Senior aide to Mahmoud Abbas accuses Hamas of coup attempt

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Last update - 19:16 06/03/2006


Senior aide to Mahmoud Abbas accuses Hamas of coup attempt

By News Agencies

A senior Palestinian official accused Hamas lawmakers on Monday of attempting to oust Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas by nullifying a parliamentary decision that gave the Palestinian president wider powers.

"We see this as a coup attempt to change the regime and they have to seriously reconsider their decisions," said Tayeb Abdel-Rahim, a senior aide to Abbas.

Meanwhile, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshal said Monday that the group's recent visit to Moscow marked the end of its international isolation.


Hamas legislators voted Monday to revoke all decisions made by the previous Palestinian parliament at its final session last month, including legislation that gave Abbas wider powers to appoint some judges.
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/690849.ht

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1. Gee, who could have predicted this? nt

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3. hell if I know

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4. Well, I did,

But then it was easy, because Hamas said they would when it was done in the first place.

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5. so did I

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anyone who listened to them for the last several years knew this would happen unless they suddenly decided to change their stripes

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6. So the question then arises: why did the outgoing parliament do this?

Suppose the Democrats won big in November, and the outgoing Pubbie Congress passed a law that says Bush has dictatorial powers in perpetuity, and the incoming Democratic Congress immediately repealed that. What would that make one think of the state of political life in the US? Not business as usual, but a desperate and futile measure it was, and it did the outgoing parliament no credit that they stooped to such chicanery.

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7. Clearly the Fatah party was trying to maintain power beyond

their "term" and could have expected this.

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2. link.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/690849

hard words but the actions are no different than US politicking.

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8. not true at all: Fatah gunmen firing weapons outside Parliament

is not like US politics at all. There's an anarchic quality to Palestinian politics these days

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9. the gunmen have always been there...

if its anarchy your worried about, you have the IDF checkpoints to thank for that (ha ha kidding)... but seriously gunmen to you and gunmen to palestinians are 2 different things.

whens the last time you saw a tank and 3 APCs roll down your street?

how about the last time you were under curfew? had your power cut?

stopped at a checkpoint and held under gunpoint? asked where youre going and then told to turn around?

how about the last time a gun battle happened in your suburb town but the only ones with the guns were the israelis?... the reason? special forces had occupied a house and got found out... and when they finally left(4 hours or so) 2 young men had been killed and 3 others wounded with live ammo rounds and the whole block stunk of tear gas.