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| | Nissan Ratzlav-Katz on Abu Ala on National Review Online |
 | | By Sunday, Ahmed Qureia (nom de guerre: Abu Ala) was appointed, also by Yasser Arafat, as the new PA prime minister. |
 | | In other words, Abu Ala is not an elected representative of anyone, he's an Arafat appointee and loyalist, and a long-time central PLO figure, whose major decisions will be subject to Yasser Arafat's veto. |
 | | As he had repeated several times since his appointment, on September 4, just prior to his resignation, Abu Mazen stated: Arafat is "the elected, legitimate, constitutional and historical president of the Palestinian people." In late July, the then-PA prime minister elucidated this point in an interview with Newsweek magazine senior editor Lally Weymouth. |
| www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-ratzlav-katz090903.asp (583 words) |
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