Monday, April 22, 2024
Elder of Ziyon
No one really thought that anything would change. Mustafa has been an aide to Abbas and won't do anything that Abbas wouldn't want him to.
But something interesting happened on Sunday which shows even more blatantly that the Palestinian Authority is a dictatorship under Abbas, and nothing else matters.
The previous foreign minister was Riyad Maliki. Don't worry about him being unemployed, though - he landed on his feet in a brand new role that Abbas just made up: " Advisor to the President of the State for International Affairs and his Special Envoy" with a rank of ....Minister.
It sure sounds like Abbas wants his own foreign minister who reports directly to him, and he is spitting in the face of his new prime minister who has just become impotent in foreign affairs. Maliki already has connections to foreign leaders and Abbas will make sure that his new job will be an extension of his old job.
This is the sort of corruption that happens constantly under the Palestinian Authority - the government that the world wants to take over Gaza. Yet while the Western media is keenly interested in any whiff of controversy in Israel's government, with countless articles about judicial reform, here we have the head of the Palestinian Authority, and the PLO, and Fatah, publicly adding some additional powers - and no one is saying a word.
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