"Obviously, we need new masses"
"I can tell you there is something of a decline in Fatah’s presence among the masses," Mahmud Aloul, deputy chairman of President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....’s secular Fatah movement which dominates the territory, tells journalists in Ramallah.
"Fatah adopted peaceful means, and made promises to the public, but it has not been able to deliver on them," he adds. "This is an essential part of what has led to a decline in its popularity."
At 72, Aloul is one of the most senior figures in the Paleostinian movement and is often mentioned as a possible successor to 87-year-old Abbas. But he appears to rule himself out as a successor for Abbas, saying: "We will look for someone from the younger generation."