The day after Abbas: Will it make a difference?

The day after Abbas: Will it make a difference?

By Nadia Hijab and Alaa Tartir

The Palestinian National Council is expected to meet this month to accept the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Palestinians at home and in exile don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the unfolding spectacle, which may herald a succession process. The 80-year-old Abbas appears to have hand-picked Saeb Erekat to handle the international community and the intelligence chief Majid Faraj to control internal affairs. Erekat was revealed in the leaked Palestine Papers to have bent over backwards to accommodate Israel, including largely giving up the refugees' right of return to their homes and land. As for Faraj, he has used an iron fist to stabilize the West Bank and he oversees the hated security collaboration with Israel that keeps Palestinians occupied and subjugated.

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