The PA has announced new moves to limit freedom of expression for Palestinians already living under Israel’s occupation. Mahmoud Abbas hopes to extinguish criticism, but these repressive policies will only generate even greater hostility.
The former secretary-general of the League of Arab States, Amr Moussa, yesterday resigned from his post as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Yasser Arafat Foundation. In an official statem.
A corrupted man, 85, declining and in the 16th year of his 4-year-term. Thu Jul 29, 2021 Mahmoud Abbas is in the sixteenth year of his four-year-term as President of the Palestinian Authority. He is best known for his despotic ways and his epic corruption. He has amassed a private fortune of $400 million, money diverted from foreign aid and from louche business deals he has made for himself and his two sons Tareq and Yasser. He has provided well-paid government jobs to his own relatives and to the relatives of others in the PA government, whose loyalty to him is thus assured. He is now deeply unpopular; in public opinion polls, he would lose the presidency, garnering at most 40% of the vote, no matter who the other candidate might be. More on Abbas and his decline and likely fall, is here: “The Final Countdown to Abbas’ Rule Is Gaining Pace,” by David Hacham, Algemeiner, July 19, 2021:
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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr Yasser Al-Kidwa, the nephew of the late leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Yasser Arafat