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| Abbas says no elections unless Palestinians in East Jerusalem can vote |
| 2019-12-19 |
| [IsraelTimes] Last week the PA said it had officially requested permission from Israel to allow Paleostinians in East Jerusalem to vote and run in PA parliamentary and presidential elections. Israel has yet to give a response. The overwhelming majority of Paleostinians in East Jerusalem cannot vote in national elections in Israel because Israeli law only permits citizens of the Jewish state to cast ballots. Paleostinians in East Jerusalem largely do not hold citizenship, but rather permanent residency. The Paleostinians have not held elections for more than a decade. Abbas told the annual gathering of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... General Assembly in September in New York City that he would call for general elections in the West Bank, Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip and East Jerusalem in the near future. He has since met several times with the head of the PA Central Elections Committee, Hanna Nasser, to discuss the possibility of holding elections, but has yet to set dates for the vote. Meanwhile, ...back at the shootout, Butch started the buffalo stampeding...... the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, which rules the Gaza Strip, has declared it is ready to participate in elections. The PA has not held parliamentary or presidential elections since 2006 and 2005, respectively. The Oslo Accords, signed by Israel and the Paleostine Liberation Organization in the 1990s, set out a mechanism to enable Paleostinians to participate in elections in East Jerusalem, which the Jewish state considers part of its sovereign capital. The Paleostinians have said they want East Jerusalem to be the capital of a future Paleostinian state. Israel allowed PA elections to take place in East Jerusalem in 1996, 2005 and 2006. Both the PA and Hamas have said they will not take part in elections that exclude East Jerusalem. Paleostinian analysts believe the chances of a vote going ahead are low, both because of internal Paleostinian disputes and Israel’s apparent unwillingness to let an East Jerusalem vote go ahead. The Israeli government has cracked down on any PA activity in East Jerusalem in recent years and would be loath to allow a Paleostinian vote in the city, particularly during an Israeli election campaign. Israel considers East Jerusalem part of a united capital of Israel. |
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