Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed longtime ally Mohammad Shtayyeh as prime minister on Sunday, officials said, in a move seen as part of efforts to further isolate rival Islamist group Hamas.ADVERTISING<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abbas<\/a> asked Shtayyeh, a member of the central committee of the Palestinian president’s Fatah<\/a> party, to form a new government, Fatah vice president Mahmoud al-Aloul told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Official Palestinian news agency WAFA also reported the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some analysts view Shtayyeh\u2019s appointment to replace outgoing prime minister Rami Hamdallah as part of Abbas’s efforts to further isolate his political rivals from Hamas<\/a>, the Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A British-educated economist and a former peace negotiator, Shtayyeh is a firm believer in a two-state solution with Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in 1958, he is a long-term Abbas ally and a strong critic of Hamas, while Hamdallah was politically independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The previous government was formed during a period of improved relations and had the backing of Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But attempts to achieve a reconciliation with the Islamist movement collapsed a year ago when Hamdallah’s motorcade was almost struck by a roadside bomb in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shtayyeh\u2019s government is instead likely to be dominated by Fatah, though other smaller parties will be represented. Hamas is not expected to be included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed longtime ally Mohammad Shtayyeh as prime minister on Sunday, officials said, in a move seen as part of efforts to further isolate rival Islamist group Hamas.ADVERTISING Abbas asked Shtayyeh, a member of the central committee of the Palestinian president’s Fatah party, to form a new government, Fatah vice president Mahmoud al-Aloul told AFP. Official Palestinian news agency WAFA… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}