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Source: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/86e211ee-b10a-11d9-9bfc-00000e2511c8.html
Abbas Comes Under Increasing Pressure
(Financial Times-UK) - One hundred days after he was elected to succeed Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas faces a confluence of domestic and external pressures that put in question his long-term political survival. "Abu Mazen has already proved to be a great disappointment," said Raji Sourani, a lawyer who heads the Palestinian Center for Human Rights. "Nothing has improved on the economic, social, or security levels." His critics accuse him of not moving fast enough to stamp out corruption by removing dishonest and inefficient officials in the PA or to restore law and order by firing security chiefs who run their units almost as independent fiefdoms. Zufian Abu Zaideh, a leading Fatah reformer, regards Abbas's term so far as "100 days of depression," saying: "Abu Mazen doesn't use the power he got from being elected."