-Rahim said at the meeting Abbas must consider resigning and dissolving the Palestinian Authority if Israel continues with its attacks and unilateral measures," said the official, who asked not to be named.
"Why should we accept blow after blow to President Abbas whom the world claims to support?"
Abbas, who resigned once when he was prime minister under the late Yasser Arafat, and has threatened to quit since becoming president, told the central committee that he would consider the proposal, the official said.
Hamas opposition
Islamist resistance movement Hamas, which is about to form a government that Fatah and other factions have refused to join, said it opposed dissolving the PA.
More
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/00476A15-C9F7-41C1-BC0C-6EB88066AA85.htm
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Senior Fatah officials said on Friday the idea of scrapping the Authority was debated for the first time on Thursday night by the Fatah Central Committee, which controls Abbas' faction.
Analysts and Fatah officials said the demands - raised both in a letter to Abbas signed by five midlevel Fatah activists and at Thursday's meeting by a senior party official - are not serious at the moment.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/695518.html
Return TO Israel?
Huh?
What about to Hamas? What about to the people? Why does Fatah want Israel to have the territory? Is this just to spite Abbas?