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He219
07-08-2003, 03:03 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3056216.stm
hood
07-08-2003, 03:10 PM
If i'm reading this correctly, this is not the same thing as resigning from his prime minister post. The Fatah movement is just the uprising thing and doesn't necessarily represent the Palestinian Authority on the whole.
Trident-za
07-08-2003, 03:20 PM
Yes, thats how I read it too.... still probably not a good thing for the region.
He219
07-08-2003, 03:26 PM
He is resigning as deputy chairman of Fatah. Disassociation with that organization may erode his power base to enact far reaching reforms even while increasing his political image with the west. Ultimately we know who still influences Palestinian Politics behind the scenes.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030707/capt.1057595685.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl111.jpg

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, center, and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, center left, meet with key members of Fatah and members of the PLO executive Committee, at Arafat's compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Monday July 7, 2003. The session was held in order for Palestinian ministers to brief Arafat on a spate of meetings held over the past week with their Israeli counterparts. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
p-)
He219
hood
07-08-2003, 03:35 PM
it just shows that they need to get rid of arafat already and stop beating around the bush... (yeesh that's a bad pun)
Seraphim
07-09-2003, 04:28 AM
Abbas Threatens to Quit As Palestinian PM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030709/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians&cid=540&ncid=716
StarvingStudent47
07-09-2003, 01:04 PM
Something needs to be done about Arafat. I don't think we'll ever see peace so long as he's pulling the strings. I don't agree with everything the Heritage Foundation says (actually, I disagree with a lot of what they say), but here is a good piece they wrote on Arafat: CLICK HERE (http://new.heritage.org/Press/NewsReleases/NR040302.cfm).

I had some hopes for Mahmoud Abbas (despite his quirks, like claiming that Nazis and Jews were in cahoots in the 1940s), but it looks like he was a flash in the pan.