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Daybreak: PLO Staves off Abbas Retirement

Plus a Hungarian bust, a German painting, and more in the news

by
Hadara Graubart
November 23, 2009

• The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Central Council plans to meet in December to authorize current Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to continue running the government along with Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in order to stave off the problem of postponed elections and Abbas’s declaration that he will not seek another term. [WPost]
• Hungarian riot police busted a beer-hall meeting of the nation’s illegal neo-Nazi group Hungarian Guard. [JTA]
• Israel attacked two suspected weapons factories and a smuggling tunnel in Gaza on Sunday, wounding at least seven, to retaliate for rocket attacks; the night before, Hamas had declared that it would cease firing at Israel. [AP]
• A German auction house has halted the sale of a painting by Alexander Adriaenssen after an estate claimed it had belonged to a Jewish family who was forced by the Nazis to sell it. [AP]
• A used-car dealership in Colorado displays a large billboard depicting President Barack Obama in a turban and the words “PRESIDENT or JIHAD?”, “BIRTH CERTIFICATE, PROVE IT!”, and “WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD.” [AP]

Hadara Graubart was formerly a writer and editor for Tablet Magazine.