Recognize Israel as a friend?
“The colonial occupying Power” and “the racist occupying State” were only two of his inflammatory comments.
Hamas as an obstacle to peace with rocket attacks against Israel, the same ones that Abbas originally condemned in the beginning of the recent clash?
Israel has “chosen to make it a year of a new war of genocide perpetrated against the Palestinian people.”
Abbas was Arafat, except for the suit and tie instead of kefiya and holster.
“We will maintain the traditions of our national struggle established by the Palestinian fedayeen and to which we committed ourselves since the onset of the Palestinian revolution in early 1965.”
Yes, he did say “1965,” two years before the area that the Palestinian Authority claims was restored to Israel in the Six-Day War in 1967.
His bellicose speech exposed even more the Arab world’s insane refusal to acknowledge its losses in 1948 and 1967 and its equally insane desire to return to the borders of the U.N. Partition Plan in 1947, which would be the set-up for the end of Israel.
Abbas assumes that the United States is a useless wimp. Indeed, the Obama administration, has continued to reflect Washington’s decreasing influence in the world, but America still is the leader of the Western world, and its economic influence has not yet made it second fiddle to China.
His speech was “provocative,” retorted U.S. State Dept. spokeswoman Jan Psaki.
“President Abbas’ speech today included offensive characterizations that were deeply disappointing and which we reject,” she stated. “Such provocative statements are counterproductive and undermine efforts to create a positive atmosphere and restore trust between the parties.”
Abbas has lost the United States, and it will be difficult even for the pro-Arab European countries to support a man who sounds like Nasser.
Netanyahu is on his way Saturday night to the United Nations to deliver what he said would be a speech that will ”refute…the lies and slander” about Israel.
Abbas, who sounded more like Iran’s leader’s anti-Zionist garbage, has made Netanyahu’s work a lot easier.