Foreign Minister Livni: Abbas Is "Irrelevant"

(Ha'aretz) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Sunday that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is "irrelevant" because of Hamas' victory in last month's elections and the militant group's subsequent takeover of the Palestinian parliament and cabinet. "Abu Mazen [Abbas] cannot serve as a fig leaf to a terrorist authority. Abu Mazen cannot be the pretty face of the ugly terror hiding behind him," Livni told Israel Radio.


2006-02-27 00:00:00

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