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    Cheering Palestinians hang and burn effigy of Donald Trump

    Itamar Marcus  |
           
    Cheering Palestinians hang and burn effigy
    of Donald Trump
    at anti-American rally in Nablus
     
     
    Abbas' likely choice for next PA President cheers
    Trump's burning in effigy
     
     

    By Itamar Marcus

    Palestinians from Abbas' Fatah party held an anti-America rally in Nablus, to express support for Mahmoud Abbas' rejection of the American peace proposal. The highlight of the rally was when a giant Donald Trump doll hanging from a noose was brought in front of the crowd, who cheered as Trump's effigy was then ignited and burned.



    Mahmoud Al- Aloul, Abbas' deputy who is seen as Abbas' choice to succeed him as chairman of the PA, participated in the anti-US rally. Strikingly, in one of the pictures that the Fatah of Nablus posted on its Facebook, PMW has noted that Al-Aloul raised his hand in a "V" sign for "Victory" to Trump's burning effigy. (See above)

    Official PA TV news also broadcast the burning of Trump's effigy stressing that this was to counter the US peace proposal:

    Official PA TV newsreader:
    "In opposition to the attempts to eliminate the Palestinian cause and to [US President] Trump's deal, masses of our people in the Nablus district participated in the central rally that was organized by the Fatah Movement at Martyrs (Shahids) Square in the center of the city."

    Official PA TV reporter:
    "The official and popular Palestinian protest is strengthening, opening the way for future activities, given the attempts to harm the symbols of the [Palestinian] cause and its red lines."

    Fatah Deputy Chairman Mahmoud Al-Aloul was also interviewed by PA TV, and stressed the anti-American focus of the Fatah event:

     "[The rally is being held] because the public understands the weight of the pressures to which [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership are being subjected by the US. It wants to execute its deal, which it called 'the deal of the century,' and which President Mahmoud Abbas is standing firm against and rejecting - he and the Palestinian leadership - most decisively."

    One of the hosts on stage called out while the Trump effigy was burning:
    "Nablus is now putting the deal of the century on trial!
    Nablus is now putting Trump's deal on trial!"


    [Official PA TV News, July 17, 2018]


     
     
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