Fateh Rev. Council list
Ma'an has now published a list of "all 81 newly elected members of the [Fateh] movement's 130-member strong Revolutionary Council", tallying for which finished in Bethlehem this evening.
I thought that participants in the Fatah conference were voting for 80 names, so I'm not clear either where the idea of having 81 elected members came from or, indeed, how the other 50 (0r 49) members get designated.
If anyone has information about that, please post it here.
It's possible the 81st person was included because of a tie at the bottom of the list of winners, as with the Central Committee election results announced earlier?
The CC list ended up with 19 winner, all of them male. Maan tells us that the RC list, "includes 11 women, one Jew and at least three Christians. The Jew is Israeli-British academic and longtime peace activist Uri Davis (#31).
I'm glad to see that Afif Safiyeh won election (#22). He is a very smart and experienced diplomatist who's been removed from a number of key PLO "ambassadorial" positions (Washington, Moscow) because of his well-known support for speedy reconciliation between Fateh and Hamas.
Anyway, I need to study this list a bit more.
I'm glad to see that Afif Safiyeh won election (#22). He is a very smart and experienced diplomatist who's been removed from a number of key PLO "ambassadorial" positions (Washington, Moscow) because of his well-known support for speedy reconciliation between Fateh and Hamas.
How can there possibly be reconciliation between a group working for Elliot Abrams and a group working for the Palestinian people?
I fear the "skills" of a diplomatist who could bring about such diplomaticity.
John F. Lee,
Abrams is no longer in office. Live with it.
Yes... he is no longer in office.
But he is one of the "undead" who sleep in their coffins by day and flap out night to suck all of our blood.
And his resurrection by Bush II proves that his re-resurrection, by Bush III fir instance, is not impossible either.
The only way we'll know these Neocons... Abrams, Wolfowitz, "professor" Feith... are truly dead will be to follow their caskets by the pale afternoon, to watch while they're lowered down to their deathbeds, and to stand over their graves, 'til we're sure that they're dead.