"Mahmoud Abbas’s predecessor, Yasser Arafat, operated in a similar manner, appointing several deputies and preventing any of them from amassing too much power, even encouraging occasional rivalries between them," said Professor Boaz Ganor, founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya.
Jake Walles, the U.S. consul general and chief of mission in Jerusalem from 2005-2009, recently said that, for almost all practical matters, it makes little difference in the end whether the sign above the door reads, “U.S. Consulate” or “Palestinian Affairs Unit.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz accuses E.U. foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell of leading an "antisemitic, hate-filled campaign against Israel."