Abbas was elected to a four-year term in 2005, but no presidential ballot has been held since and he is now deeply unpopular, with a September opinion poll showing 89 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank wanted him to resign.
In a statement released late on Wednesday, Abbas said the chairman of the Palestinian National Council should serve as interim president for no more than 90 days, during which presidential elections should be held.
I honestly believe that the situation in Palestine has gotten to a point that if an election is held, Palestinians will vote an extremist government into power with an agenda of revenge whose policies are to wipe Israel and the people off the face of the Earth. Regardless of whether you think Israel deserved that, what will actually happen if they try is that the US will help Israel annex the West Bank and Gaza Strip and exterminate the Palestinian nation. And they will succeed.
Good does not always triumph over evil.
That’s exactly what happened in Gaza with Hamas.
