PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...is speaking to the Paleostinian National Council, launching four days of meetings during which an aging PLO leadership group is up for election.
The meeting comes at a time of deep internal divisions between Abbas and his rival, the terrorist group Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, which controls the Gazoo Strip.
Hamas has raised its leadership profile in recent weeks with mass protests on the Gazoo border with Israel. By comparison, Abbas’s longstanding strategy ‐ statehood through US-led talks with Israel ‐ is seen as a failure.
Abbas suspended contacts with the Trump administration after its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in December.