P F Tinmore
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Dumb post.Good article, thanks.Reports indicate that Mahmoud Abba has dissolved the Palestinian Legislative Council.
(full article online)
Abbas continues his dictatorship, violating the PLO's own rules (again) ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News
The PLC was established by their constitution as an independent body. The president has no authority there. The PLC has not functioned since June of 2007. Israel arrested all of the Hamas members of the PLC in the West Bank along with some of the cabinet ministers. Abbas then locked the building. During Cast Lead, Israel bombed the PLC building in Gaza. Note that this creates a problem. The Prime minister and the cabinet must all be approved by the PLC before they can take office. This means that all of the governments in the West Bank since 2007 are not legal. None have had PLC approval.
As a matter of fact, as far as Ramallah is concerned, this body has already finished its life. It has not convened since Hamas captured Gaza, and Fatah “rogue” delegates are arrested despite the fact that they are immune from arrest.
Abbas seeks to terminate the council formally to avoid legal claims by Hamas’ “speaker,” Aziz Dweik, that he is the rightful successor to Mahmoud Abbas in an interim period. Fatah will not let that happen at all costs.
I have brought this up before. There are specific procedures laid out in their constitution to replace a president. The speaker of the PLC (in this case it would be Dr, Aziz Dweik,) temporarily assumes the office of president and calls elections within 60 days.
That long copy and paste is funny. The article laments the fact that islamic terrorist dictators don't follow standards of governance or rules of law that apply in kuffar Western nations.
Theocratic totalitarianism is vastly different from western standards of governance.
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