JERUSALEM POST
Outgoing prosecutor: Intelligence shows Hamas will takeover West Bank post-Abbas
by Yonah Jeremy Robb
February 3, 2017

…Based on this intelligence, Lt.-Col. Hirsch, the newly retired chief West Bank prosecutor, is convinced that the [West Bank] area will become the next Hamastan once Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dies…”I think the basic understanding is that the Fatah-run West Bank will not last for very long… once Mahmoud Abbas passes on. The basic understanding is that Hamas will take over…“If Mahmoud Abbas dies without there being elections to appoint a replacement,” he explains, “the Palestinian constitution requires that the head of the parliament, Abdel Aziz Dwek, an elected Hamasnik, assume the role of the president.” READ MORE