Sunday, May 29, 2005

Abu Mazen will be going to Tunisia hoping to calm Faruq Qaddumi down. Qaddumi has been very critical of Abu Mazen. The latter (along with Arafat's nephew, Nasir Al-Qidwah--the new Palestinian foreign minister) has been trying to replace all of Qaddumi's people in the Palestinian foreign service. But during the days of Arafat, Qaddumi's criticisms of the PLO leadership usually declined when large amounts of funds got transferred to the Political Department (headed by Qaddumi).