PA helping Netanyahu against Joint List bloc, report says*

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An Israeli official from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party, Likud, has met with a senior PLO official and close aide of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly to mobilise support for the Israeli leader, local media revealed yesterday. MK Fateen Mulla told*Yedioth Ahronoth*that he held talks with the PLO's Committee for Interaction with Israeli Society headed by senior Abbas aide Mohammad Al-Madani. The meeting, according to the Israeli daily, was about the possibility of encouraging Arab Israelis to back Netanyahu in the coming elections due in March. Palestinian sources in the West Bank also revealed that there had been contacts with the Likud in the past few weeks over "quiet support" for Netanyahu in the elections. This support, the*Times […]

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