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2026-01-22 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Former Palestinian official accuses Palestinian Authority of institutional corruption
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[IsraelTimes] Ex-intelligence chief says he repeatedly alerted Abbas to cases of graft, but to no avail; accuses aides of ‘deliberately hiding the truth’ from 90-year-old PA president
A former Paleostinian Authority intelligence chief on Tuesday publicly accused the Paleostinian leadership of allowing systemic corruption to flourish within its institutions, in a rare appeal addressed directly to PA 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....>
In an open letter, Tawfik Tirawi, 77, said he repeatedly alerted Abbas to cases of graft, but to no avail.
As if Abu Mazen hasn’t been elbow deep in it since Yasser Arafat was fondling his special red binder. "The corruption system now operates with confidence and immunity," wrote Tirawi, a senior member of the Fatah central committee led by Abbas, whose presidential mandate expired in 2009.
Tirawi alleged the involvement of businesses and individuals in the takeover of public and private lands and assets, describing what he called a "moral and ethical collapse" of Paleostinian institutions.
You can’t collapse when your starting point is well below sea level. He also accused aides around Abbas, who is 90, of "deliberately hiding the truth" from him.
The man has been physically unwell for years... Tirawi, an outspoken Abbas critic, said that after consulting with other Fatah figures, he decided to make the issue public, warning that if the situation persisted he would disclose details of specific cases to the media.
That could prove amusing… "Did our people make all these sacrifices — deaders, prisoners and maimed — only for us to reach a stage where thieves and land brokers are left to spread corruption without deterrence or accountability?" he wrote.
Yasser Arafat had over $3 billion in the 1990s, though supposedly it was down to $1 billion when he died. He was skimming millions a month from the PLO’s finances, so it isn’t like there ever was a time when corruption was not the law of the land there. Mr. Tirawi’s shock seems a tad disingenuous. Tirawi has in the past advocated for armed Paleostinian resistance against Israel, and praised his then-2-year-old son for expressing his desire to kill "Zionists" in a children’s song.
His remarks come at a particularly fraught moment for Paleostinian society, after more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas
 ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip, sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, and escalating violence in the West Bank.
A fragile ceasefire came into force in Gaza in October as part of US President Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
’s peace initiative, setting in motion a complex Paleostinian political reform process and reigniting debate over governance.
Within the pockets of the West Bank that it administers, the PA is notorious for corruption.
Critics say the system lined the pockets of elites with tax proceeds and international aid, while funneling much of what was left to a massive security apparatus trained to crack down on dissent at the behest of its patrons.
Abbas has been in office for 20 years, and for nearly the entire time has failed to hold elections.
An accidental oversight, I’m sure. Abbas rarely leaves his headquarters in the city of Ramallah, except to travel abroad. He limits decision-making to his tight inner circle, including Hussein al-Sheikh, a longtime confidant whom he named as his designated successor in April.
An October poll by the Ramallah-based Paleostinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 80 percent of Paleostinians in the West Bank and Gaza want Abbas to resign.
Abbas has made some gestures toward reform, and has promised legislative and presidential elections within a year after the war in Gaza ends.
In a high-profile move against corruption, the PA transport minister was removed in October and put under investigation on allegations of bribery, according to local media.
Paleostinians are skeptical about the changes. In the PCPSR poll, 60% of respondents said they doubted Abbas will hold elections.
It found that if a vote were held, the clear winner would be Marwan Barghouti, a senior military figure from Abbas’s Fatah faction serving life in Israeli prison since 2002 in connection with deadly terror attacks during the Second Intifada. Abbas would come a distant third behind any Hamas candidate.
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