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security coordination with Israel   Abbas ready to drop Oslo,
Paris Protocol and security coordination with IsraelReliable
Palestinian sources have revealed that Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas is ready to drop the Oslo Accord, the
Paris Protocol and security coordination with Israel. He made
this momentous claim in a meeting of the PLO leadership in
Ramallah. So keen was Abbas for the meeting to go ahead while
the demonstrations against the situation in the occupied
Palestinian territories were going on that he did not wait until
he got back from a trip to India.  Abbas accused most of the PLO
factions, especially Fatah, of "standing behind the
demonstrations" which swept the West Bank recently in protest
against the waves of prices rises; he refused to pin the blame
solely on Hamas. He threatened to step down and make them go
ahead with the legislative and presidential elections without
him.  The sources quote one of the senior Fata