Read the quotes, straight from Abu Mazen to the Associated Press. This is not propaganda, this is straight from the mouths of Abu Mazen and other palestinian officials. This is how Arafat and Palestinians in general treat the first Palestinian leader to act like a moderate and genuinely push for two peaceful neighbor states:

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An official said the choice for the Palestinians is between the road map and a two-state solution, or Arafat, terrorism, and no Palestinian state.
"The Palestinians have to choose a different strategy," the official said. "Now they are choosing Arafat, and will get nothing but Arafat stuck inside his Ramallah compound."

The official warned that if Arafat, who he said has done everything possible to undermine Abbas, overplays his hand, Israel will once again debate whether to expel Arafat, and the US may then be willing to "remove its protective shield."

Abbas said his resignation was the result of "harsh and dangerous domestic incitement" against his cabinet and a lack of support for its actions.

Speaking at a closed-door meeting of the Palestinian Legislative Council shortly before his resignation, Abbas accused Arafat of undermining his position and hampering his efforts to implement reforms in the Palestinian Authority. He also accused Israel and the US of failing to take measures to strengthen his cabinet.

Abbas lashed out at Arab satellite TV stations for creating the "false impression" that his cabinet was on the verge of collapse.

One of the legislators who attended the meeting told The Jerusalem Post that Abbas seemed to be deeply offended by suspicions voiced by many Palestinians that he is an American puppet. On Thursday, about 200 Palestinians demonstrated at the entrance to the PLC building in Ramallah, chanting anti-Abbas slogans and vowing to "redeem, with blood and soul, our leader Yasser Arafat."

The meeting was called to discuss the achievements of the Abbas cabinet in its first 100 days in power. At least 18 PLC members submitted a request for a no confidence vote in Abbas's cabinet. Abbas seemed certain to lose the vote, originally scheduled for later this week.

Masked members of Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades also participated in the protest, screaming that Abbas and his Minister of Security Muhammad Dahlan were guilty of treason and spray painting the front of the building with signs that said, "Down with Abu Mazen's [Abbas's] government."

Leaflets distributed over the past 48 hours by Fatah activists strongly condemned Abbas and Dahlan as "CIA agents and Israeli collaborators." The leaflets urged Abbas to resign or face being punished and ostracized by his people.

A visibly shaken Abbas told some legislators after Thursday's stormy PLC session that he had had enough and was considering resigning. "As a man who served the Palestinian cause for more than 40 years, he couldn't put up with the fact that Palestinians were now accusing him of being a traitor and a CIA agent," explained the legislator.

"The events of the past few days left a scar on Abu Mazen," said Kadoura Fares, a legislator and top Fatah activist who acted as a mediator between Arafat and Abbas in recent weeks. "Abu Mazen is not built to take such a thing."