[Ynet] Some 1,400 Fatah members gather in Ramallah for a conference, where delegates are to hold elections for the party's two main decision-making bodies; in a first step, delegates unanimously re-elected Abbas as Party Leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
for a new five-year term; the conference, which is expected to be attended by hundreds of the movement's members, is likely to result in further consolidation of the longtime leader Mahmoud Abbas, while thwarting the return of his rival and critic Mohammed Dahlan. |