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February 11, 2022

How the Deaths of Three Terrorists Help Mahmoud Abbas

The Palestinian Authority president can incite his people against Israel and ignore threats to his legitimacy.

On Tuesday, the IDF and Shin Bet killed three wanted terrorists in a shoot-out in Nablus. The story has shifted Palestinian attention away from a meeting of the PLO central committee earlier this week, which was widely seen as a power-grab by the aging Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party. And it benefits Abbas in other ways as well, as Khaled Abu Toameh explains:

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February 11, 2022

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