A top aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was heard cursing the Palestinian leader as “the son of 66 whores” in leaked recordings published by a news site affiliated with the rival Hamas faction.
A top aide to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was heard cursing the Palestinian leader as “the son of 66 whores” in leaked recordings published by a news site affiliated with the rival Hamas faction.
The remarks by Hussein al-Sheikh, who was also tapped as secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization this year, exposes the internal tensions within the Palestinian leadership as top officials jostle for power ahead of a post-Abbas era. Al-Sheikh is seen as the most likely successor to the aging Abbas.
File/Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, speaks after laying a wreath at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the the West Bank city of Ramallah as Palestinians commemorate the 14th anniversary of his death, Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. Abbas is the “son of 66 whores; he comes and gives his decisions without explanations. He is not right in the head if he thinks we can do the right thing without explaining his intentions,” al-Sheikh is heard saying.
“It pains me to say these things, but this process is completely different from after the death of Yasser Arafat,” he said, referring to Abbas’ predecessor who has been posthumously lionized by the Palestinian public and its leadership, despite his terrorist past.and has not called for elections since 2006. Polls show