Jerusalem and Ramallah are making ready for the loss of life of Abu Mazen, however there isn't any successor – Muricas News

The Lebanese publication “Al-Akhbar” writes that the state of well being of the 88-year-old chairman of the Palestinian Authority, the chief of Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has noticeably worsened not too long ago.

Fatah sources say that a couple of weeks in the past, Abbas needed to go to the hospital for medical exams, however selected to name the docs to his residence. It is usually reported that his current go to to Jordan (the place he was taken by helicopter), amongst different issues, was because of the want for medical checks.

The management of Fatah is more and more insisting that Abbas is not ready to deal with the position of “rais” and most probably won't stay to see the elections (the earlier such elections had been held in 2005). In opposition to this background, Jerusalem and Ramallah are looking for a worthy successor to the put up of performing chairman of the PA earlier than the “presidential” elections within the autonomy.

After the loss of life of Sahib Arikat (in November 2020), there isn't any candidate for the put up of “rais” within the management of Fatah, who might go well with the overwhelming majority of “heirs” of Abbas.

The preferred candidate for the put up remains to be Tanzim founder Marwan Barghouti, who continues to serve life sentences in an Israeli jail for greater than 20 years. However the Israeli authorities won't enable the discharge of Barghouti, whose coming to energy might result in a brand new “intifada”. Hussein al-Sheikh, secretary of the Govt Committee of the PLO and the Central Committee of the Fatah motion, is taken into account a extra promising candidate. However Fatah veterans akin to Jibril Rajoub and Mahmoud al-Alul oppose his candidacy.

The troublesome political scenario after the loss of life of Abbas can be utilized by Hamas to return to energy within the West Financial institution. It must be famous that the Al-Akhbar publication typically acts because the mouthpiece of this terrorist group. It's doable that the publication concerning the imminent loss of life of Abbas was additionally initiated by Hamas.

Mahmoud Abbas. Temporary biographical be aware

Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) was born on March 26, 1935 within the village of Safad (Galilee), in 1948 he was exiled together with his household to Syria, the place he joined the work of Arab nationalist organizations.

In 1965, he joined the Fatah get together, created by Yasser Arafat; repeatedly traveled to Qatar, the place he organized assist for Palestinian refugees; based the first “central committee” of the Palestine Liberation Group in Damascus, however later the headquarters of the PLO moved to Beirut, and Abbas left the political scene for a while, nonetheless, within the 60-70s he was thought-about the “chief financier” of the PLO .

Within the late 60s, Abbas obtained a level from the Moscow Institute of the Peoples of the East, specializing within the historical past of Zionism (a graduate scholar of Yevgeny Primakov).

Throughout the interval of the primary “intifada” he re-engaged in “political exercise”; within the early Nineties, he actively contributed to the signing of the Madrid Treaty; thought-about one of many most important architects of the Norwegian Accords. In 1995 he obtained permission to enter Israel; in 1996 he was elected Secretary Common of the PLO; Till not too long ago, he lived “in two homes” – in Gaza and Ramallah (he spent a whole lot of time overseas).

Within the late 90s, he was on the heart of a number of monetary scandals. In September 2002, he was nominated by the Fatah get together as a candidate for the put up of PA prime minister, however then Arafat “blocked” the very concept of ​​​​showing a “head of the PA authorities.” In February 2003, Mahmoud Abbas was once more nominated as a candidate for the put up of prime minister, in Might the appointment happened.

His premiership lasted solely 129 days, Abbas managed to succeed in an settlement on a brief truce (udne) between the Palestinian terrorist teams and Israel, the “truce” lasted lower than a month, and no different success was achieved by the Abbas authorities. After his resignation, Abbas repeatedly said that he wouldn't return to “huge politics.”

After Arafat’s loss of life, he was re-elected basic secretary of the PLO and nominated because the “single candidate” of the Fatah get together within the presidential elections. On January 9, 2005, he was elected head of the Palestinian Nationwide Authority and has since held this put up with out being re-elected.

Abbas’s time period of workplace has lengthy expired, however attributable to a break up within the autonomy, neither presidential nor parliamentary elections had been held, and the PLO prolonged the time period of Abu Mazen’s presidential time period a number of instances. On the similar time, Abbas repeatedly threatened that he would resign.