Reuters Palestinian propagandist Mohammed Daraghmeh lavishes praise on the new Palestinian Authority cabinet: Palestinians Pick “Highly Educated” Cabinet.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Nearly half of the 24 ministers joining a new Palestinian Cabinet on Thursday hold doctorates — many earned at topflight universities in the United States or elsewhere in the West.

The new lineup of doctors, lawyers, engineers and economists embrace a one-word credo — reform — in sharp contrast to the outgoing body of Yasser Arafat cronies.

After swearing-in his new ministers late Thursday, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told reporters, “They are young and professional … We have chosen them very carefully.”

The cabinet includes such paragons of education and reason as Nasser Al-Kidwa, responsible for many deranged rants against Israel in his post as Palestinian representative to the United Nations. Al-Reuters refers to an “outgoing body of Yasser Arafat cronies” but doesn’t think it’s important to let you know that Al-Kidwa is the nephew of Yasser Arafat; he was last seen at LGF spewing conspiracy theories: PLO Head: Israel and US Killed Arafat.

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