Saeb Erekat, senior negotiator for the Palestinian Authority in the non-existent peace process, accused Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of acting like the leader of the ISIS.
The unprecedented venom followed by two days Palestinian Authority assurances to Washington that Mahmoud Abbas’ remarks in the United Nations that Israel is guilty of genocide really means Ramallah is interested in two states, living side by side in peace, harmony and bliss.
And love.
Erekat told the French news agency AFP, “Netanyahu is trying to disseminate fear of the Islamic State led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but Netanyahu forgets that he himself leads the Jewish state.
“He wants us to call Israel the Jewish state and supports terrorist settlers who kill, destroy and burn mosques and churches … like Baghdadi’s men kill and terrorize.”
Abbas hate-filled speech in the United Nations was thoroughly censured by the United States in unusually harsh words, with the U.S. State Dept. calling it “provocative.”
Netanyahu’s speech in the United Nations unmasked Hamas, which now is part of Abbas’ unity government, and declared that “ISIS and Hamas are branches of the same poisonous tree.”
Erekat charged in response, “Netanyahu finally closed the door on progress towards a two-state solution within the 1967 borders and rejected any serious political solution.”
His comparing Netanyahu with ISIS is certain to result in another negative reaction from Washington.
The Palestinian Authority, as reported here earlier this week, has basically told the Obama to get lost while it banks on the United Nations to recognize it is a new and independent state based on all of its political and territorial demands.