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Palestinian Discontent with Abbas Is Growing
(New York Times) Diaa Hadid - There is growing discontent in Palestinian ranks focused on PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who celebrated his 80th birthday last week. "Internal problems - like the split [between the PA and Hamas in Gaza], and like the paralyzed political system, and a lack of elections - they are impediments also, for achieving the objective of independence and statehood," said Ghassan Khatib, vice president of Birzeit University in the West Bank. Abbas is a colorless leader in the 10th year of what was meant to have been a five-year term. He has failed to cultivate a successor and has systematically snuffed out any challenges to his rule.