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What Can Abbas Do?
(Ynet News) Roee Nahmias - Israeli analysts didn't know whether to laugh or cry when they read on Monday that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas "ordered the security forces to carry out searches in southern Gaza after the kidnapped soldier." Shalom Harari, former adviser on the Palestinian territories at the Ministry of Defense, says that "if in the West Bank, Abbas' influence reaches 100 meters around his office, then in Gaza, his ability is close to zero." Harari thinks that Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and Interior Minister Said Siam are "running to search for the soldier because from their perspective, the alternative is to stay in the bunker for the foreseeable future."