Palestinians urgently need a leader who represents them – but they’re facing another undemocratic stitch-up

Palestinians urgently need a leader who represents them – but they’re facing another undemocratic stitch-up

Mahmoud Abbas’s lining up of the next president is part of a long pattern of denying Palestinians political agencySince the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, much has been written about how Palestinians are fragmented and demobilised – how their leadership is missing in action. At the heart of this problem is the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was created in 1994 after the signing of the Oslo accords. The PA, which helps Israel coordinate its hi…