Mahmoud Abbas: The perpetual dictator and the missing peace – How did millions of Palestinians like me fall under the control of this tyrant – and how can we regain our freedom? | Timesofisrael

2023, another year, an astonishing nineteenth year, of Mahmoud Abbas’s endless 4-year presidential term, which began on January 9, 2005. Under his kleptocratic rule, the governance of my native West Bank has devolved into what the democracy monitor Freedom House describes as: “no functioning legislature… [the Palestinian Authority (PA)] governs in an authoritarian manner, [and] engaging in acts of repression against journalists and activists who present critical views on its rule.”