Muhammad Rashid: Israel's candidate

"The envoy went on to quote what he heard from Lieberman: He described Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as “weak and corrupted, and no longer relevant” and suggested that the United States and Israel find a more suitable partner for dialogue in the PA leadership. His candidate: Mohammed Rashid, “although he is no Woodrow Wilson.”"  Rashid had long been suspected by Arafat of working for Israeli intelligence (and Arafat would bring people closer to him if he suspected that they were working for American or Israeli intelligence), and famously embezzled more than 1$ billion of PLO funds.  I have followed the suspicious and corrupt career of Rashid, and Hussein Agha had told me that initially he won the trust of Arafat by bringing him profit from investment, which led Arafat to exclaim: that it is the first time that someone would bring me profit on my investments.  He showed up in Lebanon in the 1970s and fought with a small leftist group during the civil war before he reached Arafat's court.