Till September: The PA’s Meaningless Deadlines (Ramzy Baroud)

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Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust

Feb. 25, 2011 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his supporters in the Fatah party want us to believe that dramatic changes are underway in the occupied Palestinian territories.


This is part of a strategy intended to offset any public dissatisfaction with the self-designated Palestinian leadership in the West Bank. The PA hopes the "news" will create enough distraction to help it survive the current climate of major public-regime showdowns engulfing the Middle East.


Anticipating a potential popular uprising in the occupied territories -- which could result in a major revamping of the current power, to the disadvantage of Abbas -- the PA is now taking preventive measures.


First, there was the resignation of the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Ereka Feb. 12. Erekat was clearly implicated in negotiating, if not squandering, Palestinian rights in successive meetings with Israeli and American officials. This was revealed through nearly 1,600 leaked documents, which Aljazeera and the Guardian termed the "Palestine Papers."

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