Oh noes! The PLO suspended recognition of Israel! (Again!)

From the official Palestinian Wafa news agency on Wednesday:

The Palestinian Central Council (PCC) affirmed this evening the suspension of the recognition of the State of Israel until it recognizes the State of Palestine on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and halts settlement activity, and affirmed the cessation of security coordination in all its forms.

Hmmm, this sounds familiar. Oh yes, from October 2018:

A top Palestinian body authorised the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to suspend recognition of Israel and stop security coordination with Tel Aviv.

The Palestinian Central Council (PCC) – a body of the PLO – said the suspensions should be in place until Israel recognises the Palestinian state based on pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported.

Similarly, in 2015, with hilarious explanatory text:

Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) have called for ending security coordination with Israel.

The PLO’s Central Council (PCC), the second-highest Palestinian decision-making body, took the decision on Thursday in the light of rising tensions with Israel.

Launched under the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords which founded the Palestinian Authority (PA), the coordination involves the sharing of intelligence and is considered crucial for Israel to monitor the Hamas movement.

It is not clear if Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will implement the resolution by the Council, but the decisions it takes are usually binding on the PA.

Council member Mustapha Barghouthi told the AFP news agency that decisions were binding “because it was the PLO which created it [the PA] and which signed the Oslo accords”.

It's adorable that people pretend that all these legislative bodies of the PLO and PA and Fatah actually have some sort of power to make decisions. 

This repeated story proves that the Palestinian Authority is a dictatorship, run by Mahmoud Abbas who controls all the branches of the PA government as well as the dominant political party Fatah as well as the PLO that ostensibly is what the PA reports to. 

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