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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-confab-may-choose-abbass-successor-and-tear-itself-apart/
PA Becoming Isolated in Arab World
(Times of Israel) Avi Issacharoff - A severe crisis has broken out between the Palestinian Authority and the moderate Arab world. Abbas is close to cutting off relations with the Sunni Arab states, Egypt and Saudi Arabia first among them. Saudi Arabia has suspended its financial aid to the PA, and Jordan could not care less about what happens in Ramallah. With the support of only part of Fatah, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas, 82, stands alone - against Hamas, Israel, the Arab countries, and his own enemy from within - Mohammad Dahlan. Yet there is no shortage of would-be successors.