JERUSALEM POST
by Abraham Miller
June 16, 2015

Abbas’ Fatah organization grew out of secular ideologies. Its largest threat now comes from the growing fundamentalist revivalism sweeping the Islamic world.

Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, now serving the eleventh year of his four-year term, should pause and consider that Israel is no longer his biggest problem. Even Hamas is no longer his biggest problem. Abbas’ Fatah organization grew out of secular ideologies. Its largest threat now comes from the growing fundamentalist revivalism sweeping the Islamic world….IS fills political vacuums, as it did so successfully in Iraq and Syria. The PA represents another political vacuum, an entity without meaningful political or economic infrastructure, and a society without hope. It can complain about the occupation, but the legacy of political and economic corruption goes far beyond the problems of the occupation. READ MORE