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Saving Face for Abbas


(Ha'aretz) Danny Rubinstein - From the moment jailed PFLP leader Ahmed Saadat was elected six weeks ago to the Palestinian parliament, PA Chairman Abbas was put into an impossible position. How dare you hold an elected member of parliament in a Palestinian jail, the masses of Saadat's voters contended. Abbas heard Hamas saying that the moment they formed the government, they would release Saadat, and he understood he could not stop it.
2006-03-14 00:00:00
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