Democrats they are not
The Palestinian Liberation Organization is rumoured to be extending Mahmoud Abbas’ term as the Palestinian President…as in ‘indefinitely’. Ha’aretz:
Mahmoud Abbas’ term as Palestinian president will be extended by the supreme body of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it meets in December, senior officials said on Tuesday. Abbas, the Western-backed leader committed to negotiating peace with Israel, will stay in office, the PLO officials said.
(…)”The Central Council has only one solution and it is to entrust the president, as head of the PLO, with continuing as president of the Palestinian Authority until it is able to hold presidential and legislative elections,” said Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior official in the Fatah movement, also led by Abbas.
His view was reflected by other members of the Central Council including representatives of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Palestine Liberation Front.
I have been waiting for this announcement ever since Mahmoud Abbas’ legislative term/mandate as the head of the Palestinian Authority expired last year. Better later than never and it is hardly surprising given the Fatah-Hamas divide but I am racking my brain trying to remember a single Arab leader who gave up a political power willingly without either a revolution or an assassination taking place…. I am drawing a complete blank. Help me out.
