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PLO decision to defer vote on Goldstone enrages Palestinians

The PLO's decision to call for a deferral of the vote at the HRC on the Goldstone report is creating huge divisions, as this report on Jordan shows. The majority of the Jordanian population is Palestinian. It's hard to see how Abbas is going to hold Fatah together with this sort of brazen collaboration with the US that can only be aimed at giving the war criminals in Israel more time to shore up their defences. One Hamas official has called for Abbas to be stripped of his nationality. Syria refused to let Abbas into the country on Sunday. Indeed as I write this a march is taking place in Ramallah against Abbas. How much is Abbas being paid for his treachery?
AMMAN, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Jordan's associations of 14 professions on Sunday criticized a request by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to the UN to defer a vote on the Goldstone report that condemned Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.

"The associations condemn this stance that serves the Zionist occupation and encourages the enemy to continue its crimes and siege against the Palestinians," the Jordanian syndicates said in a statement.

A PLO delegation in Geneva requested the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Friday to delay the vote on the report of a UN war crimes investigation led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, according to media reports.

In protest of the request, Palestinian Economy Minister Bassem Khuri, an independent, submitted his resignation Saturday.

The UN report, released on Sept. 15, highlights Israeli war crimes during a 22-day Israeli offensive on Gaza, which started on Dec. 27, 2008 and resulted in the death of about 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

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