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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Abbas appoints new PM to Hamas outrage
2013-06-03
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Ineffectual Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas named British-educated political independent Rami Hamdallah as new prime minister on Sunday, a move that was immediately condemned by Gaza Strip rulers Hamas.

Fawzi Barhoum told Reuters “Abbas should have implemented the reconciliation (deal)” achieved in Cairo last month, rather than name his own independent candidate as prime minister. The group called Hamdallah’s appointment “illegal.”
Did they threaten to kill him?
A little known figure outside the Palestinian territories, Hamdallah is a professor of linguistics who has been president of An Najah National University in the West BankÂ’s largest city since 1998.
As a professor of linguistics he can say one thing in English and another in Arabic. That'll be useful in Paleostine...
He will replace Western-favoured economist Salam Fayyad who quit in April and formally leaves office this month.

“President Abbas has designated Rami Hamdallah to form a new cabinet,” the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. Palestinian and Israeli media also reported the appointment.

Led by the secular Fatah party, AbbasÂ’ Western-backed Palestinian Authority has pursued surveillance, firings, arrests and torture to bar its Islamist rivals from public life in the West Bank, since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip enclave in 2007.
Posted by:Steve White

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