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Israeli Deputy: 'Abu Mazen Is a Political Corpse'

Israeli Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirshenbaum states that Palestinian Chairman Abu Mazen has no internal legitimacy to negotiate an agreement which will include the Gaza Strip.  
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“Abu Mazen is a political corpse,” said Deputy Minister of the Interior and Knesset member Faina Kirshenbaum in an interview with Al-Monitor.

For more than 10 years, Kirshenbaum has served as the secretary-general of Yisrael Beiteinu party, and she is considered a confidante of party leader, former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman. She wholeheartedly adopts Liberman’s political line regarding the conflict and particularly his position on Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen — which he has been voicing consistently in recent years: “He’s irrelevant.”

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