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Palestinian president, whose term has ended on January 9, Mahmud Abbas said on Friday his Hamas rivals will "never" be able to take over the West Bank "as they did the Gaza Strip."
"Hamas succeeded in its putsch in Gaza because we wanted to avert military confrontation, but what happened there would not be repeated in the West Bank. Never," Abbas told journalists.
Abbas also claimed Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal would fail to set up an organization to rival the Palestine Liberation Organisation, which the international community recognizes as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. "He won't be able to destroy this edifice," he said in reference to the PLO.
Meshaal said on Wednesday that he planned, together with other radical factions, to set up a new body to represent the Palestinians rather than the PLO. Abbas's Fatah dominates the organization.
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