- How long can Abbas last? That’s the question that came to my mind when I read this:
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday that he would not fire the new Hamas-led government at this time despite the Islamist group’s refusal to renounce violence and embrace peacemaking with Israel.
- Abbas, leader of the more moderate faction Fatah, last week vetoed Hamas’s nomination of a Gaza Strip militant to a senior security post, prompting violent street confrontations and warnings of a looming Palestinian civil war.
Unless Abbas was grandstanding and playing to the international audience (with Hamas knowledge and consent), I think they’re going to taken him down. Violently.
