http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL1475657620070614 Abbas dismisses gov't, declares emergency: officialRAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas signed decrees dissolving the Palestinian government and declaring a state of emergency
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Except that any self-respecting Palestinian knows that the Israelis are funded by the US. And wouldn't you rather be fooling the "enemy" than fooling the American people?
Also, "dissolving the palestinian gov't" should be more like "dissolving the palestinian parliament," which, i just learned in poli-sci 101, is something the president can do in a hybrid-parliamentary system.
What disturbs me more, (from this BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6756079.stm), is that in-fighting has now split Gaza and the West Bank. if they can't get it together, the palestinians will never get a country of their own. That's what saddens me. :(
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Still, its he declared a state of emergency and gets to appoint a new parliament and a new prime minister. That is fucked.
You are right about the splitting up for Gaza and the West Bank, They will have even less centralization, more conflict and be take less and less seriously every-time something like this happens. I would say They need to fix it ASAP, but I think it might already be too late.
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