U.S.-allied Arab states back Abbas in Hamas row

Writing from Gaza: This business of making an issue of the PLO as the sole representative of the Palestinian people is ridiculous. First, the PLO is unreformed and does not include Hamas and can therefore never really truly represent all Palestinians. Regrdless of which Hamas has contradicted the idiot in Damascus and said it does recognise the PLO. Despite which Abu Mazin is filled with so much gross hubris that he makes an issue of this. Pathetic. And trhe Arab states back him - very pathetic.

Khaleej Times - 04 February, 2009
Foreign ministers of U.S.-allied Arab states meeting in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday said they were seeking to consolidate Arab support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his row with Islamist group Hamas.“Our aim is to boost Arab solidarity, to mobilise our backing for the Arab peace initiative and to bolster support for the Palestinian Authority under the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas,” the United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan told Reuters.