The flow of reports and statements doesn’t stop for a moment. Every day, the Arab press publishes a new report on the possibility that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, also chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and head of the Fatah party, will resign from the PLO Executive Committee in eight days’ time during a meeting of the Palestinian National Council. The meeting is set to hold elections for the Committee.

On Friday, Fatah official Mohammad al-Madani, in charge of Israeli affairs at the Palestinian Authority, told the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat that Abbas is seeking to give up political life altogether, but the likelihood of that happening at this point is low.

It’s also unlikely that his resignation from the PLO will take place, after all. One members of the Fatah party’s central committee told The Times of Israel that “Abbas can’t quit, it’s just not an option.” Asked if Abbas had made any such announcement to members of the Executive Committee at a recent meeting, the Fatah member said that Abbas “presented several options, and resigning from the committee was just one of them. In any case, I don’t think it will happen; we won’t let it happen.”

Read the article in full at Times of Israel.