US, Europe Hoping For Peaceful Transfer Of Political Repression After Abbas Dies

Much of Euro-American foreign policy over the last decades has relied on strongmen to impose decisions on the populace in the various non-democratic nations.

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Ramallah, October 5 – Supporters of the current Palestinian Authority president and his ruling faction remain wary of the instability that threatens to occur upon the passing of that already-frail leader, and aim to guarantee a smooth transition to a successor despot who will also suppress dissent, imprison political rivals, intimidate journalists into silence, beat protesters, and both glorify and incite violence against Jews.

Mahmoud Abbas, who will turn 86 next month, has yet to name a successor or initiate any processes through which Palestinians may choose one. American and European diplomats sounded a tone of caution on the matter in numerous conversations over the last several months, with emphasis on the question of who will guarantee the continued abuse of power, corruption, cronyism, lifetime payments to terrorists, official antisemitism, and utter disregard for the notion of putting people above politics once Abbas dies, is incapacitated, or steps down.

“Much of American foreign policy over the last decades has relied on strongmen to impose decisions on the populace in the various non-democratic nations,” explained US Assistant Secretary of State for Near-Eastern Affairs Pupp Etrejeem. “It’s much easier to deal with just one guy – let’s face it; it’s always a guy – and his interests than it is to try to win over enough of a population to get some democracy behind us. Just look how hard it is to convince our own countrymen we’re not bollixing everything up! So naturally, we favor despots. Abbas is the go-to guy for the Palestinians, just as Arafat was before him. If he doesn’t find a way soon to designate his replacement, the peaceful transfer of dictatorship will be in peril.”

Etrejeem noted the popularity of rival movements to Abbas’s Fatah, primarily Hamas. “If elections were held today, Hamas would command a majority,” he observed. “I mean both presidential and parliamentary elections. Setting aside Hamas’s status as a terrorist organization, and we’ve shown in Afghanistan, for example, that’s we’re perfectly willing to set such things aside, ew just don’t have established contacts and relationships with them; there’s downright suspicion on top of all that, because we’ve supported their rivals and Israel for so long. We need Fatah to stay in power so we can work to impose solutions on all parties and not allow them the option to reject those solutions at the ballot box.”

European diplomats suggested as a possible emergency compromise that Hunter Biden might be available for the position.

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