US, Israel act to stop Abbas quitting for fear of alternatives
- November 21, 2009
- News
The Obama administration and Netanyahu government are bending over backward to dissuade Mahmoud Abbas from going through with his decision to retire from public life both as chairman of the Palestinian Authority and head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which he now says is final, DEBKAfile‘s Washington and Jerusalem sources report. His most likely successor is his deputy Abu Maher Ghneim, a died-in-the-wool rejectionist of negotiations with Israel